CELEX: 31997R1703
Language: en
Date: 1997-08-29 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1703/97 of 29 August 1997 fixing the rates of refunds applicable to certain products from the sugar sector exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty

No L 239/34                 EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   30 . 8 . 97
                                            COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1703/97
                                                              of 29 August 1997
                          fixing the rates of refunds applicable to certain products from the sugar sector
                               exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               Whereas the commitments entered into with regard to
                                                                           refunds which may be granted for the export of agricul­
                                                                           tural products contained in goods not covered by Annex
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     II to the Treaty may be jeopardized by the fixing in
                                                                           advance of high refund rates; whereas it is therefore
 Community,
                                                                           necessary to take precautionary measures in such situa­
                                                                           tions without, however, preventing the conclusion of
                                                                           long-term contracts; whereas the fixing of a specific
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                      refund rate for the advance fixing of refunds is a measure
 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                        which enables these various objectives to be met;
 market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
 No 1599/96 (2) and in particular Article 17 (5) (a) and ( 15),
                                                                          Whereas Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1222/94
                                                                           provides that in the absence of the proof referred to in
                                                                          Article 4 (5) (a) of that Regulation, a reduced rate of export
 Whereas Article 17 ( 1 ) and (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                   refund has to be fixed, taking account of the amount of
 1785/81 provides that the differences between the prices                  the production refund applicable, pursuant to Council
 in international trade for the products listed in Article 1               Regulation (EEC) No 101 0/86 (5), as last amended by
 ( 1 ) (a), (c), (d), (f), (g) and (h) of that Regulation and prices       Commission Regulation (EC) No 11 26/96 (6), for the basic
within the Community may be covered by an export                           product in question, used during the assumed period of
 refund where these products are exported in the form of                   manufacture of the goods;
goods listed in the Annex to that Regulation; whereas
 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1222/94 of 30 May 1994
 laying down common implementing rules for granting                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
export refunds on certain agricultural products exported                  in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the                      Committee for Sugar,
Treaty and the criteria for fixing the amount of such
 refunds (3) as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
 1341 /97 (4) specifies the products for which a rate of
refund should be fixed, to be applied where these
products are exported in the form of goods listed in
Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ;
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in accordance with Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation
(EC) No 1222/94, the rate of the refund per 100 kilo­
grams for each of the basic products in question must be                                             Article 1
fixed for each month;
                                                                          The rates of the refunds applicable to the basic products
Whereas Article 17 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
                                                                          appearing in Annex A to Regulation (EC) No 1222/94
                                                                          and listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) and (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
and Article 11 of the Agreement on Agriculture                            1785/81 , exported in the form of goods listed in Annex I
concluded under the Uruguay Round lay down that the                       to Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 , are fixed as shown in
export refund for a product contained in a good may not                   the Annex hereto .
exceed the refund applicable to that product when
exported without further processing;
                                                                                                     Article 2
Whereas the refunds fixed under this Regulation may be
fixed in advance; whereas the market situation over the
next few months cannot be established at the moment;
                                                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
                                                                          1997 .
(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
 2) OJ No L 206, 16. 8 . 1996, p. 43.
(3) OJ No L 136, 31 . 5. 1994, p. 5.                                      o OJ No L 94, 9. 4. 1986, p. 9.
H OJ No L 184, 12. 7. 1997, p. 12.                                        (') OJ No L 150, 25. 6. 1996, p. 3.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 29 August 1997.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Ritt BJERREGAARD
                                                               Member of the Commission
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                                                                    ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 29 August 1997 fixing the rates of the refunds
           applicable to certain products in the sugar sector exported in the form of goods not covered by
                                                          Annex II to the Treaty
                                                                                         Rate of refund in ECU/ 1 00 kg
                                       Product                                      In case of
                                                                                 advance fixing                         Other
                                                                                   of refunds
           White sugar:
           — pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)                           3,33                             3,33
                No 1222/94
           — in all other cases                                                       37,40                             37,40
           Raw sugar:
          — pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)                            3,06                             3,06
                No 1222/94
           — in all other cases                                                       34,40                             34,40
           Syrups of beet sugar or cane sugar, other than the
           syrups obtained by dissolving white or raw sugar in
           the solid state, containing, in the dry state, 85 % or
           more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar
           expressed as sucrose):
          — pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)                     3,33 (4) x S (')                  3,33 (4) x S (')
                No 1222/94                                                             100                               100
          — in all other cases                                                  37,40 (4) x S (')                 37,40 (4) x S (')
                                                                                       100                               100
           For syrups obtained by dissolving white or raw sugar            the rate fixed above for 100 kg of white or raw sugar
          in the solid state, whether or not the dissolving is             used for the dissolution
          followed by inversion
          Molasses                                                                      —                                —
           Isoglucose (2):
          — pursuant to Article 4 (5) (b) of Regulation (EC)                           3,33 (3)                          3,33 (3)
                No 1222/94
          — in all other cases                                                        37,40 (3)                        37,40 0
          (') 'S represents in 100 kilograms of syrup
              — the sucrose content (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) of the syrup in question, where the latter is not less
                   than 98 % pure,
              — the extractable sugar content of the syrup in question, where the latter is not less than 85 % , but less than 98 % pure.
          (2) Products obtained by isomerization of glucose, which have a content by weight in the dry state of at least 41 % fructose
              and of which the total content by weight in the dry state of polysaccharides and oligosaccharides, including the di- or
              trisaccharides content, does not exceed 8,5 % .
          (3) Amount of refund per 100 kilograms of dry matter.
          (4) The basic amount is not applicable to the product defined under point 2 of the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC)
              No 3513/92 (OJ No L 355, 5. 12. 1992, p. 12).