CELEX: 31978R0185
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 185/78 of 31 January 1978 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs

No L 27/ 14                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 1 . 2. 78
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 185/78
                                                         of 31 January 1978
                        fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        feedingstuffs for which a refund may be fixed should
COMMUNITIES,                                                          be taken into account ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1913/69
Economic Community,
                                                                      of 29 September 1969 on the granting and the
                                                                      advance fixing of the export refund on cereal-based
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          compound feedingstuffs (5), as amended by Regulation
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                    (EEC) No 31 16/75 (6), provides that calculation of the
tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by                 export refund must be based on the levy applicable to
Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2), and in particular the                maize ; whereas        this  calculation   must also    take
fourth subparagraph of Article 16 (2) thereof,                        account of the cereal products content ; whereas, there­
                                                                      fore, in the interest of simplification, compound
                                                                      feedingstuffs should be placed in categories and the
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                          refund for each category should be fixed on the basis
Committee,
                                                                      of a quantity of maize which is representative of the
                                                                      usual cereal products content for the category
Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                     concerned ; whereas, futhermore , the amount of the
provides that the difference between quotations or                    refund must also take into account the possibilities
prices on the world market for the products listed in                 and conditions for the sale of those products on the
Article 1 of that Regulation and prices for those                     world market, the need to avoid disturbances on the
products within the Community may be covered by                       Community market and the economic aspect of the
an export refund ;                                                    export ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                      Whereas the       world market situation or the specific
2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general
                                                                      requirements      of certain markets may make it neces­
rules for granting export refunds on cereals and
                                                                      sary to vary     the refund for compound feedingstuffs
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3),
                                                                      according to     destination ;
provides that when refunds are being fixed account
must be taken of the existing situation and the future
trend with regard to prices and availabilities of cereals             Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
on the Community market on the one hand and                           refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
prices for cereals and cereal products on the other ;
whereas the same Article provides that it is also impor­
tant to ensure equilibrium and the natural develop­                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
ment of prices and trade on the cereal markets ;                            relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                            a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                            their effective parity ;
Whereas it follows from applying rules and criteria to
the present situation on the market in cereal-based                   — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
compound feedingstuffs that the export refund should                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
be fixed at an amount which will cover the difference                       of these currencies recorded for a given period in
between Community prices and world market prices ;                          relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                            in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation ( EEC) No
2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be
applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (4), as                Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77, provides                      whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
that, when export refunds on cereal-based compound
feedingstuffs are being fixed, only the products
normally used in the manufacture of compound                          Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                      are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                      ment Committee for Cereals,
( i ) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 197.5, p. 1 .
(*) OJ No L 303, 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p . 78 .                             (5 ) OJ No L 246, 30 . 9 . 1969, p. 11 .
h) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60.                                (o) OJ No L 309 , 29 . 11 . 1975, p . 64 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                        to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 are hereby fixed as
                                                                                     shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
                                   Article 1                                                                        Article 2
The export refunds on the compound feedingstuffs                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and subject                                   1978 .
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                    Done at Brussels, 31 January 1978 .
                                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                      Vice-President
                                                                            ANNEX
                    to the Commission Regulation of 31 January 1978 fixing the export refunds on cereal-
                                                             based compound feedingstuffs
                                                                                                                                                    (u.a. /tonne)
        CCT               Special
       heading         specification                                     Nomenclature in simplified wording                                       Refund
         No             for refund
23.07 B I                                 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by Regulation (EEC) No
                                          2743/75, containing starch , glucose or glucose syrup falling within subheadings
                                          17.02 B and 21.07 F II or milk products (falling within heading Nos 04.01 ,
                                          04.02, 04.03 and 04.04 and subheadings 17.02 A and 21.07 F I ):
                                          of a milk powder content of less than 50 % by weight and of cereal products (')
                                          content by weight :
                          3010            — Exceeding 5% but not exceeding 15 %                                                                    7.02
                          4010            — Exceeding 1 5 % but not exceeding 30 %                                                                17.55
                          5010            — Exceeding 30 % but not exceeding 50 %                                                                 31-58
                          6010            — Exceeding 50 % but not exceeding 65 %                                                                 4211
                          7010            — Exceeding 65 %                                                                                        52.64
(') 'Cereal products means the products falling within Chapter 10 and heading Nos 11.01 and 11.02 (excluding subheading 11.02 G ) of the Common Customs Tariff.