CELEX: 31976R2141
Language: en
Date: 1976-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2141/76 of 31 August 1976 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based feedingstuffs

1 . 9 . 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 240 / 17
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2141 /76
                                                        of 31 August 1976
                        fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      compound feedingstuffs for which a refund may be
COMMUNITIES,                                                        fixed should be taken into account ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                    Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1913/69
Economic Community,
                                                                    of 29 September 1969 on the granting and the
                                                                    advance fixing of the export refund on cereal-based
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        compound feedingstuffs (5), as amended by Regulation
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                  (EEC) No 31 16/75 (6), provides that calculation of the
tion of the market in cereals (•), as last amended by               export refund must be based on the levy applicable to
Regulation (EEC) No 11 43/76 (2), and in particular the              maize ;     whereas   this   calculation    must also take
first sentence of the fourth subparagraph of Article 16             account of the cereal products content ; whereas, there­
(2) thereof,                                                         fore, in the interest of simplification , compound
                                                                     feedingstuffs should be placed in categories and the
                                                                     refund for each category should be fixed on the basis
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
Committee ,
                                                                     of a quantity of maize which is representative of the
                                                                     usual cereal products content for the category
                                                                     concerned ; whereas, futhermore, the amount of the
Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                    refund must also take into account the possibilities
provides that the difference between quotations or                   and conditions for the sale of those products on the
prices on the world market for the products listed in                world market, the need to avoid disturbances on the
Article 1 of that Regulation and prices for those                    Community market and the economic aspect of the
products within the Community may be covered by                      export ;
an export refund ;
                                                                     Whereas the       world market situation or the specific
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No
                                                                     requirements      of certain markets may make it neces­
2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general
                                                                     sary to vary     the refund for compound feedingstuffs
rules for granting export refunds on cereals and
                                                                     according to     destination ;
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3),
provides that when refunds are being fixed account
must be taken of the existing situation and the future
                                                                     Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
trend with regard to prices and availabilities of cereals
                                                                     refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
on the Community market on the one hand and
prices for cereals and cereal products on the other ;
whereas the same Article provides that it is also impor­             — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
tant to ensure equilibrium and the natural develop­                       relation to each other, at any given moment,
 ment of prices and trade on the cereal markets ;                         within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                          on their effective parity ;
Whereas it follows from applying rules and criteria to               — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 the present situation on the market in cereal-based                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 compound feedingstuffs that the export refund should                     of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 be fixed at an amount which will cover the difference                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
 between Community prices and world market prices ;                        in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month ;
 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be
 applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (4),                 whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
 provides that, when export refunds on cereal-based
 compound feedingstuffs are being fixed, only the
 products normally used in the manufacture of                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                      are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                      ment Committee for Cereals,
(■)  OJ  No L 281 , 1. 11.   1975 , p. 1.
(2 ) OJ  No L 130 , 19 . 5 . 1976,  p. 1.
(3 ) OJ  No L 281 , 1. 1 1.  1975 , p. 78 .                          (5 ) OJ No L 246 , 30 . 9 . 1969, p . 1 1 .
(4)  OJ  No L 281 , 1. 1 1.  1975 , p. 60 .                          (6) OJ No L 309 , 29 . 11 . 1975, p . 64.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                               to Regulation . (EEC) No 2743/75 are hereby fixed as
                                                                            shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
                                Article 1
                                                                                                     Article 2
The export refunds on the compound feedingstuffs                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and subject                          1976 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 31 August 1976.
                                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                                           P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
                                                                     ANNEX
                           Special                                                                                               Refund in
   CCT heading
         No             specification                             Nomenclature in simplified wording                         u. a. /metric ton
                         for refund                                                                                         ( third countries )
23.07 B I                                  Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by
                                           Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 , containing starch, glucose or glucose
                                            syrup falling within subheadings 17.02 B and 17.05 B or milk
                                           products (falling within heading Nos 04.01 , 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04
                                           and subheadings 17.02 A and 17.05 A) :
                                           of a milk powder content of less than 50°/o by weight and of
                                           cereal products (*) content by weight :
                           3010            —    Exceeding 5 °/o but not exceeding 15 ·/o                                              2-96
                           4010            —    Exceeding 15 °/o but not exceeding 30 ®/o                                             7-40
                           5010            —    Exceeding 30 °/o but not exceeding 50 °/o                                           13-32
                           6010            —·   Exceeding 50 % but not exceeding 65 */o                                             17-77
                           7010            —■   Exceeding 65 %                                                                      22-21
 *) ' Cereal products ' means the products falling within Chapter 10 and heading Nos 11.01 and 11.02 (excluding subheading 11.02 G ) of th '
    Common Customs Tariff.