CELEX: 31973R2769
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-12 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2769/73 of the Commission of 11 October 1973 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

No L 285/22                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                            12. 10. 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 2769/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 11 October 1973
                                              fixing the export refunds on fishery products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          sary to vary the refund according to the destination
COMMUNITIES,                                                            of the products in question ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                      Whereas products of Community origin which are
pean Economic Community ;                                               landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­
                                                                        ated outside the customs territory of the Commu­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                            nity do not qualify for refunds ;
2142/70 ( 1 ) of 20 October 1970 on the common
organization of the market in fishery products, as                      Whereas economically important quantities of dried
last amended by Regulation (EEC ) No 220/73 (2),                        and salted cod and coalfish can, be exported at the
and in particular the first sentence of Article 21 (4)                  present time ;
thereof ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                            Whereas it follows from applying the above­
Committee ;                                                             mentioned 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
Whereas Article 21 of Regulation ( EEC) 2142/70                         that the refund should be fixed as shown in the
provides that, to the extent necessary to enable econ­                  Annex ;
omically important exports of the products listed
in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on                    Whereas, if the ilevy system is to operate normally,
the basis of prices for these products on the world                      refunds should be calculated1 on the fallowing basis :
market, the difference between these prices and
prices within the Community may be covered by an                         — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 export refund ;                                                             relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                             within a band of 2-25 °/o, at rate of exchange
 Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No                           based on their effective parity ;
 165/71 (3) of 26 January 1971 laying down general
 rules for granting export refunds on fishery pro­                       — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on
 ducts and criteria for fixing the amount of such                            the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
 refunds provides that when refunds are being fixed                          each of these currencies recorded for a given
 account must be taken on the one hand of the exist­                         period, in relation to the Community currencies
 ing situation and the future trend with regard to                           referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
 prices and availabilities of fishery products on the
 Community market and prices for fishery products                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
 on the world market on the other ; whereas account                      tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­
 must also be taken of the costs referred to in ( c) of                  agement Committee for Fishery Products ;
 that Article, of the economic significance of the pro­
 posed exports and of the aims of the common organ­
 ization of the market in fishery products ;
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 165/71
 provides that, when prices on the Community mar­
                                                                                                  Article 1
  ket are being determined , account must be taken of
  the ruling prices which are most favourable from
  the exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices
  on the world market are being determined, account                       The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of
                                                                          Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70 are hereby fixed at
  must be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2                    the amounts shown in the Annex .
  of that Article ;
  Whereas the world market situation or the specific
  requirements of certain markets may make it neces­                                              Article 2
   (') OJ No L 236 , 27 . 10 . 1970 , p . 5 .
   (2 ) OJ No L 27, 1 . 2 . 1973 , p . 1 .                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 October
   (3) OJ No L 23 , 29 . 1 . 1971 , p . 1 .                                1973 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 11 October 1973 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                               The President
                                                                          Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                        ANNEX
                                                                                             (u.a . / 100 kg net)
                  CCT heading
                     No                                Description of goods                          Refund
           0.3.02               Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish, whether or
                                not cooked before or during the smoking procëss :
                                ex Alb) Cod, dried and salted, whole, headless or in
                                           pieces :
                                           for exports to :
                                          — Brazil                                                    10-00
                                          — Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Windward
                                               and Leeward Islands                                     8-00
                                ex Alf) Coalfish, dried and salted, whole, headless or
                                           in pieces :
                                           for exports to :
                                          — Congo-Brazzaville, Zaire, Jamaica, Trini­
                                               dad, Barbados, Windward and Leeward Is­
                                               lands, Panama                                          15-00