CELEX: 31974R1514
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1514/74 of the Commission of 18 June 1974 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 163/ 14                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             19 . 6. 74
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1514/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 18 June 1974
                                      fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra Class and Class I
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        hothouse grapes, shelled hazelnuts, and shelled and
                                                                     unshelled walnuts may at present be exported in
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               economically significant quantities ;
 Economic Community ;
                                                                     Whereas the production of walnuts was especially
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        important during the season of 1973/74 ; whereas
 1035/72 ( ! ) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                substantial stocks of these products still remain at the
 tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last                 present time in the Member States who are the main
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                  producers ; whereas these stocks can only be marketed
 particular Article 30 (4) thereof ;                                 in the form of shelled walnuts since the season is
                                                                     already well advanced ; whereas it is appropriate for
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                        these reasons to grant a restitution for shelled walnuts
 Committee ;
                                                                     until the new harvest ;
 Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
 provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­             Whereas exports of these products to certain destina­
 ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­           tions cannot be routed through the Suez Canal and
 ence between prices in international trade and prices               whereas the consequent detour via the Cape of Good
 in the Community for the products referred to in that               Hope entails additional transport costs ; whereas the
Article may be covered by an export refund ;                         refund can therefore be justifiably increased where
                                                                     exports have to be transported via the latter route ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 2518 /69 (3) of 9 December 1969 laying down general                 Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 rules for granting export refunds on fruit and vegeta­              refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 bles and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds
                                                                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4)
 provides that, when refunds are being fixed, account                     relation to each other, at any given moment,
 must be taken of the current situation or foreseeable                   within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
developments with regard to prices and availabilities                    on their effective parity ;
of fruit and vegetables on the Community market on                   — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 the one hand and prices in international trade on the                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 other ; whereas account must also be taken of the                       of these currencies recorded for a given - period, in
costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of the                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
economic aspects of the proposed exports ;                                in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                     Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
 No 2518 /69, when prices on the Community market
                                                                     criteria to the present situation on the market of the
are being determined account must be taken of the
                                                                     prospective development of this situation, and in parti­
prices which are most favourable from the exportation
                                                                     cular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegetables
 point of view ; whereas, when prices in international               in the Community and in international trade that the
trade are being determined, the prices and quotations                refund should be fixed as indicated below ;
referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
taken into account ;
                                                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas the situation with regard to international                   are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
trade or the specific requirements of certain markets                ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables
may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given
product according to the destination of that product ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas sweet fresh oranges, fresh lemons, apples and
peaches of the common quality standards 'Extra'
                                                                                             Article 1
(!) OJ  No   L  118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No   L  291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p. 147.
(3) OJ  No   L  318 , 18 . 12. 1969 , p . 17.                        1 . The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are
(<) OJ  No   L  266,  25 . 11 . 1972, p. 7.                          hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex.
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2. If apples are shipped to their destination via the            316/71 (2), shall apply to the sweet oranges, unshelled
Cape of Good Hope, the amount indicated in the                  walnuts, apples and peaches set out in the Annex.
Annex shall be increased by 4 u.a./ 100 kg.
3. The provisions of Article 2b of Commission                                            Article 2
Regulation (EEC) No 497/70 ( x) of 17 March 1970 on
rules for the application of export refunds on fruit and        This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 June
vegetables, as supplemented by Regulation (EEC) No               1974 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 18 June 1974.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                               The President
                                                                         Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(>) OJ No L 62, 18 . 3 . 1970, p. 15.                            (2) OJ No L 36, 13 . 2. 1971 , p. 11 .
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                                                                   ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 18 June 1974 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                                  vegetables
                                                                                                      (iu.a.llOO kg net)
                   CCT heading                                                                                Refund
                       No                                       Description of goods
               ex  08.02 A I           Sweet fresh oranges :
                                       — Of the varieties Moro, Tarocco, Sanguinello, Ovale
                                           Calabrese, Valencia Late, ('Extra' Class, Class I and
                                           Class II)                                                           6-00
                                       — Of other varieties ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)              4-00
               ex  08.02 C             Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)
                                       for export to :
                                       — Countries or States with a planned economy in cen­
                                           tral and eastern Europe                                             2-50
                                       — Other destinations                                                    1-44
              ex   08.04 A I           Table grapes, fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I)             16-00
                   08.05 B             Walnuts
                                      — Unshelled                                                              8-00
                                       — Shelled {*)                                                         15-00
              ex   08.05 G             Shelled hazelnuts                                                      4-00
              ex   08.06 A II         Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than
                                       cider apples :
                                      — for export to countries and territories of Africa (with
                                          the exception of South Africa), countries of the
                                          Arabian Peninsula, Syria, countries or States with a
                                          planned economy in central and eastern Europe,
                                           Austria, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Brazil, Venezuela
                                           and Peru                                                           3-00
             ex   08.07 B              Peaches (excluding nectarines) ('Extra' Class, Class I and
                                       Class II )                                                             4-00
              f1) For which the custom export formalities have been completed before 1 November 1974.