CELEX: 31993R2961
Language: en
Date: 1993-10-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2961/93 of 27 October 1993 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

No L 267/ 12                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 28 . 10 . 93
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2961/93
                                                        of 27 October 1993
                    fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered
                                                                 state
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may
                                                                        be fixed by other legal instruments ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                                    Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 (8) prohi­
                                                                        bits trade between the European Economic Community
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                   and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and
 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                      Montenegro) ; whereas this prohibition does not apply in
 markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­            certain situations as comprehensively listed in Articles 2,
 tion (EEC) No 1548/93 (2), and in particular point (a) of              4, 5 and 7 thereof ; whereas account should be taken of
 the first subparagraph of Article 19 (4) thereof,                      this fact when fixing the refunds ;
 Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                      Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
 provides that the difference between quotations or prices              1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (9) 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 ;
 refund ;                                                              whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
                                                                        tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
                                                                        lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (l0) ;
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18 June
 1968 laying down general rules for granting export
 refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)             Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
 No 1 489/76 (4), provides that when refunds on white and              whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
 raw sugar, undenatured and exported in its unaltered state
 are being fixed account must be taken of the situation on             Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
 the Community and world markets in sugar and in parti­                 to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
 cular of the price and cost factors set out in Article 3 of            particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
 that Regulation ; whereas the same Article provides that               Community and on the world market that the refund
the economic aspect of the proposed exports should also                 should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;
be taken into account ;
                                                                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect               in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is defined in             Committee for Sugar,
Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9
April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar
and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for
calculating cif prices for sugar (5) ; whereas, furthermore,
this refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 5                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 ; whereas candy sugar
is defined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of
2 March 1970 on detailed rules for granting export                                               Article 1
refunds on sugar (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1684/92 (7) ; whereas the refund thus calculated for
sugar containing added flavouring or colouring matter                  The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
must apply to their sucrose content and, accordingly, be               (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 , undenatured and
fixed per 1 % of the 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
requirements of certain markets may make it necessary to
vary the refund for sugar according to destination ;                                             Article 2
(')   OJ  No  L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                               This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 October
(2)   OJ  No  L 154, 25. 6. 1993, p. 10.                                1993 .
0     OJ  No  L 143, 25. 6. 1968, p. 6.
(4)   OJ  No  L 167, 26.6.1976, p. 13.
0     OJ  No  L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.                                 (8) OJ No L 102, 28 . 4. 1993, p. 14.
(6)   OJ  No  L 50, 4. 3 . 1970, p. 1 .                                0 OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
0     OJ  No  L 176, 30 . 6. 1992, p. 31 .                             H OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
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             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 27 October 1993.
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                       Rene STEICHEN
                                                                                Member of the Commission
                                                                 ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 27 October 1993 fixing the export refunds on white sugar
                                        and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
                                         Product code                         Amount of refund (')
                                                                              — ECU/ 100 kg —
                                       1701  11  90   100                         35,03    (')
                                       1701  11  90   910                         31,79    (')
                                       1701  11  90   950                                  (2)
                                       1701  12  90   100                         35,03    (')
                                       1701  12  90   910                         31,79    (<)
                                       1701  12 90    950                                  (2)
                                                                    — ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                       1701 91 00 000                              0,3808
                                                                              — ECU/ 100 kg —
                                       1701 99 10 100                             38,08
                                       1701 99 10 910                             36,89
                                       1701 99 10950                              36,89
                                                                    — ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                       1701 99 90 100                              0,3808
                         ( ) 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 .
                         (') 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 . 1 1 . 1985, p. 14).
                        ( ) Refunds on exports to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Monte­
                             negro) may be granted only where the conditions laid down in Regulation
                             (EEC) No 990/ 93 are observed.