CELEX: 31973R2985
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2985/73 of the Commission of 31 October 1973 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

No L 303 / 64                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                               1 . 11 . 73
                                     REGULATION (EEC) No 2985/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                               of 31 October 1973
                                                      fixing the export refund on oil seeds
 THE COMMISSION* OF THE EUROPEAN                                             count must be taken of prices ruling on the various
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                               Community markets which are representative from
                                                                             the point of view of processing and exportation ; the
                                                                             most favourable quotations recorded on the various
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                           markets of importing third countries and Greece,
pean Economic Community ;                                                    and costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
                                                                             market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66 /                              being fixed , account must also be taken of the level
EEC (*) of 22 September 1966 on the establishment                            of market prices within the Community for the oil
of a common organization of the market in oils and                           seeds referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
fats, as last amended bv Regulation ' EEC ) No 1707                          66/EEC and the future trend of these prices ;
73 ( 2 ) ;                                                                   whereas, furthermore, account should be taken of the
                                                                             ecQnomic aspect of the proposed exports and the
                                                                             situation in the Community regarding the supply of
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 162 66                               and demand for these seeds :
EEC (3 ) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and fats
 between the Community and Greece ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67 , •                           Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation ( EEC)
                                                                             No 651 /71       of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed
 EEC ( 4 , of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza ,
 rape and sunflower seeds, as last amended by Regu­                          rules for the application of export refunds on oil
lation ' EEC , No 2429 72 ' 5 /s and in particular the                       seeds provides that the amount of the refund must
 first sentence of Article 2 G ) thereof :                                   be calculated on the basis of the weight of exported
                                                                             seeds ; whereas this weight must be adjusted to take
                                                                             account of any differences between the percentages
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                                of moisture and impurities found to exist and those
 Committee :
                                                                             used to define the standard quality for which the tar­
                                                                             get price is fixed ; whereas, when this adjustment is
 Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136 66 EEC                              being made^ the weight of the exported seeds must be
provides that a refund may be granted on exports to                          increased by the amount of the difference between
 third countries of oil seeds harvested within the                           the actual moisture and impurities content and that
 Community ; whereas the amount of this refund                               used to define the standard quality if the former is
 may not exceed the difference between prices within                         lower than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite
the Community and prices on the world market                                 applies, the weight of the exported seeds must be
 where the former are higher than the latter ; whereas                       reduced bv the same amount ;
 Article 21 of Regulation No 136 66 EEC pro­
vides that, at present, Article 28 of that Regulation
 applies only to colza, rape and sunflower seeds :
                                                                             Whereas the standard quality referred, to above is
Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162. 66 / EEC pro­                        defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No
vides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136 66/EEC                            1360/ 73 t of 15 May 1973 fixing the target prices
and measures taken in application thereof apply , sub­                       and basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the
ject to the provisions of the Agreement establishing                         1973 /74 marketing year ;
an Association between the European Economic
Community and Greece, to trade between the Com­
munity and Greece :
                                                                             NX'hereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC pro­
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC pro­                           vides that the refund may be varied according to des­
vides that when the refund is being calculated ac­                          tination where the world market situation or the spe­
(*)  OJ    No 172 . 30 . 9 . 1966 , p . 3025 66 .
(»)  OJ    No L 1?5 , 29 . 6 . 19?3 , p . 5 .
'•i  OJ    No 19" 29. 10. 1966 . p . 3393 66 .
")   OJ    No 125 . 26 . 6 . 1967. p . 2461 6".                             ! / OJ No I. 75 . 30. 3 . 1971 , p . 16 .
'»)  OJ    No I. 264 . 23 , 11 . 1972 , p . 1 .                               7 ; O J No I. 141 , 2H . s . 1973 , p . 33 .
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cific requirements of certain markets make this neces­               fund should be fixed at the amounts shown in the
sary ;                                                               Annex to this Regulation for those products for
                                                                     which the marketing year has already begun ;
Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
                                                                     tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                     agement Committee for Oils and Fats ;
     relation to each other, at any given moment,
     within a band of 2-25 0 o, a rate of exchange based
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                                        Article 1
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
     of these currencies recorded for a given period , in            The refunds on the products referred to in Article 21
     relation to the Community currencies referred to                of Regulation No 136 66/EEC, exported to third
     in the previous subparagraph ;                                  countries and Greece, are hereby fixed as shown in
                                                                     the Annex to this Regulation .
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and cri­
teria to the present situation on the market in oil                                        Artie e 2
seeds, and in particular to quotations or prices for
these products within the Community and on the                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 Novem­
markets of third countries and Greece, that the re­                  ber 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 31 October 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                                   Refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 November 1973
                                                                                                      u.a . 100 kg *
                 CCT heading
                     No                                Inscription of poods                           Refund
               ex 1 2.0 J        Colza and rape seed , other than for sowing                            —
               ex 12.01          Sunflower seed , other than for sowing