CELEX: 31978R2266
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2266/78 of 29 September 1978 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

No L 275/ 18                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                30 . 9 . 78
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2266/78
                                                     of 29 September 1978
                fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in
                                                        the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other
COMMUNITIES,                                                        products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 3330/74 exported in the natural state must be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              equal to one-hundredth of an amount which takes
Economic Community,                                                account, on the one hand , of the difference between
                                                                    the intervention price for white sugar for the Commu­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        nity area with the largest surplus for the month for
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                  which the basic amount is fixed and quotations or
zation of the market in sugar ( !), as last amended by              prices for white sugar on the world market and, on
Regulation (EEC) No 1 396/78 (2), and in particular the             the other, of the need to establish a balance between
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 19 (2)           the use of Community basic products in the manufac­
thereof,                                                            ture of processed goods for export to third countries
                                                                    and the use of third country products brought in
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                        under inward processing arrangements ;
Committee,
                                                                   Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
                                                                    limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                  (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 ;                          c
provides that the difference between quotations or
prices on the world market for the products listed in              Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those         refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
products within the Community may be covered by
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
an export refund ;
                                                                        relation to each other at any given moment within        c
Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                        a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying dowri general rules for                   their effective parity ;
granting export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
by Regulation (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that the                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
export refund on 100 kilograms of the products listed                   of these currencies recorded for a given period in
in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is                relation to the Community currencies referred to
equal to the basic amount multiplied by the sucrose                     in the previous subparagraph ;
content, including, where appropriate, other sugars
expressed as sucrose ; whereas the sucrose content of              Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed
the product in question is determined in accordance                 every month ; whereas they may be altered in the
with the provisions of Article 13 of Commission Regu­               intervening period ;
lation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on detailed
rules for granting export refunds on sugar (5), as last             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1467/77 (6) ;                        are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                    ment Committee for Sugar,
Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68
provides that the basic amount of the refund on
sorbose exported in the natural state must be equal to              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the basic amount of the refund less one-hundredth of
the production refund applicable, pursuant to Council                                        Article 1
Regulation (EEC) No 1400/78 of 20 June 1978 laying
down general rules for the production refund on sugar              The refund to be granted on the products listed in
used in the chemical industry (7), to the products                  Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330 /74
listed in Annex I to the last mentioned Regulation ;                exported in the natural state, is hereby fixed as shown
                                                                    in the Annex to this Regulation .
(')  OJ No  L   359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
P)   OJ No  L   170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 1 .
(3)  OJ No  L   143, 25. 6. 1968, p. 6.                                                      Article 2
(4)  OJ No  L   167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13.
(5)  OJ No  L   50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 .
(<>) OJ No  L   162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6.                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 Octobei
(7)  OJ No  L   170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 9.                             1978 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 29 September 1978 .
                                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                        Vice-President
                                                                           ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 29 September 1978 fixing the export refunds on syrups
                                and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                      (u.aJ100 kg)
                                                                                                                                  Basic amount
                    CCT
                                                                           Description                                           per percentage
                   heading
                     No                                                                                                         point of sucrose
                                                                                                                                   content (')
            17.02                    Other sugars in solid form ; sugar syrups, not containing added
                                     flavouring or colouring matter ; artificial honey, whether or not
                                     mixed with natural honey ; caramel :
                                          D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and
                                               maple) :
                                               ex II. Other, excluding sorbose                                                      0.2213
                                          E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey                              0.2213
                                     ex F. Caramel made from sugar falling within heading
                                               No     17.01                                                                         0.2213
            21.07                    Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included :
                                     F. Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups :
                                          IV. Other (than lactose, glucose and isoglucose syrups)                                   0.2213
            (J ) The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure (Regulation (EEC) No 394/70). Sucrose content is deter­
                 mined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 394/70.