CELEX: 31973R1497
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1497/73 of the Commission of 6 June 1973 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

No L 151 / 10                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                             7 . 6 . 73
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1497/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                              of 6 June 1973
                 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
COMMUNITIES,                                                            requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
                                                                        sary to vary the refund for sugar according to destina­
                                                                        tion ;
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 No 1009/
67/EEC ( 1 ) of 18 December 1967 on the common                          Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                    refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 74/73 (2), and in particular
the first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 1 7 (2) thereof ;                                                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                            within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                            on their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 17 of Regulation No 1009/67/ EEC
provides that the difference between quotations or                      — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
prices on the world market for the products listed in                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those                 of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
products within the Community may be covered by                             relation to the Community currencies referred to
an export refund ;                                                          in the previous subparagraph ; whereas the
                                                                            Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
                                                                            requested ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 (3) of
 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for granting                    Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
export refunds on sugar, as last amended by Regula­                     whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
tion (EEC) No 881 /73 (4), provides that when refunds
on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in                     Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
the natural state, are being fixed account must be
                                                                        present situation on the market in sugar and in parti­
taken of the situation on the Community and world
                                                                        cular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
markets in sugar and in particular of the price andcost                 Community and on the world market that the refund
factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ; whereas               should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
the same Article provides that the economic aspect of                   to this Regulation ;
the proposed exports should also be taken into
account ;
                                                                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                        are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in                        ment Committee for Sugar ;
respect of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is
defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
431 /68 (5) of 9 April 1968 determining the standard
quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron­                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar ;
                                                                                               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 (6) of 2 March 1970                     of Regulation No 1009/67/ EEC, undenatured and
on detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar ;                exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed at the
                                                                        amounts shown in the Annex .
(') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p . I.
I1) OJ No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. I.
(3) OJ   No  L  143 , 25 . 6 . 1968 , p. 6 .                                                   Article 2
(4) OJ   No  L  86, 31 . 3 . 1973 , p . 30 .
(5) OJ   No  L  89 , 10 . 4 . 1968 , p . 3 .
(6) OJ   No  L  50 , 4 . 3 . 1970 , p . 1 . •                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 June 1973 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
           Done at Brussels, 6 June 1973 .
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                          P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                 Member of the Commission
                                                                ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 6 June 1973 fixing the refunds on white sugar and
                                                raw sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                               (u.a. /lOO kg)
                 CCT
               heading                        ,              Description of goods                              Refund
                  No
          17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                  B. Undenatured :
                                       I. White sugar                                                             —
                                      II . Raw sugar :
                                           (a) Candy sugar                                                     1-21 n
                                           ( b ) Other raw sugar                                                  —
          (J) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 °/o ; if the yield is other than 92 °/o , the refund applicable is
              calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 .