CELEX: 31976R0644
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 644/76 of 24 March 1976 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

25. 3 . 76                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 78 /5
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 644/76
                                                          of 24 March 1976
                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,
                                                                     Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         may be fixed by other legal means ;
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­
zation of the market in sugar (!), as last amended by                Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Regulation (EEC) No 3058/75 (2), and in particular the               refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 1 9 (2)
thereof,                                                             — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                         relation to each other, at any given moment,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                             within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Committee,                                                               on their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                    — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
provides that the difference between quotations or                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
prices on the world market for the products listed in                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
                                                                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
Article 1 ( l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those
products within the Community may be covered by                          in the previous subparagraph ;
an export refund ;
                                                                     Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18                     whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
June 1968 laying down general rules for granting
export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regula­              Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
tion (EEC) No 11 02/75 (4), provides that when refunds               present situation on the market in sugar and in parti­
on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in                  cular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
the natural state, are being fixed account must be                   Community and on the world market that the refund
taken of the situation on the Community and world                    should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
markets in sugar and in particular of the price and                  to this Regulation ;
cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ;
whereas the same Article provides that the economic                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken                  are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
into account ;                                                       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
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard
quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron­
tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
sugar (5) ;                                                                                 Article 1
Whereas, furthermore, this refund should be fixed in                 The refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a)
accordance with Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, undenatured and
766/68 ; whereas candy sugar is defined in Commis­                   exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed at the
sion Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on                   amounts shown in the Annex.
detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (6) ;
(!) OJ  No  L  359 , 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L  306, 26. 11 . 1975, p. 3 .                                                   Article 2
(3) OJ  No  L  143 , 25. 6 . 1968 , p. 6 .
(«) OJ  No  L  110, 30 . 4. 1975, p. 1 .
(5) OJ  No  L  89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 March
M OJ No L 50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 .                                      1976 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 24 March 1976 .
                                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                                        P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                              Member of the Commission
                                                                           ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 24 March 1976 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw
                                                      sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                           (u.a/100 kg)
                   CCT
                  heading                                            • Description of goods                                               Refund
                    No
          17.01                     Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                    B. Undenatured :
                                          I. White sugar                                                                                   0
                                         II. Raw sugar :
                                              (a) Candy sugar                                                                              1-29 (!)
                                              (b) Other raw sugar                                                                          0     (»)
          ( J ) 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 .