CELEX: 31977R2981
Language: en
Date: 1977-12-31
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2981/77 of 30 December 1977 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

No L 351 /24                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              31 . 12. 77
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2981 /77
                                                           of 30 December 1977
                 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in
                                                             the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other
COMMUNITIES,                                                            products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                        No 3330/74 exported in the natural state must be
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  equal to one-hundredth of an amount which takes
 Economic Community,                                                    account, on the one hand, of the difference between
                                                                        the intervention price for white sugar for the Commu­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           nity area with the largest surplus for the month for
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                       which the basic amount is fixed and quotations or
zation of the market in sugar ( ! ), as last amended by                 prices for white sugar on the world market and, on
 Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2), and in particular the                 the other, of the need to establish a balance between
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 19 (2)               the use of Community basic products in the manufac­
thereof,                                                                ture of processed goods for export to third countries
                                                                        and the use of third country products brought in
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                           under inward processing arrangements ;
Committee,
                                                                        Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                       limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
 provides that the difference between quotations or                     (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 ;
 prices on the world market for the products listed in
Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those             Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 products within the Community may be covered by                        refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
an export refund ;                                                      — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                            relation to each other at any given moment within
Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                            a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for                        their effective parity ;
granting export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that the                   — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
export refund on 100 kilograms of the products listed                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is                    of these currencier recorded for a given period in
equal to the basic amount multiplied by the sucrose                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
content, including, where appropriate, other sugars                         in the previous subparagraph ;
expressed as sucrose ; whereas the sucrose content of                   Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed
 the product in question is determined in accordance                    every month ; whereas they may be altered in the
with the provisions of Article 13 of Commission Regu­
                                                                        intervening period ;
 lation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on detailed
 rules for granting export refunds on sugar (5), as                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1499/76 (6) ;                           are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                        ment Committee for Sugar,
Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68
 provides that the basic amount of the refund on
sorbose exported in the natural state must be equal to
the basic amount of the refund less one-hundredth of                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the production refund applicable pursuant to Council
 Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 of 18 June 1968 laying                                               Article 1
down general rules for the production refund on sugar
used in the chemical industry (6), as last amended by                   The refund to be granted on the products listed in
 Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77, to the products listed                    Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74,
 in Annex I to the last mentioned Regulation ;                          exported in the natural state, is hereby fixed as shown
                                                                        in the Annex to this Regulation .
(1)  OJ No  L   359, 31 .   12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2)  OJ No  L   303, 28 .   11 . 1977, p. 1 .
(J)  OJ No  L   143 , 25 .  6 . 1968 , p. 6.                                                     Article 2
(4)  OJ No  L   167, 26 .   6 . 1976, p. 13 .
(5 ) OJ No  L   50 , 4. 3 .  1970 , p. 1 .
(«)  OJ No  L   167, 26.    6 . 1976, p. 29 .                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
  7  OJ No  L   143 , 25 .  6 . 1968 , p. 1 .                            1978 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 30 December 1977.
                                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                      Vice-President
                                                                         ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 30 December 1977 fixing the export refunds on syrups
                               and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                      (u.iiJlOO kv)
                                                                                                                                  Basic amount
                   CCT
                                                                          Description                                             per percentage
                  heading
                    No                                                                                                           point of sucrose
                                                                                                                                    content (')
            17.02                   Other sugars in solid form ; sugar syrups, not containing added
                                    flavouring or colouring matter ; artificial honey, whether or not
                                    mixed with natural honey ; caramel :
                                         D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and
                                              maple) :
                                              ex II Other, excluding sorbose                                                         0-2043
                                         E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey                                0-2043
                                    ex F. Caramel made from sugar falling within heading No
                                              17.01                                                                                  0-2043
            21.07                   Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included :
                                    F. Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups :
                                         IV. Other (than lactose, glucose and isoglucose syrups)                                     0-2043
            (') The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure (Regulation (EEC) No 394/ 70 ). Sucrose content is deter­
                mined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation ( EEC) No 394/70 .