CELEX: 31988R0539
Language: en
Date: 1988-03-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 539/88 of 29 February 1988 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

1 . 3. 88                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No L 54/7
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 539/88
                                                        of 29 February 1988
                   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
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 1785/81 exported in the natural state must be equal to
Economic Community,                                                  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 Act of Accession of Spain and                   deficit for the month for which the basic amount is fixed
Portugal,                                                            and quotations or prices for white sugar on the world
                                                                     market and, on the other, of the need to establish a
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                 balance between the use of Community basic products in
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                    the manufacture of processed goods for export to third
markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­          countries and the use of third country products brought
tion (EEC) No 3993/87 (2), and in particular Article 19 (4)          in under inward processing arrangements ;
thereof,
                                                                     Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,               limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d)
                                                                     of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
provides that the difference between quotations or prices            Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
on the world market for the products listed in Article 1              makes provision for setting refunds for export in the
(1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those products             natural state of products referred to in Article 1 (1 ) (f) and
within the Community may be covered by an export                      (g) of that Regulation ; whereas the refund must be fixed
refund ;                                                              per 100 kilograms of dry matter, taking account of the
                                                                      export refund for products within subheading 1702 30 91
                                                                      of the combined nomenclature and for products referred
Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                      to in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 and
766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for                  of the economic aspects of the intended exports ; whereas
granting export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by              the refund is to be granted only for products complying
Regulation (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that the export             with the conditions in Article 3 of Commission Regula­
refund on 100 kilograms of the products listed in Article             tion (EEC) No 1469/77 of 30 June 1977 laying down
 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 is equal to the            rules for applying the levy and the refund in respect of
basic amount multiplied by the sucrose content, inclu­                isoglucose and amending Regulation (EEC) No
ding, where appropriate, other sugars expressed as                     192/75 (8) ;
sucrose ; whereas the sucrose content of the product in
question is determined in accordance with Article 13 of               Whereas, following the introduction of the 'combined
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March                     nomenclature' by Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1970 on detailed rules for granting export refunds on                2658/87 (®), the nomenclature applicable from 1 January
 sugar (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     1988 to export refunds on agricultural products was esta­
 1467/77
                                                                      blished by Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (10) ;
Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68                       Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 provides that the basic amount . of the refund on sorbose             refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 exported in the natural state must be equal to the basic
 amount of the refund less one-hundredth of the produc­               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
 tion refund applicable, pursuant to Council Regulation
 (EEC) No 1400/78 of 20 June 1978 laying down general                      tion to each other at any given moment within a band
 rules for the production refund on sugar used in the                      of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
 chemical industry Q, to the products listed in the Annex                  rate, multiplied by the corrective, factor provided .for in
 to the last mentioned Regulation ;                                        the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
                                                                           tion (EEC) No 1 676/85 (u), as last amended by Regu­
                                                                           lation (EEC) No 1 636/87 (12);
 (') OJ  No   L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
 (2) OJ  No   L 377, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 23.
 0   OJ  No   L 143, 25. 6. 1968, p. 6.                               (») OJ No L 162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 9.
 (<) OJ   No  L 167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13 .                             0 OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .
 0   OJ  No   L 50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 .                                O OJ No L 366, 24. 12. 1987, p. 1 .
 («) OJ  No   L 162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6.                                (») OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 0   OJ   No  L 170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 9.                                C2) OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the           tion and the level of prices no refund should be fixed in
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of         the case of exports to Portugal ;
    these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
    tion to the Community currencies referred to in the         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
    previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;            in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                Committee for Sugar,
Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed every
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
month ; whereas they may be altered in the intervening
period ;
                                                                                          Article 1
Whereas application of these quotas results in fixing           The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )
refunds for the products in question at the levels given in     (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 , exported
the Annex to this Regulation ;                                  in the natural state, shall be as set out in the Annex
                                                                hereto.
Whereas, pursuant to Article 275 of the Act of Accession                                  Article 2
of Spain and Portugal, refunds may be granted in the case
of exportes to Portugal ; whereas, in the light of the situa­   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 1988.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 29 February 1988 .
                                                                           For the Çommission
                                                                            Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                               Vice-President
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                                                             ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 29 February 1988 fixing die export refunds on syrups and
                             certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                                                                                               (ECU)
                                                 Basic amount per percentage point
                       Product code
                                                      of sucrose content and          Amount of refund per 100 kg
                                                  per 100 kg net of the product             of dry matter (*)
                                                           in question (')
                     1702 40 10 100                                                               42,26
                     1702 60 10 000            II                                                 42,26
                     1702 60 90 000                           0,4226               I
                     1702 90 30 000            li                                                 42,26
                     1702 90 60 000                           0,4226
                     1702 90 71 000                           0,4226               l
                     1702 90 90 900                           0,4226
                     2106 90 30 000            Il                                                 42,26
                     2106 90 59 000                           0,4226
          (') 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.
          0 Applicable only to products referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1469/77.