CELEX: 31980R2204
Language: en
Date: 1980-08-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2204/80 of 20 August 1980 fixing the export refund on candy sugar

21 . 8 . 80                               Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 220/ 9
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2204/80
                                                        of 20 August 1980
                                           fixing the export refund on candy sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
COMMUNITIES,                                                        may be fixed by other legal instruments ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Economic Community,                                                 refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                       relation to each other at any given moment within
zation of the market in sugar ( !), as last amended by                  a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular the                  their effective parity ;
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 1 9 (2)          — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
thereof,                                                                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                        of these currencies recorded for a given period in
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                            relation to the Community currencies referred to
Committee,                                                              in the previous indent ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                   Whereas the refund for candy sugar must be fixed
provides that the difference between quotations or                  every two weeks ; whereas it may be altered in the
prices on the world market for the products listed in               intervening period ;
Article 1 ( l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those
products within the Community may be covered by                     Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out
an export refund ;                                                   above to the present situation on the market in sugar
                                                                    and in particular to quotations or prices for sugar
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18                    within the Community and on the world market that
June 1968 laying down general rules for granting                    the refund should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;
export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
on raw sugar, undenatured and exported in the natural               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
state, are being fixed account must be taken of the                  ment Committee for Sugar,
situation on the Community and world markets in
sugar and in particular of the price and cost factors set
out in Article 3 of that Regulation ; whereas the same
Article provides that the economic aspect of the
proposed exports should also be taken into account ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas candy sugar is a raw sugar as defined in
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March
 1970 on detailed rules for granting export refunds on
sugar (5), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                                                 Article 1
 1467/77 (6) ;
                                                                    The export refund on candy sugar undenatured and in
Whereas the world market situation or the specific                   the natural state, shall be as set out in the Annex
 requirements of certain markets may make it neces­                  hereto .
 sary to vary the refund for sugar according to destina­
 tion ;
(•)  OJ  No L  359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                                                    Article 2
(')  OJ  No L  170, 27. 6. 1978 , p. 1 .
(J ) OJ  No L  143, 25. 6 . 1968 , p. 6 .
(<)  OJ  No L  167, 26 . 6 . 1976, p. 13 .
(5 ) OJ  No L  50 , 4 . 3 . 1970 , p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 August
(<•) OJ  No L  162, 1 . 7 . 1977, p. 6 .                             1980 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 20 August 1980.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                Vice-President
                                                         ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 20 August 1980 fixing the export refund on candy sugar
                                                                                                    (ECU / 100 kg)
                  CCT
                                                         Description                                   Refund
                heading
                   No
            17.01              Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                               B. Raw sugar :
                                  (a) Candy sugar                                                       0 (')
           (!) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 % , the refund appli­
                cable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                766/68 .