CELEX: 31975R1774
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-11 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1774/75 of the Commission of 10 July 1975 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 181 / 12                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               11 . 7 . 75
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1774/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 10 July 1975
                                    fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas tomatoes, fresh lemons, apples and peaches
COMMUNITIES,                                                       of the common quality standards 'Extra' Class, Class I
                                                                   and Class II, 'Extra' Class and Class I hothouse and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              open ground" grapes, shelled hazelnuts, and shelled
Economic Community ;                                               walnuts may at present be exported in economically
                                                                   significant quantities ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                 Whereas exports of these products to certain destina­
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last                tions cannot be routed through the Suez Canal and
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                 whereas the consequent detour via the Cape of Good
particular Article 30 (4) thereof ;                                Hope entails additional transport costs ; whereas the
                                                                   refund can therefore be justifiably increased where
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                       exports have to be transported via the latter route ;
Committee ;
                                                                   Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                  refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­
ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
ence between prices in international trade and prices                   relation to each other, at any given moment,
in the Community for the products referred to in that                   within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Article may be covered by an export refund ;                            on their effective parity ;
                                                                   — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
2518/69 (3) of 9 December 1969 laying down general                      of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
rules for granting export refunds on fruit and vegeta­                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
bles and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds                 in the previous subparagraph ;
 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4)
 provides that, when refunds are being fixed, account
 must be taken of the current situation or foreseeable             Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
 developments with regard to prices and availabilities             criteria to the present situation on the market of the
 of fruit and vegetables on the Community market on                 prospective development of this situation, and in parti­
 the one hand and prices in international trade on the              cular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegetables
 other ; whereas account must also be taken of the                  in the Community and in international trade that the
 costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of the                  refund should be fixed as indicated below ;
 economic aspects of the proposed exports ;
                                                                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)                 are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market                     ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 are being determined account must be taken of the
 prices which are most favourable from the exportation
 point of view ; whereas, when prices in international
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 trade are being determined, the prices and quotations
 referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
 taken into account ;
                                                                                             Article 1
 Whereas the situation with regard to international
 trade or the specific requirements of certain markets
 may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given                1 . The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are
 product according to the destination of that product ;             hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex.
 (') OJ  No L  118 , 20.  5. 1972, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ  No L  291 , 28.  12. 1972, p. 147.                          2.    If apples are shipped to their destination via the
 (J) OJ  No L  318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p. 17.                          Cape of Good Hope, thfe amount indicated in the
 (*) OJ  No L  266,  25.  11 . 1972, p. 7.                          Annex shall be increased by 4 u.a./ lOO kg.
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3. The provisions of Article 4 ( 1 ) (b) of Commission                                 Article 2
Regulation No 1041 /67/EEC (!) of 21 December 1967
on detailed rules for the application of export refunds
on products subject to a single price system, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 21 10/74 (2), shall
apply to exports of unshelled walnuts, apples and                This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 July
peaches set out in the Annex.                                     1975 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 10 July 1975.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 314, 23 . 12. 1967, p. 9 .
(2) OJ No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 1 .
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                                                       ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 10 July 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 C       Fresh lemons (' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II )
                               for export to :
                               — Countries or states with a planned economy in cen­
                                                                                          I
                                   tral and eastern Europe                                        2.50
                               — Other destinations                                               1.44
              ex 08.04 A I     Table grapes :                                             l
                               — fresh, open ground 'Extra' Class and Class I                     4.00
                               — fresh, hothouse 'Extra' Class and Class I                       16.00
              ex 08.05 B       Walnuts unshelled                                                  800
              ex 08.05 G       Shelled hazelnuts                                                  4.00
              ex 08.06 A II    Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than
                               cider apples :                                             I
                               — for export to countries and territories of Africa (with
                                   the exception of South Africa), countries of the
                                   Arabian Peninsula, Syria, Iran, countries or states
                                   with a planned economy in central and eastern
                                   Europe, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Iceland, Sweden, Fin­
                                   land, Norway and Austria                                       3.00
              ex 08.07 B       Peaches (excluding nectarines) 'Extra' Class, Class I and
                               Class II                                                            6.00