CELEX: 31974R0648
Language: en
Date: 1974-03-23 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 648/74 of the Commission of 22 March 1974 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

No L 78 /22                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            23 . 3 . 74
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 648/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 22 March 1974
                                            fixing the export refunds on fishery products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        sary to vary the refund according to the destination
COMMUNITIES ,                                                         of the products in question ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    Whereas products of Community origin which are
pean Economic Community ;                                             landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­
                                                                      ated outside the customs territory of the Commu­
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No                        nity do not qualify for refunds ;
2142/70 (*) of 20 October 1970 on the common
organization of the market in fishery products, as                    Whereas economically important quantities of dried
last amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 3159/73 ( 2 ),                  and salted cod and coalfish can be exported at the
and in particular the first sentence of Article 21 (4)                present time ;
thereof ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                          Whereas it follows from applying the above­
Committee ;                                                           mentioned rules and criteria to the present situation
                                                                      on the market and in particular to prices for fishery
                                                                      products in the Community and on the world market
Whereas Article 21 of Regulation ( EEC) 2142/70                       that the refund should be fixed as shown in the
provides that, to the extent necessary to enable econ­                Annex ;
omically important exports of the products listed
in Article 1 (2 ) of that Regulation to be effected on                Whereas, if the llevy isystem is to operate normally,
the basis of prices for these products on the world                   refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
market, the difference between these prices and
prices within the Community may be covered by an                      — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
export refund ;                                                            relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                           within a band of 2-25 %, at rate of exchange
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No                          based on their effective parity ;
165/71 ( 3) of 26 January 1971 laying down general
rales for granting export refunds on fishery pro­                      — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on
ducts and criteria for fixing the amount of such                           the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
refunds provides that when refunds are being fixed                         each of these currencies recorded for a given
account must be taken on the one hand of the exist­                        period, in relation to the Community currencies
ing situation and the future trend with regard to                          referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
prices and availabilities of fishery products on the
Community market and prices for fishery products                       Whereas the Management Committee for Fishery
on the world market on the other ; whereas account                     Products has not delivered an opinion within the
must also be taken of the costs referred to in ( c) of                 time limit set by its Chairman ,
that Article, of the economic significance of the pro­
posed exports and of the aims of the common organ­
 ization of the market in fishery products ;
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC ) No 165/71
provides that, when prices on the Community mar­
                                                                                                Article 1
 ket are being determined, account must be taken of
the ruling prices which are most favourable from
 the exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices
on the world market are being determined , account                     The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2 ) of
must be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2                   Regulation ( EEC ) No 2142/70 are hereby fixed at
                                                                       the amounts shown in the Annex .
of that Article ;
Whereas the world market situation or the specific
 requirements of certain markets may make it neces­                                             Article 2
 ( J ) OJ No L 236, 27. 10 . 1970, p . 5 .
 (2) OJ No L 322, 23 . 11 . 1973 , p . 4.                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
  (3) OJ No L 23 , 29 . 1 . 1971 , p . 1 .                              1974 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 22 March 1974 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                The President
                                                                           François-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                        ANNEX
                                                                                              (u.a . I 100 kg net)
                  CCT heading
                     No                                 Description of goods                          Refund
            03.02                Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish , whether or
                                 not cooked before or during the smoking process :
                                 ex Alb ) Cod , dried and salted , whole, headless or in
                                            pieces :
                                            for exports to :
                                            — Brazil                                                    7-00
                                 ex Alf) Coalfish, dried and salted, whole, headless or
                                            in pieces :
                                            for exports to :
                                            — Congo-Brazzaville , Zaïre, Jamaica , Trini­
                                                dad, Barbados, Windward and Leeward Is­
                                                lands, Panama                                           7-00