CELEX: 31983R3235
Language: en
Date: 1983-11-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3235/83 of 16 November 1983 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 319 /30                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               17. 11 . 83
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3235/83
                                                   of 16 November 1983
                                  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, sweet fresh oranges, fresh manda­
                                                                 rins, fresh lemons and apples of the common quality
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     standards 'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra'
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization               Class and Class I hothouse grapes and open ground
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last               grapes, almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2004/83 (2), and in               may at present be exported in economically significant
particular Article 30 (4) thereof,                               quantities ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Committee,                                                       refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                 — 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 dif­               their central rate,
ference between prices in international trade for the
products referred to in that Article and prices for the
products within the Community may be covered by an               — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
export refund ;                                                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
                                                                     these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                     in the previous indent ;
2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general
rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit
and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3),        Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4),                   to the present market situation and to its future trends,
provides that when refunds are being fixed, account              and in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and
must be taken of the existing situation and future               vegetables in the Community and in international
                                                                 trade that the refunds should be as set out in the
trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit
                                                                 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
cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic aspects         Whereas the obligations under Article 10 (1 ) (b) of
                                                                 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 of 29
of the proposed exports ;
                                                                 November 1979 laying down common detailed rules
                                                                 for the application of the system of export refunds on
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)               agricultural products (5), as last amended by Regulation
No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market                  (EEC) No 519/83 (*), may be relaxed in the case of
are being determined account must be taken of the                exports to non-member countries outside Europe ;
prices which are most favourable from the exportation            whereas, in such a case, Article 23 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation
point of view ; whereas, when prices in international            (EEC) No 2730/79 may be applied ;
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
                                                                 time limit set by its chairman,
(') OJ No  L  118, 20.  5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No  L  198, 21 . 7. 1983, p. 2.
(3) OJ No  L  318, 18 . 12. 1969, p. 17.                         0 OJ No L 317, 12. 12. 1979, p. 1 .
H   OJ No  L  266, 25.  11 . 1972, p. 7.                         (*) OJ No L 58, 5. 3 . 1983, p. 5.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                 open ground, walnuts in shell, almonds, hazelnuts and
                                                              apples as set out in the Annex hereto.
                      Article 1
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)
of Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 shall apply to exports         This Regulation shall enter into force on          17
of sweet oranges, mandarins, lemons, table grapes of          November 1983 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 16 November 1983 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                         Poul DALSAGER
                                                                   Member of the Commission
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                                                             ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 16 November 1983 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 A I         Sweet fresh oranges :
                                For export of varieties Biondo comune and Sanguigno comune
                                ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) to :
                                — Countries or States with a planned economy in central or
                                    eastern Europe                                                          8,00
                                — Other destinations                                                        5,32
                                For export of other varieties ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)
                                to
                                — Countries or States with a planned economy in central or
                                    eastern Europe                                                         14,50
                                — Other destinations                                                        9,67
           ex 08.02 B           Fresh mandarins ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                       7,25
           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                                                         12,00
                                — Other destinations                                                        8,00
           ex 08.04 A I         Table grapes :
                                — Fresh, open ground ('Extra' Class and Class I)                           10,50
                                — 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                                                          14,00
           ex 08.05 G           Unshelled hazelnuts                                                         7,50
           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 :
                                For export to :
                                — Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique,
                                    Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Somalia,
                                    Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Sudan, Ethiopia, Jibuti, the
                                    countries of the Arabian peninsula ('), Iran, Iraq, Jordan             12,00
                                — Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong                             12,00
                                — Countries     and    territories  of   Africa other   than  those
                                    mentioned above and South Africa, Syria, countries with a
                                    planned economy in central and eastern Europe, Bolivia,
                                    Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Iceland, Norway,
                                    Sweden, Austria and the Faroe Islands                                   4,00
           (') 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).