CELEX: 31996R1685
Language: en
Date: 1996-08-28 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1685/96 of 28 August 1996 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

29 . 8 . 96          EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 219/ 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1685/96
                                                         of 28 August 1996
                     fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered
                                                                state
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          sucrose content and, accordingly, be fixed per 1 % of the
                                                                        said content;
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
   Community,                                                          Whereas the world market situation or the specific requi­
                                                                        rements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                 the refund for sugar according to destination;
   of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
   markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by                 Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may
   Commission Regulation (EC) No 1 599/96 (2), and in parti­           be fixed by other legal instruments;
   cular point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 19 (4)         Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 f), as
  thereof,
                                                                       amended by Regulation (EC) No 1380/95 (J, prohibits
  Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                    trade between the European Community and the Federal
  provides that the difference between quotations or prices            Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro); whereas
  on the world market for the products listed in Article 1             this prohibition does not apply in certain situations as
  ( 1 ) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those products           comprehensively listed in Articles 2, 4, 5 and 7 thereof
  within the Community may be covered by an export                     and in Council Regulation (EC) No 462/96 (8); whereas
  refund;                                                              account should be taken of this fact when fixing the
                                                                       refunds;
  Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that                    Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
  when refunds on white and raw sugar, undenatured and                 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (9), as last
  exported in its unaltered state, are being fixed account             amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (10), are used to
  must be taken of the situation on the Community and                  convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 world markets in sugar and in particular of the price and            and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
  cost factors set out in Article 17a of that Regulation;             conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
 whereas the same Article provides that the economic                  detailed rules on the application and determination of
 aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken into             these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
 account;
                                                                      (EEC) No 1068/93 ("), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
 Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect             No 1482/96 (12);
 of the standard quality; whereas the latter is defined in            Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks;
 Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9                whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
 April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar
 and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for                 Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
 calculating cif prices for sugar (3), as amended by Regula­          to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
 tion (EC) No 3290/94 (4); whereas, furthermore, this                 particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
 refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 17a (4)            Community and on the world market that the refund
 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ; whereas candy sugar is             should be as set out in the Annex hereto;
 defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2135/95 of 7               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 September 1995 laying down detailed rules of application
                                                                     in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 for the grant of export refunds in the sugar sector (*);            Committee for Sugar,
whereas the refund thus calculated for sugar containing
added flavouring or colouring matter must apply to their
                                                                     (6) OJ  No  L 102, 28 . 4. 1993, p. 14.
                                                                    O OJ     No  L 138, 21 . 6. 1995, p. 1 .
(>) OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                                (8) OJ   No  L 65, 15. 3. 1996, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 43.                                0 OJ     No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.                                  H OJ      No  L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
n OI No L 349. 31 . 12 . 1994. D . 105.                             (") OJ    No  L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
Is) OJ No L 214, 8. 9. 1995, p. 16.                                 H OJ      No  L 188 , 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
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            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                              Article 1
           The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No
            1785/81 , undenatured and exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed to the amounts
           shown in the Annex hereto.
                                                              Article 2
           This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 August 1996.
           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 28 August 1996.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                     Karel VAN MIERT
                                                                             Member of the Commission
                                                              ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 28 August 1996 fixing the export refunds on white sugar
                                       and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
                                        Product code                       Amount of refund (3)
                                                                            — ECU/ 100 kg —
                                      1701  11 90  100                          35,62     (')
                                      1701  11 90  910                          37,07     (')
                                      1701  11 90  950                                    (2)
                                      1701  12 90  100                          35,62     (')
                                      1701  12 90  910                          37,07     (')
                                      1701  12 90  950                                    0
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                     1701 91 00 000                              0,3872
                                                                           — ECU/ 100 kg —
                                     1701 99 10 100                             38,72
                                     1701 99 10 910                             40,52
                                     1701 99 10 950                             40,52
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —
                                     1701 99 90 100                              0,3872
                        (') 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 17a (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 .
                        (2) 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).
                        (3) Refunds on exports to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and
                            Montenegro) may be granted only where the conditions laid down in amended
                            Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 and Regulation (EC) No 462/96 are observed.