CELEX: 31976R2458
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2458/76 of 8 October 1976 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

No L 279 / 16                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             9 . 10 . 76
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2458 /76
                                                        of 8 October 1976
                                       fixing the export refunds on fishery products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      sary to vary the refund according to the destination of
COMMUNITIES,                                                        the products in question ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               Whereas products of Community origin which are
Economic Community,                                                  landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­
                                                                     ated outside the customs territory of the Community
                                                                     do not qualify for refunds ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza­                    Whereas economically important quantities of frozen
tion of the market in fishery products ( J ), and in parti­          fillets of cod and of coalfish , frozen whole mackerel
cular the fourth indent of Article 23 (2) thereof,                   and of dried and salted cod and coalfish can be
                                                                     exported at the present time ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
Committee ,                                                          Whereas it follows from applying the abovemenfioned
                                                                     rules and criteria to the present situation on the
                                                                     market and in particular to prices for fishery products
Whereas Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76                     in the Community and on the world market that the
provides that, to the extent necessary to enable                     refund should be fixed as shown in the Annex ;
economically important exports of the products listed
in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the
                                                                     Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
basis of prices for these products on the world market,
                                                                     refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
the difference between these prices and prices within
the Community may be covered by an export refund ;                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No                         within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
 110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules                      on their effective parity ;
for granting export refunds on fishery products and                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (2 ),                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
provides that when refunds are being fixed account                        of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
tion and the future trend with regard to prices and                       in the previous subparagraph ;
availabilities of fishery products on the Community
market and prices for fishery products on the world                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
market on the other ; whereas account must also be                   are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
taken of the costs referred to in (c) of that Article of              ment Committee for Fishery Products,
the economic significance of the proposed exports
and of the aims of the common organization of the
market in fishery products ;
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC) No 110 /76
provides that, when prices on the Community market
are being determined, account must be taken of the                                            Article 1
ruling prices which are most favourable from the
exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on
the world market are being determined , account must                 The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­
be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that               lation ( EEC) No 100/76 are hereby fixed at the
                                                                      amounts shown in the Annex .
Article ;
Whereas the world market situation or the specific                                            Article 2
 requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
(') OJ No L 20 , 28 . I. 1976 , p . I.                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 October
(-) OJ No L 20 , 28 . 1 . 1976 . p . 48 .                             1976 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 8 October 1976 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                             Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                                                                                                  (u.a. / lQO kv net)
                  CCT
                 heading                                Description of goods                            Refund
                   No
            03.01          Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen :
                           B. Saltwater fish :
                               I. Whole, headless or in pieces :
                                   m) Mackerel :
                                         2, bb) Frozen                                                    300
                               II . Fillets :
                                    b) Frozen :
                                        1 . Of cod (Gadus morrhua or Gadus callarías)                      4-00
                                        2. Of coalfish (Pollachius virens or Gadus virens)                 1 - 50
            03.02          Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish , whether or not
                           cooked before or during the smoking process :
                           ex A. I. b) Cod, dried and salted, whole headless or in pieces
                                           For exports to Brazil , Puerto Rico, Congo­
                                           Brazzaville, Zaire and Venezuela                              1 5-00
                                       f) Coalfish , dried and salted, wholet headless or in
                                           pieces
                                           For exports to Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon , Zaire,
                                           Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Windward and
                                           Leeward Islands, Panama, Surinam and the Domin­
                                           ican Republic                                                 1 5-00