Commission Regulation (EC) No 1657/1999 of 28 July 1999 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
Date: 1999-07-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export refund, raw sugar, white sugar

L 197/10

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Official Journal of the European Communities

29. 7. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1657/1999

of 28 July 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 the
sugar 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 1785/81
provides that the difference between quotations or prices
on the world market for the products listed in Article 1
(1) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those products
within the Community may be covered by an export
refund;

(2) Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that
when refunds on white and raw sugar, undenatured and
exported in its unaltered state, are being fixed account
must be taken of the situation on the Community and
world markets in sugar and in particular of the price and
cost factors set out in Article 17a of that Regulation;
whereas the same Article provides that the economic
aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken into
account;

(3) Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in
respect of the standard quality; whereas the latter is
defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
431/68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard
quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community frontier
crossing 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 accordance
with 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 laying

down detailed rules of application for the grant of
export refunds in the sugar sector (5); whereas the refund
thus calculated for sugar containing added flavouring or
colouring matter must apply to their sucrose content
and, accordingly, be fixed per 1 % of the said content;

(4) Whereas the world market situation or the specific
requirements of certain markets may make it necessary
to vary the refund for sugar according to destination;

(5) Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may

be 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) Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
Community and on the world market that the refund
should be as set out in the Annex hereto;

(8) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1) (a) of
Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81, undenatured and exported in
the natural state, are hereby fixed to the amounts shown in the
Annex hereto.

Article 2

(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.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 July 1999.

(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, 28 July 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

to the Commission Regulation of 28 July 1999 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported
in its unaltered state

ANNEX

Product code

1701 11 90 9100
1701 11 90 9910
1701 11 90 9950
1701 12 90 9100
1701 12 90 9910
1701 12 90 9950

Amount of refund

— EUR/100 kg —

42,32
42,21

42,32
42,21

(1)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(2)

1701 91 00 9000

0,4600

— EUR/1 % of sucrose (cid:253) 100 kg —

1701 99 10 9100
1701 99 10 9910
1701 99 10 9950

— EUR/100 kg —

46,00
45,89
45,89

1701 99 90 9100

0,4600

— EUR/1 % of sucrose (cid:253) 100 kg —

(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).