CELEX: 31973R1909
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1909/73 of the Commission of 16 July 1973 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

No L 196/8                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              17. 7 73 .
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1909/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 16 July 1973
                                        fixing the export refunds on fishery products
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  sary to vary the refund according to the destination
  COMMUNITIES,                                                    of the products in question ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­               Whereas products of Community origin which are
 pean Economic Community ;                                        landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­
                                                                  ated outside the customs territory of the Commu­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     nity do not qualify for refunds ;
 2142/70 (*) of 20 October 1970 on the common
 organization of the market in fishery products, as               Whereas economically important quantities of dried
 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 220/73 (2),                  and salted cod and coalfish can be exported at the
  and in particular the first sentence of Article 21 (4)          present time ;
  thereof ;
                                                                  Whereas it follows from applying the above­
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                     mentioned rules and criteria to the present situation
  Committee ;                                                     on the market and in particular to prices for fishery
                                                                  products in the Community and on the world market
 Whereas Article 21 of Regulation (EEC) 2142/70                   that the refund should be fixed as shown in the
 provides that, to the extent necessary to enable econ­           Annex ;
 omically important exports of the products listed                Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on            refunds should be calculated1 on the following basis :
 the basis of prices for these products on the world
 market, the difference between these prices and
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 prices within the Community may be covered by an
 export refund ;                                                      relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                      within a band of 2.25 °/o, at rate of exchange
 Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                     based1 on their effective parity ;
 165/71 (8) of 26 January 1971 laying down general                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on
 rules for granting export refunds on fishery pro­                    the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
 ducts and criteria for fixing the amount of such                     each of these currencies recorded for a given
refunds provides that when refunds are being fixed                    period, in relation to the Community currencies
 account must be taken on the one hand of the exist-;
                                                                      referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
 ing situation and the future trend with regard to
prices and availabilities of fishery products on the
 Community market and prices for fishery products                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
on the world market on the other ; whereas account                tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­
must also be taken of the costs referred to in (c) of             agement Committee for Fishery Products ;
that Article, of the economic significance of the pro­
posed exports and of the aims of the common organ­
ization of the market in fishery products ;                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 165/71
provides that, when prices on the Community mar­                                           Article 1
ket are being determined, account must be taken of
the ruling prices which are most favourable from
the exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices             The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of
on the world market are being determined, account                Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70 are hereby fixed at
must be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2             the amounts shown in the Annex.
of that Article ;
Whereas the world market situation or the specific                                        Article 2
requirements of certain markets may make it neces
(*) OJ No L 236, 27. 10. 1970, p . 5 .
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day fol­
(*) OJ No L 27, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 1 .                              lowing its publication in the Official Journal of the
(•) OJ No L 23, 29. 1 . 1971, p. 1 .                             European Communities.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 16 July 1973 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              The President
                                                                         François-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                       ANNEX
                                                                                            (u.a . / 100 kg net)
                CCT heading
                   No                                 Description of goods                          Refund
          03.02               Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish, whether or
                               not cooked before or during the smoking process :
                               ex Alb) Cod, dried and salted, whole, headless or in
                                          pieces :
                                          for exports to :
                                          — Brazil                                                   10.00
                                          — Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Windward
                                              and Leeward Islands                                     8.00
                               ex A I f) Coalfish, dried and salted, whole, headless or
                                          in pieces :
                                          for exports to :
                                          — Congo-Brazzaville, Zaire, Jamaica, Trini­
                                              dad, Barbados, Windward and Leeward Is­
                                              lands, Panama                                          15.00