CELEX: 31977R2651
Language: en
Date: 1977-12-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2651/77 of 30 November 1977 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

No L 308 /36                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             1 . 12 . 77
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2651 /77
                                                        of 30 November 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 ('), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 10/77 (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
                                                                     — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 provides that the difference between quotations or
                                                                          arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 prices on the world market for the products listed in
                                                                          of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Article 1 ( l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those                 relation to the Community currencies referred to
 products within the Community may be covered by
 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                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 into account ;
                                                                     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 1 467/77 (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 .
(3 ) 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 . 1 970 , p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December
( 7) OJ  No L  162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6.                                1977 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 30 November 1977.
                                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                         Vice-President
                                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 30 November 1977 fixing the refunds on white sugar and
                                                 raw sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                          (u.a/100 kg)
                  CCT
                 heeding                                              Description of goods                                                Refund
                   No
           17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                   A. White sugar                                                                                        1900
                                   B. Raw sugar :
                                        (a) Candy sugar                                                                                  19-12 (')
                                        (b) Other raw sugar                                                                              14-50 (»)
           (') 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 .