CELEX: 31973R2341
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2341/73 of the Commission of 29 August 1973 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

30. 8 . 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 242/15
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2341/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 29 August 1973
                                     fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   may make it necessary to vary the refund for a
  COMMUNITIES,                                                     given product according to the destination of that
                                                                   product ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
 pean Economic Community ;                                         Whereas economically significant quantities of
                                                                   'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II tomatoes, fresh
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      lemons, apples and peaches, of 'Extra' Class and
 1035/72 (') of 18 May 1972 on the common organi­                  Class I hothouse and open ground grapes, of shelled
 zation of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last             hazelnuts and of unshelled walnuts can be exported
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and                   at the present time ;
 in particular Article 30 (4) thereof ;
                                                                  Whereas exports of these products to certain destina­
  Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                    tions cannot be routed through the Suez Canal and
 Committee ;                                                      whereas the consequent detour via the Cape of
                                                                  Good Hope entails additional transport costs ;
 Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No                        whereas the refund can therefore be justifiably
 1035/72 provides that, to the extent necessary to                increased where exports have to be transported via
 allow economically significant quantities to be                  the latter route ;
exported, the difference between prices in interna­
tional trade and prices in the Community for the                  Whereas, if the refund system is to operate nor­
products referred to in that Article may be covered                mally, refunds should be calculated on the following
by an export refund ;                                             basis :
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
2518/69 (8) of 9 December 1969 laying down                             relation to each other, at any given moment,
general rules for granting export refunds on fruit                     within a band of 2-25 %>, a rate of exchange
and vegetables and criteria for fixing the amount of                   based on their effective parity ;
such refunds as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
2455/72 (4) provides that, when refunds are being                      the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
fixed, account must be taken of the current situa­                     each of these currencies recorded for a given
tion or foreseeable developments with regard to                        period, in relation to the Community currencies
prices and availabilities of fruit and vegetables on                   referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
the Community market on the one hand and prices
in international trade on the other ;               whereas
account must also be taken of the costs indicated in
                                                                  Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
                                                                  criteria to the present situation on the market of
(b) of that Article and of the economic aspects of                the prospective development of this situation,
the proposed exports ;                                            and in particular to quotations and prices for
                                                                  fruit and vegetables in the Community and in inter­
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)                national trade that the refund should be fixed as
No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market                   indicated below ;
are being determined account must be taken of the
prices which are most favourable from the
exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices in               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
international trade are being determined, the prices              are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
and quotations referred to in paragraph 2 of that                 ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ;
Article must be taken into account ;
Whereas the situation with regard to international                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
trade or the specific requirements of certain markets
                                                                                           Article 1
(») OJ No L 118 of 20. 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
(■) OJ No L 291 of 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.
(•) OJ No L 318 of 18. 12. 1969, p. 17.                           1 . The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are
(4) OJ No L 266, of 25. 11 . 1972, p. 7.                          hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex.
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2. If apples are shipped to their destination via                      fruit and vegetables, as supplemented by Regulation
the Cape of Good Hope, the amount indicated in                         (EEC) No 316/71 (2), shall apply to the unshelled
the Annex shall be increased by 4 u.a./100 kg.                         walnuts, apples and peaches set out in the Annex.
                                                                                                Article 2
3 . The provisions of Article 2b of Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 497/70 (*) of 17 March 1970                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 31 August
on rules for the application of export refunds on                      1973 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 29 August 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                François-Xavier ORTOLI
 («) OJ No L 62, 18. 3 . 1970, p . 15 .                                (») OJ No L 36, 13. 2. 1971, p. 11 .
                                                              ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 29 August 1973 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                             vegetables
                                                                                                       (u.a./100 kg net)
                CCT heading                                                                                  Refund
                      No                                     Description of goods
             :x 07.01 M II            Tomatoes ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) for exports
                                     to Austria                                                               4·00
             ex 08.02 C               Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                      1·44
             ;x 08.04 A I             Table grapes :
                                      — fresh, open ground ('Extra' Class and Class I)                        4·00
                                      — fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I)                          16·00
                                      Unshelled walnuts                                                       8·00
             ex 08.05 B
                                      Shelled hazelnuts                                                       400
             ex 08.05 G
                                      Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than
             ex 08.06 A II            cider apples :
                                      — for exports to countries and territories of Africa
                                          (with the exception of South Africa), countries of the
                                          Arabian peninsula, Syria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland,
                                          Romania, Czechoslovakia, USSR, Yugoslavia, Austria,,
                                          Brazil, Venezuela and Peru                                          3·00
                                      Peaches (excluding nectarines) ('Extra' Class, Class I and
             ex 08.07 B               Class II)                                                               6·00