CELEX: 31973R2378
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2378/73 of the Commission of 31 August 1973 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

1 . 9 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 245 /41
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 2378/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 31 August 1973
                                                fixing the export refund on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        count must be taken of prices ruling on the various
COMMUNITIES,                                                          Community markets which are representative from
                                                                      the point of view of processing and exportation ; the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    most favourable quotations recorded on the various
pean Economic Community ;                                             markets of importing third countries and Greece,
                                                                      and costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/                        market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
EEC (J ) of 22 September 1966 on the establishment                    being fixed, account must also be taken of the level
of a common organization of the market in oils and                    of market prices within the Community for the oil
fats, as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the                   seeds referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
Treaty (8) on the Accession of new Member States to                    66/EEC and the future trend of these prices ;
the European Economic Community and the Euro­                         whereas, furthermore, account should be taken of the
pean Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels                      economic aspect of the proposed exports and the
on 22 January 1972 ;
                                                                       situation in the Community regarding the supply of
                                                                       and demand for these seeds :
Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/66/
EEC (4) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and fats
between the Community and Greece ;
                                                                      Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation ( EEC)
                                                                      No 651 /71 (7) of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed
Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/                        rules for the application of export refunds on oil
EEC (5) of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza,                   seeds provides that the amount of the refund must
rape and sunflower seeds, as last amended by Regu­                    be calculated on the basis of the weight of exported
lation (EEC) No 2429/72 (6), and in particular the                     seeds ; whereas this weight must be adjusted to take
first sentence of Article 2 ( 3 ) thereof ;                            account of any differences between the percentages
                                                                       of moisture and impurities found to exist and those
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                          used to define the standard quality for which the tar­
 Committee ;                                                           get 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
provides that a refund may be granted on exports to                    the actual moisture and impurities content and that
 third countries of oil seeds harvested within the
                                                                       used to define the standard quality if the former is
 Community ; whereas the amount of this refund                         lower than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite
 may not exceed the difference between prices within                   applies, the weight of the exported seeds must be
 the Community and prices on the world market                          reduced by the same amount ;
 where the former are higher than the latter ; whereas
 Article 21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC pro­
vides that, at present, Article 28 of that Regulation
 applies only to colza , rape and sunflower seeds ;                    Whereas the standard quality referred to above is
Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/EEC pro­                     defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
vides that Article 28 .of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                     1360/73 ( 8) of 15 May 1973 fixing the target prices
and measures taken in application thereof apply, sub­                  and basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the
ject to the provisions of the Agreement establishing                   1973 / 74 marketing year ;
an Association between the European Economic
Community and Greece, to trade between the Com­
 munity and Greece ;
                                                                      Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC pro­
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC pro­                    vides that the refund may be varied according to des­
vides that when the refund is being calculated ac­                    tination where the world market situation or the spe­
(*)  OJ  No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.
 (•) OJ  No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
 (») OJ  No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
{*)  OJ  No 197, 29. 10. 1966, p. 3393/66.
 (8) OJ  No 125 , 26. 6. 1967, p. 2461/67.                            (7) OJ No L 75 , 30. 3 . 1971 , p. 16.
 (•) OJ  No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .                             (8) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p . 33 .
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cific requirements of certain markets make this neces­               fund should be fixed at the amounts shown in the
 sary ;                                                             Annex to this Regulation for those products for
                                                                     which the marketing year has already begun ;
Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                     tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­
                                                                     agement Committee for Oils and Fats ;
    relation to each other, at any given moment,
    within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange based
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                                       Article 1
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in             The refunds on the products referred to in Article 21
    relation to the Community currencies referred to                of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, exported to third
    in the previous subparagraph ;                                  countries and Greece, are hereby fixed as shown in
                                                                    the Annex to this Regulation.
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and cri­
teria to the present situation on the market in oil                                        Article 2
seeds, and in particular to quotations or prices for
these products within the Community and on the                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 Sep­
markets of third countries and Greece, that the re­                 tember 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 31 August 1973 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                          ANNEX
                                   Refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 September 1973
                                                                                                     (u.a . 1100 kg )
                CCT heading                                                                          Refund
                    No                               Description of goods
              ex 12.01           Colza and rape seed                                                    —
              ex 12.01           Sunflower seed, other than for sowing