CELEX: 31974R0073
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-11 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 73/74 of the Commission of 10 January 1974 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

No L 9/30                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              11 . 1 . 74
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 73/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 10 January 1974
                                          fixing the export refunds on fishery products
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    sary to vary the refund according to the destination
   COMMUNITIES,                                                      of the products in question ;
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                Whereas products of Community origin which are
   pean Economic Community ;                                         landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­
                                                                     ated outside the customs territory of the Commu­
   Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No                    nity do not qualify for refunds ;
  2142/70 (') of 20 October 1970 on the common
  organization of the market in fishery products, as                 Whereas economically important quantities of dried
   last amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 3159/73 (2 ),               and salted cod and coalfish can be exported at the
  and in particular the first sentence of Article 21 (4 )
                                                                     present time ;
  thereof ;
  Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                       Whereas it follows from applying the above­
  Committee ;                                                        mentioned rules and criteria to the present situation
                                                                     on the market and in particular to prices for fishery
                                                                     products in the Community and on the world market
  Whereas Article 21 of Regulation ( EEC) 2142/70                    that the refund should be fixed as shown in the
  provides that, to the extent necessary to enable econ­             Annex ;
 omically important exports of the products listed
  in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 the basis of prices for these products on the world                 refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 market, the difference between these prices and
 prices within the Community may be covered by an                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 export refund ;                                                         relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                         within a band of 2-25 °/o, at rate of exchange
 Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No                       based on their effective parity ;
  165/71 (3 ) of 26 January 1971 laying down general
 rules for granting export refunds on fishery pro­                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on
 ducts and criteria for fixing the amount of such                        the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
 refunds provides that when refunds are being fixed                      each of these currencies recorded for a given
 account must be taken on the one hand of the exist­                     period, in relation to the Community currencies
 ing situation and the future trend with regard to                       referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
 prices and availabilities of fishery products on the
 Community market and prices for fishery products                   Whereas the Management Committee for Fishery
on the world market on the other ; whereas account                   Products has not delivered an opinion within the
 must also be taken of the costs referred to in ( c) of             rime limit set by its Chairman ,
that Article, of the economic significance of the pro­
posed exports and of the aims of the common organ­
ization of the market in fishery products ;
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 165 /71
provides that, when prices on the Community mar­
ket are being determined, account must be taken of                                           Article 1
the ruling prices which are most favourable from
the exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices
on the world market are being determined, account                  The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of
must be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2               Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70 are hereby fixed at
                                                                   the amounts shown in the Annex .
of that Article ;
Whereas the world market situation or the specific­
requirements of certain markets may make it neces­                                           Article 2
(*) OJ No L 236, 27 . 10. 1970, p . 5 .
(2) OJ No L 322, 23 . 11 . 1973 , p . 4 .                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 January
(s) OJ No I. 23, 29. 1 . 1971 , p . I.                              1974 .
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             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 10 January 1974.
                                                                             Hor the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                         ANNEX
                                                                                               (u.a . i 100 kg net)
                   CCT heading
                      No                                Description of goods                           Refund
            0.3.02               Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish, whether or
                                 not cooked before or during the smoking process :
                                 ex Alb ) Cod, dried and salted, whole, headless or in
                                            pieces :
                                            for exports to :
                                            — Brazil                                                    10-00
                                            — Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Windward
                                                and Leeward Islands                                      8-00
                                 ex Alf) Coalfish, dried and salted , whole, headless or
                                            in pieces :
                                            for exports to :
                                           — Congo-Brazzaville, Zaire, Jamaica, Trini­
                                                dad, Barbados, Windward and Leeward Is­
                                               lands, Panama                                            10-00