CELEX: 31973R2092
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2092/73 of the Commission of 31 July 1973 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

1 . 8 . 73                                  Official Journal or the European Communities                          No L 212/41
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 2092/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                              of 31 July 1973
                                                   fixing the export refund on oil seeds
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           count must be taken of prices ruling on the various
 COMMUNITIES,                                                             Community markets which are representative from
                                                                          the point of view of processing and exportation ; the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                       most favourable quotations recorded on the various
pean Economic Community ;                                                 markets of importing third countries and Greece,
                                                                          and costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/                            market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
 EEC (*) of 22 September 1966 on the establishment                        being fixed, account must also be taken of the level
 of a common organization of the market in oils and                       of market prices within the Community for the oil
fats, as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the                       seeds referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
Treaty (3) on the Accession of new Member States to                       66/EEC and the future trend of these prices ;
the European Economic Community and the Euro­                             whereas, furthermore, account should be taken of the
 pean Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels                         economic aspect of the proposed exports and the
 on 22 January 1972 ;                                                     situation in the Community regarding the supply of
                                                                          and demand for these seeds :
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/66/
EEC (4) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and fats
 between the Community and Greece ;
                                                                         Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
                                                                         No 651 /71 (7) of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed
Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/                           rules for the application of export refunds on oil
EEC (5) of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza,                      seeds provides that the amount of the refund must
rape and sunflower seeds, as last amended by Regu­                       be calculated on the basis of the weight of exported
lation (EEC) No 2429/72 (6), and in particular the                       seeds ; whereas this weight must be adjusted to take
 first sentence of Article 2 (3 ) thereof ;                              account of any differences between the percentages
                                                                         of moisture and impurities found to exist and those
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                             used to define the standard quality for which the tar­
 Committee ;                                                             get price is fixed ; whereas, when this adjustment is
                                                                          being made, the weight of the exported seeds must be
Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                            increased by the amount of the difference between
provides that a refund may be granted on exports to                       the actual moisture and impurities content and that
third countries of oil seeds harvested within the
                                                                          used to define the standard quality if the former is
Community ; whereas the amount of this refund                             lower than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite
may not exceed the difference between prices within                       applies, the weight of the exported seeds must be
the Community and prices on the world market                              reduced by the same amount ;
where the former are higher than the latter ; whereas
Article 21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC pro­
vides that, at present, Article 28 of that Regulation
applies only to colza , rape and sunflower seeds ;                        Whereas the standard quality referred to above is
Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/EEC pro­                       defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
vides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                        1360/73 (8 ) of 15 May 1973 fixing the target prices
and measures taken in application thereof apply, sub­                    and basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the
ject to the provisions of the Agreement establishing                      1973 /74 marketing year ;
an Association between the European Economic
Community and Greece, to trade between the Com­
munity and Greece ;
                                                                         Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC pro­
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC pro­                       vides that the refund may be varied according to des­
vides that when the refund is being calculated ac­                       tination where the world market situation or the spe­
(*)   OJ  No 172, 30. 9 . 1966, p . 3025 /66 .
(»)   OJ  No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(«)   OJ  No L 73, 27. 3. 1972 , p. 5 .
(*)   OJ  No 197, 29. 10. 1966, p. 3393/66.
(•)   OJ  No 125 , 26 . 6. 1967, p. 2461 /67.                            (7 ) OJ No L 75 , 30. 3 . 1971 , p. 16.
(•)   OJ  No I. 264. 23 . 11 . 1972 , p . 1 .                            (8) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p . 33 .
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cific requirements of certain markets make this neces­              fund should be fixed at the amounts shown in the
sary ;                                                              Annex to this Regulation for those products for
                                                                    which the marketing year has already begun ;
Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
                                                                    tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                    agement Committee for Oils and Fats ;
     relation to each other, at any given moment,
     within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange based
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                                       Article 1
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
     of these currencies recorded for a given period, in            The refunds on the products referred to in Article 21
     relation to the Community currencies referred to                of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, exported to third
     in the previous subparagraph ;                                  countries and Greece, are hereby fixed as shown in
                                                                     the Annex to this Regulation .
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and cri­
teria to the present situation on the market in oil                                        Article 2
seeds, and in particular to quotations or prices for
these products within the Community and on the                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August
markets of third countries and Greece, that the re­                  1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 31 July 1973 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                                      Refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 August 1973
                                                                                                     it . a J 100 kg,)
                 CCT heading                                                                         Refund
                      No                               Description of goods
               ex 12.01           Colza and rape seed
               ex 12.01           Sunflower seed , other than for sowing                                 —