CELEX: 31977R1961
Language: en
Date: 1977-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1961/77 of 31 August 1977 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

1 . 9 . 77                                Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 223/ 29
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1961 /77
                                                             of 31 August 1977
                                                   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 136/66/EEC                     market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
   of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                        being fixed, account must also be taken of the level of
   common organization of the market in oils and                         market prices within the Community for the oil seeds
   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 162/66/ EEC                    Community regarding the supply of and demand for
   of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and fats between                  these seeds ;
   the Community and Greece (3),
   Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/ EEC                    Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
   of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza, rape and                  No 651 /71 of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed rules
   sunflower seeds (4), as last amended by Regulation                    for the application of export refunds on oil seeds (6),
   (EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular the first                     provides that the amount of the refund must be calcu­
   sentence of Article 2 (3) thereof,                                    lated on the basis of the weight of exported seeds ;
                                                                         whereas this weight must be adjusted to take account
                                                                         of any differences between the percentages of mois­
   Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                          ture and impurities found to exist and those used to
   Committee,                                                            define the standard quality for which the target 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 the
   provides that a refund may be granted on exports to                   actual moisture and impurities content and that used
   third countries of oil seeds harvested within the                     to define the standard quality if the former is lower
   Community ; whereas the amount of this refund may                     than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the
   not exceed the difference between prices within the                   weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the
   Community and prices on the world market where                        same amount ;
  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
  colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                                     Whereas the standard quality referred to above is
                                                                         defined in Annex III to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                         833/76 of 6 April 1976 fixing certain prices and other
  Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/ EEC                         amounts applicable in agriculture for the 1976/77
  provides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/                         marketing year (7) ;
  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
  the Community and Greece ;                                            destination where the world market situation or the
                                                                        specific requirements of certain markets make this
  (l)  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 .
  («)  OJ   No 125, 26 . 6 . 1967, p . 2461 / 67 .                      (') OJ No L 75, 30 . 3 . 1971 , p. 16 .
  (5)  OJ   No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p . 1 .                           ( 7) OJ No L 100 , 14. 4 . 1976, p . 12.
 ---pagebreak--- No L 223/30                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                       1 . 9 . 77
Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,                Whereas the Management Committee for Oils and
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :                Fats has not delivered an opinion within the time
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                  limit set by its chairman,
    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 September
marketing year has already begun ;                                   1977 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 31 August 1977.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                   Vice-President
                                                          ANNEX
                                Refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 September 1977
                                                                                                       (UM V1 00 kg)
                   OCT
                  heading                             Description of goods                             Refund
                    No
              ex 12.01        Colza and rape seed, other than for sowing                               6-00
              ex 12 .01       Sunflower seed, other than for sowing