CELEX: 31981R0247
Language: en
Date: 1981-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 247/81 of 30 January 1981 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products, exported in the natural state

31 . 1 . 81                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 27/ 19
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 247/81
                                                     of 30 January 1981
                fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products, exported
                                                     in the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   equal to one-hundredth of an amount which takes
COMMUNITIES,                                                     account, on the one hand, of the difference between
                                                                 the intervention price for white sugar for the Commu­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            nity area with the largest surplus for the month for
Economic Community,                                              which the basic amount is fixed and quotations or
                                                                 prices for white sugar on the world market and, on
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     the other, of the need to establish a balance between
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                the use of Community basic products in the manufac­
zation of the market in sugar (*), as last amended by             ture of processed goods for export to third countries
Regulation (EEC) No 3455/80 (2), and in particular the            and the use of third country products brought in
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 1 9 (2)        under inward processing arrangements ;
thereof,
                                                                  Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                      limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
Committee,                                                       (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
provides that the difference between quotations or                Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
prices on the world market for the products listed in             refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
products within the Community may be covered by                          relation to each other at any given moment within
an export refund ;                                                       a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                         their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
granting export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
by Regulation (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that the                    of these currencies recorded for a given period in
 export refund on 100 kilograms of the products listed                   relation to the Community currencies referred to
 in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is                in the previous indent ;
 equal to the basic amount multiplied by the sucrose
 content, including, where appropriate, other sugars              Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed
 expressed as sucrose ; whereas the sucrose content of            every month ; whereas they may be altered in the
 the product in question is determined in accordance               intervening period ;
 with Article 13 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on detailed rules for granting
 export refunds on sugar (5), as last amended by Regula­           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 tion (EEC) No 1467/77(6);                                         are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                   ment Committee for Sugar,
 Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68
 provides that the basic amount of the refund on
 sorbose exported in the natural state must be equal to
 the basic amount of the refund less one-hundredth of              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 the production refund applicable, pursuant to Council
 Regulation (EEC) No 1400/78 of 20 June 1978 laying
 down general rules for the production refund on sugar
                                                                                              Article 1
 used in the chemical industry (7), to the products
 listed in Annex I to the last mentioned Regulation ;
                                                                   The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1
 Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other               ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, exported in
  products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC)        the natural state, shall be as set out in the Annex
  No 3330/74 exported in the natural state must be                  hereto .
 (!) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ No L 360 , 31 . 12. 1980, p. 17.
 (3) OJ No L 143 , 25 . 6 . 1968 , p. 6.                                                      Article 2
 (4) OJ No L 167, 26. 6 . 1976, p. 13 .
 (5) OJ No L 50 , 4. 3 . 1970, p . 1 .
 (o) OJ No L 162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6 .                               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
 (7) OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 9.                                 1981 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 30 January 1981 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                               Poul DALSAGER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
                                                          ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 30 January 1981 fixing the export refunds on syrups and
                            certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                                                                                 (ECU/ 100 kg)
                                                                                                  Basic amount
                 CCT                                                                             per percentage
                heading                                   Description                                 point
                  No                                                                               of sucrose
                                                                                                   content (')
            17.02            Other sugars in solid form ; sugar syrups, not containing added
                             flavouring or colouring matter ; artificial honey, whether or not
                             mixed with natural honey ; caramel :
                                 D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and
                                     maple) :
                                     ex II . Other, excluding sorbose                                   0
                                 E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey           0
                             ex F. Caramel made from sugar falling within heading
                                     No     17.01                                                       0
           21.07             Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included :
                             F. Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups :
                                 IV. Other (than lactose, glucose and isoglucose syrups)                0
           (') The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure (Regulation (EEC)
               No 394/70). Sucrose content is determined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No
               394/ 70 .