CELEX: 31978R0569
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 569/78 of 21 March 1978 fixing the export refund on fishery products

22. 3 . 78                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 78 / 5
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 569/78
                                                      of 21 March 1978
                                      fixing the export refunds on fishery products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    sary to vary the refund according to the destination of
COMMUNITIES,                                                      the products in question ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           Whereas products of Community origin which are
Economic Community,                                               landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­
                                                                  ated outside the customs territory of the Community
                                                                 do not qualify for refunds ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in fishery products (J ), as last             Whereas economically important quantities of frozen
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2), and in                whole mackerel , frozen fillets of mackerel , dried and
particular the fourth indent of Article 23 (2) thereof,           salted cod and coalfish and mackerel , dried, salted or
                                                                  in brine can be exported at the present time ;
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                    Whereas it follows from applying the abovementioned
Committee,
                                                                  rules and criteria to the present situation on the
                                                                  market and in particular to prices for fishery products
Whereas Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76                  in the Community and on the world market that the
provides that, to the extent necessary to enable                  refund should be fixed as shown in the Annex ;
economically important exports of the products listed
in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the        Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
basis of prices for these products on the world market,           refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 the difference between these prices and prices within
the Community may be covered by an export refund ;               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                       relation to each other at any given moment within
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                       a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
 110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules                   their effective parity ;
for granting export refunds on fishery products and              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3),                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
provides that when refunds are being fixed account                     of these currencies recorded for a given period in
 must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
tion and the future trend with regard to prices and                    in the previous subparagraph ;
availabilities of fishery products on the Community
market and prices for fishery products on the world
market on the other ; whereas account must also be               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
taken of the costs referred to in (c) of that Article of          are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                  ment Committee for Fishery Products,
the economic significance of the proposed exports
and of the aims of the common organization of the
market in fishery products ;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76
provides that, when prices on the Community market
are being determined, account must be taken of the
ruling prices which are most favourable from the                                            Article 1
exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on
the world market are being determined, account must              The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­
be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that           lation (EEC) No 100/76 are hereby fixed at the
Article ;                                                         amounts shown in the Annex .
Whereas the world market situation or the specific
requirements of certain markets may make it neces­                                          Article 2
(') OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 303, 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 April
(3) OJ No L 20, 28. 1 . 1976, p. 48 .                             1978 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 21 March 1978 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                    Vice-President
                                                            ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 21 March 1978 fixing the export refunds on fishery
                                                           products
                                                                                                    (tut./ 100 kg net)
                  CCT
                heading                                     Description                                  Refund
                   No
            03.01          Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen :
                           B. Saltwater fish :
                               I. Whole, headless or in pieces :
                                   m) Mackerel :
                                       1 . bb) Frozen :
                                                For exports to all destinations   with the excep­
                                                tion of Sweden , Norway, Faroe    Islands, Finland,
                                                Yugoslavia and the USSR                                    600
                                       2. bb) Frozen :
                                                For exports to all destinations   with the excep­
                                                tion of Sweden , Norway, Faroe    Islands, Finland,
                                                Yugoslavia and the USSR                                    600
                               II . Fillets :
                                    b) Frozen :
                                        6 . Of mackerel :
                                            For exports to all destinations with the exception
                                            of Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Yugos­
                                            lavia and the USSR                                             3 00
            03.02          Fish , dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish, whether or not
                           cooked before or during the smoking process :
                           ex A. I. b) Cod, dried and salted, whole, headless or in pieces :
                                          For exports to Brazil, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, the
                                          People's Republic of the Congo, Zaire, Cameroon
                                          and Angola                                                       600
                                     f) — Coalfish, dried and salted, whole, headless or in
                                              pieces :
                                              For exports to the People's Republic of the
                                              Congo, Zaire, Gabon, Cameroon, Angola,
                                              Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Windward and
                                              Leeward    Islands,     Panama,  Surinam    and   the
                                              Dominican Republic                                          15.00
                                          — Mackerel , dried, salted        or in    brine, whole,
                                              headless or in pieces :
                                              For exports to Jamaica, Trinidad and Windward
                                              and Leeward Islands                                          400