CELEX: 31984R2509
Language: en
Date: 1984-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2509/84 of 31 August 1984 fixing the export refunds on oil seeds

No L 234/ 18                         Official Journal of the European Communities                               1 . 9 . 84
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2509/84
                                                    of 31 August 1984
                                         fixing the export refunds on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  favourable quotations recorded on the various markets
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   of importing third countries and costs incurred in
                                                                placing the goods on the world market ; whereas,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          when the amount of the refund is being fixed, account
 Economic Community,                                            must also be taken of the level of market prices within
                                                                the Community for the oil seeds referred to in Article
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC              21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC and the future trend
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                  of these prices ; whereas, furthermore, account should
common organization of the market in oils and fats ('),         be taken of the economic aspect of the proposed
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1556/84 (2),             exports and the situation in the Community regarding
                                                                the supply of and demand for these seeds ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/EEC
of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza, rape and
sunflower seeds (3), as last amended by Regulation              Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
                                                                No 651 /71 of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed rules
(EEC) No 2429/72 (4), and in particular the first
sentence of Article 2 (3) thereof,                              for the application of export refunds on oil seeds (9), as
                                                                last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1815/84 (10),
                                                                provides that the amount of the refund must be calcu­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1223/83 of 20 May 1983 on the exchange rates to be             lated on the basis of the weight of exported seeds ;
                                                                whereas this weight must be adjusted to take account
applied in agriculture (*), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 855/84 (6),                                       of any differences between the percentages of moisture
                                                                and impurities found to exist and those used to define
                                                                the standard quality for which the target price is fixed ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    whereas, when this adjustment is being made, the
 1569/72 of 20 July 1972 laying down special measures
                                                                weight of the exported seeds must be increased by the
for colza, rape and sunflower seed Q, as last amended           amount of the difference between the actual moisture
by Regulation (EEC) No 1474/84 (8), and in particular           and impurities content and that used to define the
Article 2 (3) thereof,                                          standard quality if the former is lower than the latter ;
                                                                whereas, if the opposite applies, the weight of the
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                    exported seeds must be reduced by the same amount ;
Committee,
Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                  Whereas the standard quality referred to above was
provides that a refund may be granted on exports to             defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
third countries of oil seeds harvested within the               1102/84 (");
Community ; whereas the amount of this refund may
not exceed the difference between prices within the
Community and prices on the world market where the              Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC
former are higher than the latter ; whereas Article 21          provides that the refund may be varied according to
                                                                destination where the world market situation or the
of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that, at
present, Article 28 of that Regulation applies only to          specific requirements of certain markets make this
colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                               necessary ;
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC                   Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 651 /71
provides that when the refund is being calculated               provides for the publication of the amount of the final
account must be taken of prices ruling on the various           refund obtained from the conversion into each of the
Community markets which are representative from the             national currencies of the amount of the refund in
point of view of processing and exportation ; the most          ECU plus or minus the differential amount ; whereas
                                                                Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 (u) defined
                                                                the    elements   which      determine  the   differential
(') OJ  No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.
(2) OJ  No L 150 , 6. 6. 1984, p. 5.                            amounts ; whereas these elements are equal to the
0   OJ  No 125, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2461 /67.
(4) OJ  No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L 132, 21 . 5. 1983, p. 33 .                         (2)  OJ No L 75, 30 . 3 . 1971 , p. 16.
(6) OJ  No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .                            H    OJ No L 170, 29 . 6. 1984, p. 46.
O OJ No L 167, 25 . 7. 1972, p. 9 .                             (")  OJ No L 113, 28 . 4. 1984, p. 8 .
 8) OJ No L 143, 30 . 5. 1984, p. 4.                            0 2) OJ No L 170, 29 . 6. 1984, p. 41 .
