CELEX: 31999R2642
Language: en
Date: 1999-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2642/1999 of 15 December 1999 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

16. 12. 1999           EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                         L 324/5
                                           COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2642/1999
                                                          of 15 December 1999
                   fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                       laying down detailed rules of application for the grant of
                                                                                  export refunds in the sugar sector (4); the refund thus
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                                  calculated for sugar containing added flavouring or
Community,
                                                                                  colouring matter must apply to their sucrose content
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13                       and, accordingly, be fixed per 1 % of the said content;
September 1999 on the common organisation of the markets
                                                                          (4)     the world market situation or the specific requirements
in the sugar sector (1), and in particular point (a) of the second
                                                                                  of certain markets may make it necessary to vary the
subparagraph of Article 18(5) thereof,
                                                                                  refund for sugar according to destination;
Whereas:
                                                                          (5)     in special cases, the amount of the refund may be fixed
(1)     Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provides                       by other legal instruments;
        that the difference between quotations or prices on the
        world market for the products listed in Article 1(1)(a) of        (6)     the refund must be fixed every two weeks; whereas it
        that Regulation and prices for those products within the                  may be altered in the intervening period;
        Community may be covered by an export refund;                     (7)     it follows from applying the rules set out above to the
(2)     Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provides that when                           present situation on the market in sugar and in partic-
        refunds on white and raw sugar, undenatured and                           ular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
        exported in its unaltered state, are being fixed account                  Community and on the world market that the refund
        must be taken of the situation on the Community and                       should be as set out in the Annex hereto;
        world markets in sugar and in particular of the price and         (8)     the Management Committee for Sugar has not delivered
        cost factors set out in Article 19 of that Regulation;                    an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman,
        whereas the same Article provides that the economic
        aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken into
        account;                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(3)     the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect of the
        standard quality; the latter is defined in Article 1 of                                         Article 1
        Council Regulation (EC) No 431/68 of 9 April 1968                 The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1(1)(a) of
        determining the standard quality for raw sugar and                Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999, undenatured and exported in
        fixing the Community frontier crossing point for calcu-           the natural state, are hereby fixed to the amounts shown in the
        lating cif prices for sugar (2), as amended by Regulation         Annex hereto.
        (EC) No 3290/94 (3); furthermore, this refund should be
        fixed in accordance with Article 19(4) of Regulation (EC)                                       Article 2
        No 2038/1999; candy sugar is defined in Commission
        Regulation (EC) No 2135/95 of 7 September 1995                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 December 1999.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 15 December 1999.
                                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                                          Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                    Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 89, 10.4.1968, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 105.                                         (4) OJ L 214, 8.9.1995, p. 16.
 ---pagebreak--- L 324/6         EN                       Official Journal of the European Communities                             16. 12. 1999
                                                                   ANNEX
        to the Commission Regulation of 15 December 1999 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar
                                                  exported in its unaltered state
                                        Product code                             Amount of refund
                                                                                — EUR/100 kg —
                                    1701 11 90 9100                                43,18     (1)
                                    1701 11 90 9910                                43,38     (1)
                                    1701 11 90 9950                                          (2)
                                    1701 12 90 9100                                43,18     (1)
                                    1701 12 90 9910                                43,38     (1)
                                    1701 12 90 9950                                          (2)
                                                                         — EUR/1 % of sucrose × 100 kg —
                                    1701 91 00 9000                                  0,4694
                                                                                — EUR/100 kg —
                                    1701 99 10 9100                                46,94
                                    1701 99 10 9910                                49,38
                                    1701 99 10 9950                                47,16
                                                                         — EUR/1 % of sucrose × 100 kg —
                                    1701 99 90 9100                                  0,4694
                          ( ) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 %; if the yield is other than 92 %,
                           1
                              the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 19
                              (4) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999.
                          (2) Fixing suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2689/85 (OJ L 255,
                              26.9.1985, p. 12), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3251/85 (OJ L 309,
                              21.11.1985, p. 14).