CELEX: 31975R0252
Language: en
Date: 1975-02-01
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 252/75 of the Commission of 31 January 1975 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

No L 27/26                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              1 . 2 . 75
                            REGULATION ( EEC) No 252/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 31 January 1975
                                           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 136/                       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/
 1707/73 (2);                                                      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 supply of and demand for
 66/EEC (3) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and               these seeds ;
 fats between the Community and Greece ; •
                                                                  Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation ( EEC)
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/                       No 651 /71 (6) of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed
 67/ EEC (4 ) of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on                 rules for the application of export refunds on oil seeds
 colza, rape and sunflower seeds, as last amended by               provides that the aipount of the refund must be calcu­
 Regulation (EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular the            lated on the basis of the weight of exported seeds ;
 first sentence of Article 2 (3) thereof ;                        whereas this weight must be adjusted to take account
                                                                  of any differences between the percentages of mois­
                                                                   ture and impurities found to exist and those used to
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                     define the standard quality for which the target price
 Committee ;                                                       is fixed ; whereas, when this adjustment is being
                                                                   made, the weight of the exported seeds must be
                                                                   increased by the amount of the difference between the
 Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC                   actual moisture and impurities content and that used
 provides that a refund may be granted on exports to               to define the standard quality if the former is lower
 third   countries of oil    seeds     harvested  within  the     than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the
 Community ; whereas the amount of this refund may                weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the
 not exceed the difference between prices within the              same amount ;
 Community and prices on the world market where
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           Whereas the standard quality referred to above is
colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                                 defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No
                                                                   11 22/74 ( 7) of 29 April 1974 fixing the target prices
                                                                  and basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the
Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/ EEC                     1974/ 1975 marketing year, as amended by Regulation
provides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/                    ( EEC) No 2496/74 (8) ;
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
                                                                  destination where the world market situation or the
the Community and Greece ;
                                                                  specific requirements of certain markets make this
                                                                   necessary ;
(') OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66 .
(2) OJ No L 175, 29 . 6 . 1973 , p. 5 .
(3) OJ No 197, 29 . 10. 1966, p. 3393/66.                         (fe) OJ No L 75 , 30 . 3 . 1971 , p. 16 .
h) OJ No 125, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2461 /67.                           ( 7) OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 8 .
(5) OJ No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .                           ( s) OJ No L 268 , 3 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 .
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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :                  are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                        ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
     relation to each other, at any given moment,
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
     on their effective parity ;                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                                               Article 1
     of these currencies recorded for a given period , in
     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
markets of third countries and Greece, that the refund                                         Article 2
should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
to this Regulation for those products for which the                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
marketing year has already begun ;                                       1975 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 31 January 1975.
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                Member of the Commission
                                                             ANNEX
                                   Refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 February 1975
                                                                                                          (u.a./100 kg)
                    CCT
                   heading                               Description of goods                            Refund
                      No
               ex 12.01          Colza and rape seed , other than for sowing
               ex 12.01          Sunflower seed, other than for sowing                                     —