CELEX: 31973R1135
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1135/73 of the Commission of 30 April 1973 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

No L 115 /42                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             1 . 5 . 73
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1135/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 30 April 1973
                                                fixing the export refund on oil seeds
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC pro­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         vides that when the refund is being calculated ac­
                                                                      count must be taken of prices ruling on the various
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                   Community markets which are representative from
 pean Economic Community ;                                            the point of view of processing and exportation ; the
                                                                      most favourable quotations recorded on the various
                                                                      markets of importing third countries and Greece,
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/                       and costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
EEC (*) of 22 September 1966 on the establishment                     market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
 of a common organization of the market in oils and                   being fixed, account must also be taken of the level
fats, as last amended by the Act (2 ) annexed to the                  of market prices within the Community for the oil
Treaty (8) on the Accession of new Member States to                   seeds referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
the European Economic Community and the Euro­                         66/EEC and the future trend of these prices ;
pean Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels                      whereas, furthermore, account should be taken of the
 on 22 January 1972 ;                                                 economic aspect of the proposed exports and the
                                                                      situation in the Community regarding the supply of
                                                                      and demand for these seeds :
Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/66/
EEC (4) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and fats
 between the Community and Greece ;
                                                                      Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/                        No 651 /71 (7) of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed
EEC (5) of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza ,                  rules for the application of export refunds on oil
rape and sunflower seeds, as last amended by Regu­                    seeds provides that the amount of the refund must
lation (EEC) No 2429/72 (6), and in particular the                    be calculated on the basis of the weight of exported
first sentence of Article 2 (3 ) thereof ;                            seeds ; whereas this weight must be adjusted to take
                                                                      account of any differences between the percentages'
                                                                      of moisture and impurities found to exist and those
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                          used to define the standard quality for which the tar­
 Committee ;
                                                                      get price is fixed ; whereas, when this adjustment is
                                                                      being made, the weight of the exported seeds must be
Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                        increased by the amount of the difference between
provides that a refund may be granted on exports to                   the actual moisture and impurities content and that
third countries of oil seeds harvested within the                     used to define the standard quality if the former is
Community ; whereas the amount of this refund                         lower than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite
may not exceed the difference between prices within                   applies, the weight of the exported seeds must be
the Community and prices on the world market                          reduced by the same amount ;
where the former are higher than the latter ; whereas
Article 21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC pro­
vides that, at present, Article 28 of that Regulation
applies only to colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                     Whereas the standard quality referred to above is
                                                                      defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      1331 /72 (8 ) of 27 June 1972 fixing the target prices
Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/EEC pro­                    and basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the
vides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                     1972/73 marketing year ;
and measures taken in application thereof apply, sub­
ject to the provisions of the Agreement establishing
an Association between the European Economic
Community and Greece, to trade between the Com­                       Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC pro­
munity and Greece ;                                                   vides that the refund may be varied according to des­
                                                                      tination where the world market situation or the spe­
(*)  OJ No  172 , 30. 9 . 1966, p . 3025 /66 .
(2 ) OJ No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972 , p . 14 .
(8)  OJ No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 5 .
(4)  OJ No  197, 29. 10. 1966, p. 3393/66.
( 5) OJ No  125 , 26. 6. 1967, p . 2461/67.                           ( 7) OJ No L 75 , 30. 3 . 1971 , p. 16 .
(«)  OJ No  L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p . 1 .                            (8) OJ No L 147, 29. 6. 1972, p. 1 .
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cific requirements of certain markets make this neces­             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
sary ;                                                             tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­
                                                                   agement Committee for Oils and Fats ;
Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
refunds should be calculated on the basis of an                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
which are floating or whose central rate differs from                                    Article 1
the official parity, on the effective rate or the
central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
the US dollar, on the change in parity announced                   The refunds on the products referred to in Article 21
on 13 February 1973 ;                                              of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, exported to third
                                                                   countries and Greece, are hereby fixed as shown in
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and cri­              the Annex to this Regulation.
teria to the present situation on the market in oil
seeds, and in particular to quotations or prices for
these products within the Community and on the
                                                                                         Article 2
markets of third countries and Greece, that the re­
fund should be fixed at the amounts shown in the
Annex to this Regulation for those products for                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May
which the marketing year has already begun :                       1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 30 April 1973 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                          ANNEX
                                      Refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 May 1973
                                                                                                   (u.a. /100 kg)
                CCT heading
                    No                               Description of goods                          Refund
              ex 12.01          1 . Colza and rape seed , other than for sowing                     5·600