CELEX: 31977R1041
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1041/77 of 18 May 1977 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

19. 5. 77                              Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 125/ 15
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1041 /77
                                                       of 18 May 1977
                fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas the world market situation or the specific
COMMUNITIES,                                                     requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
                                                                 sary to vary the refund for sugar according to destina­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            tion ;
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                may be fixed by other legal means ;
zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 31 38/76 (2), and in particular the          Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 1 9 (2)       refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
thereof,
                                                                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
Committee,                                                            within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                      on their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
provides that the difference between quotations or               — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
prices on the world market for the products listed in                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Article 1 ( l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those           , of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
products within the Community may be covered by                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
an export refund ;                                                    in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18                 Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
June 1968 laying down general rules for granting                 whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds            Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in               present situation on the market in sugar and in parti­
the natural state, are being fixed account must be                cular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
taken of the situation on the Community and world                 Community and on the ^orld market that the refund
markets in sugar and in particular of the price and              should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ;            to this Regulation ;
whereas the same Article provides that the economic
aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken
into account ;                                                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                  are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in                  ment Committee for Sugar,
 respect of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is
defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard
quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron­              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
sugar (5) ;
Whereas, furthermore , this refund should be fixed in                                    Article 1
 accordance with Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 766/68 ; whereas candy sugar is defined in Commis­               The refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (a)
 sion Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on               of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, undenatured and
 detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (6),         exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed at the
 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 499/76 (7) ;                 amounts shown in the Annex.
(•) OJ  No  L  359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L  354, 24. 12. 1976, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No  L  143, 25. 6. 1968, p. 6.                                                    Article 2
(<) OJ  No  L  167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13.
(s) OJ  No  L  89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.
(6) OJ  No  L  50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 May
(7) OJ  No  L  167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 29.                           1977 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 18 May 1977.
                                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                          Vice-President
                                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 18 May 1977 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw
                                                     sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                          (u.a./100 kg)
                   CCT
                 heading                                              Description of goods                                                Refund
                    No
            17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                   A. White sugar                                                                                        13.50
                                    B. Raw sugar :
                                        (a) Candy sugar                                                                                  14.20 (!)
                                        (b) Other raw sugar                                                                              10.50 (>)
           (') 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 5 ( 3) of Regulation ( EEC) No 766/68 .