CELEX: 31973R0858
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-31 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 858/73 of the Commission of 30 March 1973 fixing the export amount on molasses, syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

No L 85/34                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              31 . 3 . 73
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 858/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 30 March 1973
                fixing the export refunds on molasses, syrups and certain other sugar products exported
                                                    in the natural state
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   termined in accordance with the provisions of
 COMMUNITIES,                                                     Article 13 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/
                                                                  70 (5) of 2 March 1970 on detailed rules for granting
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­               export refunds on sugar ;
 pean Economic Community ;                                       Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68
                                                                 provides that the basic amount of the refund on sor­
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/                 bose exported in the natural state must be equal to
 EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the common organ­                the basic amount of the refund less one hundredth
 ization of the market in sugar, at last amended by              of the production refund applicable pursuant to
 Regulation (EEC) No 174/73 (2), and in particular                Council Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 (6) of 18 June
 the first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article          1968 laying down general rules for the production
 17 (2) thereof ;                                                refund on sugar used in the chemical industry, as
                                                                  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2486/69 (7), to
                                                                 the products listed in Annex I to that Regulation ;
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
 Committee ;                                                     Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the
                                                                 other products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regula­
 Whereas Article 17 of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC                 tion No 1009/67/EEC exported in the natural state
 provides that the difference between quotations or              must be equal to one hundredth of an amount
 prices on the world market for the products listed in           which takes account, on the one hand, of the differ­
 Article 1 ( 1 ) (c) and (d) of that Regulation and              ence between the intervention price for white sugar
 prices for those products within the Community may              for the Community area with the largest surplus for
 be covered by an export refund ;                                the month for which the basic amount is fixed and
                                                                 quotations or prices for white sugar on the world
Whereas Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                 market and, on the other, of the need to establish a
 766/68 (3) of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules            balance between the use of Community basic pro­
for granting export refunds on sugar, as last                    ducts in the manufacture of processed goods for ex­
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 433/72 (4), de­                 port to third countries and the use of third country
fines the price factors, both within the Community               products brought in under inward processing arrange­
 and on the world market, which must be taken into               ments ;•
account when the refunds on molasses exported in                Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
the natural state are being fixed ; whereas the same            limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
Article provides that the economic aspect of the pro­            (d ) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC ;
posed exports should also be taken into account ;
                                                                 Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
                                                                refunds should be calculated on the basis of an
 Whereas the world market situation of the specific
requirements of certain markets may make it neces­              exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
sary to vary the refund on molasses according to des­           which are floating or whose central rate differs from
tination ;                                                      the official parity, on the effective rate or the
                                                                central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
                                                                the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
Whereas Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68                 on 13 February 1973 ;
provides the export refund on 100 kilogrammes of
the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation        Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed
No 1009/67/EEC is equal to the basic amount multi­              every month ; whereas they may be altered in the in­
plied by the sucrose content, including, where appro­           tervening period ;
priate, other sugars expressed as sucrose ; whereas
the sucrose content of the product in question is de­           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
                                                                tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­
                                                                agement Committee for Sugar ;
(») OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 1 .                            (5) OJ No L 50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 143 , 25 . 6. 1968, p. 6.                           («) OJ No L 143 , 25 . 6. 1968 , p. 1 .
(*) OJ No L 53 , 2.3 . 1972, p. 1 .                             (7) OJ No L 314, 15 . 12. 1969, p. 8 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                EEC, exported in the natural state, is hereby fixed as
                                                                             shown in the Annex to this Regulation.
                           Article 1
                                                                                                        Article 2 .
The refund to be granted on the products listed in                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
Article 1 (1) (c) and (d) of Regulation No 1009/67/                          1973 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 30 March 1973 .
                                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                                           P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
                                                                   ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 30 March 1973 altering the refunds on molasses, syrups
                                    and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                      u.a.1100 kg)
                                                                                                                 Basic amount
                CCT heading                                                                                     per percentage
                     No                                       Description of goods                             point of sucrose
                                                                                                                    content (l)
              17.02                   Other sugars ; sugar syrups ; artificial honey (whether
                                      or not mixed with natural honey) ; caramel :
                                      ex D. Other sugars and syrups, excluding sorbose                               0-0385
                                          E. Artificial honey (whether or not mixed with
                                              natural honey)                                                         0-0385
                                      ex F. Caramel made from sugar falling within heading
                                              No 17.01                                                               0-0385
              17.05                   Flavoured or coloured sugars, syrups and molasses, but
                                      not including fruit juices containing added sugar in any
                                      proportion :
                                      ex C. Other, excluding flavoured or coloured molasses                          0-0385
                                                                                                                     Refund
              17.03                   Molasses, whether or not decolourised                                             —
              (*) The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure (Regulation (EEC) No 394/70).
                  Sucrose content is determined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 394/70.