Commission Regulation (EC) No 568/2008 of 18 June 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 527/2008 fixing the export refunds on white and raw sugar exported without further processing
Date: 2008-06-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export refund, raw sugar, white sugar

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 568/2008

of 18 June 2008

amending Regulation (EC) No 527/2008 fixing the export refunds on white and raw sugar exported
without further processing

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of
20 February 2006 on the common organisation of
the
market in the sugar sector (1), and in particular the fourth sub-
paragraph of Article 33(2) thereof,

Whereas:

In the light of additional
information available to the
Commission, related in particular to the change in the
relation between prices in the internal and world market,
it
currently
applying.

is necessary to adjust

refunds

export

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 527/2008 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 527/2008 is replaced by the
text in the Annex to this Regulation.

(1)

refunds on products listed in Article 1(1)(b)
Export
of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 were fixed from
13 June 2008 by Commission Regulation
(EC)
No 527/2008 (2).

This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 June 2008.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 18 June 2008.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(1) OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation
L 283,
27.10.2007, p. 1). Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 will be replaced
by Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1) as
from 1 October 2008.
(2) OJ L 155, 13.6.2008, p. 5.

(EC) No 1260/2007 (OJ

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ANNEX

Export refunds on white and raw sugar exported without further processing applicable from 19 June 2008

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

EUR/1 % sucrose × 100 kg of net product

EUR/100 kg

EUR/100 kg

EUR/100 kg

25,16 (1)

23,59 (1)

25,16 (1)

23,59 (1)

0,2735

27,35

25,65

25,65

EUR/1 % sucrose × 100 kg of net product

0,2735

NB: The destinations are defined as follows:

S00 — All destinations with the exception of:

(a) third countries: Andorra, Liechtenstein,

the Holy See (Vatican City State), Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia (*),

Montenegro, Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia;

(b) territories of the EU Member States not forming part of the customs territory of the Community: the Faeroe Islands,
Greenland, Heligoland, Ceuta, Melilla, the Communes of Livigno and Campione d’Italia, and the areas of the Republic of
Cyprus in which the Government of the Republic of Cyprus does not exercise effective control;

(c) European territories for whose external relations a Member State is responsible and not forming part of the customs

territory of the Community: Gibraltar.

(*) Including Kosovo, under the aegis of the United Nations, pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999.
(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 multiplied, for each exporting operation concerned, by a conversion factor obtained by dividing by 92 the
yield of the raw sugar exported, calculated in accordance with paragraph 3 of Point III of the Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006.