CELEX: 31976R0596
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 596/76 of 16 March 1976 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

17. 3 . 76                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 71 /9
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 596/76
                                                         of 16 March 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 and of dried and salted
 cular the fourth indent of Article 23 (2) thereof,                 cod and coalfish can be exported at the present time ;
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       Whereas it follows from applying the abovementioned
 Committee,                                                         rules and criteria to the present situation on the
                                                                    market and in particular to prices for fishery products
                                                                    in the Community and on the world market that the
Whereas Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76                    refund should be fixed as shown in the Annex ;
 provides that, to the extent necessary to enable
 economically important exports of the products listed
                                                                    Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the
 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              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 the Community may be covered by an export refund ;                      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 other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 for granting export refunds on fishery products and                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (2),                     of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 provides that when refunds are being fixed account                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
 must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­                    in the previous subparagraph ;
 tion and the future trend with regard to prices and
 availabilities of fishery products on the Community
 market and prices for fishery products on the world                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 market on the other ; whereas account must also be                 are in accordance with the Management Committee
 taken of the costs referred to in (c) of that Article of           for Fishery Products,
 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
                                                                    amounts shown in the Annex .
 Article ;
 Whereas the world market situation or the specific                                         Article 2
 requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
C ) OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p . 1 .                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
(■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 March 1976.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                              Member of the Commission
                                                             ANNEX
                                                                                                   (u.a. / 100 kg net)
                   CCT
                                                         Description of goods                            Refund
                  heading
                    No
             03.01          Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen :
                            B. Saltwater fish :
                                II . Fillets :
                                     b) Frozen :
                                         1 . Of cod (Gadus morrhua or Gadus callarias)                    700
                                         2. Of coalfish (Pollachius virens or Gadus virens)               500
             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                                        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                                                       1 500