CELEX: 31993R0345
Language: en
Date: 1993-02-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 345/93 of 16 February 1993 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 40/ 12                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                17. 2. 93
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 345/93
                                                      of 16 February 1993
                                     fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1432/92 (*), as last
                                                                     amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3534/92 f5), prohibits
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                trade between the Community and the Republics of
Economic Community,                                                  Serbia and Montenegro ; whereas this prohibition does
                                                                     not apply to certain situations as given in the limitative
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  enumeration laid down in Articles 2 and 3 ; whereas this
Portugal,                                                           should be taken into account when refunds are fixed ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                     1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 Q are used to
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by              convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
Regulation (EEC) No 1754/92 (2), and in particular Article          and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
30 (4) thereof,                                                     conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
                                                                    whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                   tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­             lation (EEC) No 3819/92 (8);
ically significant quantities to be exported, the difference
between prices in international trade for the products              Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules to
referred to in that Article and prices for the products             the present market situation and to its future trends, and
within the Community may be covered by an export                    in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and
refund ;                                                            vegetables in the Community and in international trade
                                                                    that the refunds should be as set out in the Annex
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                    hereto ;
2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general rules
for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit and                Whereas under the Act of Accession a phased transitional
vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3), as            arrangement was introduced in respect of Portugal ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4), provides               Whereas, from the beginning of the second transitional
that when refunds are being fixed, account must be taken            stage on 1 January 1991 , it has been necessary, under
of the existing situation and future trends with regard to         Article 255 of the Act of Accession, in fixing the refunds
prices and availabilities of fruit and vegetables on the            for Portugal, to take account of the difference in prices
Community market on the one hand and prices in inter­              economically justified for each of the products
national trade on the other ; whereas account must also be         concerned ;
taken of the costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of
the economic aspects of the proposed exports ;                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                   in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No               Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
2518/69, when prices on the Community market are
being determined account must be taken of the prices
which are most favourable from the exportation point of
view ; whereas, when prices in international trade are             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
being determined, the quotations and prices referred to in
paragraph 2 of that Article must be taken into account ;                                        Article 1
Whereas the situation with regard to international trade or        Export refunds in the fruit and vegetables sector shall be
the specific requirements of certain markets may make it           fixed at the amounts specified in the Annex to this Regu­
necessary to vary the refund for a given product according         lation, in column I for Portugal and in column II for the
to the destination of that product ;                               other Member States.
Whereas tomatoes, fresh lemons, fresh sweet oranges and
apples of the common quality standards 'Extra' Class,                                           Article 2
Class I and Class II, almonds and hazelnuts, and
unshelled walnuts may at present be exported in econo­             This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 February
mically significant quantities ;                                    1993 .
(') OJ  No  L  118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                            0    OJ No  L 151 , 3. 6. 1992, p. 4.
O   OJ  No  L  180, 1 . 7. 1992, p. 23.                            («)  OJ No  L 358,  8. 12. 1992, p. 16.
