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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1840/1999
of 25 August 1999
fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 1
June 1981 on the common organization of the markets in thesugar sector(
1), as last amended by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1148/98(2), and in particular point (a) of the first
subparagraph of Article 19 (4) thereof,
(1)Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81providesthatthedifferencebetweenquotationsorpriceson the world market for the products listed in Article 1(1) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those productswithin the Community may be covered by an exportrefund;
(2)Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides thatwhenrefundsonwhiteandrawsugar,undenaturedandexported in its unaltered state, are being fixed accountmust be taken of the situation on the Community andworldmarketsinsugarandinparticularofthepriceandcost factors set out in Article 17a of that Regulation;whereas the same Article provides that the economicaspectoftheproposedexportsshouldalsobetakenintoaccount;
(3)Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed inrespect of the standard quality; whereas the latter isdefined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No431/68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standardqualityforrawsugarandfixingtheCommunityfrontiercrossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar(
3), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94(4); whereas,
furthermore, this refund should be fixed in accordancewith Article 17a (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81;whereas candy sugar is defined in Commission Regula-tion (EC) No 2135/95 of 7 September 1995 layingdown detailed rules of application for the grant of
exportrefundsinthesugarsector(
5);whereastherefund
thuscalculatedforsugarcontainingaddedflavouringorcolouring matter must apply to their sucrose contentand, accordingly, be fixed per 1% of the said content;
(4)Whereas the world market situation or the specificrequirements of certain markets may make it necessaryto vary the refund for sugar according to destination;
(5)Whereas,inspecialcases,theamountoftherefundmaybe fixed by other legal instruments;
(6)Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks;whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
(7)Whereasitfollowsfromapplyingtherulessetoutaboveto the present situation on the market in sugar and inparticular to quotations or prices for sugar within theCommunity and on the world market that the refundshould be as set out in the Annex hereto;
(8)Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulationare in accordance with the opinion of the ManagementCommittee for Cereals,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
TheexportrefundsontheproductslistedinArticle1(1)(a)of
Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81, undenatured and exported inthenaturalstate,areherebyfixedtotheamountsshownintheAnnex hereto.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 August 1999.
(1) OJ L 177, 1.7.1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L 89, 10.4.1968, p. 3.
(4) OJ L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 105. (5) OJ L 214, 8.9.1995, p. 16.
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 25 August 1999.
For the Commission
Karel VAN MIERT
Member of the Commission
ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 25 August 1999 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar
exported inits un altered state
Productcode Amountofrefund
—EUR/100kg—
170111909100 42,21 (1)
170111909910 43,51 (1)
170111909950 (2)
170112909100 42,21 (1)
170112909910 43,51 (1)
170112909950 (2)
—EUR/1%ofsucrose×100kg—
170191009000 0,4589
—EUR/100kg—
170199109100 45,89
170199109910 47,30
170199109950 47,30
—EUR/1%ofsucrose×100kg—
170199909100 0,4589
(1) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92%; if the yield is other than 92%,
the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 17a
(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81.
(2) Fixing suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2689/85 (OJ L 255,
26.9.1985, p. 12), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3251/85 (OJ L 309,
21.11.1985, p. 14).