CELEX: 31975R3101
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3101/75 of the Commission of 28 November 1975 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

29 . 11 . 75                           Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 309/27
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3101 /75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 28 November 1975
                                           fixing the export refund on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC
COMMUNITIES,                                                      provides that when the refund is being calculated
                                                                 account must be taken of prices ruling on the various
                                                                 Community markets which are representative from
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           the point of view of processing and exportation ; the
 Economic Community ;                                             most favourable quotations recorded on the various
                                                                 markets of importing third countries and Greece, and
                                                                 costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/                      market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
66/ EEC (') of 22 September 19 66 on the establish­              being fixed, account must also be taken of the level of
ment of a common organization of the market in oils              market prices within the Community for the oil seeds
and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                 referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
 1707/73 (2) ;                                                   66/EEC and the future trend of these prices ; whereas,
                                                                 furthermore, account should be taken of the economic
                                                                 aspect of the proposed exports and the situation in the
Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/                      Community regarding the supply of and demand for
66/ EEC (3) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and              these seeds ;
fats between the Community and Greece ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/                     Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
67/ EEC (4) of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on                  No 651 /71 (6) of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed
colza, rape and sunflower seeds, as last amended by              rules for the application of export refunds on oil seeds
Regulation (EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular the           provides that the amount of the refund must be calcu­
first sentence of Article 2 (3) thereof ;                        lated on the basis of the weight of exported seeds ;
                                                                 whereas this weight must be adjusted to take account
                                                                 of any differences between the percentages of mois­
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                     ture and impurities found to exist and those used to
Committee ;                                                      define the standard quality for which the target price
                                                                 is fixed ; whereas, when this adjustment is being
                                                                 made, the weight of the exported seeds must be
Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                   increased by the amount of the difference between the
provides that a refund may be granted on exports to              actual moisture and impurities content and that used
third countries of oil seeds harvested within            the     to define the standard quality if the former is lower
Community ; whereas the amount of this refund may                than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the
not exceed the difference between prices within the              weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the
Community and prices on the world market where                   same amount ;
the former are higher than the latter ; whereas Article
21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that, at
present, Article 28 of that Regulation applies only to
colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                                Whereas the standard quality referred to above is
                                                                 defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                 657/75 (7) of 4 March 1975 fixing the target prices and
Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/EEC                    basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the 1975/
provides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/                    1976 marketing year ;
66/ EEC and measures taken in application thereof
apply, subject to the provisions of the Agreement esta­
blishing an Association between the European                     Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/ EEC
Economic Community and Greece, to trade between
the Community and Greece ;
                                                                 provides that the refund may be varied according to
                                                                 destination where the world market situation or the
                                                                 specific requirements of certain markets make this
(>) OJ  No  172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.
(2) OJ  No  L 175, 29. 6. 1973, p. 5.                            necessary ;
(3) OJ  No  197, 29. 10. 1966, p. 3393/66.
(4) OJ  No  125, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2461 /67.                       (6) OJ No L 75, 30. 3 . 1971 , p. 16.
(5) OJ  No  L 264, 23. 11 . 1972, p. 1 .                         (7) OJ No L 72, 20. 3 . 1975, p. 3.
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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :                  are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                    ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
    relation to each other, at any given moment,
    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
    on their effective parity ;                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                                             Article 1
    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
    relation to the Community currencies referred to
    in the previous subparagraph ;                                     The refunds on the products referred to in Article 21
                                                                       of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC, exported to third coun­
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and                       tries and Greece, are hereby fixed as shown in the
criteria to the present situation on the market in oil                 Annex to this Regulation .
seeds, and in particular to quotations or prices for
these products within the Community and on the
markets of third countries and Greece , that the refund                                       Article 2
should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
to this Regulation for those products for which the                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December
marketing year has already begun ;                                      1975 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels , 28 November 1975 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                               Member of the Commission
                                                             ANNEX
                                 Refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 December 1975
                                                                                                         (u.aJlOO kg)
                    CCT
                   heading                               Description of goods                           Refund
                      No
               ex 12.01         Colza and rape seed, other than for sowing                               7-00
               ex 12.01         Sunflower seed , other than for sowing