CELEX: 31977R1424
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1424/77 of 29 June 1977 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

30. 6. 77                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 160/37
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1424/77
                                                          of 29 June 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
COMMUNITIES,                                                        requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
                                                                    sary to vary the refund for sugar according to destina­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               tion ;
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                   may be fixed by other legal means ;
zation of the market in sugar (J), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1110/77 (2), and in particular the              Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 1 9 (2)          refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
thereof,
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                            relation to each other, at any given moment,
Committee,                                                              within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                        on their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
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 Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18                    Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
June 1968 laying down general rules for granting                    whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds               Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in                 present situation on the market in sugar and in parti­
the natural state, are being fixed account must be                  cular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
taken of the situation on the Community and world                   Community and on the world market that the refund
markets in sugar and in particular of the price and                 should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ;              to this Regulation ;
whereas the same Article provides that the economic
aspect of 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 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 (5) ;
Whereas, furthermore, this refund should be fixed in                                       Article 1
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 1 499/76 (7);                     amounts shown in the Annex .
(') OJ  No  L   359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L   134, 28 . 5. 1977, p. 1 .
(J) OJ  No  L   143, 25. 6. 1968 , p. 6.                                                   Article 2
(«) OJ  No  L   167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13.
(5) OJ  No  L   89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3.
(*) OJ  No  L   50, 4. 3 . 1970, p. 1 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 30 June
(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, 29 June 1977.
                                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                        Vice-President
                                                                          ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 29 June 1977 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw
                                                    sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                         (u.aJl00 kg)
                 CCT
                heading                                              Description of goods                                                Refund
                  No
           17.01                  Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                  A. White sugar                                                                                        1800
                                  B. Raw sugar :
                                       (a) Candy sugar                                                                                  18.14 (')
                                       (b) Other raw sugar                                                                              14.00 (•)
          (') 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 .