EN Official Journal of the European Communities 12. 3. 98 L 73/15
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 559/98
of 11 March 1998
altering the rates of the refunds applicable to certain products from the sugar
sector exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the EuropeanCommunity,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of themarkets in the sugar sector (
1), as last amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 1599/96 (2), and in particular Article 17 (5)
thereof,
Whereas the rates of the refunds applicable from 1 March
1998 to the products listed in the Annex, exported in theform of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty,were fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 485/98 (
3);Whereas it follows from applying the rules and criteria
contained in Regulation (EC) No 485/98 to the informa-tion at present available to the Commission that theexport refunds at present applicable should be altered asshown in the Annex hereto,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The rates of refund fixed by Regulation (EC) No 485/98
are hereby altered as shown in the Annex hereto.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 March 1998.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels, 11 March 1998.
For the Commission
Martin BANGEMANN
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 43.
(3) OJ L 60, 28. 2. 1998, p. 60.
EN Official Journal of the European Communities 12. 3. 98 L 73/16
ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 11 March 1998 altering the rates of the refunds applicable
to certain products in the sugar sector exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex
II to the Treaty
Rate of refund in ECU/100 kg
Product In case of
advance fixing of
refundsOther
White sugar:
¾pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)
No 1222/947,98 7,98
¾in all other cases 42,67 42,67
Raw sugar:
¾pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)
No 1222/947,35 7,35
¾in all other cases 39,26 39,26
Syrups of beet sugar or cane sugar, other than the
syrups obtained by dissolving white or raw sugar inthe solid state, containing, in the dry state, 85 % ormore by weight of sucrose (including invert sugarexpressed as sucrose):
¾pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)
No 1222/947,98 (4)´S(1)
1007,98 (4)´S(1)
100
¾in all other cases 42,67 (4)´S(1)
10042,67 (4)´S(1)
100
For syrups obtained by dissolving white or raw sugar
in the solid state, whether or not the dissolving isfollowed by inversion:the rate fixed above for 100 kg of white orraw sugar used for the dissolution
Molasses ¾ ¾
Isoglucose (2)
¾pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)
No 1222/947,98 (3) 7,98 (3)
¾in all other cases 42,67 (3) 42,67 (3)
(1) ‘S' represents in 100 kilograms of syrup:
¾the sucrose content (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) of the syrup in question, where the latter is not
less than 98 % pure,
¾the extractable sugar content of the syrup in question, where the latter is not less than 85 %, but less than 98 %
pure.
(2) Products obtained by isomerization of glucose, which have a content by weight in the dry state of at least 41 %
fructose and of which the total content by weight in the dry state of polysaccharides and oligosaccharides, includingthe di- or trisaccharides content, does not exceed 8,5 %.
(
3) Amount of refund per 100 kilograms of dry matter.
(4) The basic amount is not applicable to the product defined under point 2 of the Annex to Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 3513/92 (OJ L 355, 5. 12. 1992, p. 12).