CELEX: 31980R2775
Language: en
Date: 1980-10-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2775/80 of 29 October 1980 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 287/26                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                30 . 10. 80
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2775/80
                                                       of 29 October 1980
                                    fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the situation with regard to international
COMMUNITIES,                                                        trade or the specific requirements of certain markets
                                                                    may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given
                                                                    product according to the destination of that product ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                   Whereas tomatoes, fresh lemons and apples of the
                                                                    common quality standards 'Extra' Class, Class I and
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        Class II, 'Extra' Class and Class I hothouse grapes and
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                      open ground grapes, shelled almonds and hazelnuts,
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables (1), as last             and unshelled walnuts may at present be exported in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1367/80 (2), and in                  economically significant quantities ;
particular Article 30 (4) thereof,
                                                                    Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                        refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
Committee,
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                        relation to each other at any given moment within
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­                  a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­                their effective parity ;
ence between prices in international trade for the
products referred to in that Article and prices for the             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
products within the Community may be covered by                          arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
an export refund ;                                                       of these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                         in the previous indent ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general
rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit               Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3),            to the present market situation and to its future
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4),                       trends, and in particular to quotations and prices for
provides that when refunds are being fixed, account                  fruit and Vegetables in the Community and in inter­
must be taken of the existing situation and future                   national trade that the refunds should be as set out in
trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit             the Annex hereto :
and vegetables on the Community market on the one
 hand and prices in international trade on the other ;
whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­
                                                                     Whereas the obligations under Article 10 ( 1 ) (b) of
 cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic                    Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 of 29
aspects of the proposed exports ;                                    November 1979 laying down common detailed rules
                                                                     for the application of the system of export refunds on
                                                                     agricultural products (5), as amended by Regulation
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)                   (EEC) No 1475/80 (6), may be relaxed in the case of
 No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market                     exports to non-member countries outside Europe ;
 are being determined account must be taken of the                   whereas, in such a case, Article 23 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation
 prices which are most favourable from the exportation               (EEC) No 2730/79 may be applied ;
 point of view ; whereas, when prices in international
 trade are being determined, the quotations and prices
 referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
 taken into account ;                                                Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and
                                                                     Vegetables has not delivered an opinion within the
 (!) OJ No  L  118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                            time limit set by its chairman,
 (2) OJ No  L  140 , 5. 6. 1980, p. 24.
 (3) OJ No  L 318 ,  18 . 12. 1969, p. 17.                           (5) OJ No L 317, 12. 12. 1979, p. 1 .
 (4) OJ No  L  266,  25 . 11 . 1972, p. 7.                           (') OJ No L 147, 13 . 6. 1980, p. 15 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                               apply to exports of lemons, table grapes of open
                                                            ground, walnuts in shell, shelled hazelnuts, and apples
                      Article 1                             as set out in the Annex hereto .
1.    The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall
be as set out in the Annex hereto .                                                Article 2
2. The provisions of Articles 10 ( 1 ) (b) and 23 ( 1 ) (c) This Regulation shall enter into force on 30 October
of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 shall             1980 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 29 October 1980 .
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                         Vice-President
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                                                            ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 29 October 1980 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                           vegetables
                                                                                                   (ECU/100 kg net)
              CCT heading                                     Description                                 Refund
                   No
          ex 07.01 M             Tomatoes ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                            4-50
          ex 08.02 C              Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)
                                  For export to :
                                 — countries or States with a planned economy in central or
                                     eastern Europe                                                        6-04
                                 — other destinations                                                      4-23
          ex 08.04 A I           Table grapes :
                                  — Fresh, open ground ('Extra' Class and Class I)                         7-00
                                 — Fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I)                            19-34
          ex 08.05 A II           Shelled almonds, other than bitter almonds                               9-67
          ex 08.05 B              Unshelled walnuts                                                       12-09
          ex 08.05 G              Shelled hazelnuts                                                       14-51
          ex 08.06 A II           Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than cider
                                  apples
          l
                                  For export to :
                                  — Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi, Mozam­
                                      bique, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda,
                                      Somalia, Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Sudan, Ethi­
                                      opia, Jibuti, the countries of the Arabian peninsula (*),
                                      Iran and Iraq                                                       12-00
                                  — Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong (2)                      12-00
                                  — countries    and   territories of Africa other than     those
                                      mentioned above and South Africa, Syria, Jordan, coun­
                                      tries with a planned economy in central and eastern
                                      Europe, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama,
                                      Ecuador, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Austria and
                                      the Faroe Islands                                                    3-63
          (*) For the purpose of this Regulation the 'countries of the Arabian peninsula are considered to be
               the following, including the territories attached thereto : Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the
               Sultanate of Oman, United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Qawain,
               Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah), Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) and the People's Democratic
              Republic of Yemen (South Yemen).
          (2) For which the custom export formalities have been completed on 28 February 1981 at the latest.