CELEX: 31997R2648
Language: en
Date: 1997-12-30 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2648/97 of 30 December 1997 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable to certain milk products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty

L 356/48            I EN              Official Journal of the European Communities                               31 . 12. 97
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2648/97
                                                   of 30 December 1997
                  fixing the rates of the refunds applicable to certain milk products exported in
                              the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      Whereas Article 11 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68
                                                                 provides for the payment of aid for Community-produced
                                                                 skimmed milk processed into casein if such milk and the
                                                                 casein manufactured from it fulfil certain conditions set
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            out in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 987/68
Community,                                                       of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for granting aid
                                                                 for skimmed milk processed into casein or caseinates (*),
                                                                 as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1435/90 (*);
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of           Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2571 /97 of 15
27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market            December 1997 on the sale of butter at reduced prices
in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­        and the granting of aid for cream, butter and concentrated
tion (EC) No 1 587/96 (2), and in particular Article 17 (3)      butter for use in the manufacture of pastry products, ice­
thereof,                                                         cream and other foodstuffs (J), lays down that butter and
                                                                 cream at reduced prices should be made available to
                                                                 industries which manufacture certain goods;
Whereas Article 17 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
provides that the difference between prices in interna­          in accordance with the opinion of the Management
tional trade for the products listed in Article 1 (a), (b), (c), Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
(d), (e), and (g) of that Regulation and prices within the
Community may be covered by an export refund; whereas
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1222/94 of 30 May 1994
laying down common implementing rules for granting
export refunds on certain agricultural products exported
in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Treaty, and criteria for fixing the amount of such
refunds (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1909/97 (4), specifies the products for which a rate of
refund should be fixed, to be applied where these
products are exported in the form of goods listed in the                                   Article 1
Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 804/68;
                                                                  1.   The rates of the refunds applicable to the basic
                                                                 products appearing in Annex A to Regulation (EC) No
Whereas, in accordance with the first subparagraph of             1222/94 and listed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
Article 4 (1 ) of Regulation (EC) No 1222/94, the rate of        804/68, exported in the form of goods listed in the Annex
the refund per 100 kilograms for each of the basic               to Regulation (EEC) No 804/ 68, are hereby fixed as
 products in question must be fixed for each month;              shown in the Annex to this Regulation.
                                                                 2. No rates of refund are fixed for any of the products
                                                                 referred to in the preceding paragraph which are not
Whereas Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EC) No 1222/94              listed in the Annex to this Regulation .
 provides that, when the rate of the refund is being fixed,
account should be taken, where necessary, of production
 refunds, aids or other measures having equivalent effect
applicable in all Member States in accordance with the
                                                                                            Article 2
Regulation on the common organization of the market in
the product in question to the basic products listed in
Annex A to that Regulation or to assimilated products;
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1998 .
(') OJ L 148 , 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 21 .                               0 OJ L 169, 18. 7. 1968, p. 6.
(3) OJ L 136, 31 . 5. 1994, p. 5.                                (6) OJ L 138, 31 . 5. 1990, p. 8 .
b) OJ L 268, 1 . 10. 1997, p. 20.                                n OJ L 350, 20. 12. 1 997, p. 3.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 30 December 1997.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                        Hans VAN DEN BROEK
                                                                      Member of the Commission
                                                        ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 30 December 1997 fixing the rates of the refunds
            applicable to certain milk products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II
                                                     to the Treaty
                                                                                              (ECU/100 kg)
                                                                                                Rate of
                 CN code                                  Description                           refund
            ex 0402 10 19       Powdered milk, in granules or other solid forms, not
                                containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, with a fat
                                content not exceeding 1,5 % by weight (PG 2):
                                (a) On exportation of goods of CN code 3501
                                (b) On exportation of other goods                                68,00
            ex 0402 21 19       Powdered milk, in granules or other solid forms, not
                                containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, with a fat
                                content of 26 % by weight (PG 3):
                                (a) Where goods incorporating, in the form of products
                                    assimilated to PG 3, reduced-price butter or cream
                                    obtained pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 2571 /97 are
                                    exported                                                     64,59
                                (b) On exportation of other goods                               102,60
            ex 0405 10          Butter, with a fat content by weight of 82 % (PG 6):
                                (a) Where goods containing reduced-price butter or cream
                                    which have been manufactured in accordance with the
                                    conditions provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 2571 /97
                                    are exported                                                 45,00
                                (b) On exportation of goods of CN code 2106 90 98
                                    containing 40 % or more by weight of milk fat               177,25
                                (c) On exportation of other goods                               170,00