CELEX: 31978R0631
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 631/78 of 30 March 1978 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable from 1 April 1978 to sugar and molasses exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty

31 . 3 . 78                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 84/35
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 631 /78
                                                            of 30 March 1978
                  fixing the rates of the refunds applicable from 1 April 1978 to sugar and
                    molasses exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                             Treaty which are manufactured under similar
 COMMUNITIES,                                                              conditions ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 (c) the need to ensure equality of competition for the
 Economic Community,                                                       industries which use Community products and
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                              those which use third-country products under
 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                         inward processing arrangements ;
 zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by
                                                                       Whereas Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2682/72
 Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2 ), and in particular the
                                                                       provides that, when the rate of the refund is being
 first sentence of the sixth subparagraph of Article 19
                                                                       fixed, account should be taken , where appropriate, of
(2) thereof,
                                                                       refunds, aids or other measures having equivalent
 Whereas Article 19 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                       effect applicable in all Member States in accordance
 3330/74 provides that the difference between quota­                   with the Regulation on the common organization of
 tions or prices on the world market for the products                  the market in the product in question to the basic
 listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a), (c) and (d) of that Regulation         products listed in Annex A to that Regulation or to
and prices within the Community may be covered by                      assimilated products ; whereas at present no produc­
 an export refund ; whereas Council Regulation (EEC)                   tion refunds are granted ; whereas it is therefore unnec­
 No 2682/72 of 12 December 1972 laying down                            essary to fix differentiated export refunds for the
general rules for granting export refunds on certain                   goods in question ;
 agricultural products exported in the form of goods
 not covered by Annex II to the Treaty, and the criteria               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 for fixing the amount of such refunds (3 ), as last                   are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 52/78 (4), specifies                 ment Committee for Sugar,
the products for which a rate of refund should be
 fixed, to be applied where these products are exported
 in the form of goods listed in Annex I to Regulation
(EEC) No 3330/74 ;                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in accordance with the first subparagraph of
 Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2682/72, the rate                                     Article 1
of the refund per 100 kilograms for each of the basic
products in question must be fixed for each month ;                    The rates of the refunds applicable from 1 April 1978
                                                                       to the basic products appearing in Annex A to Regula­
Whereas, in accordance with paragraph 2 of that                        tion (EEC) No 2682/72 and listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of
Article, that rate must be determined with particular                  Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, exported in the form
 reference to :
                                                                       of goods listed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No
(a) the average costs incurred by processing industries                3330 /74, are fixed as shown in the Annex hereto .
      in obtaining supplies of the basic products in ques­
      tion on the Community market and the prices                                             Article 2
      ruling on the world markets ;
(b) the level of the refunds on exports of processed                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
      agricultural products covered by Annex II to the                  1978 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                  Done at Brussels , 30 March 1978 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                 Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                    Vice-President
(!)  OJ   No L   359 , 31 . 12 . 1974.  p. 1 .
(2)  OJ   No L   303 , 28 . 11 . 1977,  p. 1 .
(})  OJ  No  L   289 , 27 . 12 . 1972,  p. 13 .
(4 ) OJ  No  L  23 , 28 . 1 . 1978 , p.  1.
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                                                                   ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 30 March 1978 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable
           from 1 April 1978 to sugar and molasses exported in the form of goods not covered by
                                                           Annex II to the Treaty
           Rate of refund in u.a./100 kg :                  White sugar :                                            22.75
                                                            Raw sugar :                                              16.55
                                                            Syrups of beet sugar or cane sugar con­
                                                            taining, in the dry state, 98 % or more
                                                            by weight of sucrose (including invert
                                                            sugar expressed as sucrose ) :                       22-75 X S f 1 )
                                                                                                                         100
                                                            Molasses :
           ( l) ' S ' represents the weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) in 100 kilograms of syrup .