Commission Regulation (EC) No 1975/98 of 16 September 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
Date: 1998-09-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export refund, isoglucose, molasses, raw sugar, syrup, white sugar

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1975/98

of 16 September 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 European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
markets in the sugar sector (1), as last amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 1148/98 (2), and in particular Article 17 (5)
thereof,

Whereas the rates of
the refunds applicable from 1
September 1998 to the products listed in the Annex,
exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to
the Treaty, were fixed by Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1873/98 (3);

Whereas it follows from applying the rules and criteria
contained in Regulation (EC) No 1873/98 to the informa-
tion at present available to the Commission that
the
export refunds at present applicable should be altered as
shown in the Annex hereto,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The rates of refund fixed by Regulation (EC) No 1873/98
are hereby altered as shown in the Annex hereto.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 September
1998.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 16 September 1998.

For the Commission

Martin BANGEMANN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 159, 3. 6. 1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L 242, 1. 9. 1998, p. 21.

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 16 September 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
refunds

5,57

43,80

5,12

40,30

White sugar:
(cid:190) pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)

No 1222/94
(cid:190) in all other cases

Raw sugar:
(cid:190) pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)

No 1222/94
(cid:190) in all other cases

Syrups of beet sugar or cane sugar, other than the
syrups obtained by dissolving white or raw sugar in
the solid state, containing, in the dry state, 85 % or
more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar
expressed as sucrose):
(cid:190) pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)

No 1222/94

(cid:190) in all other cases

Other

10,17

48,40

9,36

44,53

5,57 (4) · S (1)
100
43,80 (4) · S (1)
100

10,17 (4) · S (1)
100
48,40 (4) · S (1)
100

For syrups obtained by dissolving white or raw sugar
in the solid state, whether or not the dissolving is
followed by inversion:

the rate fixed above for 100 kg of white or
raw sugar used for the dissolution

Molasses

(cid:190)

(cid:190)

Isoglucose (2)
(cid:190) pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)

No 1222/94
(cid:190) in all other cases

5,57 (3)

43,80 (3)

10,17 (3)

48,40 (3)

(1)

‘S' represents in 100 kilograms of syrup:
(cid:190) the sucrose content (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) of the syrup in question, where the latter is not

less than 98 % pure,

(cid:190) the 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, including
the 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).