CELEX: 31979R0856
Language: en
Date: 1979-05-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 856/79 of 30 April 1979 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

No L 108/24                         Official Journal of the European Communities                              1 . 5. 79
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 856/79
                                                   of 30 April 1979
                                        fixing the export refunds on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC
COMMUNITIES,                                                  provides that when the refund is being calculated
                                                              account must be taken of prices ruling on the various
                                                              Community markets which are representative from
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         the point of view of processing and exportation ; the
Economic Community,                                           most favourable quotations recorded on the various
                                                              markets of importing third countries and Greece, and
                                                              costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC              market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                being fixed, account must also be taken of the level of
common organization of the market in oils and                  market prices within the Community for the oil seeds
fats (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No               referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
590/79 (2),                                                    66/EEC and the future trend of these prices ; whereas,
                                                               furthermore, account should be taken of the economic
                                                               aspect of the proposed exports and the situation in the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Community regarding the supply of and demand for
2749/78 of 23 November 1978 on trade in oils and               these seeds :
fats between the Community and Greece (3),
Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/EEC              Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza, rape and           No 651 /71 of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed rules
sunflower seeds (4), as last amended by Regulation             for the application of export refunds on oil seeds (6)
(EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular the first              provides that the amount of the refund must be calcu­
sentence of Article 2 (3) thereof,                             lated on the basis of the weight of exported seeds ;
                                                               whereas this weight must be adjusted to take account
                                                               of any differences between the percentages of mois­
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                   ture and impurities found to exist and those used to
Committee,                                                     define the standard quality for which the target price
                                                               is fixed ; whereas, when this adjustment is being
                                                               made, the weight of the exported seeds must be
Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                 increased by the amount of the difference between the
provides that a refund may be granted on exports to            actual moisture and impurities content and that used
third countries of oil seeds harvested within the              to define the standard quality if the former is lower
Community ; whereas the amount of this refund may              than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the
not exceed the difference between prices within the            weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the
Community and prices on the world market where                 same amount ;
the former are higher than the latter ; whereas Article
21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that, at
present, Article 28 of that Regulation applies only to
colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                              Whereas the standard quality referred to above was
                                                               defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                1291 /78 of 6 June 1978 fixing the target prices and
Whereas Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 2749/78               basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the 1978/79
 provides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/                 marketing year (7) ;
66/EEC and measures taken in application thereof
apply, subject to the provisions of the Agreement esta­
blishing an Association between the European                   Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC
 Economic Community and Greece, to trade between                provides that the refund may be varied according to
 the Community and Greece ;                                     destination where the world market situation or the
                                                                specific requirements of certain markets make this
(1) OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.                         necessary ;
(2) OJ No L 78, 30. 3. 1979, p. 1 .
R OT No L 331 . 28 . 11 . 1978 , d. 1 .
(<) OJ No 125, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2461 /67.                       (6) OJ No L 75, 30 . 3 . 1971 , p. 16.
(s) OJ No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .                        (7) OJ No L 160, 17. 6. 1978 , p. 1 .
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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,               products within the Community and on the markets
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :               of third countries and Greece, that the refund should
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                 be as set out in the Annex hereto for those products
     relation to each other at any given moment within              for which the marketing year has already begun ;
     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
     their effective parity ;                                       are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the               ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
     of these currencies recorded for a given period in             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
     in the previous indent ;                                                              Article 1
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29                    The refund on the products referred to in Article 21
March 1979 (J) laid down the coefficient for                        of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, exported to third coun­
expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in                   tries and Greece, shall be as set out in the Annex
ECU ;                                                               hereto .
Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules                                      Article 2
to the present situation on the market in oil seeds,
and in particular to quotations or prices for these                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1979 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 30 April 1979 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
(!) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
                                                          ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 30 April 1979 fixing the export refunds on oil seeds
                                                                                                    (ECU / 100 k/0
                     CCT
                    heading                               Description                                 Refund
                      No
               ex 12.01        Colza and rape seed, other than for sowing                             1500
               ex 12.01        Sunflower seed, other than for sowing                                   —