CELEX: 31998R1975
Language: en
Date: 1998-09-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1975/98 of 16 September 1998 altering the rates of the refunds applicable to certain products from the sugar sector exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty

17. 9. 98            EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                              L 255/31
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1975/98
                                                    of 16 September 1998
                 altering the rates of the refunds applicable to certain products from the sugar
                 sector exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Whereas it follows from applying the rules and criteria
                                                                    contained in Regulation (EC) No 1873/98 to the informa-
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               tion at present available to the Commission that the
Community,                                                          export refunds at present applicable should be altered as
                                                                    shown in the Annex hereto,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
markets in the sugar sector (1), as last amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 1148/98 (2), and in particular Article 17 (5)                                  Article 1
thereof,
                                                                    The rates of refund fixed by Regulation (EC) No 1873/98
                                                                    are hereby altered as shown in the Annex hereto.
Whereas the rates of the refunds applicable from 1
September 1998 to the products listed in the Annex,                                         Article 2
exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to
the Treaty, were fixed by Commission Regulation (EC)                This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 September
No 1873/98 (3);                                                     1998.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 16 September 1998.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                              Martin BANGEMANN
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 159, 3. 6. 1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L 242, 1. 9. 1998, p. 21.
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                                                                ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 16 September 1998 altering the rates of the refunds
         applicable to certain products in the sugar sector exported in the form of goods not covered
                                                    by Annex II to the Treaty
                                                                                        Rate of refund in ECU/100 kg
                                      Product                                       In case of
                                                                                advance fixing of                Other
                                                                                     refunds
         White sugar:
          pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)                          5,57                      10,17
               No 1222/94
          in all other cases                                                       43,80                      48,40
         Raw sugar:
          pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)                          5,12                       9,36
               No 1222/94
          in all other cases                                                       40,30                      44,53
         Syrups of beet sugar or cane sugar, other than the
         syrups obtained by dissolving white or raw sugar in
         the solid state, containing, in the dry state, 85 % or
         more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar
         expressed as sucrose):
          pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)                       5,57 (4) × S (1)          10,17 (4) × S (1)
               No 1222/94                                                              100                        100
          in all other cases                                                   43,80 (4) × S (1)           48,40 (4) × S (1)
                                                                                       100                        100
         For syrups obtained by dissolving white or raw sugar                the rate fixed above for 100 kg of white or
         in the solid state, whether or not the dissolving is                raw sugar used for the dissolution
         followed by inversion:
         Molasses                                                                                             
         Isoglucose (2)
          pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)                          5,57 (3)                  10,17 (3)
               No 1222/94
          in all other cases                                                       43,80 (3)                  48,40 (3)
         (1) ‘S' represents in 100 kilograms of syrup:
              the sucrose content (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) of the syrup in question, where the latter is not
                 less than 98 % pure,
              the extractable sugar content of the syrup in question, where the latter is not less than 85 %, but less than 98 %
                 pure.
         (2) Products obtained by isomerization of glucose, which have a content by weight in the dry state of at least 41 %
             fructose and of which the total content by weight in the dry state of polysaccharides and oligosaccharides, including
             the di- or trisaccharides content, does not exceed 8,5 %.
         (3) Amount of refund per 100 kilograms of dry matter.
         (4) The basic amount is not applicable to the product defined under point 2 of the Annex to Commission Regulation
             (EEC) No 3513/92 (OJ L 355, 5. 12. 1992, p. 12).