CELEX: 31999R0825
Language: en
Date: 1999-04-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 825/1999 of 21 April 1999 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

L 105/4               EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                               22. 4. 1999
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 825/1999
                                                        of 21 April 1999
                  fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered
                                                                state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           for the grant of export refunds in the sugar sector (5);
                                                                      whereas the refund thus calculated for sugar containing
                                                                      added flavouring or colouring matter must apply to their
                                                                      sucrose content and, accordingly, be fixed per 1 % of the
                                                                      said content;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
                                                                      Whereas the world market situation or the specific
                                                                      requirements of certain markets may make it necessary to
                                                                      vary the refund for sugar according to destination;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 1 June 1981 on the common organization of the                      Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may
markets in the sugar sector (1), as last amended by                   be fixed by other legal instruments;
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1148/98 (2), and in
particular point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 19
(4) thereof,                                                          Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks;
                                                                      whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                     Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
provides that the difference between quotations or prices             to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
on the world market for the products listed in Article 1 (1)          particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
(a) of that Regulation and prices for those products within           Community and on the world market that the refund
the Community may be covered by an export refund;                     should be as set out in the Annex hereto;
                                                                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                      in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that                     Committee for Sugar,
when refunds on white and raw sugar, undenatured and
exported in its unaltered state, are being fixed account
must be taken of the situation on the Community and
world markets in sugar and in particular of the price and
cost factors set out in Article 17a of that Regulation;
whereas the same Article provides that the economic
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken into
account;
                                                                                                 Article 1
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect
of the standard quality; whereas the latter is defined in
Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 431/68 of 9                  The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1)
April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar             (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81, undenatured and
and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for                  exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed to the
calculating cif prices for sugar (3), as amended by Regula-           amounts shown in the Annex hereto.
tion (EC) No 3290/94 (4); whereas, furthermore, this
refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 17a (4)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81; whereas candy sugar is
defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2135/95 of 7                                            Article 2
September 1995 laying down detailed rules of application
(1) OJ  L 177, 1.7.1981, p. 4.                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 April 1999.
(2) OJ  L 159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ  L 89, 10.4.1968, p. 3.
(4) OJ  L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 105.                                    (5) OJ L 214, 8.9.1995, p. 16.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 21 April 1999.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                      Franz FISCHLER
                                                                             Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 21 April 1999 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and
                                        raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
                                     Product code                          Amount of refund
                                                                           EUR/100 kg 
                                   1701 11 90 9100                            45,40     ( 1)
                                   1701 11 90 9910                            46,05     ( 1)
                                   1701 11 90 9950                                      ( 2)
                                   1701 12 90 9100                            45,40     ( 1)
                                   1701 12 90 9910                            46,05     ( 1)
                                   1701 12 90 9950                                      ( 2)
                                                                   EUR/1 % of sucrose × 100 kg 
                                   1701 91 00 9000                              0,4935
                                                                           EUR/100 kg 
                                   1701 99 10 9100                            49,35
                                   1701 99 10 9910                            50,41
                                   1701 99 10 9950                            50,41
                                                                   EUR/1 % of sucrose × 100 kg 
                                   1701 99 90 9100                              0,4935
                        (1) 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 17a (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81.
                        (2) Fixing suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2689/85 (OJ L 255,
                            26.9.1985, p. 12), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3251/85 (OJ L 309,
                            21.11.1985, p. 14).