CELEX: 31977R0479
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 479/77 of 9 March 1977 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

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                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 479/77
                                                       of 9 March 1977
                fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the world market situation or the specific re­
COMMUNITIES,                                                       quirements of certain markets may make it necessary
                                                                   to vary the refund for sugar according to destination ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
                                                                   may be fixed by other legal means ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­
zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by              Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Regulation (EEC) No 31 38/76 (2), and in particular the            refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 1 9 (2)
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
thereof,
                                                                       relation to each other, at any given moment,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Com­                      within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
mittee,                                                                on their effective parity ;
                                                                   — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
provides that the difference between quotations or pri­                of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
ces on the world market for the products listed in Arti­               relation to the Community currencies referred to
cle 1 ( l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those pro­             in the previous subparagraph ;
ducts within the Community may be covered by an
export refund ;
                                                                   Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18                   whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
June 1968 laying down general rules for granting ex­
port refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regula­              Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
tion (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds              present situation on the market in sugar and in parti­
on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in                cular to quotations or prices for sugar within the Com­
the natural state, are being fixed account must be                 munity and on the world market that the refund
taken of the situation on the Community and world                  should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
markets in sugar and in particular of the price and                to this Regulation ;
cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ;
whereas the same Article provides that the economic                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken                are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
into account ;                                                     ment Committee for Sugar,
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in res­
pect of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is de­
fined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard qual­             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
ity for raw sugar and fixing the Community frontier
crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar (5) ;
                                                                                          Article 1
Whereas, furthermore, this refund should be fixed in
accordance with Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
766/68 ; whereas candy sugar is defined in Commis­                 The refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a)
sion Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on                 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, undenatured and
detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (6),           exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed at the
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1499/76 (7) ;                    amounts shown in the Annex.
(!) OJ   No  L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No  L 354, 24. 12. 1976, p. 1 .
(3) OJ   No  L  143, 25. 6. 1968, p. 6.                                                   Article 2
(4) OJ   No  L  167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13.
(') OJ   No  L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3 .
(b) OJ   No  L 50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 .                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 March
(7) OJ   No  L  167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 29 .                          1977 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 9 March 1977.
                                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                          Vice-President
                                                                            ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 9 March 1977 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw
                                                      sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                           (u.a./100 kg)
                    CCT
                  heading                                              Description of goods                                               Refund
                     No
             17.01                  Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                    A. White sugar                                                                                       14.00
                                    B. Raw sugar :
                                         (a) Candy sugar                                                                                 1 4.55 (')
                                         (b) Other raw sugar                                                                             12.00 (')
            (') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 %, the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with
                the provisions of Article 5 (3) of Regulation ( EEC) No 766/68 .