CELEX: 31999R1697
Language: en
Date: 1999-07-30
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1697/1999 of 30 July 1999 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

L 201/18               EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                   31. 7. 1999
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1697/1999
                                                            of 30 July 1999
               fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                    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
                                                                               deficit for the month for which the basic amount is fixed
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                          and quotations or prices for white sugar on the world
Community,                                                                     market and, on the other, of the need to establish a
                                                                               balance between the use of Community basic products
                                                                               in the manufacture of processed goods for export to
                                                                               third countries and the use of third country products
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30                     brought in under inward processing arrangements;
June 1981 on the common organization of the markets in the
sugar sector (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1148/98 (2), and in particular Article 17 (5) thereof,
                                                                         (5)   Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
                                                                               limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 (1) (d)
(1)     Whereas Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                      of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81;
        provides 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)   Whereas Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
                                                                               makes provision for setting refunds for export in the
                                                                               natural state of products referred to in Article 1 (1) (f)
                                                                               and (g) and (h) of that Regulation; whereas the refund
(2)     Whereas Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No                     must be fixed per 100 kilograms of dry matter, taking
        2135/95 of 7 September 1995 laying down detailed                       account of the export refund for products falling within
        rules of application for the grant of export refunds in                CN code 1702 30 91 and for products referred to in
        the sugar sector (3), provides that the export refund on               Article 1 (1) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 and of
        100 kilograms of the products listed in Article 1 (1) (d)              the economic aspects of the intended exports; whereas,
        of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 is equal to the basic                   in the case of the products referred to in the said Article
        amount multiplied by the sucrose content, including,                   (1) (f) and (g), the refund is to be granted only for
        where appropriate, other sugars expressed as sucrose;                  products complying with the conditions in Article 5 of
        whereas the sucrose content of the product in question                 Regulation (EC) No 2135/95; whereas, for the products
        is determined in accordance with Article 3 of Commis-                  referred to in Article 1 (1) (h), the refund shall be
        sion Regulation (EC) No 2135/95;                                       granted only for products complying with the condi-
                                                                               tions in Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95;
(3)     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-           (7)   Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed
        tion refund applicable, pursuant to Council Regulation                 every month; whereas they may be altered in the inter-
        (EEC) No 1010/86 of 25 March 1986 laying down                          vening period;
        general rules for the production refund on sugar used in
        the chemical industry (4), as last amended by Regulation
        (EC) No 1148/98, to the products listed in the Annex to
        the last mentioned Regulation;
                                                                         (8)   Whereas application of these quotas results in fixing
                                                                               refunds for the products in question at the levels given
                                                                               in the Annex to this Regulation;
(4)     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
(1) OJ L  177, 1.7.1981, p. 4.                                           (9)   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
(2) OJ L  159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L  214, 8.9.1995, p. 16.                                                are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
(4) OJ L  94, 9.4.1986, p. 9.                                                  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 (EEC) No
            1785/81, exported in the natural state, shall be set out in the Annex hereto.
                                                              Article 2
            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August 1999.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                  Done at Brussels, 30 July 1999.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   Franz FISCHLER
                                                                             Member of the Commission
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                                                                   ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 30 july 1999 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar
                                              products exported in the natural state
                                         Product code                              Amount of refund
                                                                           — EUR/100 kg dry matter —
                                      1702 40 10 9100                               45,89     (2)
                                      1702 60 10 9000                               45,89     (2)
                                      1702 60 80 9100                               87,19     (4)
                                                                          — EUR/1 % sucrose × 100 kg —
                                      1702 60 95 9000                                0,4589 (1)
                                                                           — EUR/100 kg dry matter —
                                      1702 90 30 9000                               45,89     (2)
                                                                          — EUR/1 % sucrose × 100 kg —
                                      1702 90 60 9000                                0,4589 (1)
                                      1702 90 71 9000                                0,4589 (1)
                                      1702 90 99 9900                                0,4589 (1) (3)
                                                                           — EUR/100 kg dry matter —
                                      2106 90 30 9000                               45,89     (2)
                                                                          — EUR/1 % sucrose × 100 kg —
                                      2106 90 59 9000                                0,4589 (1)
                           (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 footnotes are defined in amended Commis-
                                 sion Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ L 366, 24.12.1987, p. 1).