CELEX: 31974R1594
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-26
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1594/74 of the Commission of 25 June 1974 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

26 . 6 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 169 /9
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1594/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 25 June 1974
                                        fixing the export refunds on fishery products
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     whereas the world market situation or the specific
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
                                                                   sary to vary the refund according to the destination of
                                                                   the products in question ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community ;                                              Whereas products of Community origin which are
                                                                   landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      ated outside the customs territory of the Community
 2142/70 (') of 20 October 1970 on the common organ­               do not qualify for refunds ;
 ization of the market in fishery products, as last
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 555/74 (2), and in               Whereas economically important quantities of dried
 particular the first sentence of Article 21 (4) thereof ;         and salted cod and coalfish can be exported at the
                                                                   present time ;
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                      Whereas it follows from applying the abovementioned
 Committee ;                                                       rules and criteria to the present situation on the
                                                                   market and in particular to prices for fishery products
                                                                   in the Community and on the world market that the
 Whereas Article 21 of Regulation (EEC) 2142/70                    refund should be fixed as shown in the Annex ;
 provides that, to the extent necessary to enable
 economically important exports of the products listed
 in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on             Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally
 the basis of prices for these products on the world               refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 market, the difference between these prices and prices            — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
within the Community may be covered by an export
 refund ;                                                               relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                        within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
                                                                        based on their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                   — for other currencies, an exchange , rate based on the
 165/71 (3) of 26 January 1971 laying down general                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 rules for granting export refunds on fishery products                  of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
 provides that when refunds are being fixed account                     in the previous subparagraph ;
 must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­
 tion and the future trend with regard to prices and
 availabilities of fishery products on the Community               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 market and prices for fishery products on the world               are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
 market on the other ; whereas account must also be                ment Committee for Fishery Products,
 taken of the costs referred to in (c) of that Article, of
 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 165/71
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provides that, when prices on the Community market
are being determined, account must be taken of the
ruling prices which are most favourable - from the                 The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­
exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on                lation (EEC) No 2142/70 are hereby fixed at the
the world market are being determined, account must                amounts shown in the Annex .
be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that
Article ;
                                                                                           Art idi- 2
(') OJ No L 236, 27. 10 . 1970, p. 5.
(2) OJ No L 167, 22. 6. 1974, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 23 , 29 . 1 . 1971 , p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1974.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 25 June 1974.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                              The President
                                                                         Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                      ANNEX
                                                                                             (u.a. / 100 kg net)
                 CCT heading                                                                        Refund
                    No                               Description of goods
           03.02               Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish, whether or
                               not cooked before or during the smoking process :
                               ex Alb) Cod, dried and salted, whole, headless or in
                                          pieces :
                                          for exports to :
                                         — Brazil                                                    4-00
                               ex Alf) Coalfish, dried and salted, whole, headless or
                                         in pieces :
                                         for exports to :
                                         — Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Jamaica, Trini­
                                             dad, Barbados, Windward and Leeward Is­
                                             lands, Panama                                           4-00