CELEX: 31987R0489
Language: en
Date: 1987-02-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 489/87 of 18 February 1987 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

19 . 2. 87                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 50/5
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 489/87
                                                       of 18 February 1987
                   fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural
                                                                state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           this refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 5
                                                                      (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 ; whereas candy sugar
                                                                      is defined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 2 March 1970 on detailed rules for granting export
Economic Community,                                                   refunds on sugar (*), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      1467/77 Q ; whereas the refund thus calculated for aroma­
                                                                      tized sugars or for sugars with colouring added must apply
                                                                      to their sucrose content and, accordingly, be fixed per
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                    1 % of the said content ;
Portugal,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                  Whereas the world market situation or the specific requi­
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                     rements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary
markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­           the refund for sugar according to destination ;
tion (EEC) No 229/87 (2), and in particular point (a) of the
first subparagraph of Article 19 (4) thereof,
                                                                      Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may
                                                                      be fixed by other legal instruments ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                     Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
provides that the difference between quotations or prices             refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
on the world market for the products listed in Article 1
(1 ) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those products
within the Community may be covered by an export                      — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
refund ;                                                                  tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                          of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
                                                                          rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18 June                     the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
1968 laying down general rules for granting export                        tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (8),
refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds on white and               — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
raw sugar, undenatured and exported in the natural state,                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
are being fixed account must be taken of the situation on                 these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
the Community and world markets in sugar and in parti­                    tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
cular of the price and cost factors set out in Article 3 of               previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
that Regulation ; whereas the same Article provides that
the economic aspect of the proposed exports should also
be taken into account ;
                                                                      Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
                                                                      whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect
of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is defined in
Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9
                                                                      Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar             to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for                  particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
calculating cif prices for sugar (*) ; whereas, furthermore,          Community and on the world market that the refund
                                                                      should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;
(') OJ   No  L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
0   OJ   No  L 25, 28. 1 . 1987, p. 1 .
0   OJ   No  L 143, 25. 6. 1968, p. 6.                                0 OJ No L 50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 .
(♦) OJ   No  L 167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13.                               0 OJ No L 162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6.
0   OJ   No  L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.                                 (') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
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whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are                           exported in the natural state, shall be as set out in the
in accordance with the opinion of the Management                                   Annex hereto.
Committee for Sugar,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                                                   Article 2
                                  Article 1
The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 February
(a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 undenatured and                                 1987.
                       This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                       States.
                       Done at Brussels, 18 February 1987.
                                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                                Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                                   Vice-President
                                                                           ANNEX
                       to the Commission Regulation of 18 February 1987 fixing the export refunds on white
                                              sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                                         (ECU)
                                                                                                                               Amount of refund
       CCT
      heading                                              Description                                                              per percentage point of
        No                                                                                                                            sucrose content and
                                                                                                                   per 100 kg        per 1 00 kg net of the
                                                                                                                                     product in question
17.01                  Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :                                                        \
                       A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar :                                            l
                            (I) White sugar :                                                                    \
                                (a) Candy sugar                                                                        43,68
                                (b) Other                                                                              42,07
                           (II) Flavoured or coloured sugar                                                                                 0,4368
                       B. Raw sugar :
                           II. Other :                                                                           ll
                                (a) Candy sugar                                                                      40,18 0)
                                (b) Sugar with added anti-caking agent                                                                       0,4368
                                (c) Raw sugar in immediate packing not exceeding 5 kilograms net
                                    of product                                                                       37,53 (>)
                                (d) Other raw sugar                                                                      0
 (') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 % , the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of
     Article 5 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68.
 (*) Fixing suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2689/85 (OJ No L 255, 26. 9. 1985, p. 12), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3251 /85 (OJ No
     L 309, 21 . 11 . 1985, p. 14).