CELEX: 31997R0555
Language: en
Date: 1997-03-26
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 555/97 of 26 March 1997 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

No L 85/ 14        I EN I               Official Journal of the European Communities                                   27. 3 . 97
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 555/97
                                                         of 26 March 1997
                   fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in
                                                         the natural state
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        market and, on the other, of the need to establish a
                                                                     balance between the use of Community basic products in
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              the manufacture of processed goods for export to third
  Community,                                                         countries and the use of third country products brought
                                                                     in under inward processing arrangements;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
  of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d)
  markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­        of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ;
  tion (EC) No 1 599/96 (2), and in particular Article 17 (5)
  thereof,
                                                                    Whereas Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
                                                                     makes provision for setting refunds for export in the
 Whereas Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                   natural state of products referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ) (f) and
  provides that the difference between quotations or prices         (g) and (h) of that Regulation; whereas the refund must be
 on the world market for the products listed in Article 1            fixed per 100 kilograms of dry matter, taking account of
 (1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those products          the export refund for products falling within CN code
 within the Community may be covered by an export                    1702 30 91 and for products referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d)
 refund;                                                            of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 and of the economic
                                                                    aspects of the intended exports; whereas, in the case of
 Whereas Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No                 the products referred to in the said Article ( 1 ) (f) and (g),
 2135/95 of 7 September 1995 laying down detailed rules             the refund is to be granted only for products complying
 of application for the grant of export refunds in the sugar        with the conditions in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
 sector (3), provides that the export refund on 100 kilo­           2135/95; whereas, for the products referred to in Article 1
 grams of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regula­     ( 1 ) (h), the refund shall be granted only for products
 tion (EEC) No 1785/81 is equal to the basic amount                 complying with the conditions in Article 6 of Regulation
 multiplied by the sucrose content, including, where                (EC) No 2135/95;
 appropriate, other sugars expressed as sucrose; whereas the
 sucrose content of the product in question is determined           Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed every
 in accordance with Article 3 of Commission Regulation              month; whereas they may be altered in the intervening
 (EC) No 2135/95;                                                   period;
Whereas Article 17 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               Whereas application of these quotas results in fixing
                                                                    refunds for the products in question at the levels given in
 provides that the basic amount of the refund on sorbose            the Annex to this Regulation;
 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             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
(EEC) No 1010/86 of 25 March 1986 laying down general               in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 rules for the production refund on sugar used in the               Committee for Sugar,
chemical industry (4), last amended by Commission Regu­
 lation (EC) No 1 126/96 0, to the products listed in the
Annex to the last mentioned Regulation;
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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                                       Article 1
one-hundredth of an amount which takes account, on the
one hand, of the difference between the intervention               The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
price for white sugar for the Community areas without              (d), (f), (g) and (h) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ,
deficit for the month for which the basic amount is fixed           exported in the natural state, shall be set out in the Annex
and quotations or prices for white sugar on the world               hereto .
(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
(2) OJ No L 206, 16. 8 . 1996, p. 43.                                                         Article 2
(3) OJ No L 214, 8. 9. 1995, p. 16.
(") OJ No L 94, 9. 4. 1986, p. 9.
n OJ No L 150, 25. 6. 1996, p. 3.                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1997.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 26 March 1997.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission
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                                                           ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 26 March 1997 fixing the export refunds on syrups and
                           certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                    Product code                         Amount of refund
                                                                   — ECU/ 1 00 kg dry matter —
                                 1702 40 10 9100                             41,16      (2)
                                 1702 60 10 9000                             41,16      (2)
                                 1702 60 90 9200                             78,20      (4)
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                 1702 60 90 9800                              0,41 1 6 (')
                                                                   — ECU/ 1 00 kg dry matter —
                                 1702 90 30 9000                             41,16     (2)
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                 1702 90 60 9000                              0,41 1 6 (')
                                 1702 90 71 9000                              0,41 1 6 (')
                                 1702 90 99 9900                              0,41 1 6 (') (3)
                                                                   — ECU/ 1 00 kg dry matter —
                                2106 90 30 9000                             41,16      (2)
                                                                — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                2106 90 59 9000                               0,41 1 6 (')
                      (') 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.
                      (') 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 ).