CELEX: 31983R1016
Language: en
Date: 1983-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1016/83 of 28 April 1983 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

29 . 4. 83                          Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 114/ 11
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1016/83
                                                    of 28 April 1983
                                   fixing the export refunds on fishery products
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 to vary the refund according to the destination of the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   products in question ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                           Whereas products of Community origin which are
                                                               landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports
                                                               situated outside the customs territory of the Commu­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  nity do not qualify for refunds ;
 3796/81    of 29 December 1981         on the common
 organization of the market in fishery products ('), and
 in particular the fourth subparagraph of Article 25 (2)       Whereas economically important quantities of frozen
thereof,                                                       whole mackerel, frozen fillets of mackerel, dried and
                                                               salted coalfish and mackerel, dried, salted or in brine,
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                  can be exported at the present time ;
 Committee,
                                                               Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
Whereas Article 25 of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81              No 686/78 of 6 April 1978 laying down additional
provides that, to the extent necessary to enable econo­        provisions as regards the granting of export refunds on
mically important exports of the products listed in            fishery products (3), for the purposes of the export
Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the         refund system, fishery products of Community origin
basis of prices for these products on the world market,        frozen and/or processed on board a vessel registered or
the difference between these prices and prices within
the Community may be covered by an export refund ;             recorded in a third country and flying the flag of a
                                                               third country shall be considered to be products which
                                                               are not of Community origin ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules
for granting export refunds on fishery products and            Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (2),            to the present market situation, and in particular to
provides that, when refunds are being fixed, account           prices for fishery products in the Community and on
must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­           the world market, that the refunds should be as set out
tion and the future trend with regard to prices and            in the Annex hereto :
availabilities of fishery products on the Community
market and prices on the world market on the other ;
whereas account must also be taken of the costs
                                                               Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
referred to in subparagraph (c) of that Article and of         refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
the economic significance of the proposed exports and
of the aims of the common organization of the market
                                                               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
in fishery products ;
                                                                    relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                    a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76                     their central rate,
provides that, when prices on the Community market
are being determined, account must be taken of the             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
ruling prices which are most favourable from the                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on                 these currencies recorded for a given period in
the world market are being determined, account must                 relation to the Community currencies referred to
be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that             in the previous indent ;
Article ;
Whereas the world market situation or the specific             Whereas the Management Committee for Fishery
requirements of certain markets may make it necessary          Products has not delivered an opinion within the time
                                                               limit set by its chairman,
(') OJ No L 379, 31 . 12. 1981 , p. 1 .
P OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 48 .                           (3) OJ No L 93, 7. 4. 1978, p. 12.
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           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                    Article 1
           The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 shall be as
           set out in the Annex hereto.
                                                    Article 2
           This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 May 1983 .
           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 28 April 1983 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                   Giorgios CONTOGEORGIS
                                                                 Member of the Commission
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                                                         ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 28 April 1983 fixing the export refunds on fishery
                                                         products
                                                                                                 (ECU/100 kg net)
                 CCT
               heading                                   Description                                  Refund
                  No
           03.01        Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen :
                        B. Saltwater fish :
                             I. Whole, headless or in pieces :
                                 o) Mackerel :
                                      1 . bb) Frozen :              (
                                               For exports to all destinations with the excep­
                                               tion  of Sweden, Norway, Faroe           Islands,
                                               Finland, Iceland and the USSR                            3,46
                                      2. bb) Frozen :
                                               For exports to all destinations with the excep­
                                               tion of Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands,
                                               Finland, Iceland and the USSR                            3,46
                            II . Fillets :
                                 b) Frozen :
                                     8 . Of mackerel :
                                          For exports to all destinations with the exception of
                                          Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland
                                          and the USSR                                                  2,52
           03.02        Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish, whether or not
                        cooked before or during the smoking process :
                        ex A. I. f) — Coalfish, dried and salted, whole, headless or in
                                           pieces :
                                           For exports to Puerto Rico, the People's Republic
                                           of the Congo, Zaire, Gabon, Cameroon, Angola,
                                           Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Windward and
                                           Leeward    Islands,   Panama,   Surinam    and    the
                                           Dominican Republic                                          13,36
                                      — Mackerel, dried, salted or in brine, whole, headless
                                           or in pieces :
                                           For exports to Jamaica, Trinidad and Windward
                                           and Leeward Islands                                          3,24