CELEX: 31994R1685
Language: en
Date: 1994-07-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1685/94 of 11 July 1994 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

12. 7. 94                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 178 /59
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1685/94
                                                           of 11 July 1 994
                                       fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Whereas the refund applicable to exports of tomatoes to
                                                                      Sweden should be amended during the period 1 July to
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               30 September 1994 pursuant to the undertakings entered
  Community,                                                          into with that country under the 1980 agreement (*) ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 (6) prohi­
 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                     bits trade between the European Economic Community
 market in fruit and vegetables (!), as last amended by               and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia und
 Regulation (EC) No 3669/93 (2), and in particular Article            Montenegro); whereas this prohibition does not apply in
 30 (4) thereof,                                                      certain situations as comprehensively listed in Articles 2,
                                                                      4, 5 and 7 thereof ; whereas account should be taken of
 Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                    this fact when fixing the refunds ;
 provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­
 ically significant quantities to be exported, the difference        Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
 between prices in international trade for the products               1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 f), as
 referred to in that Article and prices for the products              amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (8), are used to
 within the Community may be covered by an export                    convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 refund ;                                                            and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                     conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
 Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                    whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
 2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general rules                tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
 for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit and                 lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (9), as last amended by Regula­
vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3), as             tion (EC) No 547/94 (">);
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4), provides
 that when refunds are being fixed, account must be taken            Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules to
 of the existing situation and future trends with regard to          the present market situation and to its future trends, and
 prices and availabilities of fruit and vegetables on the            in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and
 Community market on the one hand and prices in inter­               vegetables in the Community and in international trade
 national trade on the other ; whereas account must also be          that the refunds should be as set out in the Annex
taken of the costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of           hereto ;
the economic aspects of the proposed exports ;
                                                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No                in accordance with the opinion of the Management
2518/69, when prices on the Community market are                     Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
being determined account must be taken of the prices
which are most favourable from the exportation point of
view ; whereas, when prices in international trade are
being determined, the quotations and prices referred to in           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
paragraph 2 of that Article must be taken into account ;
Whereas the situation with regard to international trade or                                      Article 1
the specific requirements of certain markets may make it
necessary to vary the refund for a given product according           Export refunds in the fruit and vegetables sector shall be
to the destination of that product ;                                 fixed at the amounts specified in the Annex to this
                                                                     Regulation.
Whereas tomatoes, fresh lemons, fresh sweet oranges,
apples, peaches and nectarines of the common quality
standards 'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, table grapes of                                   Article 2
the common quality standards 'Extra' Class and Class I,
almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts may at                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 July 1994.
present be exported in economically significant quanti­
ties ;
                                                                     O OJ No L 194,     28. 7. 1980, p. 12.
                                                                     (6) OJ No L 102,   28. 4. 1993, p. 14.
(>) OJ  No  L  118, 20.  5. 1972, p. 1 .                             O OJ No L 387,     31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L  338, 31 . 12. 1993, p. 26.                            (8) OJ No L 320,   22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
(3) OJ  No  L  318, 18.  12. 1969, p. 17.                            0 OJ No L 108,     1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(4) OJ  No  L  266, 25.  11 . 1972, p. 7.                            (I0) OJ No L 69,   12. 3 . 1994, p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 11 July 1994.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Rene STEICHEN
                                                               Member of the Commission
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                                                                               ANNEX
                          to the Commission Regulation of 11 July 1994 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                                              vegetables
                                                             (ECU/100 kg net)                                                                    (ECU/100 kg net)
                                    Destination               Amounts                                                  Destination                Amounts
          Product code                                                                        Product code
                                    of refund (')           of refunds (2)                                             of refund (')            of refunds (2)
        0702 00 10 100                   04                      4,50 (3)                   0805 10 49 200                  01                      11,00
        0702 00 90 100                   04                      4,50 (3)                   0805 30 10 100                  04                      13,50
        0802 12 90 000                   04                      9,67                       0806 10 11 200                  04                       4,84
        0802 21 00 000                   04                     11,30                      0806 10 15 200                   04                       4,84
        0802 22*00 000                   04                     21,80                      0806 10 19 200                   04                       4,84
        0802 31 00 000                  04                      14,00                      0808 10 31 910                  02                        8,00
        0805 10 11 200                  01                      11,00
                                                                                           0808 10 33 910                  02                        8,00
        0805 10 15 200                  01                      11,00
                                                                                           0808 10 39 910                  02                        8,00
       0805 10 19 200                   01                      11,00
                                                                                           0808 10 51 910                  02                        8,00
       0805 10 21 200                   01                      11,00
                                                                                           0808 10 53 910                  02                        8,00
       0805 10 25 200                   01                      11,00
                                                                                           0808 10 59 910                  02                        8,00
       0805 10 29 200                   01                      11,00
       0805 10 31 200                   01                      11,00                      0808 10 81 910                  02                        8,00
       0805 10 35 200                   01                      11,00                      0808 10 83 910                  02                        8,00
       0805 10 39 200                   01                      11,00                      0808 10 89 910                  02                        8,00
       0805 10 41 200                   01                     11,00                       0809 30 10 100                  03                        5,00
       0805 10 45 200                   01                     11,00                       0809 30 90 100                  03                        5,00
 (') The destinations are as follows :
      01 Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Greenland, Norway, Iceland, Malta, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Hungary, Romania,
         Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
         Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
     02 Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Austria, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Malta, Syria, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia, Latvia,
         Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan,
         Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, the
         countries and territories of Africa other than South Africa, countries of the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab
         Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm, al Qaiwain, Fujairah and Ras al Khaimah), Kuwait, Yemen), Iran, Jordan, Hong Kong, Singapore,
         Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Taiwan,
     03 all destinations excluding Switzerland and Austria,
     04 all destinations .
(2) Refunds on exports to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) may be granted only where the conditions laid down in Regulation
     (EEC) No 990/93 are observed.
(3) For exports to Sweden in the period 1 July to 30 September 1994, the refund is reduced to ECU 1,19 per 100 kg.