CELEX: 31978R2550
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2550/78 of 31 October 1978 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

No L 307/22                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                 1 . 11 . 78
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2550/78
                                                           of 31 October 1978
                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 ( J), as last amended by                  prices for white sugar on the world market and, on
Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (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                            under inward processing arrangements ;
Committee,
                                                                       Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
                                                                        limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                       (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 ;
provides that the difference between quotations or
prices on the world market for the products listed in                  Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those             refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
products within the Community may be covered by
                                                                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
an export refund ;
                                                                            relation to each other at any given moment within
Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                            a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for                        their effective parity ;
granting export refunds on sugar (J), as last amended                   — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
by Regulation (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that the                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
export refund on 100 kilograms of the products listed                       of these currencies recorded for a given period in
in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
equal to the basic amount multiplied by the sucrose                         in the previous subparagraph ;
content, including, where appropriate, other sugars
                                                                        Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed
expressed as sucrose ; whereas the sucrose content of
the product in question is determined in accordance                     every month ; whereas they may be altered in the
with the provisions of Article 1 3 of Commission Regu­                  intervening period ;
lation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on detailed
rules for granting export refunds on sugar (5), as last                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1467/77 (6) ;                            are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                        ment Committee for Sugar,
Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68
provides that the basic amount of the refund on
sorbose exported in the natural state must be equal to                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the basic amount of the refund less one-hundredth of
the production refund applicable, pursuant to Council                                            Article 1
Regulation (EEC) No 1400/78 of 20 June 1978 laying
down general rules for the production refund on sugar                   The refund to be granted on the products listed in
used in the chemical industry (7), to the products                      Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74,
listed in Annex I to the last mentioned Regulation ;                    exported in the natural state, is hereby fixed as shown
                                                                        in the Annex to this Regulation .
(>)  OJ No  L   359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                                      /
(2)  OJ No  L   170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 1 .
(3)  OJ No  L   143, 25. 6 . 1968 , p . 6 .                                                      Article 2
H    OJ No  L   167, 26 . 6 . 1976, p. 13 .
(5 ) OJ No  L   50, 4. 3 . 1970 , p . 1 .
(o)  OJ No  L   162, 1 . 7 . 1977, p . 6 .                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
( 7) OJ No   L  170 , 27 . 6 . 1978 , p. 9 .                             1978 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 31 October 1978 .
                                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                      Vice-President
                                                                          ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 31 October 1978 fixing the export refunds on syrups and
                                   certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                      (u.a. /100 kg)
                                                                                                                                  Basic amount
                   CCT
                                                                           Description                                           per percentage
                  heading
                    No                                                                                                          point of sucrose
                                                                                                                                   content (')
             17.02                  Other sugars in solid form ; sugar syrups, not containing added
                                    flavouring or colouring matter ; artificial honey, whether or not
                                    mixed with natural honey ; caramel :
                                         D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and
                                              maple) :
                                              ex II . Other, excluding sorbose                                                      0.2201
                                         E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey                               0.2201
                                    ex F. Caramel made from sugar falling within heading
                                              No     17.01                                                                          0.2201
            21.07                   Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included :
                                    F. Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups :
                                         IV. Other (than lactose, glucose and isoglucose syrups)                                    0.2201
            (*) 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 .