CELEX: 31981R0688
Language: en
Date: 1981-03-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 688/81 of 18 March 1981 fixing the export refund on candy sugar

No L 73/ 12                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           19 . 3 . 81
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 688/81
                                                        of 18 March 1981
                                          fixing the export refund on candy sugar
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
  COMMUNITIES,                                                     may be fixed by other legal instruments ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
  Economic Community,                                              refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         relation to each other at any given moment within
 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
 zation of the market in sugar (J), as last amended by                 their effective parity ;
 Regulation (EEC) No 3455/80 (2), and in particular the
 first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 19 (2)         — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 thereof,                                                              arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                       of these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                          in the previous indent ;
 Committee,
                                                                   Whereas the refund for candy sugar must be fixed
 Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                 every two weeks ; whereas it may be altered in the
 provides that the difference between quotations or                intervening period ;
 prices on the world market for the products listed in
 Article 1 (l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those
 products within the Community may be covered by                   Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out
 an export refund ;                                                above to the present situation on the market in sugar
                                                                   and in particular to quotations or prices for sugar
                                                                   within the Community and on the world market that
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18                  the refund should be as set out in the Annex hereto :
 June 1968 laying down general rules for granting
 export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 on sugar, undenatured and exported in the natural                 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 state, are being fixed account must be taken of the               ment Committee for Sugar,
 situation on the Community and world markets in
 sugar and in particular of the price and cost factors set
 out in Article 3 of that Regulation ; whereas the same
 Article provides that the economic aspect of the
 proposed exports should also be taken into account ;              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
 Whereas candy sugar was defined in Article 11 of
 Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on
 detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (5),                                  Article 1
 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1467/77 (6) ;
                                                                   The export refund on candy sugar undenatured and in
Whereas the world market situation or the specific                 the natural state, shall be as set out in the Annex
 requirements of certain markets may make it neces­                hereto .
 sary to vary the refund for sugar according to destina­
 tion :
0)  OJ  No  L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                                                   Article 2
(2) OJ  No  L 360, 31 . 12. 1980, p. 17.
(3) OJ  No  L  143, 25. 6 . 1968, p. 6.
(4) OJ  No  L  167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13.
(5) OJ  No  L 50, 4. 3 . 1970 , p. 1 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 March
(6) OJ  No  L  162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6.                             1981 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 18 March 1981 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Poul DALSAGER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
                                                          ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 18 March 1981 fixing the export refund on candy sugar'
                                                                                                    (ECU/ 100 kg)
                  CCT
                                                          Description                                  Refund
                heading
                   No
            17.01              Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                               ex A. White sugar :
                                      — Candy sugar                                                      0
                                   B. Raw sugar : *
                                      ex II. Other raw sugar :
                                             — Candy sugar                                              0 0)
            (') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 %, the refund appli­
                cable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                766/68 .