CELEX: 31981R1137
Language: en
Date: 1981-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1137/81 of 29 April 1981 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 118/40                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 30 . 4. 81
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION                     EEC    No 1137 / 81
                                                          of 29 April 1981
                                       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 sweet fresh oranges, fresh mandarins, fresh
                                                                      lemons and apples of the common quality standards
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra' Class and
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                        Class I hothouse grapes and open ground grapes,
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last               shelled almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts
amended by the Act of Accession of Greece (2 ), and in                may at present be exported in economically signifi­
particular Article 30 (4) thereof,                                    cant 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 within
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­
                                                                              a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­
                                                                              their effective parity ;
ence between prices in international trade for the
products referred to in that Article and prices for the               — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
products within the Community may be covered by                               arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
an export refund ;                                                            of these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                              relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                              in the previous indent ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 2518 /69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general
 rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit                 Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
 and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3),             to the present market situation and to its future
 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4),                        trends, and in particular to quotations and prices for
 provides that when refunds are being fixed, account                   fruit and vegetables in the Community and in inter­
 must be taken of the existing situation and future                    national trade that the refunds should be as set out in
 trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit              the Annex hereto ;
 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 indi­
                                                                       Whereas the obligations under Article 10 ( 1 ) (b) of
 cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic
                                                                       Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 of 29
 aspects of the proposed exports ;
                                                                        November 1979 laying down common detailed rules
                                                                        for the application of the system of export refunds on
                                                                       agricultural products (5 ), as last amended by Regula­
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC)                   tion (EEC) No 3476/ 80 (b), may be relaxed in the case
 No 2518 /69, when prices on the Community market                       of exports to non-member countries outside Europe ;
 are being determined account must be taken of the                     whereas, in such a case, Article 23 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation
  prices which are most favourable from the exportation                 ( EEC) No 2730/79 may be applied ;
  point of view ; whereas, when prices in international
  trade are being determined, the quotations and prices
  referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
  taken into account ;                                                  Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and
                                                                        Vegetables has not delivered an opinion within the
  (')  OJ No L 1 18 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .
                                                                         time limit set by its chairman ,
  (2)  OJ No L 291 ,  19 . 1 1 . 1979 , p . 17 .
  (3 ) OJ No L 318 ,  18 . 12 . 1969 , p . 17 .                          (5 ) OJ No L 317 , 12 . 12 . 1979 , p . 1 .
  (•») OJ No L 266 ,  25 . 11.1 972, p. 7 .                              (f) OJ No L 363, 31 . 12 . 1980 , p . 71 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                               apply to exports of sweet oranges, mandarins, lemons,
                                                            table grapes of open ground, walnuts in shell, shelled
                       Article 1                             hazelnuts, and apples as set out in the Annex hereto.
1.     The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall
be as set out in the Annex hereto .
                                                                                   Article 2
2. The provisions of Articles 10 ( 1 ) (b) and 23 ( 1 ) (c)
of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 shall             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1981 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 29 April 1981 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                         Poul DALSAGER
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                              ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 29 April 1981 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                             vegetables
                                                                                                    (ECU/100 kg net)
              CCT heading                                       Description                               Refund
                    No
          ex 08.02 A I            Sweet fresh oranges :
                                  — Of varieties Biondo comune and Sanguigno comune
                                      (' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                                . 5-32
                                  — Of other varieties (' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                 9-67 (2 )
          ex 08.02 B               Fresh mandarins ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                      7-25
          ex 08.02 C               Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)
                                   For export to :
                                  — countries or States with a planned economy in central or
                                      eastern Europe                                                          6-04
                                  — other destinations                                                        4-23
          ex 08.04 A I            Table grapes :
                                  — Fresh, open ground ('Extra' Class and Class I)                            7-00
                                  — Fresh, hothouse (' Extra' Class and Class I)                           19-34
          ex 08.05 A II           Shelled almonds, other than bitter almonds                                  9-67
          ex 08.05 B               Unshelled walnuts                                                       14-00
          ex 08.05 G               Shelled hazelnuts                                                       14-51
          ex 08.06 A II           Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than cider
                                   apples
                                   For export to :
                                   — Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi , Mozam­
                                       bique, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda,
                                       Somalia, Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Sudan , Ethi­
                                       opia, Jibuti , the countries of the Arabian peninsula ('),
                                       Iran and Iraq                                                       1 200
                                   — countries     and   territories  of Africa other  than  those
                                       mentioned above and South Africa, Syria, Jordan , coun­
                                       tries with a planned economy in central and eastern
                                       Europe, Bolivia, Brazil , Venezuela, Peru , Panama,
                                       Ecuador, Iceland , Finland, Norway, Sweden , Austria and
                                       the Faroe Islands                                                      3-63
          (') 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 , Ajman , Umm al Qawain ,
                Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah), Yemen Arab Republic ( North Yemen ) and the People s Democratic
               Republic of Yemen (South Yemen ).
           (2) For exports to State-trading countries of central or eastern Europe for which customs export
               formalities have been completed , or which have been placed under the system provided for in
               Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 565/80, by 22 May 1981 at the latest, the amount of the refund
               is fixed at 17 ECU per 100 kg net .