CELEX: 31978R2191
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2191/78 of 20 September 1978 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

21 . 9 . 78                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 258 / 19
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2191 /78
                                                      of 20 September 1978
                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 ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (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 within
Committee,                                                               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 1 467/77 (7) ;                     amounts shown in the Annex .
(') OJ   No L  359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No L  170, 27. 6 . 1978 , p. 1 .
(3) OJ   No L  143, 25 . 6 . 1968 , p. 6.                                                     Article 2
(4) 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    21
Y) OJ No L 162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6.                                   September 1978 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 20 September 1978 .
                                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                                        Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                           Vice-President
                                                                             ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 20 September 1978 fixing the refunds on white sugar and
                                                   raw sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                             (u.a. /100 kg)
                     CCT
                   heading                                                   Description                                                    Refund
                      No
            17.01                     Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                     A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar                                                         2000
                                      B. Raw sugar :
                                          (a) Candy sugar                                                                                 21.29 (!)
                                          (b) Other raw sugar                                                                              17.00 (')
           ( ! ) 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 .