Commission Regulation (EC) No 2624/2000 of 30 November 2000 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
Date: 2000-11-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export refund, sugar product, syrup

1.12.2000

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2624/2000

of 30 November 2000

fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13
September 1999 on the common organisation of the markets
in the sugar sector (1), as amended by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1527/2000 (2), and in particular the second subpara-
graph of Article 18(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provides
that the difference between quotations or prices on the
world market for the products listed in Article 1(1)(d) of
that Regulation and prices for those products within the
Community may be covered by an export refund.

the grant of export

Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2135/95 of
7 September 1995 laying down detailed rules of applica-
tion for
refunds in the sugar
sector (3), provides that the export refund on 100 kilo-
grams of the products listed in Article 1(1)(d) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2038/1999 is equal to the basic amount
including, where
multiplied by the sucrose content,
appropriate, other sugars expressed as sucrose;
the
sucrose content of the product in question is determined
in accordance with Article 3 of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 2135/95.

Article 21(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provides
that the basic amount of the refund on sorbose exported
in the natural state must be equal to the basic amount of
the refund less one-hundredth of the production refund
applicable, pursuant
to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1010/86 of 25 March 1986 laying down general rules
for the production refund on sugar used in the chemical
industry (4), as last amended by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1888/2000 (5), to the products listed in the
Annex to the last mentioned Regulation;

(4)

According to the terms of Article 21(1) of Regulation
(EC) No 2038/1999, the basic amount of the refund on
the other products listed in Article 1(1)(d) of the said

(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 175, 14.7.2000, p. 59.
(3) OJ L 214, 8.9.1995, p. 16.
(4) OJ L 94, 9.4.1986, p. 9.
(5) OJ L 227, 7.9.2000, p. 15.

Regulation exported in the natural state must be equal to
one-hundredth of an amount which takes account, on
the one hand, of the difference between the intervention
price for white sugar for the Community areas without
deficit for the month for which the basic amount is fixed
and quotations or prices for white sugar on the world
market and, on the other, of the need to establish a
balance between the use of Community basic products
in the manufacture of processed goods for export to
third countries and the use of third country products
brought in under inward processing arrangements.

(5)

(6)

According to the terms of Article 21(4) of Regulation
(EC) No 2038/1999, the application of the basic amount
may be limited to some of the products listed in Article
1(1)(d) of the said Regulation.

Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 makes
provision for setting refunds for export in the natural
state of products referred to in Article 1(1)(f) and (g) and
(h) of that Regulation; the refund must be fixed per 100
kilograms of dry matter, taking account of the export
refund for products falling within CN code 1702 30 91
and for products referred to in Article 1(1)(d) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2038/1999 and of the economic aspects of
the intended exports; in the case of the products referred
to in the said Article (1)(f) and (g), the refund is to be
granted only for products complying with the condi-
tions in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95; for
the products referred to in Article 1(1)(h), the refund
shall be granted only for products complying with the
conditions in Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95.

(7)

The refunds referred to above must be fixed every
month; they may be altered in the intervening period.

(8)

(9)

Application of these quotas results in fixing refunds for
the products in question at the levels given in the Annex
to this Regulation.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Sugar,

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1(1)(d)(f)(g) and (h) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999,
exported in the natural state, shall be set out in the Annex hereto.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December 2000.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 30 November 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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to the Commission Regulation of 30 November 2000 altering the export refunds on syrups and certain other
sugar products exported in the natural state

ANNEX

Product code

Destination

Unit of measurement

Amount of refund

1702 40 10 9100
1702 60 10 9000
1702 60 80 9100

1702 60 95 9000

1702 90 30 9000

1702 90 60 9000

1702 90 71 9000

1702 90 99 9900

2106 90 30 9000

2106 90 59 9000

A00
A00
A00

A00

A00

A00

A00

A00

A00

A00

EUR/100 kg dry matter
EUR/100 kg dry matter
EUR/100 kg dry matter

EUR/1 % sucrose × net 100 kg
of product

EUR/100 kg dry matter

EUR/1 % sucrose × net 100 kg
of product
EUR/1 % sucrose × net 100 kg
of product
EUR/1 % sucrose × net 100 kg
of product

EUR/100 kg dry matter

EUR/1 % sucrose × net 100 kg
of product

38,22 (2)
38,22 (2)
72,62 (4)

0,3822 (1)

38,22 (2)

0,3822 (1)

0,3822 (1)

0,3822 (1) (3)

38,22 (2)

0,3822 (1)

(1) The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure (Regulation (EC) No 2135/95). Sucrose content is determined

in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95.

(2) Applicable only to products referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95.
(3) The basic amount is not applicable to the product defined under point 2 of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3513/92 (OJ L 355,

5.12.1992, p. 12).

(4) Applicable only to products defined under Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95.

NB: The product codes and the ‘A’ series destination codes are set out in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ

L 366, 24.12.1987, p. 1) as amended.
The numeric destination codes are set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2543/1999 (OJ L 307, 2.12.1999, p.
46).