CELEX: 31981R3256
Language: en
Date: 1981-11-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3256/81 of 13 November 1981 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 327/22                              Official Journal of the European Communities                               14. 11 . 81
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3256/81
                                                     of 13 November 1981
                                  fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the situation with regard to international
COMMUNITIES,                                                       trade or the specific requirements of certain markets
                                                                   may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given
                                                                   product according to the destination of that product ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                   Whereas tomatoes, sweet fresh oranges, fresh manda­
                                                                   rins, fresh lemons and apples of the common quality
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      standards 'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra'
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                 Class and Class I hothouse grapes and open ground
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                 grapes, shelled almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1116/81 (2), and in                 walnuts may at present be exported in economically
particular Article 30 (4) thereof,                                 significant quantities ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Committee,                                                         refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­                 relation to each other at any given moment within
ically significant quantities to be exported, the dif­                  a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
ference between prices in international trade for the                   their effective parity,
products referred to in that Article and prices for the
products within the Community may be covered by an                 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
export refund ;                                                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
                                                                        these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                        relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                        in the previous indent ;
2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general
rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit
and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3),          Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4),                     to the present market situation and to its future trends,
provides that when refunds are being fixed, account                and in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and
must be taken of the existing situation and future                 vegetables in the Community and in international
trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit           trade that the refunds should be as set out in the
and vegetables on the Community market on the one                  Annex hereto ;
hand and prices in international trade on the other ;
whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­
cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic aspects           Whereas the obligations under Article 10 ( 1 ) (b) of
of the proposed exports ;                                          Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 of 29
                                                                   November 1979 laying down common detailed rules
                                                                   for the application of the system of export refunds on
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)                 agricultural products (*), as last amended by Regulation
No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market                    (EEC) No 3476/80 (6), may be relaxed in the case of
are being determined account must be taken of the                  exports to non-member countries outside Europe ;
prices which are most favourable from the exportation              whereas, in such a case, Article 23 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation
point of view ; whereas, when prices in international              (EEC) No 2730/79 may be ' applied ;
trade are being determined, the quotations and prices
referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
taken into account ;                                               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                   are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                   Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
(') OJ No  L  118, 20.  5. 1972, p. 1 .
0   OJ No  L  118, 30.  4. 1981 , p. 1 .
O   OJ No  L  318, 18 . 12. 1969, p. 17.                           0 OJ No L 317, 12. 12. 1979, p. 1 .
(4  OJ No  L  266, 25.  11 . 1972, p. 7.                           (6) OJ No L 363, 31 . 12. 1980, p. 71 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                               table grapes of open ground, walnuts in shell, shelled
                                                            hazelnuts, and apples as set out in the Annex hereto.
                      Article 1
1.   The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall
be as set out in the Annex hereto.                                                 Article 2
2. The provisions of Articles 10 ( 1 ) (b) and 23 ( 1 ) (c)
of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 shall             This Regulation shall enter into force on             14
apply to exports of sweet oranges, mandarins, lemons,       November 1981 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 13 November 1981 .
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                        Poul DALSAGER
                                                                 Member of the Commission
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                                                            ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 13 November 1981 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                          vegetables
                                                                                                    (ECU/100 kg net)
                  CCT
                heading                                      Description                                 Refund
                   No
          ex 07.01 M           Tomatoes ('Extrá' Class, Class I and Class II)                              4-50
          ex 08.02 A I         Sweet fresh oranges :
                               — Of varieties Biondo comune and Sanguigno comune ('Extra'
                                   Class, Class I and Class II)                                            5-32
                               — Of other varieties ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                  9-67
          ex 08.02 B           Fresh mandarins ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                       7-25
          ex 08.02 C           Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)
                               For export to :
                               — Countries or States with a planned economy in central or
                                   eastern Europe                                                          6-04 (')
                               — Other destinations                                                        4-23
          ex 08.04 A I         Table grapes :
                               — Fresh, open ground ('Extra' Class and Class I)                            7-00
                               — Fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I)                              19-34
          ex 08.05 A II        Shelled almonds, other than bitter almonds                                  9-67
          ex 08.05 B           Unshelled walnuts                                                          14-00
          ex 08.05 G           Shelled hazelnuts                                                          14-51
          ex 08.06 A II        Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than cider apples
                               For export to :
                               — Botswana, Lésotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique,
                                   Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Somalia,
                                   Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Sudan , Ethiopia, Jibuti, the
                                   countries of the Arabian peninsula (2), Iran and Iraq                  12-00
                               — Countries     and    territories  of    Africa other  than   those
                                   mentioned above and South Africa, Syria, Jordan, countries
                                   with a planned economy in central and eastern Europe,
                                   Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Iceland,
                                   Finland, Norway, Sweden, Austria and the Faraoe Islands                 3-63
          (') For export to Poland for which the custom export formalities have been completed on 31
              December 1981 at the latest, the export refund has been fixed at 12-04 ECU/ 100 kg net.
          (2) For the purpose of this Regulation the 'countries of the Arabian peninsula' are considered to be
              the following, including the territories attached thereto : Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the
              Sultanate of Oman, United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Qawain,
              Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah), Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) and the People's Democratic
              Republic of Yemen (South Yemen).