CELEX: 31979R0533
Language: en
Date: 1979-03-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 533/79 of 21 March 1979 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar, exported in the natural state

No L 71 / 12                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                22. 3 . 79
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 533/79
                                                       of 21 March 1979
               fixing the export 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 instruments ;
zation of the market in sugar ( ! ), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (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 within
Committee ,                                                               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 indent ;
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 the rules set out
on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in                 above to the present situation on the market in sugar
the natural state, are being fixed account must be                  and in particular to quotations or prices for sugar
taken of the situation on the Community and world                   within the Community and on the world market that
markets in sugar and in particular of the price and                 the refund should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;
cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ;
whereas the same Article provides that the economic
aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
into account ;                                                      are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                    ment Committee for Sugar,
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 April 1968 determining the standard                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron-,
tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
sugar (5) ; whereas, furthermore, this refund should be
                                                                                               Article 1
fixed in accordance with Article 5 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 766/68 ; whereas candy sugar is defined in
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March                    The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1
 1970 on detailed rules for granting export refunds on              ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, undenatured
sugar (6), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                         and exported in the natural state, shall be as set out in
 1467/77 (7) ;                                                       the Annex hereto .
 1) OJ  No  L  359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
 2) OJ  No  L  170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 1 .
 3) OJ  No  L  143, 25. 6. 1968 , p. 6.                                                        Article 2
 «) OJ  No   L 167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13.
 s) OJ  No   L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.
 ') OJ  No   L 50, 4.. 3. 1970, p. 1 .                               This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 March
 7) OJ  No   L 162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6.                               1979 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 21 March 1979 .
                                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                          Vice-President
                                                                            ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 21 March 1979 fixing the export refunds on white sugar
                                              and raw sugar, exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                           Out .,' I CO
                    (XT
                  heading                                                    Description                                                   Refund
                     No
             17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                    A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar                                                          2000
            I                        B. Raw sugar :
                                         (a) Candy sugar                                                                                  20-67 (')
                                         (b) Other raw sugar                                                                              17-00 (')
            (') 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 S (}) of Regulation ( EEC ) No 766 / 6 K.