CELEX: 31978R0484
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 484/78 of 8 March 1978 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

9 . 3 . 78                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 67/ 9
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 484/78
                                                       of 8 March 1978
                fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas the world market situation or the specific
COMMUNITIES,                                                      requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
                                                                  sary to vary the refund for sugar according to destina­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             tion ;
Economic Community,                       -
                                                                  Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                  may be fixed by other legal means ;
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­
zation of the market in sugar (*), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2), and in particular the            Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 1 9 (2)        refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
thereof,
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
Committee,                                                            within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                      on their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                 — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
provides that the difference between quotations or                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
prices on the world market for the products listed in                 of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Article 1 ( l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those             relation to the Community currencies referred to
products within the Community may be covered by
                                                                      in the previous subparagraph ;
an export refund ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18                  Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
June 1968 laying down general rules for granting                  whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds             Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in               present situation on the market in sugar and in parti­
the natural state, are being fixed account must be                cular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
taken of the situation on the Community and world                 Community and on the world market that the refund
markets in sugar and in particular of the price and               should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ;            to this Regulation ;
whereas the same Article provides that the economic
aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
into account ;
                                                                  are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in                  ment Committee for Sugar,
respect of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is
defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard
quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron­              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
sugar (5) ;
Whereas, furthermore, this refund should be fixed in                                     Article 1
accordance with Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
766/68 ; whereas candy sugar is defined in Commis­                The refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a)
sion Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on                of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, undenatured and
detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (6),          exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed at the
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1467/77 (7) ;                   amounts shown in the Annex.
 <) OJ   No L  359, 31 . 17. 1974, p. 1 .
 2) OJ   No L  303, 28. 11 . 1977, p. 1 .
 3) OJ   No L  143, 25. 6. 1968, p. 6.                                                   Article 2
 4) OJ   No L  167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13.
 5) OJ   No L  89, 10. 4. 1968 , p. 3 .
 o) OJ   No L  50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 March
 7) OJ   No L  162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6.                             1978 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 8 March 1978 .
                                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                          Vice-President
                                                                            ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 8 March 1978 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw
                                                      sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                           (u.a./100 kg)
                    CCT
                  heading                                                   Description                                                    Refund
                     No
             17.01                  Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                    A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar                                                         2000
                                    B. Raw sugar :
                                         (a) Candy sugar                                                                                  18.55 (1)
                                         (b) Other raw sugar                                                                              16.50 (1)
            (*) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 % , the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with
                the provisions of Article 5 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 .