CELEX: 31977R0904
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 904/77 of 29 April 1977 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

No L 108/24                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                30 . 4. 77
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 904/77
                                                             of 29 April 1977
                 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in
                                                             the natural state
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other
 COMMUNITIES,                                                           products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                        No 3330/74 exported in the natural state must be
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  equal to one-hundredth of an amount which takes
 Economic Community,                                                    account, on the one hand, of the difference between
                                                                        the intervention price for white sugar for the Commu­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           nity area with the largest surplus for the month for
 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                      which the basic amount is fixed and quotations or
 zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by                  prices for white sugar on the world market and, on
 Regulation (EEC) No 3138/76 (2), and in particular the                 the other, of the need to establish a balance between
 first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 19 (2)              the use of Community basic products in the manufac­
 thereof,                                                               ture of processed goods for export to third countries
                                                                        and the use of third country products brought in
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
 Committee,                                                             under inward processing arrangements ;
 Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                      Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
 provides that the difference between quotations or                     limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 (1 )
 prices on the world market for the products listed in                  (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 ;
 Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those
                                                                        Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 products within the Community may be covered by
                                                                        refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 an export refund ;
                                                                        — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
 766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for                       within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
 granting export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended                      on their effective parity ;
 by Regulation (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that the
 export refund on 100 kilograms of the products listed                  — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 equal to the basic amount multiplied by the sucrose                        of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 content, including, where appropriate, other sugars                        relation to the Community currencies referred to
 expressed as sucrose ; whereas the sucrose content of                      in the previous subparagraph ;
 the product in question is determined in accordance                    Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed
 with the provisions of Article 1 3 of Commission Regu­
 lation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on detailed                     every month ; whereas they may be altered in the
 rules for granting export refunds on sugar (5), as                     intervening period ;
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1499/76 (6);
                                                                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68                        are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 provides that the basic amount of the refund on                        ment Committee for Sugar,
 sorbose exported in the natural state must be equal to
 the basic amount of the refund less one-hundredth of
 the production refund applicable pursuant to Council                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 of 18 June 1968 laying
 down general rules for the production refund on sugar
 used in the chemical industry (6), as last amended by                                          Article 1
 Regulation (EEC) No 3058/75 (8), to the products
 listed in Annex I to the last mentioned Regulation ;                   The refund to be granted on the products listed in
                                                                        Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74,
(>) OJ  No  L   359, 31 .  12. 1974, p. 1 .                             exported in the natural state, is hereby fixed as shown
(2) OJ  No  L   354, 24.   12. 1976, p. 1 .                             in the Annex to this Regulation.
(3) OJ  No  L   143, 25 .  6. 1968, p. 6.
(«) OJ  No  L   167, 26.   6. 1976, p. 13 .
(5) OJ  No  L   50, 4. 3 .  1970, p. 1 .                                                        Article 2
(') OJ  No  L   167, 26.   6 . 1976, p. 29 .
(7) OJ  No  L   143, 25.   6 . 1968 , p . 1 .
(8) OJ  No  L   306, 26.   11 . 1975, p. 3 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1977.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 29 April 1977.
                                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                                Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                    Vice-President
                                                                        ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 29 April 1977 fixing the export refunds on syrups and
                                 certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                     (u.aJlOO kg)
                                                                                                                                 Basic amount
                 CCT
                heading                                            Description of goods                             jf. $       per percentage
                  No                                                                                                           point of sucrose
                                                                                                                                  content (')
           17.02                  Other sugars ; sugar syrups ; artificial honey (whether or not
                                  mixed with natural honey) ; caramel :
                                  ex D. Other sugars and syrups, excluding sorbose                                                 0-1544
                                       E. Artificial honey (whether or not mixed with natural
                                            honey)                                                                                 0-1544
                                  ex F. Caramel made from sugar falling within heading No
                                            17.01                                                                                  01 544
           17.05                  Flavoured or coloured sugars, syrups and molasses, but not
                                  including fruit juices containing added sugar in any proportion :
                                  ex C. Other, excluding flavoured or coloured molasses                                            0-1544
          (*) The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure (Regulation ( EEC) No 394 /70). Sucrose content is deter­
              mined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 .