CELEX: 31984R2974
Language: en
Date: 1984-10-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2974/84 of 24 October 1984 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 281 / 18                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                25 . 10 . 84
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2974/84
                                                    of 24 October 1984
                                   fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given
COMMUNITIES,                                                     product according to the destination of that product ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Whereas tomatoes, sweet fresh oranges, fresh manda­
Economic Community,                                              rins, fresh lemons and apples of the common quality
                                                                 standards 'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra'
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     Class and Class I hothouse grapes and open ground
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                grapes, almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last               may at present be exported in economically significant
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1631 /84 (2), and in              quantities ;
particular Article 30 (4) thereof,
                                                                 Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
Committee,
                                                                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                     relation to each other at any given moment within
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­               a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
ically significant quantities to be exported, the dif­                their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient
ference between prices in international trade for the                 provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC)
products referred to in that Article and prices for the               No 974/71 0, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
products within the Community may be covered by an                    No 855/84 (6),
export refund ;                                                  — for other currencies, an exchange rates based on
                                                                      the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                      each of these currencies recorded over a given
2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general                        period in relation to the Community currencies
rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit                 referred to in the previous indent, and the aforesaid
                                                                      coefficient ;
and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3),
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4),
provides that when refunds are being fixed, account              Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
must be taken of the existing situation and future               to the present market situation and to its future trends,
trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit         and in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and
and vegetables on the Community market on the one                vegetables in the Community and in international
hand and prices in international trade on the other ;            trade that the refunds should be as set out in the
whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­            Annex hereto ;
cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic aspects
of the proposed exports ;                                        Whereas the obligations under Article 10 ( 1 ) (b) of
                                                                  Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 of 29
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)                November 1979 laying down common detailed rules
No 2518 /69, when prices on the Community market                  for the application of the system of export refunds on
are being determined account must be taken of the                 agricultural products (7), as last amended by Regulation
prices which are most favourable from the exportation            (EEC) No 519/83 (8), may be relaxed in the case of
point of view ; whereas, when prices in international             exports to non-member countries outside Europe ;
trade are being determined, the quotations and prices             whereas, in such a case, Article 23 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation
referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be                (EEC) No 2730/79 may be applied ;
taken into account ;
                                                                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas the situation with regard to international                are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 trade or the specific requirements of certain markets            Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 (')  OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                         0   OJ  No  L  106, 12.     5 . 1971 , p. 1 .
 O    OJ No L 154,  9 . 6 . 1984, p. 24.                          (6) OJ  No  L 90, 1 . 4.     1984, p. 1 .
 (■') OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p. 17 .                        0   OJ  No  L 317, 12.      12. 1979, p. 1
 (4)  OJ No L 266,  25 . 11 . 1972, p. 7.                          8  OJ  No  L  58 , 5 . 3 .  1983 , p. 5 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                               open ground, walnuts in shell, shelled hazelnuts and
                                                            apples as set out in the Annex hereto.
                      Article 1
1.    The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall
be as set out in the Annex hereto .                                               Article 2
2. The provisions of Articles 10 ( 1 ) (b) and 23 ( 1 ) (c)
of Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 shall apply to exports       This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 October
of sweet oranges, mandarins, lemons, table grapes of        1984.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 24 October 1984.
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                       Poul DALSAGER
                                                                 Member of the Commission
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                                                              ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 24 October 1984 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                             vegetables
                                                                                                       (ECU/100 kg net)
                   CCT
                  heading                                       Description                                 Refund
                    No
           ex 07.01 M            Tomatoes ('Extra' Class, Glass I and Class II)                               4,50
           ex 08.02 A I          Sweet fresh oranges :
                                 For export of varieties Biondo comune and Sanguigno comune
                                 ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) to :
                                 — Countries or States with a planned economy in central or
                                      eastern Europe and Yugoslavia                                           8,00
                                 — Other destinations                                                         5,32
                                 For export of other varieties ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)
                                 to :
                                 — Countries or States with a planned economy in central or
                                      eastern Europe and Yugoslavia                                          14,50
                                 — Other destinations                                                         9,67
           ex 08.02 B            Fresh mandarins ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                        7,25
           ex 08.02 C            Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)
                                 For export to :
                                 — Countries or States with a planned economy in centraf or
                                      eastern Europe and Yugoslavia                                          12,00
                                 — Other destinations                                                         8,00
           ex 08.04 A I          Table grapes :
                                 — Fresh, open ground ('Extra' Class and Class I)                            10,50
                                 — Fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I)                               19,34
           ex 08.05 A II         Shelled almonds, other than bitter almonds                                   9,67
           ex 08.05 B            Unshelled walnuts                                                           14,00
           ex 08.05 G            Unshelled hazelnuts                                                          7,50
           ex 08.05 G            Shelled hazelnuts                                                           14,51
           ex 08.06 A II         Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than cider
                                 apples :
                                  For export to :
                                 — Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique,
                                      Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Somalia,
                                      Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Sudan, Ethiopia, Jibuti, the
                                      countries of the Arabian peninsula ('), Iran, Iraq and Jordan          12,00
                                  — Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia                             12,00
                                  — Countries     and    territories  of    Africa other  than   those
                                      mentioned above and South Africa, Syria, countries with a
                                      planned economy in central and eastern Europe, Yugoslavia,
                                      Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia,
                                      Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, the Faroe Islands and
                                      Finland                                                                 4,00
            (') For the purpose of this Regulation the 'countries of the Arabian peninsula are considered to be
                the following, including the territories attached thereto : Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the
                Sultanate of Oman, United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Qawain,
                Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah), Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) and the People's Democratic
                Republic of Yemen (South Yemen).