CELEX: 31977R1166
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1166/77 of 1 June 1977 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

No L 136/24                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                             2 . 6 . 77
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1166/77
                                                             of 1 June 1977
                fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas the world market situation or the specific
COMMUNITIES,                                                           requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
                                                                       sary to vary the refund for sugar according to destina­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  tion ;
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                      may be fixed by other legal means ;
zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 3138 /76 (2), and in particular the                Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 1 9 (2)             refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
thereof,
                                                                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                                relation to each other, at any given moment,
Committee,                                                                 within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                           on their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
provides that the difference between quotations or                     — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
prices on the world market for the products listed in                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Article 1 ( l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those                  of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
products within the Community may be covered by                             relation to the Community currencies referred to
an export refund ;                                                          in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC) No 766/ 68 of 18                     Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
June 1968 laying down general rules for granting                       whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
export refunds on sugar (3 ), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds
on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in                    Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
the natural state, are being fixed account must be                      present situation on the market in sugar and in parti­
taken of the situation on the Community and world                      cular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
 markets in sugar and in particular of the price and                    Community and on the world market that the refund
                                                                       should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ;
whereas the same Article provides that the economic                    to this Regulation ;
aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken
into account ;                                                         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                       are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in                        ment Committee for Sugar,
 respect of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is
defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard
quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron­
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
sugar (5 ) ;
Whereas , furthermore , this refund should be fixed in
                                                                                               Article 1
accordance with Article 5 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No
766/68 ; whereas candy sugar is defined in Commis­
sion Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on                     The refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a)
detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (6),               of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, undenatured and
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 499/76 (7) ;                       exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed at the
                                                                        amounts shown in the Annex .
(')  OJ  No  L 359 , 31 . 12 . 1974, p . 1 .
(2 ) OJ  No  L 354, 24 . 12 . 1976, p . 1 .
(3)  OJ  No  L 143 , 25 . 6 . 1968 , p . 6 .
(4 ) OJ  No  L 167 , 26 . 6 . 1976 , p . 13 .                                                  Article 2
(5 ) OJ  No  L 89 , 10 . 4 . 1968 , p . 3 .
(o)  O.I No  L 50 , 4 . 3 . 1970 , p . 1 .
(7)  OJ  No  L 167, 26 . 6 . 1976 , p . 29 .                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 June 1977.
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         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 1 June 1977.
                                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                       Vice-President
                                                                         ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 1 June 1977 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw
                                                   sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                         (u.aJlOO kg)
                CCT
                                                                    Description of goods                                                Refund
               heading
                 No
         17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                 A. White sugar                                                                                      • 1-5-50
                                  B. Raw sugar :
                                      (a) Candy sugar                                                                                  1 5-34 ( i )
                                      (b) Other raw sugar                                                                              12-50 ( · )
         (t) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 %, the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with
             the provisions of Article 5 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 .