CELEX: 32008R0797
Language: en
Date: 2008-08-07
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 797/2008 of 7 August 2008 amending the rates of refunds applicable to certain products from the sugar sector exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty

8.8.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 213/29
            
         
      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 797/2008
   of 7 August 2008
   amending the rates of refunds applicable to certain products from the sugar sector exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20 February 2006 on the common organisation of the market in the sugar sector (1), and in particular Article 33(2)(a) and (4) thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               The rates of the refunds applicable from 25 July 2008 to the products listed in the Annex, exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty, were fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/2008 (2).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               It follows from applying the rules and criteria contained in Regulation (EC) No 716/2008 to the information at present available to the Commission that the export refunds at present applicable should be altered as shown in the Annex hereto,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
   Article 1
   The rates of refund fixed by Regulation (EC) No 716/2008 are hereby altered as shown in the Annex hereto.
   Article 2
   This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 August 2008.
   
      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
      Done at Brussels, 7 August 2008.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         Heinz ZOUREK
         
         
            Director-General Enterprise and Industry
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1260/2007 (OJ L 283, 27.10.2007, p. 1). Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 will be replaced by Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1) as from 1 October 2008.
   
      (2)  OJ L 197, 25.7.2008, p. 52.
   
      ANNEX
      Rates of refunds applicable from 8 August 2008 to certain products from the sugar sector exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty (1)
      
      
                  CN code
               
               
                  Description
               
               
                  Rate of refund in EUR/100 kg
               
            
                  In case of advance fixing of refunds
               
               
                  Other
               
            
                  1701 99 10
               
               
                  White sugar
               
               
                  16,01
               
               
                  16,01
               
            
         (1)  The rates set out in this Annex are not applicable to exports to
      
                  (a)
               
               
                  third countries: Andorra, Liechtenstein, the Holy See (Vatican City State), Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia (), Montenegro, Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and to the goods listed in Tables I and II of Protocol 2 to the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation of 22 July 1972 exported to the Swiss Confederation.
               
            
                  (b)
               
               
                  territories of the EU Member States not forming part of the customs territory of the Community: the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, Heligoland, Ceuta, Melilla, the Communes of Livigno and Campione d’Italia, and the areas of the Republic of Cyprus in which the Government of the Republic of Cyprus does not exercise effective control;
               
            
                  (c)
               
               
                  European territories for whose external relations a Member State is responsible and not forming part of the customs territory of the Community: Gibraltar
               
            
         (2)  Including Kosovo, under the aegis of the United Nations, pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999.