CELEX: 31978R0109
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 109/78 of 20 January 1978 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

, No L 17/ 18                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             21 . 1 . 78
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 109/78
                                                        of 20 January 1978
                                         fixing the export refunds on fishery products
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     sary to vary the refund according to the destination of
  COMMUNITIES,                                                       the products in question ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Whereas products of Community origin which are
  Economic Community,                                                landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­
                                                                     ated outside the customs territory of the Community
                                                                     do not qualify for refunds ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
  100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza­
  tion of the market in fishery products ('), as last                Whereas economically important quantities of frozen
                                                                     whole mackerel , dried and salted cod and coalfish ^ nd
  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2), and in
  particular the fourth indent of Article 23 (2) thereof,            mackerel, dried, salted or in brine can be exported at
                                                                     the present time ;
  Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       Whereas it follows from applying the abovementioned
  Committee,
                                                                     rules and criteria to the present situation on the
                                                                     market and in particular to prices for fishery products
  Whereas Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76                   in the Community and on the world market that the
  provides that, to the extent necessary to enable                   refund should be fixed as shown in the Annex ;
  economically important exports of the products listed
  in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the          Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
  basis of prices for these products on the world market,            refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
  the difference between these prices and prices within
  the Community may be covered by an export refund ;                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                         relation to each other at any given moment within
  Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                       a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
   110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules                   their effective parity ;
  for granting export refunds on fishery products and                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
  criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3 ),                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
  provides that when refunds are being fixed account                     of these currencies recorded for a given period in
  must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­                   relation to the Community currencies referred to
  tion and the future trend with regard to prices and                    in the previous subparagraph ;
  availabilities of fishery products on the Community
  market and prices for fishery products on the world                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
  market on the other ; whereas account must also be
                                                                     are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
  taken of the costs referred to in (c) of that Article of           ment Committee for Fishery Products,
  the economic significance of the proposed exports
  and of the aims of the common organization of the
  market in fishery products ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76
  provides that, when prices on the Community market
  are being determined, account must be taken of the
   ruling prices which are most favourable from the                                           Article 1
  exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on
   the world market are being determined, account must               The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­
  be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that            lation (EEC) No 100/76 are hereby fixed at the
  Article ;                                                          amounts shown in the Annex .
  Whereas the world market situation or the specific
   requirements of certain markets may make it neces­                                         Artie e 2
  (') OJ No L 20 , 28 . 1 . 1976, p . 1 .
   (2) OJ No L 303 , 28 . 11 . 1977, p . 1 .                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 January
  P OJ No L 20 , 28 . 1 . 1976, p . 48 .                              1978 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 20 January 1978 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
                                                         ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 20 January 1978 fixing the export refunds on fishery
                                                         products
                                                                                                   (u.a. / 100 kg net)
                  CCT
                                                          Description                                    Refund
                 heading
                   No
            03.01          Fish , fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen :
                           B. Saltwater fish :
                               I. Whole, headless or in pieces :
                                  m) Mackerel :
                                        1 . bb) Frozen                                                     600
                                        2. bb) Frozen                                                      600
            03.02          Fish , dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish, whether or not
                           cooked before or during the smoking process :
                           ex A. I. b) Cod, dried and salted, whole, headless or in pieces :
                                         For exports to Brazil, Puerto Rico, Congo-Brazzaville,
                                         Zaire and Venezuela                                              1000
                                     f) — Coalfish, dried and salted, whole, headless or in
                                             pieces :
                                             For exports to the People's Republic of Congo,
                                             Gabon,    Zaire,   Cameroon ,    Angola,    Jamaica,
                                             Trinidad, Barbados, Windward and Leeward
                                             Islands, Panama, Surinam and the Dominican
                                             Republic                                                     1500
                                         — Mackerel,    dried,     salted or  in  brine,   whole ,
                                             headless or in pieces :
                                             For exports to Jamaica, Trinidad and Windward
                                             and Leeward Islands                                           4-00