CELEX: 31996R1759
Language: en
Date: 1996-09-11 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1759/96 of 11 September 1996 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

12. 9 . 96             EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 231 / 1
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                                                  (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1759/96
                                                         of 11 September 1996
                      fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered
                                                                  state
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            sucrose content and, accordingly, be fixed per 1 % of the
                                                                          said content;
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
   Community,                                                             Whereas the world market situation or the specific requi­
                                                                          rements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                   the refund for sugar according to destination;
   of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
  markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by                    Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may
  Commission Regulation (EC) No 1 599/96 (2), and in parti­              be fixed by other legal instruments;
  cular point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 19 (4)            Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 (*), as
  thereof,
                                                                         amended by Regulation (EC) No 1380/95 Q, prohibits
  Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                      trade between the European Community and the Federal
  provides that the difference between quotations or prices              Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro); whereas
  on the world market for the products listed in Article 1               this prohibition does not apply in certain situations as
  ( 1 ) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those products             comprehensively listed in Articles 2, 4, 5 and 7 thereof
  within the Community may be covered by an export                       and in Council Regulation (EC) No 462/96 (8); whereas
  refund;                                                                account should be taken of this fact when fixing the
                                                                         refunds;
  Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that                      Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
  when refunds on white and raw sugar, undenatured and                   1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (9), as last
  exported in its unaltered state, are being fixed account               amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (10), are used to
  must be taken of the situation on the Community and                    convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 world markets in sugar and in particular of the price and               and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 cost factors set out in Article 17a of that Regulation;                 conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
 whereas the same Article provides that the economic                    detailed rules on the application and determination of
 aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken into               these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
 account;
                                                                        (EEC) No 1068/93 ("), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
 Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect               No 1482/96 (12);
 of the standard quality, whereas the latter is defined in              Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks;
 Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9                  whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
 April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar
 and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for                   Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
 calculating cif prices for sugar (3), as amended by Regula­            to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
 tion (EC) No 3290/94 (4); whereas, furthermore, this                   particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
 refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 17a (4)              Community and on the world market that the refund
 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ; whereas candy sugar is                should be as set out in the Annex hereto;
defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2135/95 of 7                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
September 1995 laying down detailed rules of application               in accordance with the opinion of the Management
for the grant of export refunds in the sugar sector ^;                 Committee for Sugar,
whereas the refund thus calculated for sugar containing
added flavouring or colouring matter must apply to their
                                                                       (6) OJ  No  L 102, 28 . 4. 1993, p. 14.
                                                                       0 OJ    No  L 138, 21 . 6. 1995, p. 1 .
(')   OJ   No  L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                              (8) OJ  No  L 65, 15. 3. 1996, p. 1 .
(2)   OJ   No  L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 43.                              (») OJ  No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(3)   OJ   No  L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.                                (10) OJ  No  L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(4)   OJ   No  L 349, 31 . 12. 1994, p. 105.                           (") OJ   No  L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
 Ó OJ No L 214, 8. 9. 1995, p. 16.                                     (12) OJ  No  L 188 , 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
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             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                               Article 1
             The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No
             1785/81 , undenatured and exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed to the amounts
             shown in the Annex hereto.
                                                               Article 2
             This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 September 1996.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 11 September 1996.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                       Franz FISCHLER
                                                                              Member of the Commission
                                                               ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 11 September 1996 fixing the export refunds on white
                                  sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
                                        Product code                       Amount of refund (3)
                                                                            — ECU/ 1 00 kg —
                                      1701  11 90   100                         37,27     (')
                                      1701  11 90  910                          36,24     (')
                                      1701  11 90  950                                    0
                                      1701  12 90   100                         37,27     (')
                                      1701  1290   910                          36,24     (')
                                      1701  12 90  950                                    O
                                                                  — ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                      1701 91 00 000                             0,4052
                                                                            — ECU/ 1 00 kg —
                                      1701 99 10 100                            40,52
                                     1701 99 10 910                             40,37
                                     1701 99 10 950                             40,37
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                     1701 99 90 100                              0,4052
                        (') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 %,
                            the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of
                            Article 17a (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 .
                        (2) Fixing suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2689/85 (OJ No L 255,
                            26. 9. 1985, p. 12), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3251 /85 (OJ No L 309,
                            21 . 11 . 1985, p. 14).
                        (3) Refunds on exports to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and
                            Montenegro) may be granted only where the conditions laid down in amended
                            Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 and Regulation (EC) No 462/96 are observed.