EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 21.1.2000 L16/54
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 127/2000
of 20 January 2000
fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
HavingregardtoCouncilRegulation(EEC)No1766/92of30
June 1992 on the common organization of the market incereals(
1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1253/
1999(2), and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,
(1)Whereas Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92providesthatthedifferencebetweenquotationsorpricesontheworldmarketfortheproductslistedinArticle1ofthatRegulationandpricesforthoseproductswithinthe Community may be covered by an export refund;
(2)WhereasRegulation(EC)No1517/95of29June1995laying down detailed rules for the application of Regu-lation (EEC) No 1766/92 as regards the arrangementsfor the export and import of compound feedingstuffsbased on cereals and amending Regulation (EC) No1162/95 laying down special detailed rules for theapplicationofthesystemofimportandexportlicencesfor cereals and rice(
3) in Article 2 lays down general
rules for fixing the amount of such refunds;
(3)Whereasthatcalculationmustalsotakeaccountofthecereal products content; whereas in the interest ofsimplification, the refund should be paid in respect oftwocategoriesof‘cerealproducts’,namelyformaize,themost commonly used cereal in exported compoundfeeds and maize products, and for ‘other cereals’, thesebeingeligiblecerealproductsexcludingmaizeandmaizeproducts;whereasarefundshouldbegrantedinrespectof the quantity of cereal products present in thecompound feedingstuff;(4)Whereas furthermore, the amount of the refund mustalso take into account the possibilities and conditionsforthesaleofthoseproductsontheworldmarket,theneed to avoid disturbances on the Community marketand the economic aspect of the export;
(5)Whereas,however,infixingtherateofrefunditwouldseemadvisabletobaseitatthistimeonthedifferenceinthe cost of raw inputs widely used in compoundfeedingstuffs as the Community and world markets,allowing more accurate account to be taken of thecommercial conditions under which such products areexported;
(6)Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month;whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
(7)Whereas the measures provided for in this RegulationareinaccordancewiththeopinionoftheManagementCommittee for Cereals,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Theexportrefundsonthecompoundfeedingstuffscoveredby
Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 and subject to Regulation (EC)No 1517/95 are hereby fixed as shown in the Annex to thisRegulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 January 2000.
ThisRegulationshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicableinallMemberStates.
Done at Brussels, 20 January 2000.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 18.
(3) OJ L 147, 30.6.1995, p. 51.
EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 21.1.2000 L16/55
ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 20 January 2000 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound
feedingstuffs
Product code benefiting from export refund(1):
230910119000, 230910139000, 230910319000,
230910339000, 230910519000, 230910539000,230990319000, 230990339000, 230990419000,230990439000, 230990519000, 230990539000.
(EUR/t)
Cerealproducts(2) Amountofrefund(2)
Maize and maize products:
CN codes 07099060, 07129019, 1005, 110220,
110313,11032940,11041950,110423,19041010 41,38
Cereal products(2) excluding maize and maize products 30,33
(1) The product codes are defined in Sector 5 of the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ L 366, 24.12.1987,
p. 1), amended.
(2) For the purposes of the refund only the starch coming from cereal products is taken into account.
Cereal products means the products falling within subheadings 07099060 and 07129019, Chapter 10, and headings
Nos 1101, 1102, 1103 and 1104 (unprocessed and not reconstituted excluding subheading 110430) and the cereals content of theproductsfallingwithinsubheadings19041010and19041090ofthecombinednomenclature.Thecerealscontentinproductsundersubheadings19041010and19041090ofthecombinednomenclatureisconsideredtobeequaltotheweightofthisfinalproduct.
No refund is paid for cereals where the origin of the starch cannot be clearly established by analysis.