CELEX: 31979R1919
Language: en
Date: 1979-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1919/79 of 31 August 1979 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs

1 . 9. 79                                Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 222/ 15
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1919/79
                                                       of 31 August 1979
                       fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     compound feedingstuffs are being fixed, only the
COMMUNITIES,                                                       products normally used in the manufacture of
                                                                   compound feedingstuffs for which a refund may be
                                                                    fixed should be taken into account ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                   Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1913/69
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        of 29 September 1969 on the granting and the
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                  advance fixing of the export refund on cereal-based
tion of the market in cereals (*), as last amended by               compound feedingstuffs (6), as amended by Regulation
Regulation (EEC) No 1 547/79 (2), and in particular the            (EEC) No 31 16/75 (7), provides that calculation of the
fourth subparagraph of Article 16 (2) thereof,                      export refund must be based on the levy applicable to
                                                                    maize ; whereas      this   calculation must also   take
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                        account of the cereal products content ; whereas, there­
Committee,                                                          fore, in the interest of simplification, compound
                                                                    feedingstuffs should be placed in categories and the
                                                                    refund for each category should be fixed on the basis
Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                   of a quantity of maize which is representative of the
provides that the difference between quotations or                  usual cereal products content for the category
prices on the world market for the products listed in               concerned ; whereas, futhermore, the amount of the
Article 1 of that Regulation and prices for those                   refund must also take into account the possibilities
products within the Community may be covered by                     and conditions for the sale of those products on the
an export refund ;                                                  world market, the need to avoid disturbances on the
                                                                    Community market and the economic aspect of the
                                                                    export ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general
rules for granting export refunds on cereals and
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3),                 Whereas the      world market situation or the specific
provides that when refunds are being fixed account                  requirements     of certain markets may make it neces­
must be taken of the existing situation and the future              sary to vary    the refund for compound feedingstuffs
trend with regard to prices and availabilities of cereals           according to    destination ;
on the Community market on the one hand and
prices for cereals and cereal products on the other ;
whereas the same Article provides that it is also impor­            Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
tant to ensure equilibrium and the natural develop­                 refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
ment of prices and trade on the cereal markets ;
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules                    relation to each other at any given moment within
to the present situation on the market in cereal-based                   a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
compound feedingstuffs that the export refund should                     their effective parity ;
be fixed at an amount which will cover the difference
between Community prices and world market prices ;                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No                   of these currencies recorded for a given period in
 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be                          relation to the Community currencies referred to
 applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (4), as                  in the previous indent ;
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (5),
 provides that, when export refunds on cereal-based
                                                                    Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month ;
(»)  OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                             whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
(2)  OJ No L 188,  26. 7. 1979, p. 1 .
 (3) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 78 .
 (4) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60.                             (6) OJ No L 246, 30. 9. 1969, p. 11 .
  5) OJ No L 303,  28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .                            (7) OJ No L 309, 29. 11 . 1975, p. 64.
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      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation                               to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 shall be as set out in
      are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                                  the Annex hereto.
      ment Committee for Cereals,
      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                                                        Article 2
                                       Article 1
     The export refunds on the compound feedingstuffs                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
     covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and subject                                  1979 .
                        This
                        States.
                                 Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                        Done at Brussels, 31 August 1979.
                                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                          Vice-President
                                                                             ANNEX
                      to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1979 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based
                                                                   compound feedingstuffs
                                                                                                                                                    (ECU/tonne)
          OCT               Special
        heading          specification                                    Nomenclature in simplified wording                                      Refund
           No             for refund
23.07 B I                                  Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by Regulation (EEC) No
                                           2743/75, containing starch, glucose or glucose syrup falling within subheadings
                                            17.02 B and 21.07 F II or milk products (falling within heading Nos 04.01 ,
                                           04.02, 04.03 and 04.04 and subheadings 17.02 A and 21.07 F I):
                                           Of a milk powder content of less than 50 % by weight and of a cereal
                                           products (*) content by weight :
I                           3010           —    Exceeding     5 % but not exceeding 1 5 %                                                            8.05
                            4010           —     Exceeding    15% but not exceeding 30 %                                                           20.13
                            5010           —     Exceeding    30 % but not exceeding 50 %                                                          36.24
                            6010           —     Exceeding    50 % but not exceeding 65 %                                                          48-32
                            7010           —     Exceeding    65 %                                                                                 60-40
J 1 ) 'Cereal products means the products falling within Chapter 10 and heading Nos 11.01 and 11.02 (excluding subheading 11.02 G) of the Common Customs Tariff.