CELEX: 31994R0348
Language: en
Date: 1994-02-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 348/94 of 16 February 1994 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

No L 44/20                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                17. 2. 94
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 348/94
                                                       of 16 February 1994
                  fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered
                                                                state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may
                                                                      be fixed by other legal instruments ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                            Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 (8) prohi­
                                                                      bits trade between the European Community and the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                  Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) ;
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                     whereas this prohibition does not apply in certain situa­
markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­           tions as comprehensively listed in Articles 2, 4, 5 and 7
tion (EC) No 133/94 (2), and in particular point (a) of the           thereof ; whereas account should be taken of this fact
first subparagraph of Article 19 (4) thereof,                         when fixing the refunds ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
                                                                      Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
provides that the difference between quotations or prices
                                                                      1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 38 1 3/92 (9), as
on the world market for the products listed in Article 1
                                                                      amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (10), are used to
                                                                      convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
(1 ) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those products
within the Community may be covered by an export
                                                                      and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                      conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
refund ;
                                                                      whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
                                                                      tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18 June                 lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (u);
1968 laying down general rules for granting export
refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)             Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds on white and               whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
raw sugar, undenatured and exported in its unaltered state
are being fixed account must be taken of the situation on
the Community and world markets in sugar and in parti­                Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
cular of the price and cost factors set out in Article 3 of           to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
that Regulation ; whereas the same Article provides that              particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
the economic aspect of the proposed exports should also               Community and on the world market that the refund
be taken into account ;                                               should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;
                                                                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect              in accordance with the opinion of the Management
of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is defined in            Committee for Sugar,
Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9
April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar
and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for
calculating cif prices for sugar (*) ; whereas, furthermore,
this refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 5              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 ; whereas candy sugar
is defined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of
2 March 1970 on detailed rules for granting export                                               Article 1
refunds on sugar (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1 684/92 (^ ; whereas the refund thus calculated for               The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )
sugar containing added flavouring or colouring matter                 (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 , undenatured and
must apply to their sucrose content and, accordingly, be              exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed to the
fixed per 1 % of the said content ;                                   amounts shown in the Annex hereto .
Whereas the world market situation or the specific
requirements of certain markets may make it necessary to                                         Article 2
vary the refund for sugar according to destination ;
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 February
(') OJ   No  L 177, 1 . 7 . 1981 , p. 4.                               1994.
O    OJ  No  L 22, 27. 1 . 1994, p. 7.
O   OJ   No  L 143, 25. 6. 1968 , p. 6.
(4)  OJ  No  L 167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13.                               (8) OJ  No L 102, 28 . 4. 1993 , p. 14.
O    OJ  No  L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3 .                                O OJ    No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(6)  OJ  No  L 50, 4. 3 . 1970, p. 1 .                                (10) OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
O    OJ  No  L 176, 30. 6. 1992, p. 31 .                              (") OJ  No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 16 February 1994.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                    Rene STEICHEN
                                                                           Member of the Commission
                                                             ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 16 February 1994 fixing the export refunds on white
                                sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
                                      Product code                        Amount of refund (3)
                                                                          — ECU/ 100 kg —
                                    1701  11 90 100                           32,99     (')
                                    1701  11 90 910                           30,75     (')
                                    1701  11 90 950                                     (2)
                                    1701  12 90 100                           32,99     (l)
                                    1701  12 90 910                           30,75     (')
                                    1701  12 90 950                                     (2)
                                                                — ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                    1701 91 00 000                              0,3586
                                                                          — ECU/ 100 kg —
                                    1701 99 10 100                            35,86
                                    1701 99 10 910                            34,74
                                    1701 99 10 950                            34,74
                                                                — ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                    1701 99 90 100                             0,3586
                       (') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 % ,
                           the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of
                           Article 5 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 .
                       (2) Fixing suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2689/85 (OJ No L 255,
                           26. 9. 1985, p. 12), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3251 /85 (OJ No L 309,
                           21 . 11 . 1985, p. 14).
                       (3) Refunds on exports to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Monte­
                           negro) may be granted only where the conditions laid down in Regulation
                           (EEC) No 990/93 are observed.