CELEX: 31996R1280
Language: en
Date: 1996-07-03 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1280/96 of 3 July 1996 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

No L 165/ 12         EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                  4. 7. 96
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1280/96
                                                         of 3 July 1996
                  fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered
                                                               state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 (% as
                                                                     amended by Regulation (EC) No 1380/95 f), prohibits
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               trade between the European Community and the Federal
 Community,                                                          Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro); whereas
                                                                     this prohibition does not apply in certain situations as
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                 comprehensively listed in Articles 2, 4, 5 and 7 thereof
 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                   and in Council Regulation (EC) No 462/96 f); whereas
 markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by                 account should be taken of this fact when fixing the
 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1 126/96 (2), and in parti­           refunds;
 cular point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 19 (4)
 thereof,                                                            Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                      1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (9), as last
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                    amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (10), are used to
 provides that the difference between quotations or prices            convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 on the world market for the products listed in Article 1            and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
(1 ) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those products            conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
within the Community may be covered by an export                     detailed rules on the application and determination of
 refund;                                                             these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                     (EEC) No 1068/93 ("), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that                     No 11 64/96 (12);
when refunds on white and raw sugar, undenatured and
exported in its unaltered state, are being fixed account             Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks;
 must be taken of the situation on the Community and                 whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
world markets in sugar and in particular of the price and
cost factors set out in Article 17a of that Regulation;              Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
whereas the same Article provides that the economic                  to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
 aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken into            particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
 account;
                                                                     Community and on the world market that the refund
                                                                     should be as set out in the Annex hereto;
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect
of the standard quality, whereas the latter is defined in            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9                in accordance with the opinion of the Management
April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar            Committee for Sugar,
and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for
calculating cif prices for sugar (3), as amended by Regula­
 tion (EC) No 3290/94 (4); whereas, furthermore, this
 refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 17a (4)           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ; whereas candy sugar is
defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2135/95 of 7
 September 1995 laying down detailed rules of application                                       Article 1
 for the grant of export refunds in the sugar sector ^;
whereas the refund thus calculated for sugar containing              The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
added flavouring or colouring matter must apply to their             (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 , undenatured and
sucrose content and, accordingly, be fixed per 1 % of the            exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed to the
said content;                                                        amounts shown in the Annex hereto.
Whereas the world market situation or the specific requi­
rements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary                                        Article 2
the refund for sugar according to destination;
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 July 1996.
Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may
be fixed by other legal instruments;
                                                                     (<) OJ  No L 102, 28 . 4. 1993, p. 14.
                                                                     0 OJ    No L 138, 21 . 6. 1995, p. 1 .
(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                                 (8) OJ  No L 65, 15. 3. 1996, p. 1 .
(4 OJ No L 150, 25. 6. 1996, p. 3.                                   0 OJ    No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.                                   (10) OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(<) OJ No L 349, 31 . 12. 1994, p. 105.                              (") OJ  No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
M OJ No L 214, 8. 9. 1995, p. 16.                                    b1) OJ No L 153, 27. 6. 1996, p. 41 .
 ---pagebreak--- 4. 7. 96   I EN I                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 165/13
         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States.
         Done at Brussels, 3 July 1996.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
                                                          ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 3 July 1996 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and
                                     raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
                                   Product code                        Amount of refund (3)
                                                                        — ECU/ 100 kg —
                                  1701  11 90  100                         34,49     (')
                                  1701  11 90  910                         34,43     (')
                              ,   1701  11 90  950                                   (2)
                                  1701  12 90  100                         34,49     (')
                                  1701  12 90  910                         34,43     (')
                                  1701  12 90  950                                   (2)
                                                              — ECU/1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                  1701 91 00 000                             0,3749
                                                                        — ECU/ 100 kg —
                                  1701 99 10 100                           37,49
                                  1701 99 10 910                           37,43
                                  1701 99 10 950                           37,43
                                                              — ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                  1701 99 90 100                             0,3749
                     (') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 %; if the yield is other than 92 %,
                         the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of
                         Article 17a (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 .
                     (2) Fixing suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2689/85 (OJ No L 255,
                         26. 9. 1985, p. 12), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3251 /85 (OJ No L 309,
                         21 . 11 . 1985, p. 14).
                     (3) Refunds on exports to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and
                         Montenegro) may be granted only where the conditions laid down in amended
                         Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 and Regulation (EC) No 462/96 are observed.