CELEX: 31975R2977
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-14 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2977/75 of the Commission of 13 November 1975 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

14 . 11 . 75                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 295/31
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2977/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 13 November 1975
                                    fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the situation with regard to international
COMMUNITIES,                                                        trade or the specific requirements of certain markets
                                                                    may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given
                                                                    product according to the destination of that product ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;
                                                                    Whereas tomatoes, sweet fresh oranges, fresh manda­
                                                                    rins, fresh lemons and apples of the common quality
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        standards ' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra'
1035/72 (') of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                  Class and Class I hothouse and open ground grapes,
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last                 almonds, shelled hazelnuts, and shelled walnuts may
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2482/75 (2), and in                  at present be exported in economically significant
particular Article 30 (4) thereof ;                                 quantities ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                        Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Committee ;                                                         refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                        relation to each other, at any given moment,
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­                  within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­                on their effective parity ;
ence between prices in international trade and prices
in the Community for the products referred to in that               — for other- currencies an exchange rate based on the
Article may be covered by an export refund ;                             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                         of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
                                                                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                         in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
2518 /69 (3) of 9 December 1969 laying down general
rules for granting export refunds on fruit and vegeta­
bles and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds             Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4)                       criteria to the present situation on the market of the
provides that, when refunds are being fixed, account                 prospective development of this situation, and in parti­
must be taken of the current situation or foreseeable               cular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegetables
developments with regard to prices and availabilities                in the Community and in international trade that the
                                                                     refund should be fixed as indicated below ;
of fruit and vegetables on the Community market on
 the one hand and prices in international trade on the
 other ; whereas account must also be taken of the
costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of the                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
economic aspects of the proposed exports ;                           are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                     ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
 No 2518 /69, when prices on the Community market
 are being determined account must be taken of the                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 prices which are most favourable from the exportation
 point of view ; whereas, when prices in international
 trade are being determined, the prices and quotations
 referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
 taken into account ;                                                                        Article 1
 (») OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ No L 254, 1 . 10 . 1975, p. 3 .
 (3 ) OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12 . 1969 , p . 17.                          1 . The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are
 h) OJ No L 266, 25. 11 . 1972, p. 7.                                hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex.
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2. The provisions of Article 6 ( 1 ) (b) of Commission           grapes of open ground, unshelled walnuts, shelled
Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 (l) of 17 January 1975                 hazelnuts and apples set out in the Annex.
laying down detailed rules for the application of
                                                                                        Article 2
export refunds in respect of agricultural products, as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 281 8 /75 (2), shall              This Regulation shall enter into force on          14
apply to exports of sweet oranges, mandarins, table               November 1975 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
              Done at Brussels, 13 November 1975 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(■) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p . 1 .
(2 ) OJ No L 280, 31 . 10 . 1975, p . 31 .
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                                                                    ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 13 November 1975 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                                   vegetables
                                                                                                                     (u.a./100 kg net)
                 CCT heading                                                                                               Refund
                      No                                         Description of goods
            ex 07.01 M II               Tomatoes 'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II                                        4-00
            ex 08.02 A I                Sweet fresh oranges :
                                        — of the varieties Biondo Cor tune and Sanguigno Co­
                                            mune ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II )                                      4-00
                                        — of other varieties ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                           6-00
            ex 08.02 B                  Fresh mandarins ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                                6-00
            ex 08.02 C                  Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II )
                                        tor export to :
                                        — Countries or States with a planned economy in cen­
                                            tral and eastern Europe                                                         2-50
                                        — Other destinations                                                                1-44
            ex 08.04 A I                Table grapes :
                                        — fresh, open ground 'Extra' Class and Class I                                       6-00
                                        — fresh, hothouse 'Extra' Class and Class I                                       16-00
            ex 08.05 A II               Shelled almonds other than bitter almonds                                           8-00
            ex 08.05 B                  Walnuts unshelled                                                                 10-00
            ex 08.05 G                  Shelled hazelnuts                                                                   8-00
            ex 08.06 All               Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than
                                       cider apples :
                                        — for export to Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia,
                                            Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda,
                                           Burundi, Uganda, Somalia, Madagascar, Comore
                                            Islands, Mauritius, Sudan, Ethiopia, the French terri-
                                            tory of the Afars and Issas, the countries of the
                                            Arabian peninsula (*) Iran and Iraq                                           10-00
                                        — for export to countries and territories of Africa other
                                            than those mentioned above and South Africa, Syria,
                                            Jordan, countries with a planned economy in central
                                            and eastern Europe, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama,
                                            Iceland, Finland and Norway                                                     5-00
            (') For the purpose of this Regulation the 'countries of the Arabian peninsula' are considered to be the following,
                including the territories attached thereto : Saudi Arabia , Bahrain , Qatar, Kuwait , the Sultanate of Oman , United
                Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ummal-Quaiwain, Fujairah , Ras A1 Kaiman), Yemen Arab Repu­
                blic (North Yemen) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen).