CELEX: 31976R1720
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1720/76 of 16 July 1976 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

17. 7. 76                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 193/5
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1720/76
                                                       of 16 July 1976
                                     fixing the export refunds on fishery products
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  sary to vary the refund according to the destination of
 COMMUNITIES,                                                    the products in question ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           Whereas products of Community origin which are
 Economic Community,                                             landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­
                                                                 ated outside the customs territory of the Community
                                                                 do not qualify for refunds ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
  100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza­              Whereas economically important quantities of frozen
 tion of the market in fishery products ( !), and in parti­      fillets of cod and of coalfish, frozen whole mackerel
 cular the fourth indent of Article 23 (2) thereof,              and of dried and salted cod and coalfish can be
                                                                 exported at the present time ;
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
 Committee,                                                      Whereas it follows from applying the abovementioned
                                                                 rules and criteria to the present situation on the
                                                                 market and in particular to prices for fishery products
 Whereas Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76                in the Community and on the world market that the
 provides that, to the extent necessary to enable                refund should be fixed as shown in the Annex ;
 economically important exports of the products listed
 in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the       Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 basis of prices for these products on the world market,         refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 the difference between these prices and prices within
 the Community may be covered by an export refund ;              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                      relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                      within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
 Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                     on their effective parity ;
 110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules
 for granting export refunds on fishery products and             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (2),                  arithmetic, mean of the spot market rates of each
 provides that when refunds are being fixed account                   of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­                 relation to the Community currencies referred to
 tion and the future trend with regard to prices and                  in the previous subparagraph ;
 availabilities of fishery products on the Community
 market and prices for fishery products on the world             Whereas the Management Committee for Fishery
 market on the other ; whereas account must also be              Products has not delivered an opinion within the time
 taken of the costs referred to in (c) of that Article of        limit set by its Chairman,
 the economic significance of the proposed exports
 and of the aims of the common organization of the
 market in fishery products ;
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76
 provides that, when prices on the Community market
 are being determined, account must be taken of the                                      Article 1
 ruling prices which are most favourable from the
 exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on
 the world market are being determined, account must             The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­
 be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that         lation (EEC) No 100/76 are hereby fixed -at the
 Article ;                                                       amounts shown in the Annex.
Whereas the world market situation or the specific                                       Article 2
 requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
(>) OJ No L 20, 28. 1 . 1976, p. 1 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 July
(2) OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 48 .                           1976 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 16 July 1976.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                           ANNEX
                                                                                                 (u.a. / 100 kg net)
                 CCT
                heading                                Description of goods                            Refund
                  No
           03.01          Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen :
                          B. Saltwater fish :
                              I. Whole, headless or in pieces :
                                  m) Mackerel :
                                        2, bb) Frozen                                                   300
                              11 . Fillets :
                                   b) Frozen :
                                       1 . Of cod (Gadus morrhua or Gadus callarías)                     600
                                       2. Of coalfish (Pollachius virens or Gadus virens)                300
           03.02          Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish, whether or not
                          cooked before or during the smoking process :
                          ex A. I. b) Cod, dried and salted, whole headless or in pieces
                                          For exports to Brazil , Puerto Rico, Congo­
                                          Brazzaville, Zaire and Venezuela                             1500
                                      f) Coalfish, dried and salted, whole, headless or in
                                          pieces
                                          For exports to Congo-Brazzaville, Zaire, Jamaica,
                                          Trinidad, Barbados, Windward and Leeward Islands,
                                          Panama, Surinam and the Dominican Republic                   15-00