CELEX: 31997R2130
Language: en
Date: 1997-10-29
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2130/97 of 29 October 1997 fixing the export refunds on olive oil

30.10.97              1 EN            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   L 296/23
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2130/97
                                                       of 29 October 1997
                                           fixing the export refunds on olive oil
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        refund and may be limited to certain countries of des­
                                                                      tination, quantities, qualities and presentations;
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
   Community,                                                        Whereas the second indent of Article 3 (3) of Regulation
                                                                     No 136/66/EEC provides that the refund on olive oil
                                                                     may be varied according to destination where the world
   Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of              market situation or the specific requirements of certain
   22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common                markets make this necessary;
  organization of the market in oils and fats ('), as last
  amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 58 1 /96 (2), and in               Whereas the refund must be fixed at least once every
   particular Article 3 (3) thereof,                                 month; whereas it may, if necessary, be altered in the
                                                                     intervening period;
  Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                      Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules to
  provides that, where prices within the Community are               the present situation on the market in olive oil and in
  higher than world market prices, the difference between            particular to olive oil prices within the Community and
  these prices may be covered by a refund when olive oil is          on the markets of third countries that the refund should
  exported to third countries;                                       be as set out in the Annex hereto;
                                                                    Whereas the representative market rates defined in
  Whereas the detailed rules for fixing and granting export         Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (*), as
  refunds on olive oil are contained in Commission Regu­            last amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (6), are used
  lation (EEC) No 616/72 (3), as last amended by Regulation         to convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 (EEC) No 2962/77 (4);
                                                                    and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                    conversion rates of the Member States' currencies;
 Whereas Article 3 (3) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC
                                                                    whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
 provides that the refund must be the same for the whole            tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
 Community;
                                                                    lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (J), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                    tion (EC) No 1482/96 (8);
 Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (4) of Regulation            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 No 136/66/EEC, the refund for olive oil must be fixed in           in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 the light of the existing situation and outlook in relation        Committee for Oils and Fats,
 to olive oil prices and availability on the Community
 market and olive oil prices on the world market; whereas,
 however, where the world market situation is such that
 the most favourable olive oil prices cannot be deter­              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 mined, account may be taken of the price of the main
 competing vegetable oils on the world market and the
difference recorded between that price and the price of
olive oil during a representative period; whereas the                                             Article 1
amount of the refund may not exceed the difference
between the price of olive oil in the Community and that           The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (2)
on the world market, adjusted, where appropriate, to take          (c) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC shall be as set out in
account of export costs for the products on the world              the Annex hereto.
market;
                                                                                                  Article 2
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (3) third indent,
point (b) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, it may be
decided that the refund shall be fixed by tender; whereas          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
the tendering procedure should cover the amount of the              1997 .
(')  OJ  172, 30 . 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.                            H    OJ  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(2)  OJ  L 206, 16. 8 . 1996, p. 11 .                              (6)  OJ  L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(3)  OJ  L 78 , 31 . 3 . 1972, p. 1 .                              0    OJ  L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
 4   OJ  L 348 , 30 . 12. 1977, p. 53 .                            (8)  OJ  L 188 , 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
          Done at Brussels, 29 October 1997.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                               ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 29 October 1997 fixing the export refunds on olive oil
                                                                                                         (ECU/100 kg)
                                 Product code                                     Amount of refund (')
                               1509 10 90 9100                                           15,50
                               1509 10 90 9900                                            0,00
                               1509 90 00 9100                                           14,50
                               1509 90 00 9900                                            0,00
                               1510 00 90 9100                                            0,00
                               1510 00 90 9900                                            0,00
         (') For destinations mentioned in Article 34 of amended Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87 (OJ L 351 , 14.
             12. 1987, p 1 ), as well as for exports to third countries.
         NB: The product codes and the footnotes are defined in amended Commission Regulation (EEC)
                No 3846/ 87.