CELEX: 31979R0758
Language: en
Date: 1979-04-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 758/79 of 18 April 1979 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar, exported in the natural state

19 . 4 . 79                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 97/9
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 758/79
                                                           of 18 April 1979
                 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar, exported in the natural
                                                                  state
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          sary to vary the refund for sugar according to destina­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                            tion ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                         Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
                                                                         may be fixed by other legal instruments ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                       Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 zation of the market in sugar (1), as last amended by                   refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular the
                                                                         — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 1 9 (2)
 thereof,                                                                      relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                               a band of 2-25 %, a rate of exchange based on
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                                  their effective parity ;
 Committee ,
                                                                        — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 provides that the difference between quotations or                            of these currencies recorded for a given period in
 prices on the world market for the products listed in                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
 Article 1 ( l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those                     in the previous indent ;
 products within the Community may be covered by
 an export refund ;                                                     Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18                        March 1979 (8) laid down the coefficient for
 June 1968 laying down general rules for granting                       expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
 export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regula­                 ECU ;
 tion (EEC) No 1489 /76 (4), provides that when refunds
 on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in                    Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
 the natural state, are being fixed account must be                     whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
 taken of the situation on the Community and world
 markets in sugar and in particular of the price and                    Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out
 cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ;                  above to the present situation on the market in sugar
 whereas the same Article provides that the economic                    and in particular to quotations or prices for sugar
 aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken                    within the Community and on the world market that
                                                                        the refund should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;
 into account ;
 Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 respect of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is                are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                    ment Committee for Sugar,
 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard
 quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron­
 tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 sugar (5) ; whereas, furthermore, this refund should be
 fixed in accordance with Article 5 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 766/68 ; whereas candy sugar is defined in                                                Article 1
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March
 1970 on detailed rules for granting export refunds on                  The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1
 sugar (6), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                           ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, undenatured
 1467/77 (7) ;                                                          and exported in the natural state , shall be as set out in
Whereas the world market situation or the specific                      the Annex hereto .
 requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
(!)  OJ  No  L 359 , 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                                                         Article 2
(2 ) OJ  No  L  170 , 27. 6 . 1978 , p. 1 .
(5)  OJ  No  L  143, 25 . 6. 1968 , p. 6 .                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 April
(4)  OJ  No  L  167, 26 . 6. 1976, p. 13 .                               1979 .
(5)  OJ  No  L 89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .
(o)  OJ  No  L 50 , 4. 3 . 1970, p . 1 .
(7)  OJ  No  L  162, 1 . 7 . 1977, p . 6 .                              (8) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979 , p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 18 April 1979 .
                                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                           Vice-President
                                                                             ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 18 April 1979 fixing the export refunds on white sugar
                                               and raw sugar, exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                          (ECU / 100 ka)
                     CCT
                   heading                                                    Description                                                   Refund
                      No
             17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                     A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar                                                          24.50
                                     B. Raw sugar :
                                          (a) Candy sugar                                                                                  25.43 (»)
                                          (b) Other raw sugar                                                                              21.50 (')
            (1 ) 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 .