CELEX: 31979R2266
Language: en
Date: 1979-10-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2266/79 of 16 October 1979 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

17. 10 . 79                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 261 /23
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2266/79
                                                       of 16 October 1979
                                    fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given
COMMUNITIES,                                                       product according to the destination of that product ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas tomatoes, fresh lemons, apples and peaches
Economic Community,                                                of the common quality standards 'Extra' Class, Class I
                                                                   and Class II, 'Extra' Class and Class I hothouse grapes
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       and open ground grapes, shelled almonds and hazel­
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                    nuts, and unshelled walnuts may at present be
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables (1), as last            exported in economically significant quantities ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1301 /79 (2), and in
particular Article 30 (4) thereof,                                 Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
                                                                   refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
Committee,                                                         — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                        relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                        a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                       their effective parity ;
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­
ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­          — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
ence between prices in international trade for the                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
products referred to in that Article and prices for the                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 indent ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general                     to the present market situation and to its future
rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit              trends, and in particular to quotations and prices for
and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3),          fruit and vegetables in the Community and in inter­
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4),                     national trade that the refunds should be as set out in
provides that when refunds are being fixed, account                the Annex hereto ;
must be taken of the exiating situation and future
trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit
and vegetables on the Community market on the one                  Whereas the obligations under Article 6 ( 1 ) (b) of
                                                                   Commission Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 of 17
hand and prices in international trade on the other ;
whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­              January 1975 laying down detailed rules for the appli­
                                                                   cation of export refunds in respect of agricultural
cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic
                                                                   products (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
aspects of the proposed exports ;
                                                                   21 45/77 (6), may be relaxed in the case of exports to
                                                                   non-member countries outside Europe ; whereas, in
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)                 such a case, Article 1 1 (4) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market                    192/75 may be applied ;
are being determined account must be taken of the
prices which are most favourable from the exportation
point of view ; whereas, when prices in international              Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
trade are being determined, the quotations and prices              March 1 979 (7) laid down the coefficient for
referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be                 expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
taken into account ;                                               ECU ;
Whereas the situation with regard to international                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
trade or the specific requirements of certain markets              are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                   ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
(!) OJ No   L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No   L 162,  30.  6. 1979, p. 26.                           (*) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 .
(J) OJ No   L 318,  18 . 12. 1969, p. 17.                          (0) OJ No L 249, 30 . 9 . 1977, p. 12.
(«) OJ No   L 266,  25.  11 . 1972, p. 7.                          (A OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                              apply to exports of lemons, walnuts in shell, shelled
                                                           hazelnuts, apples and pears as set out in the Annex
                      Article 1                            hereto.
1.   The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall
be as set out in the Annex hereto .                                               Article 2
2. The provisions of Articles 6 ( 1 ) (b) and 11 (4) (c)   This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 October
of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 shall             1979 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
             Done at Brussels, 16 October 1979.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                        Vice-President
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                                                                      ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 16 October 1979 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                                     vegetables
                                                                                                                     (ECU/100 kg net)
                   CCT heading
                        No                                              Description                                      Refund
             ex 07.01 M                  Tomatoes ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                                    4.84
             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)                                 4.84
            l                            — 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                                                               12-09
            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, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi,
                                              Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi,
                                              Uganda, Somalia, Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius,
                                              Sudan, Ethiopia, Jibuti, the countries of the Arabian
                                              peninsula (J), Iran and Iraq                                               13-50
                                         — 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 Faroe Islands                                               3.63
            ex 08.07 B                  Peaches (excluding pectorins), 'Extra' Class, Class I and
                                         Class II                                                                         9.67
             (') 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).