CELEX: 31976R1496
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1496/76 of 25 June 1976 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

26. 6. 76                              Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 167/25
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1496/76
                                                        of 25 June 1976
                                      fixing the export refunds on fishery products
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   sary to vary the refund according to the destination of
 COMMUNITIES,                                                     the products in question ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Whereas products of Community origin which are
 Economic Community,                                              landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­
                                                                  ated outside the customs territory of the Community
                                                                  do not qualify for refunds ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza­                Whereas economically important quantities of frozen
 tion of the market in fishery products ( 1), and in parti­       fillets of cod and of coalfish and of dried and salted
 cular the fourth indent of Article 23 (2) thereof,               cod and coalfish can be exported at the present time ;
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     Whereas it follows from applying the abovementioned
 Committee,                                                       rules and criteria to the present situation on the
                                                                  market and in particular to prices for fishery products
                                                                  in the Community and on the world market that the
Whereas Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76                  refund should be fixed as shown in the Annex ;
 provides that, to the extent necessary to enable
 economically important exports of the products listed
 in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the        Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 basis of prices for these products on the world market,          refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 the difference between these prices and prices within
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 the Community may be covered by an export refund ;
                                                                       relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                       within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                       on their effective parity ;
 110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules
 for granting export refunds on fishery products and              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (2),                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 provides that when refunds are being fixed account                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
 tion and the future trend with regard to prices and                   in the previous subparagraph ;
 availabilities of fishery products on the Community
 market and prices for fishery products on the world              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 market on the other ; whereas account must also be               are in accordance with the Management Committee
 taken of the costs referred to in (c) of that Article of         for Fishery Products,
 the economic significance of the proposed exports
and of the aims of the common organization of the
 market in fishery products ;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76
provides that, when prices on the Community market
are being determined, account must be taken of the
ruling prices which are most favourable from the                                          Article 1
exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on
the world market are being determined, account must               The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­
be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that           lation (EEC) No 100/76 are hereby fixed at the
Article ;                                                         amounts shown in the Annex .
Whereas the world market situation or the specific
requirements of certain markets may make it neces­                                        Article 2
(') OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p . 48 .                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 25 June 1976.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                           ANNEX
                                                                                                 (u.a./ 100 kg net)
                 CCT
                                                       Description of goods                           Refund
               heading
                  No
           03.01         Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen :
                         B. Saltwater fish :
                              II . Fillets :
                                   b) Frozen :
                                       1 . Of cod (Gadus morrhua or Gadus callarias)                    600
                                       2 . Of coalfish (Pollachius virens or Gadus virens)              300
           03.02          Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish, whether or not
                         cooked before or during the smoking process :
                          ex A. I. b) Cod, dried and salted, whole headless or in pieces
                                          For exports to Brazil, Puerto Rico, Congo-
                                          Brazzaville, Zaire and Venezuela                             15.00
                                      f) Coalfish, dried and salted, whole, headless or in
                                          pieces
                                          For exports to Congo-Brazzaville, Zaire, Jamaica,
                                          Trinidad, Barbados, Windward and Leeward Islands,
                                          Panama, Surinam and the Dominican Republic                   1500