CELEX: 31978R1938
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1938/78 of 10 August 1978 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

No L 220/22                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            11 . 8 . 78
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1938/78
                                                      of 10 August 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,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                  may be fixed by other legal means ;
zation of the market in sugar ( ! ), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular the             Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 19 (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 within
Committee,                                                              a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                        their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
provides that the difference between quotations or                 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
prices on the world market for the products listed in                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Article 1 (1 ) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those              of these currencies recorded for a given period in
products within the Community may be covered by                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
an export refund ;                                                      in the previous subparagraph ;
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
into account ;                                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                    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 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ No  L   170, 27. 6. 1978 , 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.
 (0) OJ No  L   50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 .                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 August
 O   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, 10 August 1978 .
                                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                          Vice-President
                                                                            ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 10 August 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                                                          21 00
                                    B. Raw sugar :
                                         (a) Candy sugar                                                                                  22.1 5 (')
                                         (b) Other raw sugar                                                                              18 00 (•)
            (') 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 .