CELEX: 31973R1949
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1949/73 of the Commission of 19 July 1973 fixing the refunds applicable to cereals and wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

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                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1949/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 19 July 1973
               fixing the refunds applicable to cereals and wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   being calculated, account must be taken of the quanti­
COMMUNITIES,                                                     ties of cereals required for their manufacture ; whereas
                                                                 these quantities were fixed in Regulation No 162/
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            67/EEC (5), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
Economic Community ;                                             1607/71 (6);
                                                                 Whereas the world market situation or the specific
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                      requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
67/EEC (!) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­               sary to vary the refund for certain products according
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the            to destination ;
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of
new Member States to the European Economic                       Whereas the refund must be fixed once a week ;
Community and the European Atomic Energy                         whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,
and in particular the first sentence of the fourth sub­          Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
paragraph of Article 1 6 (2) thereof ;                           refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Committee ;                                                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                      within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Whereas Article 16 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC                        on their effective parity ;
provides that the difference between 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 of that Regulation and prices for those                     of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
products in the Community may be covered by an                        relation to the Community currencies referred to
export refund ;                                                       in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation No 139/                  Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
67/EEC (4) of 21 June 1967 laying down general rules             criteria to the present situation on the market in
for granting export refunds on cereals and criteria for          cereals and in particular to quotations or prices for
fixing the amount of such refunds provides that when             these products within the Community and on the
 refunds are being fixed account must be taken ofthe             world market that the refund should be fixed at the
existing situation and the future trend with regard to           amounts shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
 prices and availabilities of cereals on the Community
 market on the one hand and prices for cereals and               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 cereal products on the world market on the other ;              are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                  ment Committee for Cereals :
whereas the same article provides that it is also impor­
 tant to ensure equilibrium and the natural develop­
 ment of prices and trade on cereal markets and,
 furthermore, to take into account the economic aspect            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 of the proposed exports and the need to avoid distur­
 bances on the Community market ;
                                                                                          Article 1
 Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 139/67/EEC
 defines the specific criteria to be taken into account           The refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (a), (b)
 when the refund on cereals is being calculated ;                 and (c) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC, exported in the
                                                                  natural state, are hereby fixed as shown in the Annex
                                                                  to this Regulation .
 Whereas these specific criteria are defined, as far as
 wheat and rye flour, groats and meal are concerned, in
                                                                                          Article 2
 Article 4 of Regulation No 139/67/EEC ; whereas,
 furthermore, when the refund on these products is
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 July
                                                                  1973 .
 (>) OJ  No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
 (2) OJ  No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
 (3) OJ  No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5.                             (5) OJ No 128 , 27. 6. 1967, p . 2574/67.
 (4) OJ  No 125, 26 . 6. 1967, p. 2453/67.                        (') OJ No L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 16.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 19 July 1973 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                               Member of the Commission
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                                                                    ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 19 July 1973 fixing the refunds applicable to cereals and
                                         certain categories of wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                                                                                                            u.c./t)
          CCT heading
                No                                            Description of products                                 Refund
              10.01 A             Common wheat (1), and meslin :
                                  For exports to :
                                  — Senegal, Cameroon, Gabon, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast and
                                      Chad                                                                            25.00
                                  — Other third countries
          " 10.01 B               Durum wheat
              10.02               Rye 0
              10.03               Barley
              10.04               Oats
            > 10.05 B             Maize (other than hybrid maize for sowing)
              10.07 C             Grain sorghum
        ex 11.01 A                Wheat flour (2) :
                                  — of an ash content of 0 to 520
                                  — of an ash content of 521 to 600
                                  — of an ash content of 601 to 900
                                   — of an ash content of 901 to 1 100
                                   — of an ash content of 1 101 to 1 650
                                   — of an ash content of 1 651 to 1 900
        ex 11.01 B                 Rye flour :
                                   — of an ash content of 0 to 700
                                   — of an ash content of 701 to 1 150
                                   — of an ash content of 1 151 to 1 600
                                   — of an ash content of 1 601 to 2 000
               11.02 A I           Durum wheat groats and meal :
                                   — of an ash content of 0 to 950
                                   — of an ash content of 951 to 1 300
                                   — of an ash content of 1 301 to 1 500
               11.02 A I           Common wheat groats and meal (2) :
                                   — of an ash content of 0 to 520
         (') The refund is granted solely in respect of common wheat and rye which has not been denatured pursuant to Article 7 (3)
              and (5) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC .
         (*) The refund is granted solely in respect of common wheat flour, groats and meal manufactured from common wheat which
              has not been denatured pursuant to Article 7 (3) and (5) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC.
         The amount by which the refund may be increased pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation No 587/
         67/EEC is 2 u.a. /ton .