CELEX: 31987R2615
Language: en
Date: 1987-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2615/87 of 31 August 1987 fixing the export refunds on oil seeds

No L 248 / 10                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 1 . 9 . 87
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2615/87
                                                         of 31 August 1987
                                              fixing the export refunds on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          whereas the amount of this refund may not exceed the
                                                                     difference between prices within the Community and
                                                                     prices on the world market where the former are higher
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                than the latter ; whereas Article 21 of Regulation No
Economic Community,                                                  136/66/EEC provides that, at present, Article 28 of that
                                                                     Regulation applies only to colza, rape and sunflower
                                                                     seeds ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of                  Whereas the refund for colza and rape seeds produced in
22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common                   Spain or Portugal is adjusted in accordance with Council
organization of the market in oils and fats ('), as last             Regulation (EEC) No 478/86 (u) ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1915/87 (2),
Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/EEC of
                                                                      Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC provides
21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza, rape and
                                                                     that when the refund is being calculated account must be
sunflower seeds (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                     taken of prices ruling on the various Community markets
No 2429/72 (4), and in particular the first sentence of
Article 2 (3) thereof,
                                                                     which are representative from the point of view of proces­
                                                                     sing and exportation ; the most favourable quotations
                                                                     recorded on the various markets of importing third coun­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1678/85                 tries and costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
of 11 June 1985 fixing the conversion rates to be applied            market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is being
                                                                     fixed, account must also be taken of the level of market
in agriculture (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
2594/87 (6),    •                                                    prices within the Community for the oil seeds referred to
                                                                     in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC and the
                                                                     future trend of these prices ; whereas, furthermore,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72                 account should be taken of the economic aspect of the
of 20 July 1972 laying down special measures for colza,              proposed exports and the situation in the Community
rape and sunflower seed (7), as last amended by Regulation           regarding the supply of and demand for these seeds ;
(EEC) No 1 869/87 (8), and in particular Article 2 (3)
thereof,
                                                                      Whereas the estimated production of colza and rape seed
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,               for the 1987/88 marketing year has been fixed by
                                                                      Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2041 /87 (I2) ; whereas
                                                                     the amount to be deducted where appropriate, from the
Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in the            refund in compliance with the system of maximum
target price for colza, rape and sunflower seed for the              guaranteed quantities referred to in Article 27a of Regula­
 1987/88 marketing year were fixed by Council Regula­                 tion No 136/66/EEC was fixed by Commission Regula­
tions (EEC) No 1917/87 (9) and (EEC) No 1918/87 (10) ;                tion (EEC) No 2295/87 (13) ;
Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC
provides that a refund may be granted on exports to third
countries of oil seeds harvested within the Community ;              Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      651 /71 of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed rules for the
(') OJ No  172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025/66 .                          application of export refunds on oil seeds (14) as last
(2) OJ No  L 183, 3 . 7. 1987, p. 7.                                 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1815/84 (15) provides
(') OJ No  125, 26 . 6 . 1967, p . 2461 / 67.                        that the amount of the refund must be calculated on the
(4) OJ No  L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .
0 OJ   No  L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 11 .
(«) OJ No  L 245 , 29 . 8 . 1987, p. 11 .                            (")  OJ No  L  53 , 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 55.
0 OJ   No  L 167, 25. 7. 1972, p. 9 .                                H    OJ  No L  192, 11 . 7. 1987, p. 11 .
(8) OJ No  L 176, 1 . 7. 1987, p. 30 .                               H    OJ  No L  209, 31 . 7. 1987, p . 43 .
0 OJ   No  L 183 , 3 . 7. 1987, p. 14.                               H    OJ  No L  75, 30 . 3 . 1971 , p . 16.
H OJ    No   L 183 , 3 . 7. 1987, p. 16.                             H    OJ  No L  170, 29 . 6. 1984, p. 46 .
