CELEX: 31975R0800
Language: en
Date: 1975-03-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 800/75 of the Commission of 26 March 1975 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

27 . 3 . 75                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 78 / 51
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 800/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 26 March 1975
                                                fixing the export refund on oil seeds
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/ EEC
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         provides that when the refund is being calculated
                                                                      account must be taken of prices ruling on the various
                                                                      Community markets which are representative from
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                the point of view of processing and exportation ; the
 Economic Community ;                                                 most favourable quotations recorded on the various
                                                                      markets of importing third countries and Greece, and
                                                                      costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/                          market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
 66/ EEC (') of 22 September 19 66 on the establish­                  being fixed, account must also be taken of the level of
 ment of a common organization of the market in oils                  market prices within the Community for the oil seeds
 and fats, as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No                    referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
 1707/73 (2) ;                                                        66/EEC and the future trend of these prices ; whereas,
                                                                      furthermore, account should be taken of the economic
                                                                      aspect of the proposed exports and the situation in the
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/                          Community regarding the supply of and demand for
 66/EEC (3) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and                   these seeds ;
 fats between the Community and Greece ;
                                                                      Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/                          No 651 /71 (6) of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed
 67/ EEC (4) of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on                     rules for the application of export refunds on oil seeds
 colza, rape and sunflower seeds, as last amended by                  provides that the amount of the refund must be calcu­
 Regulation (EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular the               lated on the basis of the weight of exported seeds ;
 first sentence of Article 2 (3) thereof ;                            whereas this weight must be adjusted to take account
                                                                      of any differences between the percentages of mois­
                                                                      ture and impurities found to exist and ' those used to
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                         define the standard quality for which the target price
 Committee ;                                                          is fixed ; whereas, when this adjustment is being
                                                                      made, the weight of the exported seeds must be
                                                                      increased by the amount of the difference between the
Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC                       actual moisture and impurities content and that used
 provides that a refund may be granted on exports to                  to define the standard quality if the former is lower
third countries of oil seeds              harvested within   the
                                                                      than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the
 Community ; whereas the amount of this refund may                    weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the
 not exceed the difference between prices within the                  same amount ;
 Community and prices on the world market where
the former are higher than the latter ; whereas Article
21 of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC provides that, at
 present, Article 28 of that Regulation applies only to               Whereas the standard quality referred to above is
colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                                     defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No
                                                                      11 22/74 (7) of 29 April 1974 fixing the target prices
                                                                      and basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the
Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/ EEC                        1974/ 1975 marketing year, as amended by Regulation
provides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/                       (EEC) No 2496/74 (8) ;
66/ EEC and measures taken in application thereof
apply, subject to the provisions of the Agreement esta­
blishing an Association between the European                         Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/ EEC
Economic Community and Greece, to trade between                       provides that the refund may be varied according to
                                                                     destination where the world market situation or the
the Community and Greece ;
                                                                     specific requirements of certain markets make this
(')  OJ  No  172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/ 66 .                       necessary ;
(2)  OJ  No  L 175, 29 . 6 . 1973 , p. 5.
(3 ) OJ  No  197, 29 . 10 . 1966, p . 3393 / 66 .                    (6) OJ No L 75, 30 . 3 . 1971 , p. 16 .
(4   OJ  No  125, 26 . 6 . 1967, p . 2461 / 67.                      ( 7) OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 8 .
(5)  OJ  No  L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .                             8 OJ No L 268 , 3 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 .
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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :                  are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                    ment Committee for Oils and Fats ,
    relation to each other, at any given moment,
    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
    on their effective parity ;                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                                             Article 1
    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
     in the previous subparagraph ;                                    The refunds on the products referred to in Article 21
                                                                       of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC, exported to third coun­
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and                       tries and Greece, are hereby fixed as shown in the
criteria to the present situation on the market in oil                 Annex to this Regulation .
seeds, and in particular to quotations or prices for
these products within the Community and on the
markets of third countries and Greece, that the refund                                       Article 2
should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
to this Regulation for those products for which the                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
marketing year has already begun ;                                     1975 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 26 March 1975.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                              Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                                    Refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 April 1975
                                                                                                       (iui./100 kn)
                    CCT
                   heading                              Description of goods                           Refund
                      No
               ex 12.01         Colza and rape seed , other than for sowing                              —
               ex 12 .01        Sunflower seed, other than for sowing                                    —