CELEX: 31975R0809
Language: en
Date: 1975-03-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 809/75 of the Commission of 26 March 1975 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

27. 3 . 75                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 78 /71
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 809/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 26 March 1975
                                          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
2142/70 (') of 20 October 1970 on the common
organization of the market in fishery products, as last              Whereas economically important quantities of frozen
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2682/74 (2), and in                   fillets of cod and of coalfish can be exported at the
particular the first sentence of Article 21 (4) thereof ;            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) No 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 the            Whereas, if the levy 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                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
the Community may be covered by an export refund ;
                                                                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                          within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                          on their effective parity ;
 165/71 (3) of 26 January 1971 laying down general
rules for granting export refunds on fishery products                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds                        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 Management
taken of the costs referred to in (c) of that Article of              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 165/71
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                                             Article I
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 2142/70 are hereby fixed at the
Article ;                                                            amounts shown in the Annex .
Whereas the world market situation or the specific
requirements of certain markets may make it neces­                                            Article 2
(') OJ No L 236, 27. 10 . 1970 , p . 5 .
(-) OJ No L 288 , 25 . 10 . 1974, p . .5 .                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
(3 ) OJ No L 23 , 29 . 1 . 1971 , p . 1 .                             1975 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels , 26 March 1975 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                                                                                                 (u.a . I 100 kv net )
                  CCT heading
                     No                                    Description of goods                          Refund
            03.01                Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen :
                                 B. Saltwater fish :
                                     II . Fillets :
                                          b ) Frozen :
                                              1 . Of cod ( Gadus morrhua or Gadus callarias )             10.00
                                              2 . Of coalfish ( Bollachius virens or Gadus
                                                  virens )                                                  6.50