CELEX: 31974R1356
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1356/74 of the Commission of 31 May 1974 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

1 . 6. 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L - 147/23
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1356/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 31 May 1974
                                            fixing the export refund on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      provides that when the refund is being calculated
                                                                   account must be taken of prices ruling on the various
                                                                   Community markets which are representative from
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             the point of view of processing and exportation ; the
 Economic Community ;                                              most favourable quotations recorded on the various
                                                                   markets of importing third countries and Greece, and
                                                                  costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/                       market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
 66/EEC (') of 22 September 1966 on the establish­                 being fixed, account must also be taken of the level of
 ment of a common organization of the market in oils               market prices within the Community for the oil seeds
and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
 1707/73 (2) ;                                                     66/EEC and the future trend of these prices ; whereas,
                                                                   furthermore, account should be taken of the economic
                                                                  aspect of the proposed exports and the situation in the
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/                       Community regarding the supply of and demand for
 66/EEC (3 ) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and               these seeds :
 fats between the Community and Greece ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/                      Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
 67/ EEC (4) of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on                  No 651 /71 (6) of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed
colza, rape and sunflower seeds, as last amended by                rules for the application of export refunds on oil seeds
 Regulation (EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular the            provides that the amount of the refund must be calcu­
 first sentence of Article 2 (3) thereof ;                         lated on the basis of the weight of exported seeds ;
                                                                  whereas this weight must be adjusted to take account
                                                                   of any differences between the percentages of mois­
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                      ture and impurities found to exist and those used to
 Committee ;                                                      define the standard quality for which the target price
                                                                   is fixed ; whereas, when this adjustment is being
                                                                   made, the weight of the exported seeds must be
Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                     increased by the amount of the difference between the
 provides that a refund may be granted on exports to              actual moisture and impurities content and that used
third countries of oil seeds harvested within the                 to define the standard quality if the former is lower
 Community ; whereas the amount of this refund may                 than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the
 not exceed the difference between prices within the              weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the
 Community and prices on the world market where                   same amount ;
the former are higher than the latter ; whereas Article
 21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that, at
 present, Article 28 of that Regulation applies only to
colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                                 Whereas the standard quality referred to above is
                                                                  defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   1 360/73 (7) of 15 May 1973 fixing the target prices
Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/EEC                     and basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the
provides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/                     1973/74 marketing year ;
66/ EEC and measures taken in application thereof
apply, subject to the provisions of the Agreement esta­
blishing an Association between the European                      Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/ EEC
 Economic Community and Greece, to trade between                  provides that the refund may be varied according to
the Community and Greece ;                                        destination where the world market situation or the
                                                                  specific requirements of certain markets make this
(')  OJ No  172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66.
(*)  OJ No  L 175, 29 . 6. 1973, p. 5.                            necessary ;
(3)  OJ No  197, 29 . 10 . 1966, p. 3393/66.
(4)  OJ No  125, 26. 6. 1967, p . 2461 /67.                       (6) OJ No L 75, 30 . 3 . 1971 , p. 16 .
(5)  OJ No  L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .                         ( 7) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p. 33 .
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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,                to this Regulation for those products for which the
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :                marketing year has already begun ;
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
    relation to each other, at any given moment,                     are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based               ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
    on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in                                     Article 1
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
     in the previous subparagraph ;                                  The refunds on the products referred to in Article 21
                                                                     of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC, exported to third coun­
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and                     tries and Greece, are hereby fixed as shown in the
criteria to the present situation on the market in oil               Annex to this Regulation .
seeds, and in particular to quotations or prices for
these products within the Community and on the                                              Article 2
markets of third countries and Greece , that the refund
should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1974.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 31 May 1974.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
                                                           ANNEX
                                   Refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 June 1974
                                                                                                      {u.a . 1100 kgi
                CCT heading
                    Ko                                Description of goods                             Refund
              ex 12 . 01        Colza and rape seed, other than for sowing                               —
              ex 12.01          Sunflower seed , other than for sowing