CELEX: 31987R2318
Language: en
Date: 1987-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2318/87 of 31 July 1987 fixing the export refunds on oil seeds

No L 210/30                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                 1 . 8 . 87
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2318/87
                                                             of 31 July 1987
                                               fixing the export refunds on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            whereas the amount of this refund may not exceed the
                                                                       difference between prices within the Community and
                                                                       prices on the world market where the former are higher
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  than the latter ; whereas Article 21 of Regulation No
Economic Community,                                                    136/66/EEC provides that, at present, Article 28 of that
                                                                       Regulation applies only to colza, rape and sunflower
                                                                       seeds :
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of                   Whereas the refund for colza and rape seeds produced in
22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common                     Spain or Portugal is adjusted in accordance with Council
organization of the market in oils and fats ('), as last               Regulation (EEC) No 478/86 (u);
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1915/87 (2),
Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/EEC of
21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza, rape and                      Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC provides
                                                                       that when the refund is being calculated account must be
sunflower seeds (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                       taken of prices ruling on the various Community markets
No 2429/72 (4), and in particular the first sentence of
Article 2 (3) thereof,
                                                                       which are representative from the point of view of proces­
                                                                       sing and exportation ; the most favourable quotations
                                                                       recorded on the various markets of importing third coun­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1678 /85                  tries and costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
of 11 June 1985 fixing the conversion rates to be applied              market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is being
                                                                       fixed, account must also be taken of the level of market
in agriculture (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 1953/87 (6),                                                          prices within the Community for the oil seeds referred to
                                                                       in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC and the
                                                                       future trend of these prices ; whereas, furthermore,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72                   account should be taken of the economic aspect of the
of 20 July 1972 laying down special measures for colza,                 proposed exports and the situation in the Community
rape and sunflower seed Q, as last amended by Regulation               regarding the supply of and demand for these seeds ;
(EEC) No 1 869/87 (8), and in particular Article 2 (3)
thereof,
                                                                       Whereas the estimated production of colza and rape seed
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,                for the 1987/88 marketing year has been fixed by
                                                                        Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2041 /87 (12) ; whereas
                                                                        the amount to be deducted where appropriate, from the
Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in the               refund in compliance with the system of maximum
target price for colza, rape and sunflower seed for the                guaranteed quantities referred to in Article 27a of Regula­
 1987/88 marketing year were fixed by Council Regula­                   tion No 136/66/EEC was fixed by Commission Regula­
tions (EEC) No 1917/87 (9) and (EEC) No 1918/87 (,0) ;                  tion (EEC) No 2295/87 (13) ;
Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC
provides that a refund may be granted on exports to third
countries of oil seeds harvested within the Community ;                Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                        651 /71 of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed rules for the
(') OJ  No  172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025/ 66 .                          application of export refunds on oil seeds (14) as last
(2) OJ  No  L 183 , 3 . 7. 1987, p. 7.                                  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1815/84 (15) provides
(J) OJ  No  125 , 26 . 6 . 1967, p . 2461 /67.                          that the amount of the refund must be calculated on the
(4) OJ  No  L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 164, ' 24. 6. 1985, p. 11 .
(6) OJ  No  L   185, 4. 7. 1987, p. 68 .                               (")  OJ  No  L 53, 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 55.
0 OJ    No  L   167, 25 . 7 . 1972, p. 9 .                             H    OJ  No  L 192, 11 , 7. 1987, p. 11 .
(8) OJ  No  L   176, 1 . 7. 1987, p. 30 .                              H    OJ  No  L 209, 31 . 7. 1987, p. 43.
0 OJ    No  L   183, 3 . 7. 1987, p. 14.                               H    OJ  No  L 75, 30 . 3 . 1971 , p. 16.
 10) OJ No    L  183 , 3 . 7 . 1987, p. 16 .                           (15) OJ  No  L 170 , 29 . 6. 1984, p. 46.
