CELEX: 31977R1956
Language: en
Date: 1977-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1956/77 of 31 August 1977 fixing the export refund on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs

1 . 9 . 77                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 223/ 15
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1956/77
                                                      of 31 August 1977
                        fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     compound feedingstuffs for which a refund may be
COMMUNITIES,                                                       fixed should be taken into account ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1913/69
Economic Community,                                                of 29 September 1969 on the granting and the
                                                                   advance fixing of the export refund on cereal-based
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       compound feedingstuffs (5), as amended by Regulation
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                 ( EEC) No 311 6/75 (6), provides that calculation of the
tion of the market in cereals (J), as last amended by              export refund must be based on the levy applicable to
Regulation (EEC) No 1386/77 (2), and in particular the             maize ; whereas       this    calculation  must also take
fourth subparagraph of Article 16 (2) thereof,                     account of the cereal products content ; whereas, there­
                                                                   fore, in the interest of simplification, compound
                                                                   feedingstuffs should be placed in categories and the
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       refund for each category should be fixed on the basis
Committee,                                                         of a quantity of maize which is representative of the
                                                                   usual cereal products content for the category
                                                                   concerned ; whereas, futhermore, the amount of the
Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                  refund must also take into account the possibilities
provides that the difference between quotations or                 and conditions for the sale of those products on the
prices on the world market for the products listed in              world market, the need to avoid disturbances on the
Article 1 of that Regulation and prices for those                  Community market and the economic aspect of the
products within the Community may be covered by                    export ;
an export refund ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Whereas the world market situation or the specific
2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general                      requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
rules for granting export refunds on cereals and                   sary to vary the refund for compound feedingstuffs
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3),                 according to destination ;
provides that when refunds are being fixed account
must be taken of the existing situation and the future
trend with regard to prices and availabilities of cereals           Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
on the Community market on the one hand and                         refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 prices for cereals and cereal products on the other ;
whereas the same Article provides that it is also impor­            — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 tant to ensure equilibrium and the natural develop­                     relation to each other at any given moment within
 ment of prices and trade on the cereal markets ;                        a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                         their effective parity ;
 Whereas it follows from applying rules and criteria to             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 the present situation on the market in cereal-based                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 compound feedingstuffs that the export refund should                    of these currencies recorded for a given period in
 be fixed at an amount which will cover the difference
                                                                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
 between Community prices and world market prices ;                       in the previous subparagraph ;
 Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be                     Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month ;
 applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (4),                whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
 provides that, when export refunds on cereal-based
 compound feedingstuffs are being fixed, only the
 products normally used in the manufacture of                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                    are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                    ment Committee for Cereals,
 (') OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1.
 (2) OJ  No L 158 , 29. 6.   1977, p. 1.
 0   OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 78 .                          (5) OJ No L 246, 30 . 9 . 1969 , p. 11 .
 (4) OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60 .                          (<>) OJ No L 309 , 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 64.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                          to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 are hereby fixed as
                                                                                       shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
                                     Article 1                                                                        Article 2
The export refunds on the compound feedingstuffs                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and subject                                     1977 .
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                      States .
                      Done at Brussels, 31 August 1977.
                                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                        Vice-President
                                                                             ANNEX
                      to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1977 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based
                                                                   compound feedingstuffs
                                                                                                                                                     (u.aJtonne)
          CCT               Special
        heading          specification                                     Nomenclature in simplified wording                                      Refund
           No             for refund
23.07 B I                                   Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by Regulation (EEC) No
                                            2743/75, containing starch, glucose or glucose syrup falling within subheadings
                                            17.02 B and 17.05 B or milk products (falling within heading Nos 04.01 , 04.02,
                                            04.03 and 04.04 and subheadings 17.02 A and 17.05 A) :
                                            of a milk powder content of less than 50 % by weight and of cereal products (')
                                            content by weight :
                            3010            — Exceeding 5% but not exceeding 15%                                                                    6-42
                            4010            — Exceeding 15% but not exceeding 30 %                                                                 1606
                            5010            — Exceeding 30 % but not exceeding 50 %                                                                28-90
                            6010            — Exceeding 50 % but not exceeding 65 %                                                                38-54
                            7010            — Exceeding 65 %                                                                                       48-17
( ] ) 'Cereal products means the products falling within Chapter 10 and heading Nos 11.01 and 11.02 (excluding subheading 11.02 G) of the Common Customs Tariff.