CELEX: 31984R2494
Language: en
Date: 1984-08-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2494/84 of 30 August 1984 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs

No L 233/34                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              31 . 8 . 84
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2494/84
                                                      of 30 August 1984
                        fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
                                                                   Whereas Article 7 (1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
  COMMUNITIES,                                                     2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be
                                                                   applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (4), as
                                                                   amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (*), provides
                                                                   that, when export refunds on cereal-based compound
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            feedingstuffs are being fixed, only the products
  Economic Community,                                              normally used in the manufacture of compound
                                                                   feedingstuffs for which a refund may be fixed should
                                                                   be taken into account :
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
  2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiz­
  ation of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by
  Regulation (EEC) No 1018/84 (2), and in particular the           whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1913/69
  fourth subparagraph of Article 16 (2) thereof,                  of 29 September 1969 on the granting and the advance
                                                                   fixing of the export refund on cereal-based compound
                                                                  feedingstuffs (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                  No 537/83 Q, provides that calculation of the export
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     refund must be based on the average of the refunds
 Committee,                                                       granted on the most commonly used basic cereals,
                                                                  adjusted on the basis of the threshold price in force
                                                                  during the month of exportation and on the levy
                                                                  applicable to maize ; whereas this calculation must also
 Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                take account of the cereal products content ; whereas,
 provides that the difference between quotations or               therefore, in the interest of simplification, compound
 prices on the world market for the products listed in            feedingstuffs should be placed in categories and the
 Article 1 of that Regulation and prices for those                refund for each category should be fixed on the basis
 products within the Community may be covered by an               of a quantity of maize which is representative of the
 export refund ;                                                  usual cereal products content for the category
                                                                  concerned ; whereas, furthermore, the amount of the
                                                                  refund must also take into account the possibilities
                                                                  and conditions for the sale of those products on the
 Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                 world market, the need to avoid disturbances on the
 2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general rules             Community market and the economic aspect of the
 for granting export refunds on cereals and criteria for          export ;
 fixing the amount of such refunds ('), provides that
when refunds are being fixed account must be taken of
 the existing situation and the future trend with regard
 to prices and availabilities of cereals on the Commun­
                                                                 Whereas the world market situation or the specific
ity market on the one hand and prices for cereals and
                                                                  requirements of certain markets may make it necessary
cereal products on the other ; whereas the same Article          to vary the refund for compound feedingstuffs accord­
 provides that it is also important to ensure equilibrium         ing to composition and destination ; whereas, for
and the natural development of prices and trade on
the cereal markets :
                                                                  purposes of varying the refund, the destination zones
                                                                 laid down in Annex II to Commission Regulation
                                                                 (EEC) No 1124/77 of 27 May 1977 redefining the
                                                                 destination zones for export refunds or levies and for
Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules            certain export licences for cereals and rice (8), as
to the present situation on the market in cereal-based           amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3634/83 (9), should
                                                                 be used ;
compound feedingstuffs that the export refund should
be fixed at an amount which will cover the difference
between Community prices and world market prices ;               O    OJ No   L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60 .
                                                                 0    OJ No   L 303, 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .
                                                                 O    OJ No   L 246, 30 . 9 . 1969, p. 11 .
(') OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                          0    OJ No   L 63, 9 . 3. 1983, p. 10 .
(2) OJ No L 107, 19 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .                            (*)  OJ No   L 134, 28 . 5. 1977, p. 53 .
(') OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 78 .                         O    OJ No   L 360, 23 . 12. 1983, p. 21
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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,         Whereas the Management Committee for Cereals has
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :         not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in           its chairman,
     relation to each other at any given moment within
     a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
     their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC)
     No 974/71 , as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
     No 855/84,                                                                     Article 1
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the         The export refunds on the compound feedingstuffs
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of      covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and subject
     these currencies recorded for a given period in          to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 are hereby fixed as
     relation to the Community currencies referred to         shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
     in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­
     cient ;                                                                        Article 2
Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month ;               This Regulation shall enter into force on 31 August
whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;         1984 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 30 August 1984.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                         Poul DALSAGER
                                                                   Member of the Commission
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                                                               ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 30 August 1984 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based
                                                     compound feedingstuffs                                       '
                                                                                                                            (ECU / tonne)
      CCT            Special
     heading      specification                    Nomenclature in simplified wording                               Refund
       No          for refund
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 21.07 F II or milk products
                                (falling within heading Nos 04.01 , 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04 and
                                subheadings 17.02 A and 21.07 F I):
                                Of a milk powder content of less than 50 % by weight and of a
                                cereal products (') content by weight :
                      0510      —    Exceeding  5 % but not exceeding 10 %                                1,26 0     2,16 00        -0
                      1010      —    Exceeding  10 % but not exceeding 20 %                               2,51 ( 2)  4,33 00        -0
                      2010      —    Exceeding  20 % but not exceeding 30 %                               5,03 0     8,65 00        -0
                      3010      —    Exceeding  30 % but not exceeding 40 %                               7,54 0    12,98 (2) (3)   -0
                      4010      —    Exceeding  40 % but not exceeding 50 %                             10,06 0     17,31 (2)0      —0
                      5010      —    Exceeding  50 % but not exceeding 60 %                             12,57 (2 )  21,64 (2) (3)   -0
                      6010      —    Exceeding  60 % but not exceeding 70 %                             1 5,09 0    25,96 (2)0      —0
                      7010      —    Exceeding  70 %                                                    16,46 (2)   28,32 (2)0      —0
(') 'Cereal products means the products falling within Chapter 10 and heading Nos 11.01 and 11.02 (excluding subheading 11.02
    G) of the Common Customs Tariff.
(2) For exports to Zones A, B, C, D and E specified in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 1124/77, as amended by Regulation
    (EEC) No 3634/83.
(') Minimum content of maize and/or sorghum exceeding : 0510 : 5 % ; 1010 : 10 % ; 2010 : 20 % ; 3010 : 30 % ; 4010 : 40 % ;
    5010 : 50 % ; 6010 : 60 % ; 7010 : 60 % .
     In so far as this minimum is observed, these refunds shall, at the request of the party concerned, also apply where the cereal
     products' content exceeds the maximum specified on the same line.
(4) For export to other third countries.