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basis of the weight of exported seeds ; whereas this weight        Whereas, however, pursuant to Article 2a of Regulation
must be adjusted to take account of any differences                (EEC) No 1569/72, the monetary disparity for the marke­
between the percentages of moisture and impurities found           ting years 1984/85 to 1986/87 will be calculated by a
to exist and those used to define the standard quality for         method which takes into account a coefficient applied to
which the target price is fixed ; whereas, when this adjust­       the conversion rate resulting from the central rate ;
ment is being made, the weight of the exported seeds               whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 91 /87 (4) fixed
must be increased by the amount of the difference                  the coefficient ;
between the actual moisture and impurities content and
that used to define the standard quality if the former is
                                                                   Whereas pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
lower than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the       1569/72 forward differential amounts are to be deter­
weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the                mined where the forward exchange rate for one or more
same amount :
                                                                   currencies differs from the spot rate by at least a given
                                                                   percentage ; whereas this percentage has been fixed at 0,5
                                                                   by Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 ;
Whereas the standard quality referred to above was
defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1102/84 (');                                                      Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 specifies the spot
                                                                   and forward exchange rates and the period to be used for
                                                                    calculating the differential amounts ; whereas in cases
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/ EEC provides            where, for one or more months, quotations of forward
that the refund may be varied according to destination              exchange rates are not available, the rates adopted for the
where the world market situation or the specific require­           previous months or the following months, as the case may
ments of certain markets make this necessary ;                      be, must be used ;
                                                                    Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to the
Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 651 /71                    current situation of the oil-seeds market and to the rates
provides for the publication of the amount of the final             or prices of these products that, pursuant to Article 4 of
refund obtained from the conversion into each of the
national currencies of the amount of the refund in ECU
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 651 /71 , the amount of the refund in
                                                                    ECU and the amount of the final refund in each of the
plus or minus the differential amount ; whereas Article 1           national currencies must, in the case of colza and rape
of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 (2), as last              seed, be fixed in accordance with the Annex to this Regu­
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3891 /86 (3), defined the            lation ; whereas it is not necessary to fix a refund for
elements which determine the differential amounts ;
                                                                    sunflower seed ;
whereas these elements are equal to the incidence on the
target price or the refund of the coefficient derived from
the percentage referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
(EEC) No 1569/72 ; whereas, according to these provi­               in accordance with the opinion of the Management
sions, this percentage represents :                                 Committee for Oils and Fats,
(a) for those Member States whose currencies are main­
      tained as between themselves within a spread at any
     given moment of 2,25 % , the difference between :
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     — the conversion rate used under the common agri­
          cultural policy, and
     — the conversion rate resulting from the central rate,                                    Article 1
(b) for the other Member States, the difference between :
                                                                    1 . In the case of colza and rape seed, the amounts of
     — the relationship between the conversion rate used            the refund referred to in Article 4 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
          under the common agricultural policy for the              No 651 /71 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
          currency of the Member State concerned and the
          central rate of each of the currencies of the
          Member States referred to in (a), and                     2.    There shall be no refund on sunflower seed.
     — the spot market rate for the currency of the
          Member State in question in relation to each of
          the currencies of the Member States referred to in                                    Article 2
          (a), as recorded over a period to be determined ;
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August 1987.
(') OJ No L 113 , 28 . 4. 1984, p. 8 .
(2 OJ No L 170 , 29 . 6 . 1984, p. 41 .
(3) OJ No L 361 , 20 . 12. 1986, p. 27.                             (4) OJ No L 13 , 15 . 1 . 1987, p. 13.
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                        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                        States .
                        Done at Brussels, 31 July 1987.
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                           Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                               Vice-President
                                                                        ANNEX
                           to the Commission Regulation of 31 July 1987 fixing the export refunds on colza
                                                                    and rape seed
                                                                                                                            (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                                    Current (')     1st period (')   2nd period (')   3rd period (')   4th period (')   5th period (')
                                                        8                 9               10               11                12                1
1 . Gross refunds (ECU):
    — Spain                                            23,242            23,242           23,242           23,639            24,036           24,433
    — Portugal                                         28,002            28,002           28,002           28,399            28,796           29,193
    — other Member States                              23,500            23,500           23,500           23,897            24,294           24,691
2 . Final refunds :                                              l                                                   \
    Seeds harvested and exported from :         1                l                                  \                \
    —   Federal Republic of Germany (DM)               57,00             57,00            57,01            58,05             58,99            60,21
    —   Netherlands (Fl)                               63,34             63,34            63,34            64,49             65,56            66,89
    —   BLEU (Bfrs/ Lfrs)                           1 122,96          1 126,46         1 126,46         1 144,97         1 164,05          1 178,89
    —   France (FF)                                   170,43            170,43           170,20           172,74           175,71 .          179,30
    —   Denmark (Dkr)                                 203,29            203,29           203,29           206,77           210,25            212,14
    —   Ireland (£ Irl)                                18,943            18,943           18,940           19,242            19,572         - 19,831
    —   United Kingdom (£)                             13,576            13,576           13,576           13,836            14,097           14,245
    —   Italy (Lit)                                36113             36 111           35 993           36 747           37 381           37 791
    —   Greece (Dr)                                 2 349,11          2 326,26         2 299,19         2 336,34         2 387,29         2 374,82
    —   Spain (Pta)                                 3 478,33          3 478,33         3 453,29         3 503,64         3 564,86         3 577,43
    —   Portugal ( Esc)                             4 650,88          4 645,77     '   4 612,39         4 670,02         4 738,20         4 764,39
(') Subject to the amount to be deducted in accordance with the system of guaranteed maximum quantities.