CELEX: 31976R0137
Language: en
Date: 1976-01-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 137/76 of 22 January 1976 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 14/22                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                             23 . 1 . 76
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 137/76
                                                            of 22 January 1976
                                         fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas the situation with regard to international
 COMMUNITIES,                                                           trade or the specific requirements of certain markets
                                                                        may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given
                                                                        product according to the destination of that product ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                        Whereas sweet fresh oranges, fresh mandarins, fresh
                                                                        lemons and apples of the common quality standards
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           ' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra' Class and
  1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                        Class I hothouse grapes, almonds, shelled hazelnuts,
 tion of the market in fruit and vegetables ( l ), as last              and shelled walnuts may at present be exported in
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2482/75 (2), and in                     economically significant quantities ;
 particular Article 30 (4) thereof,
                                                                        Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                           refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 Committee,
                                                                        — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                             relation to each other, at any given moment,
 Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                           within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
 provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­                     on their effective parity ;
 ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­
 ence between prices in international trade and prices                  — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 in the Community for the products referred to in that                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 Article may be covered by an export refund ;                                of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
                                                                             relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                             in the previous subparagraph ;
 Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 2518 /69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general
 rules for granting export refunds on fruit and vegeta­                 Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
 bles and criteria for fixing the amount of such                        criteria to the present situation on the market of the
 refunds (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                         prospective development of this situation, and in parti­
 2455/72 (4), provides that, when refunds are being                     cular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegetables
 fixed, account must be taken of the current situation                  in the Community and in international trade that the
 or foreseeable developments with regard to prices and                  refund should be fixed as indicated below ;
 availabilities of fruit and vegetables on the Commu­
 nity market on the one hand and prices in interna­
 tional trade on the other ; whereas account must also                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 be taken of the costs indicated in (b) of that Article                 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 and of the economic aspects of the proposed exports ;                  ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
 No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market
are being determined account must be taken of the                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 prices which are most favourable from the exportation
 point of view ; whereas, when prices in international
trade are being determined, the prices and quotations
 referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
taken into account ;                                                                            Article 1
(')  OJ No   L  1 18 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .
(2 ) OJ No   L 254,    1 . 10 . 1975, p . 3 .
(3 ) OJ No   L 318 ,   18 . 12 . 1969 , p . 17 .                        1 . The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are
(■») OJ No   L 266,    25 . 11.1 972, p. 7 .                            hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex.
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2. The provisions of Article 6 ( 1 ) (b) of Commission          shelled walnuts, shelled hazelnuts and apples set out
Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 of 17 January 1975                   in the Annex.
laying down detailed rules for the application of
                                                                                       Article 2
export refunds in respect of agricultural products ( ! ), as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 281 8/75 (2), shall              This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 January
apply to exports of sweet oranges, mandarins, un­                1976.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 22 January 1976.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                      Member of the Commission
                i
(') OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 .
(*) OJ No L 280, 31 . 10 . 1975, p. 31 .
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                                                                     ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 22 January 1976 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                                    vegetables
                                                                                                                      ( u.a.1100 kg net)
                 CCT heading                                                                                                  Refund
                        No                                         Description of goods
           ex    08.02 A I             Sweet fresh oranges :
                                       — of the varieties Biondo Cor tune and Sanguigno Co­
                                           mune ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II )                                          4-40
                                       — of other varieties (' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II )                             6-60
           ex    08.02 B               Fresh mandarins ('Extra ' Class , Class I and Class II )                                 6-00
           ex    08.02 C               Fresh lemons (' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II )
                                       for export to :
                                       — Countries or States with a planned economy in cen­
                                           tral and eastern Europe                                                             2-50
                                       — Other destinations                                                                    1-44
           ex    U«. 04 A I            Table grapes , fresh , hothouse ' Extra ' Class and Class I                           16-00
           ex    08.05 A II            Shelled almonds other than bitter almonds                                               8-00
           ex    08.05 B               Walnuts unshelled                                                                     10-00
           ex    08.05 G               Shelled hazelnuts                                                                      8-00
           ex    08.06 A II            Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than
                                       cider apples :
                                       — for export to Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia,
                                           Malawi , Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya , Rwanda ,
                                           Burundi, Uganda, Somalia, Madagascar, Comore
                                           Islands, Mauritius, Sudan, Ethiopia, the French terri­
                                           tory of the Afars and Issas , the countries of the
                                            Arabian peninsula (') Iran and Iraq                                              10-00
                                       — for export to countries and territories of Africa other
                                           than those mentioned above and South Africa , Syria ,
                                           Jordan , countries with a planned economy in central
                                           and eastern Europe, Brazil , Venezuela, Peru , Panama,
                                           Iceland , Finland , Norway and Sweden                                              5-00
           (') For the purpose of this Regulation the ' countries of the Arabian peninsula ' are considered to be the following,
               including the territories attached thereto : Saudi Arabia , Bahrain , Qatar , Kuwait , rife Sultanate of Oman , United
               Arab Emirates ( Abu Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ummal-Quaiwain , Fujairah , Ras A1 Kaiman ), Yemen_Arab Repu­
                blic ( North Yemen ) and the People 's . Democratic Republic of Yemen ( South Yemen ).