CELEX: 31996R0350
Language: en
Date: 1996-02-28 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 350/96 of 28 February 1996 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

29 . 2. 96            EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 50/ 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 350/96
                                                        of 28 February 1996
                     fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered
                                                                state
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          sucrose content and, accordingly, be fixed per 1 % of the
                                                                       said content;
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
   Community,                                                          Whereas the world market situation or the specific requi­
                                                                       rements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                the refund for sugar according to destination;
  of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                    Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may
  markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­          be fixed by other legal instruments;
  tion (EC) No 1101 /95 (2), and in particular point (a) of the
  first subparagraph of Article 19 (4) thereof,                        Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 (% as
                                                                       amended by Regulation (EC) No 1380/95 Q, prohibits
  Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                    trade between the European Community and the Federal
  provides that the difference between quotations or prices            Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro); whereas
  on the world market for the products listed in Article 1             this prohibition does not apply in certain situations as
  ( 1 ) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those products           comprehensively listed in Articles 2, 4, 5 and 7 thereof
  within the Community may be covered by an export                     and in Council Regulation (EC) No 281 5/95 (8); whereas
  refund;                                                              account should be taken of this fact when fixing the
                                                                       refunds;
  Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that
  when refunds on white and raw sugar, undenatured and                Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
  exported in its unaltered state, are being fixed account             1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (9), as last
  must be taken of the situation on the Community and                 amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (10), are used to
 world markets in sugar and in particular of the price and            convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 cost factors set out in Article 17a of that Regulation;              and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                      conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
 whereas the same Article provides that the economic
 aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken into             detailed rules on the application and determination of
 account;
                                                                      these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                      (EEC) No 1068/93 (u), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
 Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect             No 2853/95 (12);
 of the standard quality; whereas the latter is defined in            Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks;
 Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9                whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
 April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar
 and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for                 Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
 calculating cif prices for sugar (3), as amended by Regula­          to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
 tion (EC) No 3290/94 (4); whereas, furthermore, this                 particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
 refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 17a (4)            Community and on the world market that the refund
 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ; whereas candy sugar is              should be as set out in the Annex hereto;
 defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2135/95 of 7               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 September 1995 laying down detailed rules of application            in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 for the grant of export refunds in the sugar sector (*);            Committee for Sugar,
whereas the refund thus calculated for sugar containing
added flavouring or colouring matter must apply to their
                                                                     (<•) OJ No L 102, 28 . 4. 1993, p. 14.
                                                                     O OJ    No L 138 , 21 . 6. 1995, p. 1 .
(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                                 (8) OJ  No L 297, 9. 12. 1995, p. 1 .
(A OJ No L 110, 17. 5. 1995, p. 1 .                                  0 OJ    No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
O OJ No L 89, 10 . 4. 1968, p. 3.                                    H OJ     No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(<) OJ No L 349, 31 . 12. 1994, p. 105.                              (") OJ  No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(j OJ No L 214, 8. 9. 1995, p. 16.                                   H OJ    No L 299, 12. 12. 1995, p. 1 .
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           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                              Article 1
           The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No
           1785/81 , undenatured and exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed to the amounts
           shown in the Annex hereto.
                                                              Article 2
          This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 February 1996.
          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
           Done at Brussels, 28 February 1996.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                      Franz FISCHLER
                                                                             Member of the Commission
                                                              ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 28 February 1996 fixing the export refunds on white
                                 sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
                                       Product code                        Amount of refund (3)
                       I                                                   — ECU/ 1 00 kg —
                                     1701  11 90   100                          37,38    (')
                                     1701  11 90   910                          36,10    (')
                                     1701  11 90   950                                    0
                                     1701  12 90   100                          37,38    (')
                                     1701  12 90   910                          36,10    (')
                                     1701  12 90   950                                    0
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                     1701 91 00 000                              0,4064
                                                                           — ECU/ 100 kg —
                                     1701 99 10 100                            40,64
                                     1701 99 10 910                             39,35
                                     1701 99 10 950                             39,35
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                     1701 99 90 100                              0,4064
                        (') 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 .
                        (J) 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 2815/95 are observed.