CELEX: 31999R2071
Language: en
Date: 1999-09-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2071/1999 of 30 September 1999 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

1. 10. 1999            EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                       L 256/23
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2071/1999
                                                         of 30 September 1999
               fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                    equal to one-hundredth of an amount which takes
                                                                               account, on the one hand, of the difference between the
                                                                               intervention price for white sugar for the Community
                                                                               areas without deficit for the month for which the basic
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                          amount is fixed and quotations or prices for white sugar
Community,                                                                     on the world market and, on the other, of the need to
                                                                               establish a balance between the use of Community basic
                                                                               products in the manufacture of processed goods for
                                                                               export to third countries and the use of third country
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13                    products brought in under inward processing arrange-
September 1999 on the common organization of the markets                       ments;
in the sugar sector (1), and in particular the second subpara-
graph of Article 18(5) thereof,
                                                                         (5)   Whereas, according to the terms of Article 21(4) of
(1)     Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999                     Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999, the application of the
        provides that the difference between quotations or prices              basic amount may be limited to some of the products
        on the world market for the products listed in Article                 listed in Article 1(1)(d) of the said Regulation;
        1(1)(d) of that Regulation and prices for those products
        within the Community may be covered by an export
        refund;
                                                                         (6)   Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999
                                                                               makes provision for setting refunds for export in the
(2)     Whereas Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No                     natural state of products referred to in Article 1(1)(f) and
        2135/95 of 7 September 1995 laying down detailed                       (g) and (h) of that Regulation; whereas the refund must
        rules of application for the grant of export refunds in                be fixed per 100 kilograms of dry matter, taking account
        the sugar sector (2), provides that the export refund on               of the export refund for products falling within CN code
        100 kilograms of the products listed in Article 1 (1) (d)              1702 30 91 and for products referred to in Article
        of Regulation (EEC) No 2038/1999 is equal to the basic                 1(1)(d) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 and of the
        amount multiplied by the sucrose content, including,                   economic aspects of the intended exports; whereas, in
        where appropriate, other sugars expressed as sucrose;                  the case of the products referred to in the said Article
        whereas the sucrose content of the product in question                 (1)(f) and (g), the refund is to be granted only for prod-
        is determined in accordance with Article 3 of Commis-                  ucts complying with the conditions in Article 5 of Regu-
        sion Regulation (EC) No 2135/95;                                       lation (EC) No 2135/95; whereas, for the products
                                                                               referred to in Article 1(1)(h), the refund shall be granted
                                                                               only for products complying with the conditions in
                                                                               Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95;
(3)     Whereas Article 21(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999
        provides that the basic amount of the refund on sorbose
        exported in the natural state must be equal to the basic
        amount of the refund less one-hundredth of the produc-
        tion refund applicable, pursuant to Council Regulation           (7)   Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed
        (EEC) No 1010/86 of 25 March 1986 laying down                          every month; whereas they may be altered in the inter-
        general rules for the production refund on sugar used in               vening period;
        the chemical industry (3), as last amended by Commis-
        sion Regulation (EC) No 1148/98 (4), to the products
        listed in the Annex to the last mentioned Regulation;
                                                                         (8)   Whereas application of these quotas results in fixing
                                                                               refunds for the products in question at the levels given
(4)     Whereas, according to the terms of Article 21(1) of                    in the Annex to this Regulation;
        Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999, the basic amount of the
        refund on the other products listed in Article 1(1)(d) of
        the said Regulation exported in the natural state must be
(1) OJ L  252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.                                          (9)   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
(2) OJ L  214, 8.9.1995, p. 16.
(3) OJ L  94, 9.4.1986, p. 9.                                                  are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
(4) OJ L  159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.                                                Committee for Sugar,
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         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                           Article 1
         The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1(1)(d)(f)(g) and (h) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999,
         exported in the natural state, shall be set out in the Annex hereto.
                                                           Article 2
         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October 1999.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
               Done at Brussels, 30 September 1999.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  Franz FISCHLER
                                                                             Member of the Commission
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                                                                      ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 30 September 1999 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other
                                             sugar products exported in the natural state
                                            Product code                              Amount of refund
                                                                              — EUR/100 kg dry matter —
                                         1702 40 10 9100                               48,67     (2)
                                         1702 60 10 9000                               48,67     (2)
                                         1702 60 80 9100                               92,47     (4)
                                                                             — EUR/1 % sucrose × 100 kg —
                                         1702 60 95 9000                                0,4867 (1)
                                                                              — EUR/100 kg dry matter —
                                         1702 90 30 9000                               48,67     (2)
                                                                             — EUR/1 % sucrose × 100 kg —
                                         1702 90 60 9000                                0,4867 (1)
                                         1702 90 71 9000                                0,4867 (1)
                                         1702 90 99 9900                                0,4867 (1) (3)
                                                                              — EUR/100 kg dry matter —
                                         2106 90 30 9000                               48,67     (2)
                                                                             — EUR/1 % sucrose × 100 kg —
                                         2106 90 59 9000                                0,4867 (1)
                              (1) The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure
                                  (Regulation (EC) No 2135/95). Sucrose content is determined in accordance with
                                  Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95.
                              (2) Applicable only to products referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95.
                              (3) The basic amount is not applicable to the product defined under point 2 of the
                                  Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3513/92 (OJ L 355, 5.12.1992, p. 12).
                              (4) Applicable only to products defined under Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95.
                              NB: The product codes and the footnotes are defined in amended Commis-
                                    sion Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ L 366, 24.12.1987, p. 1).