CELEX: 31978R0261
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 261/78 of 8 February 1978 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

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                                        COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 261 /78
                                                           of 8 February 1978
                 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 2560/77 (2), and in particular the               Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 19 (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                 Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
 on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in                    present situation on the market in sugar and in parti­
 the natural state, . are being fixed account must be                  cular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
 taken of the situation on the Community and world                     Community and on the world market that the refund
 markets in sugar and in particular of the price and                   should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
 cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ;                to this Regulation ;
whereas the same Article provides that the economic
 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                    The refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a)
 sion Regulation (EEC) No 394/ 70 of 2 March 1970 on                   of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, undenatured and
 detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (6),              exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed at the
 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 467/77 (7) ;                      amounts shown in the Annex .
(!)  OJ   No L  359 , 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2 ) OJ   No L  303 , 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .
(3)  OJ   No L  143 , 25 . 6 . 1968 , p. 6 .                                                   Article 2
(4)  OJ   No L  167, 26 . 6 . 1976, p. 13.
(5 ) OJ   No L  89 , 10 . 4 . 1968 , p. 3 .
(6)  OJ   No L  50 , 4. 3 . 1970 , p. 1 .                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 February
( 7) OJ   No L  162, 1 . 7 . 1977, p. 6 .                               1978 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 8 February 1978 .
                                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                          Via - President
                                                                            ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 8 February 1978 fixing the refunds on white sugar and
                                                   raw sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                           (:ut./100 k ")
                   CCT
                                                                            Description                                                    Refund
                  heading
                     No
             17.01                  Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                    A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar                                                          17.80
                                    B. Raw sugar :
                                         (a) Candy sugar                                                                                  18.80 (')
                                         (b) Other raw sugar                                                                              14 00 (')
            (') 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 .