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incidence on the target price or the refund of the coef­      Whereas where, for one or more months, forward
ficient derived from the percentage referred to in            exchange rates are not available, the rate adopted for
Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72 ;               the previous month or the following month, as the
whereas, according to these provisions, this percentage        case may be, is to be used ;
represents :
                                                              Whereas, for the period 22 to 28 August 1984, for
(a) for those Member States whose currencies are               certain currencies :
     maintained as between themselves within a spread         — for the current month, the difference referred to in
     at any given moment of 2,25 % , the difference
     between :                                                     Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72
                                                                   differs by more than one point from the percen­
     — the conversion rate used under the common                   tage adopted for the previous fixing,
         agricultural policy, and                             — for certain following months the difference
     — the conversion rate resulting from the central              referred to in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
         rate,                                                     1569/72 exceeds 0,5 % ; whereas this difference in
                                                                   the case of certain forward differential amounts
(b) for Italy, the United Kingdom and Greece, the
     difference between :                                          differs by more than one point from the percen­
                                                                   tage adopted for the previous fixing ;
     — the relationship between the conversion rate
         used under the common agricultural policy for         Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to
                                                               the current situation of the oil-seeds market and to the
         the currency of the Member State concerned
         and the central rate of each of the currencies of     rates or prices of these products that, pursuant to
         the Member States referred to in (a), and             Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 651 /71 , the amount
                                                               of the refund in ECU and the amount of the final
     — the spot market rate for the currency of the            refund in each of the national currencies must, in the
         Member State in question in relation to each of       case of colza and rape seed, be fixed in accordance
         the currencies of the Member States referred to
                                                               with the Annex to this Regulation ; whereas it is not
         in (a), as recorded over a period to be deter­        necessary to fix a refund for sunflower seed ;
         mined ;
                                                               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas, however, pursuant to Article 2a of Regula­            are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
tion (EEC) No 1 569/72, the monetary disparity for the         Committee for Oils and Fats,
marketing years 1984/85 to 1986/87 will be calculated
by a method which takes into account a coefficient
applied to the conversion rate resulting from the              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
central rate ; whereas the said Article 2a fixed the coef­
ficient for the beginning of the 1984/85 marketing                                     Article 1
year ; whereas account should be taken thereof in
 respect of colza and rape seed with effect from 1 July        In the case of colza and rape seed, the amounts of the
 1984, and in respect of sunflower seed with effect from       refund referred to in Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
 1 August 1984 ;                                               No 651 /71 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
Whereas pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC)          No refund is fixed for sunflower seed.
 No 1569/72 forward differential amounts are to be
 determined where the forward exchange rate for one                                    Article 2
 or more currencies differs from the spot rate by at least
 a given percentage ; whereas this percentage has been         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
 fixed at 0,5 by Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 ;                  1984,
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 31 August 1984.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            Poul DALSAGER
                                                                     Member of the Commission
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                                                              ANNEX
                        to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1984 fixing the export refunds on colza
                                                          and rape seed
                                                                                                       (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                              Current
                                                           1st month    2nd month    3rd month     4th month        5th month
                                              month
1 . Gross refunds (ECU)                          8,500          9,020        9,540        10,060        10,580          11,100
2 . Final refunds                        I
    Seeds harvested and exported from :
    —   Federal Republic of Germany (DM)        29,12          30,43        31,78        33,34          28,18           30,18
    —   Netherlands (Fl)                        26,92          28,33        29,73        31,41          31,70           33,86
    —   BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs)                       394,50         418,63       442,77       465,37        489,50           502,12
    —   France (FF)                             49,06          52,64        55,62         58,09 -       61,66           61,94
    —   Denmark (Dkr)                           71,53          75,90        80,28         84,65         89,03           92,59
    —   Ireland (£ Irl)                          6,376          6,766        7,150         7,469         7,859            8,048
    —   United Kingdom (£)                       5,677          5,998        6,320         6,642         6,963            7,285
    —   Italy (Lit)                         12 172        12912         13 360       13 819        14 563           14 960
    —   Greece (Dr)                            692,26 .       739,34       786,41        833,48       880,5l6          927,63