CELEX: 31975R0208
Language: en
Date: 1975-01-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 208/75 of the Commission of 28 January 1975 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 22/ 16                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                               29 . 1 . 75
                                REGULATION ( EEC) No 208/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 28 January 1975
                                       fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas sweet fresh oranges , fresh mandarins, fresh
COMMUNITIES,                                                           lemons and apples of the common quality standards
                                                                       ' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II , ' Extra' Class and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  Class I hothouse and open-ground grapes, shelled
Economic Community ;                                                   hazelnuts, and shelled walnuts may at present be
                                                                       exported in economically significant quantities ;
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No
1035/72 (') of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                     Whereas exports of these products to certain destina­
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last                    tions cannot be routed through the Suez Canal and
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                     whereas the consequent detour via the Cape of Good
particular Article 30 (4) thereof ;                                    Hope entails additional transport costs ; whereas the
                                                                       refund can therefore be justifiably increased where
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                           exports have to be transported via the latter route ;
Committee ;
                                                                       Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1035/72                     refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­
ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
ence between prices in international trade and prices                       relation to each other, at any given moment,
in the Community for the products referred to in that                       within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Article may be covered by an export refund ;                                on their effective parity ;
                                                                       — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No                           arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
2518 / 69 (3 ) of 9 December 1969 laying down general                       of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
rules for granting export refunds on fruit and vegeta­                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
bles and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds                     in the previous subparagraph ;
as amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2455/ 72 (4 )
provides that, when refunds are being fixed , account
must be taken of the current situation or foreseeable                  Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
developments with regard to prices and availabilities                  criteria to the present situation on the market of the
of fruit and vegetables on the Community market on                      prospective development of this situation , and in parti­
the one hand and prices in international trade on the                  cular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegetables
other ; whereas account must also be taken of the                       in the Community and in international trade that the
costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of the                       refund should be fixed as indicated below ;
economic aspects of the proposed exports ;
                                                                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC)                     are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
No 2518 /69 , when prices on the Community market                       ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
are being determined account must be taken of the
prices which are most favourable from the exportation
point of view ; whereas, when prices in international
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
trade are being determined, the prices and quotations
referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
taken into account ;
                                                                                                Arliclc 1
Whereas the situation with regard to international
trade or the specific requirements of certain markets
may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given                     1.    The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are
product according to the destination of that product ;                  hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex .
(')  OJ No    L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                             2.    If apples are shipped to their destination via the
(2 ) OJ No    L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p. 147 .
(3 ) OJ No    L 318 , 18 . 12 . 1969 , p. 17.                           Cape of Good Hope, the amount indicated in the
 4)  OJ No    L 266,  25 . 11.1 972, p. 7 .                             Annex shall be increased by 4 u.a./ lOO kg.
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3 . The provisions of Article 4 ( 1 ) (b) of Commission         grapes of open ground, unshelled walnuts and apples
Regulation No 1041 /67/ EEC ( ! ) of 21 December 1967            set out in the Annex .
on detailed rules for the application of export refunds
                                                                                        Article 2
on products subject to a single price system, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 21 10/74 (2), shall               This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 January
apply to exports of sweet oranges, mandarins, table              1975 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 28 January 1975 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                        Member of the Commission
 (') OJ No 314, 23 . 12. 1967, p. 9 .
  2 OJ No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 1 .
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                                                       ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 28 January 1975 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                      vegetables
                                                                                          ( u.a . /100 kg net)
               CCT heading
                   No                               Description of goods                           Refund
            ex 08.02 A I      Sweet fresh oranges :
                             — of the varieties Biondo Comune and Sanguigno
                                  Comune ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II )                     4-00
                             — of other varieties ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)
                                  (Extra Class, Class I and Class II)                                6-00
            ex 08.02 B       Fresh manderins ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II )                  6-00
            ex 08.02 C        Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II )
                              for export to :
                             — Countries or states with a planned economy in cen­
                                  tral and eastern Europe                                           2-50
                              — Other destinations                                                  1-44
            ex 08.04 A I      Table grapes :
                              — Fresh, open ground 'Extra Class' and Class I                        6-00
            I                 — Fresh, hothouse 'Extra Class' and Class I                          16-00
            ex 08.05 B        Walnuts unshelled                                                     800
            ex 08.05 G        Shelled hazelnuts                                                     4-00
            ex 08.06 A II     Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than
                              cider apples :
                              — for export to countries and territories of Africa (with
                                  the exception of South Africa), countries of the
                                  Arabian Peninsula, Syria, Iran, countries or states
                                  with a planned economy in central and eastern
                                   Europe, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Iceland, Sweden, Fin­
                                   land and Norway                                                  3-00