CELEX: 31998R1158
Language: en
Date: 1998-06-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1158/98 of 3 June 1998 fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar for the 41st partial invitation to tender issued within the framework of the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1408/97

4. 6. 98             EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                               L 160/17
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1158/98
                                                        of 3 June 1998
                 fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar for the 41st partial invitation
                 to tender issued within the framework of the standing invitation to tender
                                       provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1408/97
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Whereas, following an examination of the tenders
                                                                    submitted in response to the 41st partial invitation to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                    tender, the provisions set out in Article 1 should be
Community,
                                                                    adopted;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
markets in the sugar sector (1), as last amended by Regula-         in accordance with the opinion of the Management
tion (EC) No 1599/96 (2), and in particular the second              Committee for Sugar,
subparagraph of Article 17 (5) (b) thereof,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1408/97 of 22                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
July 1997 on a standing invitation to tender to determine
levies and/or refunds on exports of white sugar (3),                                        Article 1
requires partial invitations to tender to be issued for the
export of this sugar;                                               For the 41st partial invitation to tender for white sugar
                                                                    issued pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1408/97 the
Whereas, pursuant to Article 9 (1) of Regulation (EC) No            maximum amount of the export refund is fixed at ECU
1408/97 a maximum export refund shall be fixed, as the              47,431 per 100 kilograms.
case may be, account being taken in particular of the state
and foreseeable development of the Community and                                            Article 2
world markets in sugar, for the partial invitation to tender
in question;                                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 June 1998.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 3 June 1998.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 43.
(3) OJ L 194, 23. 7. 1997, p. 16.