CELEX: 31979R0404
Language: en
Date: 1979-03-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 404/79 of 28 February 1979 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs

No L 50/ 16                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                  1 . 3 . 79
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 404/79
                                                       of 28 February 1979
                       fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      compound feedingstuffs for which a refund may be
COMMUNITIES,                                                        fixed should be taken into account ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                 Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 1913 / 69
                                                                    of 29 September 1969 on the granting and the
                                                                    advance fixing of the export refund on cereal-based
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        compound feedingstuffs (6), as amended by Regulation
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                  (EEC) No 31 16/75 (7), provides that calculation of the
tion of the market in cereals ( J), as last amended by              export refund must be based on the levy applicable to
Regulation (EEC) No 1254/78 (2), and in particular the              maize ;    whereas     this  calculation    must also     take
fourth subparagraph of Article 16 (2) thereof,                      account of the cereal products content ; whereas, there­
                                                                    fore, in the interest of simplification , compound
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                        feedingstuffs should be placed in categories and the
Committee,                                                          refund for each category should be fixed on the basis
                                                                    of a quantity of maize which is representative of the
                                                                    usual cereal products content for the category
Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                   concerned ; whereas, futhermore, the amount of the
provides that the difference between quotations or                  refund must also take into account the possibilities
prices on the world market for the products listed in               and conditions for the sale of those products on the
Article 1 of that Regulation and prices for those                   world market, the need to avoid disturbances on the
products within the Community may be covered by                     Community market and the economic aspect of the
an export refund ;                                                  export ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general                      Whereas the       world market situation or the specific
rules for granting export refunds on cereals and                    requirements      of certain markets may make it neces­
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3),                 sary to vary     the refund for compound feedingstuffs
provides that when refunds are being fixed account                  according to     destination ;
must be taken of the existing situation and the future
trend with regard to prices and availabilities of cereals
on the Community market on the one hand and                         Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
prices for cereals and cereal products on the other ;               refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
whereas the same Article provides that it is also impor­
tant to ensure equilibrium and the natural develop­                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
ment of prices and trade on the cereal markets ;                         relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                         a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules                    their effective parity ;
to the present situation on the market in cereal-based
compound feedingstuffs that the export refund should                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
be fixed at an amount which will cover the difference                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
between Community prices and world market prices ;                       of these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                         relation, to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                          in the previous indent ;
Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be
applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (4), as              Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (5),                         whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
 provides that, when export refunds on cereal-based
compound feedingstuffs are being fixed, only the
 products normally used in the manufacture of                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                    are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
(•) OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                             ment Committee for Cereals,
(2) OJ  No L 156,  14. 6 . 1978 , p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 78 .
(4) OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60 .                           (<>) OJ No L 246 , 30 . 9 . 1969 , p . 11 .
 5  OJ  No L 303,  28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .                             7 OJ No L 309 , 29 . 11 . 1975, p . 64 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                         to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 shall be as set out in
                                                                                      the Annex hereto .
                                    Article 1
                                                                                                                      Article 2
The export refunds on the compound feedingstuffs                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March
covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and subject                                     1979 .
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                     States .
                     Done at Brussels, 28 February 1979 .
                                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                        Vice-President
                                                                              ANNEX
                      to the Commission Regulation of 28 February 1979 fixing the export refunds on cereal­
                                                              based compound feedingstuffs
                                                                                                                                                       ( u.a ./ton )
          CCT              Special
        heading         specification                                      Nomenclature in simplified wording                                        Refund
           No            tor return!
 23.07 B I                                 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by Regulation ( EEC) No
                                           2743/75, containing starch, glucose or glucose syrup falling within subheadings
                                           17.02 B and 21.07 F II or milk products (falling within heading Nos 04.01 ,
                                           04.02, 04.03 and 04.04 and subheadings 17.02 A and 21.07 F I) :
                                           Of a milk powder content of less than 50 % by weight and of cereal
                                           products (') content by weight :
                           3010            — Exceeding 5 % but not exceeding 1 5 %                                                                    8-15
                           4010            — Exceeding 15 % but not exceeding 30 %                                                                  20-37
                           5010            — Exceeding 30 % but not exceeding 50 %                                                                   36-66
                           60 1 0          — Exceeding 50 % but not exceeding 65 %                                                                   48-88
                           7010            — Exceeding 65 %                                                                                          61-10
 (') ' Cereal products means the products falling within Chapter 10 and heading Nos 11.01 and 11.02 ( excluding subheading 11.02 G ) ot the Common Customs Tariff .