CELEX: 31974R1660
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1660/74 of the Commission of 28 June 1974 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

29 . 6 . 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 175/47
                             REGULATION ( EEC) No 1660/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 28 June 1974 .
                                                fixing the export refund on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/ EEC
COMMUNITIES,                                                           provides that when the refund is being calculated
                                                                       account must be taken of prices ruling on the various
                                                                       Community markets which are representative from
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  the point of view of processing and exportation ; the
Economic Community ;                                                   most favourable quotations recorded on the various
                                                                       markets of importing third countries and Greece, and
                                                                       costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
Having regard to Council Regulation No 130/                            market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
66/EEC (') of 22 September 1966 on the establish­                      being fixed, account must also be taken of the level of
ment of a common organization of the market in oils                    market prices within the Community for the oil seeds
and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                       referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
1 707/73 O ;                                                           66/ EEC and the future trend of these prices ; whereas,
                                                                       furthermore, account should be taken of the economic
                                                                       aspect of the proposed exports and the situation in the
Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/                            Community regarding the sypply of and demand for
66/ EEC (3) of 27 October 1966 on .trade in oils and                   these seeds ;
fats between the Community and Greece ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/                            Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
67/EEC (4) of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on                        No 651 /71 (6) of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed
colza , rape and sunflower seeds, as last amended by                   rules for the application of export refunds on oil seeds
Regulation (EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular the                 provides that the amount of the refund must be calcu­
first sentence of Article 2 (3) thereof ;                              lated on the basis of the 'weight of exported seeds ;
                                                                       whereas this weight must be adjusted to take account
                                                                       of any differences between the percentages of mois­
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                           ture and impurities found to exist and those used to
Committee ;                                                            define the standard quality for which the target 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 the
provides that a refund may be granted on exports to                    actual moisture and impurities content and that used
third    countries   of oil     seeds   harvested     within the       to define the standard quality if the former is lower
Community ; whereas the amount of this refund may                      than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the
not exceed the difference between prices within the                  ' weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the
Community and prices on the world market where                         same amount ;
the former are higher than the latter ; whereas Article
21 of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC provides 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
                                                                        1 360/73 (7) of 15 May 1973 fixing the target prices
Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/ EEC                         and basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the
provides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/                          1973/74 marketing year ;
66/ EEC and measures taken in application thereof
apply, subject to the provisions of the Agreement esta­
blishing an Association between the European                           Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/ EEC
Economic Community and Greece, to trade between                        provides that the refund may be varied according to
the Community and Greece ;                                             destination where the world market situation or the
                                                                       specific requirements of certain markets make this
(■) OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/ 66 .
                                                                       necessary ;
(2) OJ No L 175, 29 . 6 . 1973 , p. 5.
(3) OJ No 197, 29. 10 . 1966, p. 3393/66.
(4) OJ No 12.5 , 26 . 6 . 1967 , p . 2461 / 67 .                       (6) OJ No L 75, 30 . 3 . 1971 , p. 16 .
(5) OJ No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p . 1 .                               ( 7 OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p. 33 .
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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,                 to this Regulation for those products for which the
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :                 marketing year has already begun ;
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
    relation to each other, at any given moment,                      are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based                ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
    on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in                                     Art idc 1
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
    in the previous subparagraph ;                                    The refunds on the products referred to in Article 21
                                                                      of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC, exported to third coun­
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and                      tries and Greece, are hereby fixed as shown in the
criteria to the present situation on the market in oil                Annex to this Regulation .
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 refund
should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1974.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 28 June 1974.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                             ANNEX
                                    Refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 July 1974
                                                                                                      (u.a. / lOO kg)
                C.CT heading                                                                           Refund
                     No                                Description of gouds
              c x 12.01         Col /.a and rape seed , other than for sowing                           .—
              ex 12.01          Sunflower seed , other than for sowing