CELEX: 31979R0800
Language: en
Date: 1979-04-25
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 800/79 of 24 April 1979 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

25 . 4. 79                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 102/ 5
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 800/79
                                                      of 24 April 1979
                                      fixing the export refunds on fishery products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas economically important quantities of frozen
COMMUNITIES,                                                     whole mackerel, frozen fillets of mackerel, dried and
                                                                  salted coalfish and mackerel, dried, salted or in brine
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                               Can be exported at the present time ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     Whereas pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza­                 No 686/78 of 6 April 1978 laying down additional
tion of the market in fishery products ('), as last               provisions as regards the granting of export refunds on
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2903/78 (2), and in                fishery products (4), for the purposes of the export
particular the fourth subparagraph of Article 23 (2)              refund system, fishery products of Community origin
thereof,                                                          frozen and/or processed on board a vessel registered
                                                                  or recorded in a third country and flying the flag of a
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                      third country shall be considered to be products
Committee,
                                                                 which are not of Community origin ;
Whereas Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76
provides that, to the extent necessary to enable                 Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
economically important exports of the products listed             to the present market situation and in particular to
in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the         prices for fishery products in the Community and on
                                                                  the world market that the refunds should be as set out
basis of prices for these products on the world market,
                                                                  in the Annex hereto ;
the difference between these prices and prices within
the Community may be covered by an export refund ;                Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                  refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in       »
for granting export refunds on fishery products and                    relation to each other at any given moment within
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3),                    a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
provides that when refunds are being fixed account                     their effective parity ;
must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­              • — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
tion and the future trend with regard to prices and                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
availabilities of fishery products on the Community                    of these currencies recorded for a given period in
market and prices on the world market on the other ;                   relation to the Community currencies referred to
whereas account must also be taken of the costs
                                                                       in the previous indent ;
referred to in (c) of that Article and of the economic
significance of the proposed exports and of the aims              Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
of the common organization of the market in fishery               March 1979 (5) laid down the coefficient for
products ;                                                        expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
                                                                   ECU ;
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76
provides that, when prices on the Community market                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are being determined, account must be taken of the                are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
ruling prices which are most favourable from the                   ment Committee for Fishery Products,
exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on
the world market are being determined, account must
be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article ;
                                                                                            Article 1
Whereas the world market situation or the specific
requirements of certain markets may make it neces­                The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­
sary to vary the refund according to the destination of            lation (EEC) No 100/76 shall be as set out in the
the products in question ;                                        Annex hereto .
Whereas products of Community origin which are
landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­                                     Article 2
ated outside the customs territory of the Community
do not qualify for refunds ;                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 April
                                                                   1979 .
(') OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 347, 12. 12. 1978 , p. 1 .                            (4) OJ No L 93, 7. 4. 1978 , p. 12.
(3) OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 48 .                            (5) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 24 April 1979 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                  Vice-President
                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 24 April 1979 fixing the export refunds on fishery
                                                            products
                                                                                                 (ECU / IOC /H' tut)
                 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 :
                                      1 . bb) Frozen :
                                                For exports to all destinations with the excep­
                                                tion of Sweden , Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland,
                                                Iceland, Yugoslavia and the USSR                        6.04
                                      2. bb) Frozen :
                                                For exports to all destinations with the excep­
                                                tion of Sweden , Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland,
                                                Iceland, Yugoslavia and the USSR                        6.04
                              II . Fillets :
                                   b) Frozen :
                                       6 . Of mackerel :
                                           For exports to all destinations with the exception
                                           of Sweden , Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland,
                                           Yugoslavia and the USSR                                      3.63
           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 the People's Republic of the
                                             Congo, Zaire, Gabon , Cameroon, Angola,
                                             Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Windward and
                                             Leeward    Islands,     Panama, Surinam   and   the
                                             Dominican Republic                                        18.13
                                        — Mackerel , dried , salted or in brine, whole, headless
                                             or in pieces :
                                             For exports to Jamaica, Trinidad and Windward
                                             and Leeward Islands                                        4-84