CELEX: 31997R0568
Language: en
Date: 1997-03-26 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 568/97 of 26 March 1997 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable to certain milk products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty

27. 3 . 97         [ EFTI              Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 85/51
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 568/97
                                                        of 26 March 1997
                   fixing the rates of the refunds applicable to certain milk products exported in
                               the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       skimmed milk processed into casein if such milk and the
                                                                    casein manufactured from it fulfil certain conditions set
                                                                    out in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 987/68
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for granting aid
  Community,                                                        for skimmed milk processed into casein or caseinates (*),
                                                                    as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1435/90 (6);
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of            Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 570/88 of 16
  27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market             February 1988 on the sale of butter at reduced prices and
  in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­         the granting of aid for butter and concentrated butter for
  tion (EC) No 1587/96 (2), and in particular Article 17 (3)        use in the manufacture of pastry products, ice-cream and
  thereof,                                                          other foodstuffs (), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
                                                                    No 531 /96 (8), lay down that butter and cream at reduced
                                                                    prices should be made available to industries which
                                                                    manufacture certain goods;
 Whereas Article 17 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68
 provides that the difference between prices in interna­
 tional trade for the products listed in Article 1 (a), (b), (c),  Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and Milk
 (d), (e), and (g) of that Regulation and prices within the        Products has not delivered an opinion within the time
 Community may be covered by an export refund; whereas             limit set by its chairman,
 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1222/94 of 30 May 1994
 laying down common implementing rules for granting
 export refunds on certain agricultural products exported
 in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the
 Treaty, and criteria for fixing the amount of such
 refunds (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 229/96 (4), specifies the products for which a rate of
 refund should be fixed, to be applied where these
 products are exported in the form of goods listed in the
 Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 ;
                                                                                               Article 1
 Whereas, in accordance with the first subparagraph of
Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EC) No 1222/94, the rate of         1 . The rates of the refunds applicable to the basic
 the refund per 100 kilograms for each of the basic                products appearing in Annex A to Regulation (EC) No
 products in question must be fixed for each month;                1222/94 and listed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   804/68 , exported in the form of goods listed in the Annex
                                                                   to Regulation (EEC) No 804/68, are hereby fixed as
                                                                   shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
Whereas Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EC) No 1222/94
 provides that, when the rate of the refund is being fixed,
account should be taken, where necessary, of production            2. No rates of refund are fixed for any of the products
refunds, aids or other measures having equivalent effect           referred to in the preceding paragraph which are not
applicable in all Member States in accordance with the             listed in the Annex to this Regulation .
Regulation on the common organization of the market in
the product in question to the basic products listed in
Annex A to that Regulation or to assimilated products;
                                                                                               Article 2
Whereas Article 11 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68
provides for the payment of aid for Community-produced            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1997.
(') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13.                            0    OJ No  L 169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 6.
(2) OJ No L 206, 16. 8 . 1996, p. 21 .                            (<•) OJ  No L 138 , 31 . 5. 1990, p. 8 .
(3) OJ No L 136, 31 . 5. 1994, p. 5.                              0    OJ No  L 55, 1 . 3. 1988, p. 31 .
h) OJ No L 30, 8. 2. 1996, p. 24.                                 (8)  OJ No  L 78, 28 . 3. 1996, p. 13 .
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               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 26 March 1997.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                           Martin BANGEMANN
                                                                      Member of the Commission
                                                         ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 26 March 1997 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable
              to certain milk products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the
                                                          Treaty
                                                                                               (ECU/100 kg)
                                                                                                 Rate of
                   CN code                                Description                             refund
              ex 0402 10 19      Powdered milk, in granules or other solid forms, not
                                 containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, with a fat
                                 content not exceeding 1,5 % by weight (PG 2):
                                 (a) On exportation of goods of CN code 3501
                                 (b) On exportation of other goods                                 63,00
              ex 0402 21 19      Powdered milk, in granules or other solid forms, not
                                 containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, with a fat
                                 content of 26 % by weight (PG 3):
                                 (a) Where goods incorporating, in the form of products
                                     assimilated to PG 3, reduced-price butter or cream
                                     obtained pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 570/88 are
                                     exported                                                      67,23
                                (b) On exportation of other goods                                108,00
              ex 0405 10         Butter, with a fat content by weight of 82 % (PG 6):
                                (a) Where goods containing reduced-price butter or cream
                                     which have been manufactured in accordance with the
                                     conditions provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 570/88
                                     are exported                                                  65,00
                                (b) On exportation of goods of CN code 2106 90 98
                                     containing 40 % or more by weight of milk fat               197,25
            |                   (c) On exportation of other goods                                190,00