CELEX: 31973R2647
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2647/73 of the Commission of 28 September 1973 fixing the export refunds on molasses, syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

No L 273 /34                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                29 . 9 . 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 2647/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 28 September 1973
                fixing the export refunds on molasses, syrups and certain other sugar products exported
                                                            in the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           bose exported in the natural state must be equal to
COMMUNITIES,                                                             the basic amount of the refund less one hundredth
                                                                         of the production refund applicable pursuant to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                        Council Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 (®) of 18 June
pean Economic Community ;                                                1968 laying down general rules for the production
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/                          refund on sugar us£d in the chemical industry, as
EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the common organ­                          amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2486/69 (7), to
ization of the market in sugar, at last amended by                       the products listed in Annex I to that Regulation ;
Regulation (EEC) No 1928/73 (2), and in particular
the first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article                   Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the
17 ( 2) thereof ;                                                        other products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regula­
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                             tion No 1009/67/EEC exported in the natural state
 Committee ;                                                             must be equal to one hundredth of an amount
                                                                         which takes account, on the one hand, of the differ­
Whereas Article 17 of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC
                                                                         ence between the intervention price for white sugar
provides that the difference between quotations or                        for the Community area with the largest surplus for
prices on the world market for the products listed in                     the month for which the basic amount is fixed and
Article 1 ( 1 ) (c) and (d) of that Regulation and                        quotations or prices for white sugar on the world
prices for those products within the Community may                        market and, on the other, of the need to establish a
be covered by an export refund ;
                                                                          balance between the use of Community basic pro­
Whereas Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                          ducts in the manufacture of processed goods for ex­
 766/68 (3) of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules                     port to third countries and the use of third country
for granting export refunds on sugar, as last                             products brought in under inward processing arrange­
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 (4), de­                            ments ;
fines the price factors, both within the Community
 and on the world market, which must be taken into                        Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
account when the refunds on molasses exported in                          limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
the natural state are being fixed ; whereas the same                       (d ) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC ;
Article provides that the economic aspect of the pro­
posed exports should also be taken into account ;                          Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 Whereas the world market situation of the specific                        refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
 sary to vary the refund on molasses according to des­                     — in the case currencies which are maintained in
 tination ;                                                                      relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                                 within a band of 2-25 %>, a rate of exchange based
 Whereas Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68                                 on their effective parity ;
 provides the export refund on 100 kilogrammes of
 the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation                  — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 No 1009/67/EEC is equal to the basic amount multi­                              arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 plied by the sucrose content, including, where appro­                           of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 priate, other sugars expressed as sucrose ; whereas                             relation to the Community currencies referred to
 the sucrose content of the product in question is de­                           in the previous subparagraph ;
  termined in accordance with the provisions or
  Article 13 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/                        Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed
  70 (5 ) of 2 March 1970 on detailed rules for granting                   every month ; whereas they may be altered in the in­
  export refunds on sugar ;                                                tervening period ;
  Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68
  provides that the basic amount of the refund on sor­                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
                                                                           tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­
                                                                           agement Committee for Sugar ;
  (!) OJ   No  308 , 18 . 12 . 1967 , p. 1 .
  (l) OJ   No  L 199, 19 . 7 . 1973 , p . 7 .
  (') OJ   No  L 143 , 25.6 . 1968 , p . 6.
  (*) OJ   No  I. 86 , 31 . 3 . 1973 , p . 30 .                             ( 6) OJ No L 143 , 25 . 6. 1968, p. 1 .
  («) OI   No   [. 50, 4. 3 . 1970, p. 1 .                                  (7 ) OJ No L 314, 15 . 12 . 1969, p . 8 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                  EEC, exported in the natural state, is hereby fixed as
                                                                               shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
                              Article 1
                                                                                                           Article 2
The refund to be granted on the products listed in                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October
Article 1 ( 1 ) (c) and (d) of Regulation No 1009/67/                          1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 28 September 1973 .
                                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                                             P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                      Member of the Commission
                                                                     ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 28 September 1973 fixing the refunds on molasses, syrups
                                       and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                       [u.a.flOO kg )
                                                                                                                     Basic amount
                   OCT heading                                                                                      per percentage
                        No                                      Description of goods                               point of sucrose
                                                                                                                      content (')
                17.02                    Other sugars ; sugar syrups ; artificial honey (whether
                                        or not mixed with natural honey) ; caramel :
                                                                                                                  ■
                                         ex D. Other sugars and syrups, excluding sorbose                              0-0375
                                             E. Artificial honey (whether or not mixed with
                                                natural honey)                                                         0-0375
                                         ex F. Caramel made from sugar falling within heading
                                                No 17.01                                                               0-0375
                 17.0.5                  Flavoured or coloured sugars, syrups and molasses, but
                                         not including fruit juices containing added sugar in any
                                         proportion :
                                         ex C. Other, excluding flavoured or coloured molasses                         0-0375
                                                           .. .
                                                                                                                        Refund
                17.03                   Molasses, whether or not decolourized                                             —
                (') 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.