0   OJ  No  L  318, 18. 12. 1969, p. 17.                           f)   OJ No  L 387,  31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No  L  266, 25. 11 . 1972, p. 7.                           (8)  OJ No L  387,  31 . 12. 1992, p. 17.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 16 February 1993.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Rene STEICHEN
                                                             Member of the Commission
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                                                                             ANNEX
                      to the Commission Regulation of 16 February 1993 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                                            vegetables
                                                            (ECU/100 kg net)                                                                   (ECU/100 kg netJ
                                                Amounts of refunds (2)                                                            Amounts of refunds (2)
                       Destination                                                                          Destination
    Product code                                                                         Product code
                       of refund (')                         Other Member                                   of refund (')                       Other Member
                                            Portugal (I)        States (II)                                                    Portugal (I)         States (II)
0702 00 10100               04                   1,19              4,50               0806 10 11 900             —                 —                   —
0702 00 10 900              —                    —                 —                  0806 10 15 200             04                —                   —
0702 00 90 100              04                   1,19              4,50               0806 10 15 900             —                 —                   —
0702 00 90 900              —                    —                 —                  0806 10 19 200             04                —                   —
080212 90 000               04                   9,67              9,67               0806 10 19 900            —                  —                   —
0802 21 00 000              04                 1 1 ,30            11 ,30              0808 10 31 100            —                  —                   —
0802 22 00 000              04                 21,80             21,80                0808 10 31 910            02                4,27                 8,00
0802 31 00 000              04                 14,00              14,00               0808 10 31 990            —                  —                   —
080510 11 200               01                   7,24             ll1,00              0808 10 33 100            —                  —                   —
080510 11 900               —                    —                 —                  0808 10 33 910            02                4,27                 8,00
080510 15 200               01                   7,24             11,00               0808 10 33 990            —                  —                   —
0805 10 15 900              —                    —                 —                  0808 10 39 100            —                  —                   —
080510 19 200               01                   7,24             11,00               0808 10 39 910            02                4,27                 8,00
080510 19 900               —                    —                 —                  0808 10 39 990            —                 —                    —
080510 21 200               01                   7,24             11,00               0808 10 51 100            —                 —                    —
08051021 900                —                    —                 —
                                                                                      0808 10 51 910            02                4,27                 8,00
0805 10 25 200              01                   7,24            11,00                0808 10 51 990            —                 —                    —
080510 25 900               —                    —                 —
                                                                                      0808 10 53 100            —                 —                    —
0805 10 29 200              01                   7,24            11,00
                                                                                      0808 10 53 910            02                4,27                 8,00
080510 29 900               —                    —                 —
                                                                                      0808 10 53 990            —                 —                    —
080510 31 200               01                  7,24             11,00
                                                                                      0808 10 59 100            —                 —                    —
080510 31 900               —                    —                 —
                                                                                      0808 10 59 910            02                4,27                 8,00
080510 35 200               01                  7,24             11,00
                                                                                      0808 10 59 990            —                 —                    —
0805 10 35 900              —                    —                 —
                                                                                      0808 10 81 100            —                 —                    —
080510 39 200               01                  7,24             11,00
080510 39 900               —                    —                 —                  0808 10 81 910            02                4,27                 8,00
                                                                                      0808 10 81 990            —                 —                    —
080510 41 200               01                  7,24             11,00
                                                                                      0808 10 83 100            —                 —                    —
080510 41 900               —                    —                 —
0805 10 45 200              01                  7,24             11,00                0808 10 83 910            02                4,27                 8,00
080510 45 900               —                    —                 —                  0808 10 83 990            —                 —                    —
080510 49 200               01                  7,24             11,00                0808 10 89 100            —                 —                    —
080510 49900                —                    —                 —                  0808 10 89 910            02                4,27                 8,00
0805 20 50 100              —                    —                 —                  0808 10 89 990            —                 —                    —
0805 20 50 900              —                    —                 —                  0809 30 10 100            03                —                    —
0805 30 10 100              04                  5,92             13,50                0809 30 10 900            03                —                    —
0805 30 10 900              —                    —                 —                  0809 30 90 100            03                —                    —
080610 11 200               04                   —                 —                  0809 30 90 900            —                 —                    —
(') The destinations are as follows :
    01 Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Greenland, Norway, Iceland, Malta, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Hungary, Romania,
        Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
        Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
    02 Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Austria, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Malta, Syria, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Hungary,
        Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan,
       Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela,
        Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, the countries and territories of Africa other than South Africa, countries of the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia,
        Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm, al Qaiwain, Fujairah and Ras al Khaimah), Kuwait,
       Yemen), Iran and Jordan,
    03 all destinations excluding Switzerland and Austria,
    04 all destinations.
(2) Refunds for exports to the Republics of Serbia and Montenegro may only be granted for humanitarian aid supplied by charitable organizations fulfilling
    the conditions laid down in Article 2 (a) and Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1432/92.