CELEX: 31997R1692
Language: en
Date: 1997-08-29 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1692/97 of 29 August 1997 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

No L 239/8          HENI                 Official Journal ot the European Communities                                   30 . 8 . 97
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1692/97
                                                        of 29 August 1997
                   fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in
                                                         the natural state
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        and quotations or prices for white sugar on the world
                                                                     market and, on the other, of the need to establish a
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              balance between the use of Community basic products in
 Community,
                                                                    the manufacture of processed goods for export to third
                                                                    countries and the use of third country products brought
                                                                     in under inward processing arrangements;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
 markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­        limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d)
 tion (EC) No 1 599/96 (2), and in particular Article 17 (5)        of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ;
 thereof,
                                                                    Whereas Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
                                                                    makes provision for setting refunds for export in the
Whereas Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                   natural state of products referred to in Article 1 (1 ) (f) and
 provides that the difference between quotations or prices          (g) and (h) of that Regulation; whereas the refund must be
 on the world market for the products listed in Article 1           fixed per 100 kilograms of dry matter, taking account of
(1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those products           the export refund for products falling within CN code
within the Community may be covered by an export                     1702 30 91 and for products referred to in Article 1 (1 ) (d)
 refund;
                                                                    of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 and of the economic
                                                                    aspects of the intended exports; whereas, in the case of
Whereas Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No                  the products referred to in the said Article (1 ) (f) and (g),
2135/95 of 7 September 1995 laying down detailed rules              the refund is to be granted only for products complying
of application for the grant of export refunds in the sugar         with the conditions in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
sector (3), provides that the export refund on 100 kilo­            2135/95; whereas, for the products referred to in Article 1
grams of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regula­      (1 ) (h), the refund shall be granted only for products
tion (EEC) No 1785/81 is equal to the basic amount                  complying with the conditions in Article 6 of Regulation
multiplied by the sucrose content, including, where                 (EC) No 2135/95;
appropriate, other sugars expressed as sucrose; whereas the
sucrose content of the product in question is determined            Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed every
in accordance with Article 3 of Commission Regulation               month; whereas they may be altered in the intervening
(EC) No 2135/95;                                                    period;
                                                                    Whereas application of these quotas results in fixing
Whereas Article 17 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               refunds for the products in question at the levels given in
provides that the basic amount of the refund on sorbose             the Annex to this Regulation;
exported in the natural state must be equal to the basic
amount of the refund less one-hundredth of the produc­              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
tion refund applicable, pursuant to Council Regulation              in accordance with the opinion of the Management
(EEC) No 1010/86 of 25 March 1986 laying down general               Committee for Sugar,
rules for the production refund on sugar used in the
chemical industry (4), last amended by Commission Regu­
lation (EC) No 1 1 26/96 (*), to the products listed in the
Annex to the last mentioned Regulation;                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other
                                                                                             Article 1
products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1785/81 exported in the natural state must be equal to
one-hundredth of an amount which takes account, on the              The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
one hand, of the difference between the intervention                (d), (f), (g) and (h) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ,
price for white sugar for the Community areas without               exported in the natural state, shall be set out in the Annex
                                                                    hereto.
deficit for the month for which the basic amount is fixed
(') OJ  No  L  177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                                                      Article 2
(2) OJ  No  L  206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 43.
(3) OJ  No  L  214, 8 . 9. 1995, p. 16.
(4) OJ  No  L 94, 9. 4. 1986, p. 9.                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
n   OJ  No  L  150, 25. 6. 1996, p. 3.                              1997.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 29 August 1997.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Ritt BJERREGAARD
                                                               Member of the Commission
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                                                            ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 29 August 1997 fixing the export refunds on syrups and
                            certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                     Product code                         Amount of refund
                                                                    — ECU/ 100 kg dry matter —
                                   1702 40 10 9100                            37,40    0
                                   1702 60 10 9000                            37,40    (2)
                                   1702 60 90 9200                            71,06    (<)
                                                                  — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                   1702 60 90 9800                             0,3740 (')
                                                                    — ECU/ 100 kg dry matter —
                                   1702 90 30 9000                            37,40   (2)
                                                                  — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                 ; 1702 90 60 9000                             0,3740 (')
                                  1702 90 71 9000                              0,3740 (')
                                  1702 90 99 9900                              0,3740 0 )(3)
                                                                   — ECU/ 1 00 kg dry matter —
                                 2106 90 30 9000                             37,40    (2)
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                 2106 90 59 9000                               0,3740 (')
                       (') The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure
                           (Regulation (EC) No 2135/95). Sucrose content is determined in accordance
                           with Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2135/95.
                       (2) Applicable only to products referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC)
                           No 2135/95.
                       (3) The basic amount is not applicable to the product defined under point 2 of the
                           Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3513/92 (OJ No L 355, 5. 12. 1992, p. 12).
                       (4) Applicable only to products defined under Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No
                           2135/95.
                       NB: The product codes and the footnotes are defined in amended
                              Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ No L 366, 24. 12.
                              1987, p. 1 ).