CELEX: 31977R0728
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 728/77 of 6 April 1977 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

7. 4. 77                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 89/9
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 728/77
                                                          of 6 April 1977
                 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas the world market situation or the specific
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
                                                                    sary to vary the refund for sugar according to destina­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              tion ;
 Economic Community,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                  may be fixed by other legal means ;
 zation of the market in sugar (1), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 3138/76 (2), and in particular the             Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 1 9 (2)         refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 thereof,
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
 Committee,                                                             within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                        on their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
 provides that the difference between quotations or                 — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 prices on the world market for the products listed in                  arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 Article 1 ( l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those              of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 products within the Community may be covered by                        relation to the Community currencies referred to
 an export refund ;                                                     in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18                    Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
June 1968 laying down general rules for granting                    whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
 export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds              Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
 on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in                present situation on the market in sugar and in parti­
 the natural state, are being fixed account must be                 cular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
 taken of the situation on the Community and world                  Community and on the world market that the refund
 markets in sugar and in particular of the price and                should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
 cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ;             to this Regulation ;
whereas the same Article provides that the economic
 aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken
 into account ;                                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                    are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in                    ment Committee for Sugar,
 respect of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is
 defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard
 quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron­               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
 sugar (5);
Whereas, furthermore, this refund should be fixed in                                       Article 1
 accordance with Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 766/68 ; whereas candy sugar is defined in Commis­                 The refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a)
 sion Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on                 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, undenatured and
 detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (6),           exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed at the
 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 499/76 (7) ;                   amounts shown in the Annex.
(') OJ   No  L  359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No  L  354, 24. 12. 1976, p. 1 .
(3) OJ   No  L  143, 25. 6. 1968, p. 6.                                                    Article 2
(<) OJ   No  L  167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13.
(5) OJ   No  L  89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.
(6) OJ   No  L  50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 .                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 April
n OI No L 167        26   d  1976  n   79                            1977.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 6 April 1977.
                                                                                                   , For the Commission
                                                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                          Vice-President
                                                                            ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 6 April 1977 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw
                                                      sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                            (u.aJ100 kg)
                    CCT
                  heading                                              Description of goods                                                Refund
                     No
            17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                    A. White sugar                                                                                        1400
                                    B. Raw sugar :
                                         (a) Candy sugar                                                                                  14.57 (1 )
                                         (b) Other raw sugar '                                                                            1 1 00 (*)
            (') 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 5 (3) of Regulation ( EEC) No 766/68 .