Commission Regulation (EC) No 550/2003 of 27 March 2003 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar without further processing
Date: 2003-03-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export refund, raw sugar, white sugar

28.3.2003

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 550/2003

of 27 March 2003

fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar without further processing

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 of 19
June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in the
sugar sector (1), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC)
No 680/2002 (2), and in particular the second subparagraph of
Article 27(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 27 of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 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 the prices for those products within
the Community may be covered by an export refund.

Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 provides that when
refunds on white sugar and raw sugar, non-denatured
and exported without further processing, are being fixed,
account must be taken of the situation on the Commu-
nity and world markets in sugar, and in particular of the
price and cost factors set out in Article 28 of that Regu-
lation. The same Article provides that
the economic
aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken into
account.

The refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect of the
standard quality. The latter is defined in Annex I, point
II, to Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001. Furthermore, this
refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 28(4)
of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001. Candy sugar
is
defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2135/95 of
7 September 1995 laying down detailed rules of applica-
tion for
refunds in the sugar
sector (3). The refund thus calculated for sugar containing
added flavour or colouring matter must apply to their
sucrose content and, accordingly, be fixed per 1 % of the
said content.

the grant of export

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

The refund must be fixed every two weeks. It may be
altered in the intervening period.

The first subparagraph of Article 27(5) of Regulation
(EC) No 1260/2001 provides
refunds on the
products referred to in Article 1 of that Regulation may
vary according to destination, where the world market
situation or the specific requirements of certain markets
make this necessary.

that

The significant and rapid increase in preferential imports
of sugar from the western Balkan countries since the
start of 2001 and in exports of sugar to those countries
from the Community seems to be highly artificial
in
nature.

In order to prevent any abuses associated with the re-
importation into the Community of
sector
products that have qualified for export refunds, refunds
for the products covered by this Regulation should not
be fixed for all the countries of the western Balkans.

sugar

In view of the above and of the present situation on the
market in sugar, and in particular of the quotations or
prices for sugar within the Community and on the world
market,
the appropriate
amounts.

refunds should be fixed at

(10)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The refunds to be granted on exports of the products listed in
Article 1(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001, non-dena-
tured and without further processing, are hereby fixed in accor-
dance with the Annex to this Regulation.

(4)

In special cases, the amount of the refund may be fixed
by other legal instruments.

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 104, 20.4.2002, p. 26.
(3) OJ L 214, 8.9.1995, p. 16.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 March 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 March 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

REFUNDS ON WHITE SUGAR AND RAW SUGAR EXPORTED WITHOUT FURTHER PROCESSING

Product code

Destination

Unit of measurement

Amount of refund

1701 11 90 9100

1701 11 90 9910

1701 12 90 9100

1701 12 90 9910

1701 91 00 9000

1701 99 10 9100

1701 99 10 9910

1701 99 10 9950

1701 99 90 9100

S00

S00

S00

S00

S00

S00

S00

S00

S00

EUR/100 kg

EUR/100 kg

EUR/100 kg

EUR/100 kg

40,25 (1)

40,93 (1)

40,25 (1)

40,93 (1)

EUR/1 % of sucrose × 100 kg product net

0,4375

EUR/100 kg

EUR/100 kg

EUR/100 kg

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

43,75

44,49

44,49

0,4375

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.).
The numeric destination codes are set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2020/2001 (OJ L 273, 16.10.2001,
p. 6).

The other destinations are:
S00: all destinations (third countries, other territories, victualling and destinations treated as exports from the
Community) with the exception of Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro
(including Kosovo, as defined in UN Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999) and the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, save for sugar incorporated in the products referred to in Article 1(2)(b) of
Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 (OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 29).

(1) This amount is applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 %. Where the yield for exported raw sugar differs from 92 %, the refund

amount applicable shall be calculated in accordance with Article 28(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001.