CELEX: 32000R1856
Language: en
Date: 2000-08-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1856/2000 of 31 August 2000 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

1.9.2000                EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                         L 221/3
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1856/2000
                                                            of 31 August 2000
               fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     Regulation exported in the natural state must be equal to
                                                                                one-hundredth of an amount which takes account, on
                                                                                the one hand, of the difference between the intervention
                                                                                price for white sugar for the Community areas without
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                                deficit for the month for which the basic amount is fixed
Community,
                                                                                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
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13                     in the manufacture of processed goods for export to
September 1999 on the common organisation of the markets                        third countries and the use of third country products
in the sugar sector (1), as amended by Commission Regulation                    brought in under inward processing arrangements.
(EC) No 1527/2000 (2), and in particular the second subpara-
graph of Article 18(5) thereof,
Whereas:                                                                  (5)   According to the terms of Article 21(4) of Regulation
                                                                                (EC) No 2038/1999, the application of the basic amount
                                                                                may be limited to some of the products listed in Article
(1)     Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provides                     1(1)(d) of the said Regulation.
        that the difference between quotations or prices on the
        world market for the products listed in Article 1(1)(d) of
        that Regulation and prices for those products within the
        Community may be covered by an export refund.
                                                                          (6)   Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 makes
                                                                                provision for setting refunds for export in the natural
(2)     Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2135/95 of                   state of products referred to in Article 1(1)(f) and (g) and
        7 September 1995 laying down detailed rules of applica-                 (h) of that Regulation; the refund must be fixed per 100
        tion for the grant of export refunds in the sugar                       kilograms of dry matter, taking account of the export
        sector (3), provides that the export refund on 100 kilo-                refund for products falling within CN code 1702 30 91
        grams of the products listed in Article 1(1)(d) of Regula-              and for products referred to in Article 1(1)(d) of Regula-
        tion (EC) No 2038/1999 is equal to the basic amount                     tion (EC) No 2038/1999 and of the economic aspects of
        multiplied by the sucrose content, including, where                     the intended exports; in the case of the products referred
        appropriate, other sugars expressed as sucrose; the                     to in the said Article (1)(f) and (g), the refund is to be
        sucrose content of the product in question is determined                granted only for products complying with the condi-
        in accordance with Article 3 of Commission Regulation                   tions in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95; for
        (EC) No 2135/95.                                                        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.
(3)     Article 21(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 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 production refund
        applicable, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No               (7)   The refunds referred to above must be fixed every
        1010/86 of 25 March 1986 laying down general rules                      month; they may be altered in the intervening period.
        for the production refund on sugar used in the chemical
        industry (4), as last amended by Commission Regulation
        (EC) No 1148/98 (5), to the products listed in the Annex
        to the last mentioned Regulation;
                                                                          (8)   Application of these quotas results in fixing refunds for
                                                                                the products in question at the levels given in the Annex
(4)     According to the terms of Article 21(1) of Regulation                   to this Regulation.
        (EC) No 2038/1999, the basic amount of the refund on
        the other products listed in Article 1(1)(d) of the said
(1) OJ L  252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L  175, 14.7.2000, p. 59.                                          (9)   The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
(3) OJ L  214, 8.9.1995, p. 16.
(4) OJ L  94, 9.4.1986, p. 9.                                                   accordance with the opinion of the Management
(5) OJ L  159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.                                                 Committee for Sugar,
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        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                          Article 1
        The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1(1)(d)(f)(g) and (h) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999,
        exported in the natural state, shall be set out in the Annex hereto.
                                                          Article 2
        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September 2000.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
              Done at Brussels, 31 August 2000.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                               Günter VERHEUGEN
                                                                           Member of the Commission
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                                                                           ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 2000 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar
                                                       products exported in the natural state
                    Product code                  Destination                  Unit of measurement                      Amount of refund
                1702 40 10 9100                      A00                     EUR/100 kg dry matter                       36,69 (2)
                1702 60 10 9000                      A00                     EUR/100 kg dry matter                       36,69 (2)
                1702 60 80 9100                      A00                     EUR/100 kg dry matter                       69,71 (4)
                1702 60 95 9000                      A00                 EUR/1 % sucrose × net 100 kg                     0,3669 (1)
                                                                                   of product
                1702 90 30 9000                      A00                     EUR/100 kg dry matter                       36,69 (2)
                1702 90 60 9000                      A00                 EUR/1 % sucrose × net 100 kg                     0,3669 (1)
                                                                                   of product
                1702 90 71 9000                      A00                 EUR/1 % sucrose × net 100 kg                     0,3669 (1)
                                                                                   of product
                1702 90 99 9900                      A00                 EUR/1 % sucrose × net 100 kg                     0,3669 (1) (3)
                                                                                   of product
                2106 90 30 9000                      A00                     EUR/100 kg dry matter                       36,69 (2)
                2106 90 59 9000                      A00                 EUR/1 % sucrose × net 100 kg                     0,3669 (1)
                                                                                   of product
         (1) The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure (Regulation (EC) No 2135/95). Sucrose content is determined
             in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95.
         (2) Applicable only to products referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95.
         (3) The basic amount is not applicable to the product defined under point 2 of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3513/92 (OJ L 355,
             5.12.1992, p. 12).
         (4) Applicable only to products defined under Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95.
         NB: The product codes and the ‘A’ series destination codes are set out in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ
               L 366, 24.12.1987, p. 1) as amended.
               The numeric destination codes are set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2543/1999 (OJ L 307, 2.12.1999, p.
               46).