CELEX: 31981R0212
Language: en
Date: 1981-01-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 212/81 of 28 January 1981 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

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                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 212/81
                                                    of 28 January 1981
                                  fixing the export refunds on fishery products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   ated outside the customs territory of the Community
COMMUNITIES,                                                    do not qualify for refunds ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           Whereas economically important quantities of frozen
Economic Community,                                             whole mackerel, frozen fillets of mackerel, dried and
                                                                salted coalfish and mackerel, dried, salted or in brine
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 100/76             can be exported at the present time ;
of 19 January 1976 on the common organization of
the market in fishery products ('), as last amended by          Whereas pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
Regulation (EEC) No 3443/80 (2), and in particular the           No 686/78 of 6 April 1978 laying down additional
fourth subparagraph of Article 23 (2) thereof,                  provisions as regards the granting of export refunds on
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     fishery products (4), for the purposes of the export
Committee,                                                      refund system, fishery products of Community origin
                                                                frozen and/or processed on board a vessel registered or
Whereas Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76                recorded in a third country and flying the flag of a
provides that, to the extent necessary to enable econo­         third country shall be considered to be products which
mically important exports of the products listed in             are not of Community origin ;
Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the
basis of prices for these products on the world market,         Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
the difference between these prices and prices within           to the present market situation and in particular to
the Community may be covered by an export refund ;              prices for fishery products in the Community and on
                                                                the world market that the refunds should be as set out
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                in the Annex hereto ;
110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules
for granting export refunds on fishery products and             Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3),             refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
provides that when refunds are being fixed account              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­                 relation to each other at any given moment within
tion and the future trend with regard to prices and                  a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
availabilities of fishery products on the Community                  their effective parity ;
market and prices on the world market on the other ;            — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
whereas account must also be taken of the costs
                                                                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
referred to in (c) of that Article and of the economic               these currencies recorded for a given period in
significance of the proposed exports and of the aims of              relation to the Community currencies referred to
the common organization of the market in fishery                     in the previous indent ;
products ;
                                                                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76                  are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
provides that, when prices on the Community market               Committee for Fishery Products,
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              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the world market are being determined, account must
be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that
Article ;                                                                                Article 1
Whereas the world market situation or the specific              The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­
requirements of certain markets may make it necessary            lation (EEC) No 100/76 shall be as set out in the
to vary the refund according to the destination of the           Annex hereto .
products in question ;
Whereas products of Community origin which are                                           Article 2
landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­
                                                                 This Reglation shall enter into force on 29 January
                                                                 1981 .
(') OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1980, p. 13.
(3) OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 48 .                           (4) OJ No L 93, 7. 4. 1978, p. 12.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 28 January 1981 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                 Georges CONTOGEORGIS
                                                               Member of the Commission
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                                                           ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 28 January 1981 fixing the export refunds on fishery
                                                          products
                                                                                                 (ECU/100 kg net)
                  CCT
                heading                                   Description                                 Refund
                   No
            03.01         Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen :
                          B. Saltwater fish :
                               I. Whole, headless or in pieces :
                                   m) Mackerel :
                                        I. bb) Frozen :
                                                 For exports to all destinations with the excep­
                                                 tion of Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands,
                                                 Finland, Iceland and the USSR                          4-75
                                        2, bb) Frozen :
                                                 For exports to all destinations with the excep­
                                                 tion of Sweden , Norway, Faroe Islands,
                                                 Finland, Iceland and the USSR                          4-75
                              II . Fillets :
                                   b) Frozen :
                                       6 . Of mackerel :
                                           For exports to all destinations with the exception of
                                           Sweden , Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland
                                           and the USSR                                                 310
            03.02         Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish , whether or not
                          cooked before or during the smoking process :
                          ex A. I. f) — Coalfish , dried and salted, whole, headless or in
                                             pieces :
                                             For exports to Porto Rico, the People's Republic of
                                             the Congo, Zaire, Gabon, Cameroon, Angola,
                                             Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Windward and
                                             Leeward Islands, Panama, Surinam and the Domi­
                                             nican Republic                                            16-50
                                        — Mackerel, dried, salted or in brine, whole , headless
                                             or in pieces :
                                             For exports to Jamaica, Trinidad and Windward
                                             and Leeward Islands                                        4-00