CELEX: 31973R3129
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3129/73 of the Commission of 19 November 1973 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 319/8                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             20 . 11 . 73
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3129/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 19 November 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, Glass I and Class II sweet fresh oranges,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       fresh mandarins, fresh lemons and apples, of 'Extra'
1035/72 {l) of 18 May 1972 on the common organi­                   Class and Class I hothouse and open ground grapes,
zation of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last              of shelled hazelnuts and of unshelled walnuts can be
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and                    exported 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 (*) 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                      Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
account must also be taken of the costs indicated in
                                                                   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
                                                                   are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
international trade are being determined, the prices
                                                                   ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
and quotations referred to in paragraph 2 of that
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 »re
(«)  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                      ( EEC ) No 316/71 ( 2), shall apply to the sweet
the Cape of Good Hope, the amount indicated in                        oranges, mandarins, unshelled walnuts and apples
the Annex shall be increased by 4 u.a./ 100 kg.                        set out in the Annex .
3.    The provisions of Article 2b of Commission                                                Article 2
Regulation ( EEC) No 497/70 (*) of 17 March 1970
on rules for the application of export refunds on                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 Novem­
fruit and vegetables, as supplemented by Regulation                   ber 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
             Done at Brussels, 19 November 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 19 November 1973 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                           vegetables
                                                                                                        fu.a. / 100 kg net)
                 CCT heading                                                                                    Refund
                       No                                   Description of goods
             ex 08.02 A I            Sweet fresh oranges ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                   4·00
             ex 08.02 B              Fresh manderins ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II )                      4·00
             ex 08.02 C              Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II )                         1·44
             ex 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
             ex 08.05 B              Unshelled walnuts                                                           800
             ex .08.05 G             Shelled hazelnuts                                                           4·00
             ex 08.06 A II           Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than
                                     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, Brazil,
                                         Venezuela and Peru                                                      300