CELEX: 31978R2552
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2552/78 of 31 October 1978 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

No L 307/26                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              1 . 11 . 78
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2552/78
                                                         of 31 October 1978
                                              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 136/66/EEC                     market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                       being fixed, account must also be taken of the level of
common organization of the market in oils and                         market prices within the Community for the oil seeds
fats (•), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                      referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
1419/78 (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 162/66/EEC                     Community regarding the supply of and demand for
of 27 October 1 966 on trade in oils and fats between                 these seeds ;
the Community and Greece (3),
Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/EEC                     Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza, rape and                  No 651 /71 of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed rules
sunflower seeds (4), as last amended by Regulation                    for the application of export refunds on oil seeds (6),
(EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular the first                     provides that the amount of the refund must be calcu­
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 was
                                                                      defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      1291 /78 of 6 June 1978 fixing the target prices and
Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/EEC                         basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the 1978/79
provides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/                        marketing year (7) ;
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
 0)   OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025/ 66 .
(-')  OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6 . 1978 , p. 8 .                            necessary ;
 (3)  OJ No  197, 29 . 10 . 1966, p. 3393/66 .
 (*)  OJ No  125, 26 . 6 . 1967, p. 2461 /67 .                        (6) OJ No L 75, 30 . 3 . 1971 , p. 16 .
 (-") OJ No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p . 1 .                            (7) OJ No L 160, 17. 6. 1978 , p. 1 .
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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :                are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                  ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
     relation to each other at any given moment within
     a band of 2.25 % , a rate of exchange based on
     their effective parity ;                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                                            Article 1
     of these currencies recorded for a given period in
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
     in the previous subparagraph ;                                  The refund 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, is 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
markets of third countries and Greece, that the refund                                      Article 2
should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
to this Regulation for those products for which the                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
marketing year has already begun ;                                   1978 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
                Done at Brussels, 31 October 1978 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                  Vice-President
                                                          ANNEX
                              Export refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 November 1978
                                                                                                       (u.a./100 kg)
                     CCT
                    heading                                Description                                Refund
                      No
                ex 12.01        Colza and rape seed, other than for sowing                            11.00
                ex 12.01        Sunflower seed, other than for sowing