CELEX: 31999R1777
Language: en
Date: 1999-08-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1777/1999 of 11 August 1999 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

12. 8. 1999            EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                        L 212/13
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1777/1999
                                                           of 11 August 1999
                   fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                      down detailed rules of application for the grant of
                                                                                 export refunds in the sugar sector (5); whereas the refund
                                                                                 thus calculated for sugar containing added flavouring or
                                                                                 colouring matter must apply to their sucrose content
                                                                                 and, accordingly, be fixed per 1 % of the said content;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
                                                                         (4)     Whereas the world market situation or the specific
                                                                                 requirements of certain markets may make it necessary
                                                                                 to vary the refund for sugar according to destination;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 1
                                                                         (5)     Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may
June 1981 on the common organization of the markets in the
                                                                                 be fixed by other legal instruments;
sugar sector (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1148/98 (2), and in particular point (a) of the first
subparagraph of Article 19 (4) thereof,
                                                                         (6)     Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks;
                                                                                 whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
                                                                         (7)     Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
(1)     Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                        to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
        provides that the difference between quotations or prices                particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
        on the world market for the products listed in Article 1                 Community and on the world market that the refund
        (1) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those products                 should be as set out in the Annex hereto;
        within the Community may be covered by an export
        refund;
                                                                         (8)     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                                 are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                                 Committee for Cereals,
(2)     Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that
        when refunds on white and raw sugar, undenatured and
        exported in its unaltered state, are being fixed account
        must be taken of the situation on the Community and
        world markets in sugar and in particular of the price and
        cost factors set out in Article 17a of that Regulation;
        whereas the same Article provides that the economic              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken into
        account;
                                                                                                      Article 1
(3)     Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in
        respect of the standard quality; whereas the latter is           The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1) (a) of
        defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No              Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81, undenatured and exported in
        431/68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard                  the natural state, are hereby fixed to the amounts shown in the
        quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community frontier          Annex hereto.
        crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar (3), as
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 (4); whereas,
        furthermore, this refund should be fixed in accordance
        with Article 17a (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81;
        whereas candy sugar is defined in Commission Regula-                                          Article 2
        tion (EC) No 2135/95 of 7 September 1995 laying
(1) OJ L  177, 1.7.1981, p. 4.                                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 August 1999.
(2) OJ L  159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L  89, 10.4.1968, p. 3.
(4) OJ L  349, 31.12.1994,  p. 105.                                      (5) OJ L 214, 8.9.1995, p. 16.
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                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                Done at Brussels, 11 August 1999.
                                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                           Monika WULF-MATHIES
                                                                                         Member of the Commission
                                                                      ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 11 August 1999 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar
                                                      exported in its unaltered state
                                           Product code                             Amount of refund
                                                                                    — EUR/100 kg —
                                       1701 11 90 9100                                 42,21     (1)
                                       1701 11 90 9910                                 42,78     (1)
                                       1701 11 90 9950                                           (2)
                                       1701 12 90 9100                                 42,21     (1)
                                       1701 12 90 9910                                 42,78     (1)
                                       1701 12 90 9950                                           (2)
                                                                             — EUR/1 % of sucrose × 100 kg —
                                       1701 91 00 9000                                   0,4589
                                                                                    — EUR/100 kg —
                                       1701 99 10 9100                                 45,89
                                       1701 99 10 9910                                 46,50
                                       1701 99 10 9950                                 46,50
                                                                             — EUR/1 % of sucrose × 100 kg —
                                       1701 99 90 9100                                   0,4589
                             (1) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 %; if the yield is other than 92 %,
                                 the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 17a
                                 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81.
                             (2) Fixing suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2689/85 (OJ L 255,
                                 26.9.1985, p. 12), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3251/85 (OJ L 309,
                                 21.11.1985, p. 14).