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basis of the weight of exported seeds ; whereas this weight        Whereas, however, pursuant to Article 2a of Regulation
must be adjusted to take account of any differences                (EEC) No 1569/72, the monetary disparity for the marke­
between the percentages of moisture and impurities found           ting years 1984/85 to 1986/87 will be calculated by a
to exist and those used to define the standard quality for         method which takes into account a coefficient applied to
which the target price is fixed ; whereas, when this adjust­       the conversion rate resulting from the central rate ;
ment is being made, the weight of the exported seeds               whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 91 /87 (4) fixed
must be increased by the amount of the difference                  the coefficient ;
between the actual moisture and impurities content and
that used to define the standard quality if the former is          Whereas pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
lower than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the       1569/72 forward differential amounts are to be deter­
weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the                 mined where the forward exchange rate for one or more
same amount ;
                                                                    currencies differs from the spot rate by at least a given
                                                                    percentage ; whereas this percentage has been fixed at 0,5
                                                                    by Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 ;
Whereas the standard quality referred to above was
defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1 102/84 (');                                                      Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 specifies the spot
                                                                    and forward exchange rates and the period to be used for
                                                                    calculating the differential amounts ; whereas in cases
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC provides              where, for one or more months, quotations of forward
that the refund may be varied according to destination              exchange rates are not available, the rates adopted for, the
where the world market situation or the specific require­           previous months or the following months, as the case may
 ments of certain markets make this necessary ;                     be, must be used ;
                                                                    Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to the
Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 651 /71                    current situation of the oil-seeds market and to the rates
 provides for the publication of the amount of the final            or prices of these products that, pursuant to Article 4 of
 refund obtained from the conversion into each of the
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 651 /71 , the amount of the refund in
 national currencies of the amount of the refund in ECU             ECU and the amount of the final refund in each of the
 plus or minus the differential amount ; whereas Article 1          national currencies must, in the case of colza and rape
 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 181 3/84 (2), as last            seed, be fixed in accordance with the Annex to this Regu­
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3891 /86 (3), defined the           lation ; whereas it is not necessary to fix a refund for
 elements which determine the differential amounts ;                sunflower seed ;
 whereas these elements are equal to the incidence on the
 target price or the refund of the coefficient derived from
 the percentage referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 (EEC) No 1569/72 ; whereas, according to these provi­              in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                    Committee for Oils and ' Fats,
 sions, this percentage represents :
 (a) for those Member States whose currencies are main­
      tained as between themselves within a spread at any
      given moment of 2,25 % , the difference between :             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
      — the conversion rate used under the common agri­
          cultural policy, and
                                                                                             Article 1
      — the conversion rate resulting from the central rate,
 (b) for the other Member States, the difference between :
                                                                     1 . In the case of colza and rape seed, the amounts of
      — the relationship between the conversion rate used           the refund referred to in Article 4 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 65 1 /7 1 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
          under the common agricultural policy for the
          currency of the Member State concerned and the
          central rate of each of the currencies of the             2.    There shall be no refund on sunflower seed.
          Member States referred to in (a), and
       — the spot market rate for the currency of the
          Member State in question in relation to each of                                    Article 2
           the currencies of the Member States referred to in
          (a), as recorded over a period to be determined ;
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
                                                                     1987.
 (■) OJ No L 113, 28 . 4. 1984, p. 8 .
 (2) OJ No L 170, 29 . 6 . 1984, p. 41 .
 (3) OJ No L 361 , 20 . 12. 1986, p. 27.                            (4) OJ No L 13, 15. 1, 1987, p. 13 .
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                       This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                       States .
                       Done at Brussels, 31 August 1987.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                   Vice-President
                                                               ANNEX
                        to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1987 fixing the export refunds on colza
                                                           and rape seed
                                                                                                           (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                               Current      1st period    2nd period      3rd period   4th period       5th period
                                                  9             10            11              12             1                2
1 . Gross refunds (ECU) :
    — Spain                                      23,242         23,242        23,639          24,036        24,433           24,830
    — Portugal                                   28,002         28,002        28,399          28,796        29,193           29,590
    — other Member States                        23,500         23,500        23,897          24,294        24,691           25,088
2. Final refunds :                                       I              I                            \
    Seeds harvested and exported from :    I             \                             I             I
    —  Federal Republic of Germany (DM)          57,00          57,00         57,96           58,99         59,94            61,16
    —  Netherlands (Fl)                          63,34          63,34         64,40           65,56         66,62            67,95
    —  BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs)                       1 126,46       1 126,46      1 145,54        1 164,05     1 183,14         1 197,97
    —  France (FF)                              170,43         170,43        173,17          175,71       178,68            182,27
    —  Denmark (Dkr)                            203,29         203,29        206,77          210,25­      213,72            215,62
    —  Ireland (£ Irl)                           18,943         18,943        19,271          19,572        19,902           20,161
    —  United Kingdom (£)                        13,576         13,576        13,836          14,097        14,357           14,505
    —  Italy (Lit)                           36 113        36 111         36 627         37 109        37 743           38 199
    —  Greece (Dr)                            2 325,94      2 303,08       2 346,77        2 364,11     2 415,06         2 402,59
    —  Spain (Pta)                            3 510,11      3 510,11       3 546,29        3 596,63     3 657,86         3 692,18
    —  Portugal (Esc)                         4 650,88      4 645,77       4 680,56        4 738,20     4 806,37         4 832,56