CELEX: 31979R0332
Language: en
Date: 1979-02-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 332/79 of 21 February 1979 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

No L 45/ 16                               Official Journal of the European Communities                              22 . 2 . 79
                                           COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 332/79
                                                           of 21 February 1979
                    fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural
                                                                    state
    THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas the world market situation or the specific
    COMMUNITIES,                                                           requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
                                                                           sary to vary the refund for sugar according to destina­
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  tion ;
    Economic Community,
    Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
    3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                      may be fixed by other legal means ;
    zation of the market in sugar ( J ), as last amended by
    Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular the                Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
    first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 19(2)               refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
    thereof,
                                                                          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
    Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                               relation to each other at any given moment within
    Committee,                                                                 a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                               their effective parity ;
    Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
    provides that the difference befween quotations or                    — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
    prices on the world market for the products listed in                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
    Article 1 ( l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those                  of these currencies recorded for a given period in
    products within the Community may be covered by                            relation to the Community currencies referred to
    an export refund ;                                                         in the previous subparagraph ;
   Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18                       Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
   June 1968 laying down general rules for granting                       whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
    export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regula­
    tion (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds
    on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in                   Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
    the natural state, are being fixed account must be                    present situation on the market in sugar and in parti­
    taken of the situation on the Community and world                     cular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
    markets in sugar and in particular of the price and                   Community and on the world market that the refund
                                                                          should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
   cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ;
   whereas the same Article provides that the economic                    to this Regulation ;
   aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken
    into account ;                                                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                          are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
   Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in                       ment Committee for Sugar,
    respect of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is
   defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
   431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard
   quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron­                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 i tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
   sugar (5) ;
   Whereas, furthermore, this refund should be fixed in                                            Article 1
   accordance with Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 i 766/68 ; whereas candy sugar is defined in Commis­                     The refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a)
   sion Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on                     of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, undenatured and
   detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (6),               exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed at the
   as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1467/77 (7) ;                        amounts shown in the Annex .
   (>) OJ  No   L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
;  (2) OJ  No  L   170, 27. 6. 1978 , p. 1 .
^  (3) OJ  No  L   143 , 25. 6. 1968 , p. 6 .                                                      Article 2
>  («) OJ  No  L   167, 26 . 6 . 1976, p. 13 .
;  (5) OJ  No  L  89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .
,  (0) OJ  No  L  50, 4. 3 . 1970 , p. 1 .                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 February
'  (7) OJ   No L   162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6 .                               1979 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 21 February 1979 .
                                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                         Vice-President
                                                                          ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 21 February 1979 fixing the export refunds on white
                                        sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                         (u.a./100 kv)
                  CCT
                heading                                                    Description                                                   Refund
                  No
           17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                  A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar                                                          2000
                                   B. Raw sugar :                                                                                 l
                                       (a) Candy sugar                                                                                  20-76 (!)
                                       (b) Other raw sugar                                                                              17-00 (!)
          (') 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 5 ( 3) of Regulation ( EEC) No 766/68 .