CELEX: 31981R0297
Language: en
Date: 1981-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 297/81 of 4 February 1981 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

5 . 2. 81                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 33/ 11
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 297/81
                                                     of 4 February 1981
                                   fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas the situation with regard to international
COMMUNITIES,                                                      trade or the specific requirements of certain markets
                                                                  may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given
                                                                  product according to the destination of that product ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas sweet fresh oranges, fresh mandarins, fresh
                                                                  lemons and apples of the common quality standards
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra' Class and
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                    Class I hothouse grapes and open ground grapes,
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables ^), as last            shelled almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts
amended by the Act of Accession of Greece (2), and in             may at present be exported in economically signifi­
particular Article 30 (4) thereof,                                cant quantities ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                      Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Committee,                                                        refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­                relation to each other at any given moment within
ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­              a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
ence between prices in international trade for the                     their effective parity ;
products referred to in that Article and prices for the           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
products within the Community may be covered by                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
an export refund ;                                                     of these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                       in the previous indent ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general
rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit             Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3),         to the present market situation and to its future
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4),                    trends, and in particular to quotations and prices for
provides that when refunds are being fixed, account                fruit and vegetables in the Community and in inter­
must be taken of the existing situation and future                national trade that the refunds should be as set out in
trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit           the Annex hereto ;
and vegetables on the Community market on the one
hand and prices in international trade on the other ;
whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­
cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic                  Whereas the obligations under Article 10 (1 ) (b) of
                                                                   Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 of 29
aspects of the proposed exports ;
                                                                   November 1979 laying down common detailed rules
                                                                   for the application of the system of export refunds on
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   agricultural products (5), as amended by Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 1475/80 (6), may be relaxed in the case of
 No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market
 are being determined account must be taken of the                 exports to non-member countries outside Europe ;
 prices which are most favourable from the exportation            whereas, in such a case, Article 23 (1 ) (c) of Regulation
 point of view ; whereas, when prices in international             (EEC) No 2730/79 may be applied ;
 trade are being determined, the quotations and prices
 referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
 taken into account :                                              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                   are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 (>) OJ  No L  118,  20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                           ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 (2) OJ  No L  291 , 19. 11 . 1979, p. 17.
 (>) OJ  No L  318,  18. 12. 1969, p. 17.                          (5) OJ No L 317, 12. 12. 1979, p. 1 .
 (<) OJ  No L  266,  25. 11 . 1972, p. 7.                          (*) OJ No L 147, 13. 6. 1980, p. 15.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                              apply to exports of sweet oranges, mandarins, lemons,
                                                           table grapes of open ground, walnuts in shell, shelled
                      Article 1                            hazelnuts, and apples as set out in the Annex hereto.
1.   The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall
be as set out in the Annex hereto.                                               Article 2
2. The provisions of Articles 10 (1 ) (b) and 23 (1 ) (c)  This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 February
of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 shall            1981 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 4 February 1981 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      Poul DALSAGER
                                                                Member of the Commission
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                                                          ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 4 February 1981 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                         vegetables
                                                                                                  (ECU/100 kg net)
             CCT heading                                    Description                                 Refund
                 No
         ex 08.02 A I           Sweet fresh oranges :
                                — Of varieties Biondo comune and Sanguigno comune
                                   (' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                                5-32
                                — Of other varieties ("Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)               9-67
         ex 08.02 B             Fresh mandarins ("Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                    7-25
         ex 08.02 C             Fresh lemons ("Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)
                                For export to :
                                — countries or States with a planned economy in central or
                                   eastern Europe                                                        6-04
                                — other destinations                                                     4-23
         ex 08.04 A I           Table grapes :
                                — Fresh, open ground fExtra' Class and Class I)                          7-00
                                — Fresh, hothouse ("Extra' Class and Class I)                           19-34
         ex 08.05 A II          Shelled almonds, other than bitter almonds                               9-67
         ex 08.05 B             Unshelled walnuts                                                       14-00
         ex 08.05 G             Shelled hazelnuts                                                       14-51
         ex 08.06 A II          Apples CExtra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than cider
                                apples
                                For export to :
                                — Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi, Mozam­
                                   bique, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda,
                                   Somalia, Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Sudan, Ethi­
                                   opia, Jibuti, the countries of the Arabian peninsula (l),
                                    Iran and Iraq                                                       12-00
                                — Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong (2)                      12-00
                                — countries and territories       of Africa other than    those
                                   mentioned above and South Africa, Syria, Jordan, coun­
                                   tries with a planned economy in central and eastern
                                    Europe, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama,
                                    Ecuador, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Austria and
                                   the Faroe Islands                                                     3-63
         (*) For the purpose of this Regulation the 'countries of the Arabian peninsula are considered to be
             the following, including the territories attached thereto : Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the
             Sultanate of Oman, United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Qawain,
             Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah), Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) and the People's Democratic
             Republic of Yemen (South Yemen).
         (2) For which the custom export formalities have been completed on 28 February 1981 at the latest.