CELEX: 31983R0319
Language: en
Date: 1983-02-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 319/83 of 8 February 1983 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

9 . 2. 83                           Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 37/5
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 319/83
                                                  of 8 February 1983
                                  fixing the export refunds on fishery products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                to vary the refund according to the destination of the
COMMUNITIES,                                                  products in question ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                           Whereas products of Community origin which are
                                                              landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports
                                                              situated outside the customs territory of the Commu­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  nity do not qualify for refunds ;
3796/81     of 29 December 1981         on the common
organization of the market in fishery products ('), and
in particular the fourth subparagraph of Article 25 (2)       Whereas economically important quantities of frozen
thereof,                                                      whole mackerel, frozen fillets of mackerel, dried and
                                                              salted coalfish and mackerel, dried, salted or in brine,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                  can be exported at the present time ;
Committee,
Whereas Article 25 of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81             Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
                                                              No 686/78 of 6 April 1978 laying down additional
provides that, to the extent necessary to enable econo­
                                                              provisions as regards the granting of export refunds on
mically important exports of the products listed in
                                                              fishery products (3), for the purposes of the export
Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the
                                                              refund system, fishery products of Community origin
basis of prices for these products on the world market,
                                                              frozen and/or processed on board a vessel registered or
the difference between these prices and prices within
                                                              recorded in a third country and flying the flag of a
the Community may be covered by an export refund ;
                                                              third country shall be considered to be products which
                                                              are not of Community origin ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules
for granting export refunds on fishery products and           Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (2),           to the present market situation, and in particular to
provides that, when refunds are being fixed, account          prices for fishery products in the Community and on
must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­          the world market, that the refunds should be as set out
tion and the future trend with regard to prices and           in the Annex hereto :
availabilities of fishery products on the Community
market and prices on the world market on the other ;
whereas account must also be taken of the costs
                                                              Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
referred to in subparagraph (c) of that Article and of        refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
the economic significance of the proposed exports and
of the aims of the common organization of the market
                                                              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
in fishery products ;
                                                                   relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                   a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76                    their central rate,
provides that, when prices on the Community market
are being determined, account must be taken of the            — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
ruling prices which are most favourable from the                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on                these currencies recorded for a given period in
the world market are being determined, account must                relation to the Community currencies referred to
be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that            in the previous indent ;
Article ;
Whereas the world market situation or the specific            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
requirements of certain markets may make it necessary         are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                              Committee for Fishery Products,
(>) OJ No L 379, 31 . 12. 1981 , p. 1 .
Ì1) OJ No L 20, 28. 1 . 1976, p. 48.                          (3) OJ No L 93, 7. 4. 1978, p. 12.
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          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                   Article 1
          The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 shall be as
          set out in the Annex hereto.
                                                   Article 2
          This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 February 1983.
          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 8 February 1983 .
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                  Giorgios CONTOGEORGIS
                                                                Member of the Commission
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                                                         ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 8 February 1983 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 :
                                      1 . bb) Frozen :
                                               For exports to all destinations with the excep­
                                               tion of Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands,
                                               Finland, Iceland and the USSR                           3-85
                                     2. bb) Frozen :
                                               For exports to all destinations with the excep­
                                               tion of Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands,
                                               Finland, Iceland and the USSR                           3-85
                            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                                                 2-80
          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 Puerto 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                                             14-85
          l                          — Mackerel, dried, salted or in brine, whole, headless
                                           or in pieces :
                                           For exports to Jamaica, Trinidad and Windward
                                           and Leeward Islands                                         3-60