CELEX: 31973R0593
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 593/73 of the Commission of 28 February 1973 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

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                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 593 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 28 February 1973
                                                fixing the export refund on oil seeds
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC pro­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         vides that when the refund is being calculated ac­
                                                                      count must be taken of prices ruling on the various
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    Community markets which are representative from
 pean Economic Community ;                                            the point of view of processing and exportation ; the
                                                                      most favourable quotations recorded on the various
                                                                      markets of importing third countries and Greece,
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/                        and costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
EEC (*) of 22 September 1966 on the establishment                     market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
of a common organization of the market in oils and                    being fixed, account must also be taken of the level
fats, as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the                   of market prices within the Community for the oil
Treaty (3) on the Accession of new Member States to                   seeds referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
the European Economic Community and the Euro­                          66/EEC and the future trend of these prices ;
pean Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels                      whereas, furthermore, account should be taken of the
on 22 January 1972 ;                                                   economic aspect of the proposed exports and the
                                                                       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)
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/                       No 651 /71 (7) of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed
 EEC (®) of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza,                  rules for the application of export refunds on oil
 rape and sunflower seeds, as last amended by Regu­                    seeds provides that the amount of the refund must
 lation (EEC) No 2429/72 (6), and in particular the                    be calculated on the basis of the weight of exported
 first sentence of Article 2 (3 ) thereof ;                            seeds ; whereas this weight must be adjusted to take
                                                                       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
                                                                       defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                       1331 /72 (8) of 27 June 1972 fixing the target prices
  Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/EEC pro­                   and basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the
  vides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                     1972/73 marketing year ;
  and measures taken in application thereof apply , sub­
  ject to the provisions of the Agreement establishing
  an Association between the European Economic
   Community and Greece, to trade between the Com­                      Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC pro­
   munity and Greece ;                                                  vides that the refund may be varied according to des­
                                                                        tination where the world market situation or the spe­
   H   OJ  No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.
   (2) OJ  No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14 .
   (3) OJ  No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
   (4) OJ  No 197, 29. 10. 1966, p. 3393/66.
   (5) OJ No 125, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2461/67.                              (7) OJ No L 75 , 30. .1 . 1971 , p. 16 .
   (•) OJ No L 264, 23. 11 . 1972, p. 1 .                               (8) OJ No L 147, 29. 6. 1972, p. 1 .
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cific requirements of certain markets make this neces­            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
sary ;                                                            tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­
                                                                   agement Committee for Oils and Fats ;
Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
refunds should be calculated on the basis of an                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
which are floating or whose central rate differs from                                   Article 1
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                  The refunds on the products referred to in Article 21
on 13 February 1973 ;                                             of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, exported to third
                                                                  countries and Greece, are hereby fixed as shown in
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and cri­             the Annex to this Regulation.
teria to the present situation on the market in oil
seeds, and in particular to quotations or prices for
these products within the Community and on the                                          Article 2
markets of third countries and Greece, that the re­
fund should be fixed at the amounts shown in the
Annex to this Regulation for those products for                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March
which the marketing year has already begun ;                      1973 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 28 February 1973 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
                                                        ANNEX
                                    Refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 March 1973
                                                                                                  (u.a./lOO kg)
               CCT heading                                                                        Refund
                    No                              Description of goods
              ex 12.01          t. Colza and rape seed, other than for sowing                      4-300