Commission Regulation (EC) No 797/2008 of 7 August 2008 amending the rates of refunds applicable to certain products from the sugar sector exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty
Date: 2008-08-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export refund, white sugar

8.8.2008

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 797/2008

of 7 August 2008

amending the rates of refunds applicable to certain products from the sugar sector exported in the
form of goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty

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
particular
market
the
Article 33(2)(a) and (4) thereof,

sector (1),

sugar

and

in

in

It follows from applying the rules and criteria contained
in Regulation (EC) No 716/2008 to the information 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

Whereas:

(1)

The rates of the refunds applicable from 25 July 2008 to
the products listed in the Annex, exported in the form of
goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty, were fixed
by Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/2008 (2).

The rates of refund fixed by Regulation (EC) No 716/2008 are
hereby altered as shown in the Annex hereto.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 August 2008.

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

Done at Brussels, 7 August 2008.

For the Commission

Heinz ZOUREK
Director-General Enterprise and Industry

(1) OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1260/2007 (OJ 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 197, 25.7.2008, p. 52.

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Rates of refunds applicable from 8 August 2008 to certain products from the sugar sector exported in the form
of goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty (1)

ANNEX

CN code

Description

Rate of refund in EUR/100 kg

In case of advance fixing of
refunds

1701 99 10

White sugar

16,01

Other

16,01

(1) The rates set out in this Annex are not applicable to exports to

(a) third countries: Andorra, Liechtenstein, the Holy See (Vatican City State), Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia (*), Montenegro,
Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and to the goods listed in Tables I and II of Protocol 2 to the
Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation of 22 July 1972 exported to the Swiss Confederation.
(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.