CELEX: 31978R0401
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 401/78 of 27 February 1978 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable from 1 March 1978 to sugar and molasses exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty

28 . 2. 78                               Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 58/27
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 401/78
                                                       of 27 February 1978
                 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable from 1 March 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
 Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2), and in particular the              Whereas Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2682/72
 first sentence of the sixth subparagraph of Article 19              provides that, when the rate of the refund is being
 (2) thereof,                                                        fixed, account should be taken, where appropriate, of
                                                                     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 ieach month ;               The rates of the refunds applicable from 1 March
                                                                     1978 to the basic products appearing in Annex A to
Whereas, in accordance with paragraph 2 of that                     Regulation (EEC) No 2682/72 and listed in Article 1
Article, that rate must be determined with particular               (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, exported in the
 reference to :
                                                                    form of goods listed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC)
(a) the average costs incurred by processing industries             No 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 March
      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, 27 February 1978 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               fitienne DAVIGNON
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(!)  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 27 February 1978 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable
            from 1 March 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 :                                            20.17
                                                            Raw sugar :                                             15.11
                                                           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) :                        20-17 X S (*)
                                                                                                                       100
                                                           Molasses :
           ( l) ' S' represents the weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) in 100 kilograms of syrup .