CELEX: 31979R2541
Language: en
Date: 1979-11-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2541/79 of 16 November 1979 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 290/20                          Official Journal of the European Communities                            17 . 11 . 79
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2541/79
                                                  of 16 November 1979
                                 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   product according to the destination of that product ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas sweet fresh oranges, fresh mandarins, fresh
 Economic Community,                                            lemons and apples of the common quality standards
                                                                'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra' Class and
                                                                Class I hothouse grapes and open ground grapes,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   shelled almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                 may at present be exported in economically signifi­
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables (!), as last         cant quantities ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1301 /79 (2), and in
particular Article 30 (4) thereof,
                                                                Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
                                                                refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
Committee,                                                      — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                     relation to each other at any given moment within
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                    a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­              their effective parity ;
ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­       — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
ence between prices in international trade for the                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
products referred to in that Article and prices for the
                                                                     of these currencies recorded for a given period in
products within the Community may be covered by                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
an export refund ;                                                   in the previous indent ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general                  to the present market situation and to its future
rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit           trends, and in particular to quotations and prices for
and vegetables an^l criteria for fixing their amounts (}),      fruit and vegetables in the Community and in inter­
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4),                  national trade that the refunds should be as set out in
provides that when refunds are being fixed, account             the Annex hereto ;
must be taken of the exiating situation and future
trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit
and vegetables on the Community market on the one               Whereas the obligations under Article 6 ( 1 ) (b) of
hand and prices in international trade on the other ;            Commission Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 of 17
whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­           January 1975 laying down detailed rules for the appli­
cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic                cation of export refunds in respect of agricultural
aspects of the proposed exports ;                               products (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                2145/77 (6), may be relaxed in the case of exports to
                                                                non-member countries outside Europe ; whereas, in
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)              such a case, Article 1 1 (4) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market                  192/75 may be applied ;
are being determined account must be taken of the
prices which are most favourable from the exportation
point of view ; whereas, when prices in international           Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) fao 652/79 of 29
trade are being determined, the quotations and prices           March 1979 (7) laid down the coefficient for
referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be              expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
taken into account ;                                            ECU ;
Whereas the situation with regard to international              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
trade or the specific requirements of certain markets           are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
(!) OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(A OJ No L 162, 30. 6. 1979, p. 26.                             (5) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p. 17.                         (6) OJ No L 249, 30. 9. 1977, p. 12.
(<) OJ No L 266, 25. 11 . 1972, p. 7.                           (7) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                              apply to exports of sweet oranges, mandarins, lemons,
                                                           walnuts in shell, shelled hazelnuts, and apples as set
                      Article 1                            out in the Annex hereto.
1.   The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall
be as set out in the Annex hereto.                                                Article 2
2. The provisions of Articles 6 ( 1 ) (b) and 11 (4) (c)   This Regulation shall enter into force on           17
of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 shall             November 1979 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
             Done at Brussels, 16 November 1979 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                        Vice-President
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                                                                     ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 16 November 1979 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                                    vegetables
                                                                                                                    (ECU/100 kg net)
                 CCT heading                                                                                            Refund
                      No                                               Description
            ex 08.02 A I                Sweet fresh oranges :
                                        — Of varieties Biondo comune and Sanguigno comune
                                            ('Extra ' Class, Class I and Class II )                                      5.32
                                        — Of other varieties ('Extra ' Class, Class I and Class II)                      9.67 ,
            ex 08.02 B                  Fresh mandarins ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                            7.25
            ex 08.02 C                  Fresh lemons (' Extra ' Class , Class I and Class 11 )
                                        For export to :
                                        — countries or States with a planned economy in central
                                            or eastern Europe                                                             6.04
                                        — other destinations                                                              4.23
            ex 08.04 A I                Table grapes :
                                        — Fresh, open ground ('Extra' Class and Class I)                                  4.84
                                        — Fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I)                                   19.34
            ex 08.05 A 11               Shelled almonds, other than bitter almonds                                       9.67
            ex 08.05 B                  Unshelled walnuts                                                               12.09
            ex 08.05 G                  Shelled hazelnuts                                                               14.51
            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, Comoros, Mauritius,
                                            Sudan, Ethiopia, Jibuti, the countries of the Arabian
                                            peninsula ('), Iran and Iraq                                                13.50
                                        — 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, Bolivia , Brazil , Venezuela , Peru ,
                                            Panama, Ecuador, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden,
                                            Austria and the Faroe Islands                                                3.63
            •») 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, the Sultanate of Oman , United
                Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman , Umm al Qawain , Fujairah , Ras Al Khaimah), Yemen
                Arab Republic (North Yemen) and the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen ).