CELEX: 31996R1707
Language: en
Date: 1996-08-30 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1707/96 of 30 August 1996 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

No L 221 /24           EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                     31 . 8 . 96
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1707/96
                                                         of 30 August 1996
                     fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in
                                                          the natural state
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other
                                                                      products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                       1785/81 exported in the natural state must be equal to
                                                                      one-hundredth of an amount which takes account, on the
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              one hand, of the difference between the intervention
   Community,                                                         price for white sugar for the Community areas without
                                                                      deficit for the month for which the basic amount is fixed
                                                                      and quotations or prices for white sugar on the world
                                                                      market and, on the other, of the need to establish a
                                                                      balance between the use of Community basic products in
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                the manufacture of processed goods for export to third
  of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                   countries and the use of third country products brought
  markets in the sugar sector (>), as last amended by Regula­         in under inward processing arrangements;
  tion (EC) No 1 599/96 (2), and in particular Article 17 (5)
  thereof,
  Whereas Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                  Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
  provides that the difference between quotations or prices          limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d)
  on the world market for the products listed in Article 1           of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ;
  (1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those products
 within the Community may be covered by an export
  refund;
                                                                     Whereas Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
                                                                     makes provision for setting refunds for export in the
 Whereas Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No                  natural state of products referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ) (f) and
 2135/95 of 7 September 1995 laying down detailed rules             (g) and (h) of that Regulation; whereas the refund must be
 of application for the grant of export refunds in the sugar         fixed per 100 kilograms of dry matter, taking account of
 sector (3), provides that the export refund on 100 kilo­            the export refund for products falling within CN code
 grams of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regula­      1702 30 91 and for products referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d)
 tion (EEC) No 1785/81 is equal to the basic amount                 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 and of the economic
 multiplied by the sucrose content, including, where                aspects of the intended exports; whereas, in the case of
 appropriate, other sugars expressed as sucrose; whereas the         the products referred to in the said Article ( 1 ) (f) and (g),
 sucrose content of the product in question is determined           the refund is to be granted only for products complying
 in accordance with Article 3 of Commission Regulation              with the conditions in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
 (EC) No 2135/95;                                                   2135/95; whereas, for the products referred to in Article 1
                                                                    ( 1 ) (h), the refund shall be granted only for products
                                                                    complying with the conditions in Article 6 of Regulation
                                                                    (EC) No 2135/95;
Whereas Article 17 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
 provides that the basic amount of the refund on sorbose
exported in the natural state must be equal to the basic
 amount of the refund less one-hundredth of the produc­
tion refund applicable, pursuant to Council Regulation
(EEC) No 1010/86 of 25 March 1986 laying down general               Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed every
rules for the production refund on sugar used in the                month; whereas they may be altered in the intervening
chemical industry (4), last amended by Commission Regu­             period;
lation (EC) No 1 126/96 (^ to the products listed in the
Annex to the last mentioned Regulation;
(')   OJ  No  L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
(J)   OJ  No  L 206, 16. 8 . 1996, p. 43.                           Whereas application of these quotas results in fixing
(3)   OJ  No  L 214, 8. 9. 1995, p. 16.
(4)   OJ  No  L 94, 9. 4. 1986, p. 9.                               refunds for the products in question at the levels given in
0     OJ  No  L 150, 25. 6. 1996, p. 3.                             the Annex to this Regulation;
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  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 ('), as              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
   amended by Regulation (EC) No 1380/95 (2), prohibits
   trade between the European Community and the Federal                                    Article 1
   Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro); whereas
   this prohibition does not apply in certain situations as       The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )
  comprehensively listed in Articles 2, 4, 5 and 7 thereof        (d), (f), (g) and (h) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ,
  and in Council Regulation (EC) No 462/96 (3); whereas           exported in the natural state, shall be set out in the Annex
  account should be taken of this fact when fixing the            hereto .
  refunds;
                                                                                           Article 2
  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
  in accordance with the opinion of the Management                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
  Committee for Sugar,                                            1996 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels, 30 August 1996.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              Karel VAN MIERT
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 102, 28 . 4. 1993, p. 14.
(2) OJ No L 138 , 21 . 6. 1995, p. 1 .
 3 OJ No L 65, 15. 3. 1996, p. 1 .
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                                                             ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 30 August 1996 fixing the export refunds on syrups and
                            certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                      Product code                        Amount of refund
                                                                    — ECU/ 100 kg dry matter —
                                    1702 40 10 100                           40,52     (2)(3)
                                    1702 60 10 000                           40,52     (2)(3)
                                    1702 60 90 200                           76,99     (3)(5)
                                                                  — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                    1702 60 90 800                            0,4052 (') (3)
                                                                    — ECU/ 100 kg dry matter —
                                   1702 90 30 000                           40,52     (2)(3)
                                                                  — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                   1702 90 60 000                             0,4052 (')(3)
                                   1702 90 71 000                             0,4052 C )(3)
                                   1 702 90 99 900                            0,4052 (') (3) (4)
                                                                    — ECU/ 100 kg dry matter —
                                  2106 90 30 000                            40,52    (2)(3)
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                  2106 90 59 000                             0,4052 (') (3)
                       (') 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 .
                       (2) Applicable only to products referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                           No 1469/ 77.
                       (3) Refunds on exports to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and
                           Montenegro) may be granted only where the conditions laid down in amended
                           Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 and Regulation (EC) No 462/96 are observed.
                       (*) The basic amount is not applicable to the product defined under point 2 of the
                           Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3513/92 (OJ No L 355, 5. 12. 1992, p. 12).
                       0 Applicable only to products defined under Article 13 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
                           No 394/ 70 .
                       NB: The product codes and the footnotes are defined in amended
                              Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ No L 366, 24. 12.
                              1987, p. 1 ).