CELEX: 31996R0528
Language: en
Date: 1996-03-27 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 528/96 of 27 March 1996 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

No L 78/8             fENl              Official Journal of the European Communities                                  28 . 3 . 96
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 528196
                                                          of 27 March 1996
                      fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered
                                                                 state
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 (% as
                                                                         amended by Regulation (EC) No 1380/95            prohibits
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                trade between the European Community and the Federal
    Community,                                                           Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro); whereas
                                                                         this prohibition does not apply in certain situations as
    Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                 comprehensively listed in Articles 2, 4, 5 and 7 thereof
   of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                     and in Council Regulation (EC) No 462/96 (8); whereas
   markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­          account should be taken of this fact when fixing the
   tion (EC) No 1101 /95 (2), and in particular point (a) of the        refunds;
   first subparagraph of Article 19 (4) thereof,
                                                                        Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
   Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                     1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (9), as last
   provides that the difference between quotations or prices            amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (10), are used to
   on the world market for the products listed in Article 1             convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
   (1 ) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those products            and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
   within the Community may be covered by an export                     conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
   refund;                                                              detailed rules on the application and determination of
                                                                        these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
   Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that                   (EEC) No 1068/93 ("), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
   when refunds on white and raw sugar, undenatured and                 No 2853/95 (12);
   exported in its unaltered state, are being fixed account
   must be taken of the situation on the Community and                 Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks;
  world markets in sugar and in particular of the price and            whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
  cost factors set out in Article 17a of that Regulation;
  whereas the same Article provides that the economic                  Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
  aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken into             to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
  account;                                                             particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
                                                                       Community and on the world market that the refund
  Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect             should be as set out in the Annex hereto;
  of the standard quality; whereas the latter is defined in
  Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
  April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar            in accordance with the opinion of the Management
  and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for                 Committee for Sugar,
  calculating cif prices for sugar (3), as amended by Regula­
  tion (EC) No 3290/94 (4); whereas, furthermore, this
  refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 17a (4)
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ; whereas candy sugar is
 defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2135/95 of 7
 September 1995 laying down detailed rules of application                                         Article 1
 for the grant of export refunds in the sugar sector ^;
 whereas the refund thus calculated for sugar containing
 added flavouring or colouring matter must apply to their             The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )
 sucrose content and, accordingly, be fixed per 1 % of the            (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 , undenatured and
 said content;                                                        exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed to the
                                                                      amounts shown in the Annex hereto.
 Whereas the world market situation or the specific requi­
 rements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary                                         Article 2
 the refund for sugar according to destination;
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 March 1996.
Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may
be fixed by other legal instruments;
                                                                     (<) OJ   No L 102, 28 . 4. 1993, p. 14.
                                                                     0 OJ     No L 138, 21 . 6. 1995, p. 1 .
(')  OJ   No  L  177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                            (8) OJ   No L 65, 15. 3. 1996, p. 1 .
(2)  OJ   No  L  110, 17. 5. 1995, p. 1 .                            0 OJ     No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(3)  OJ   No  L  89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.                              H OJ      No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(4)  OJ   No  L 349, 31 . 12. 1994, p. 105.                          (") OJ    No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
0 OJ No L 214, 8. 9. 1995, p. 16.                                    H OJ      No L 299, 12. 12. 1995, p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 27 March 1996.
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                     Franz FISCHLER
                                                                             Member of the Commission
                                                             ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 27 March 1996 fixing the export refunds on white sugar
                                      and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
                                       Product code                       Amount of refund (3)
                                                                           — ECU/ 1 00 kg —
                                     1701  11 90  100                          36,20     (')
                                     1701  11 90  910                          36,78     C)
                                     1701  11 90  950                                    0
                                     1701  12 90  100                          36,20     (')
                                     1701  12 90  910                          36,78     (')
                                     1701  12 90  950                                    O
                                                                — ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                    1701 91 00 000                              0,3935
                                                                          — ECU/ 1 00 kg —
                                    1701 99 10 100                             39,35
                                    1701 99 10 910                             39,98
                                    1701 99 10 950                             39,98
                                                                — ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                    1701 99 90 100                              0,3935
                       (') 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 17a (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 .
                       (2) Fixing suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2689/85 (OJ No L 255,
                           26. 9. 1985, p. 12), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3251 /85 (OJ No L 309,
                           21 . 11 . 1985, p. 14).
                      (3) Refunds on exports to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and
                           Montenegro) may be granted only where the conditions laid down in amended
                           Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 and Regulation (EC) No 462/96 are observed.