CELEX: 31975R3247
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3247/75 of the Commission of 12 December 1975 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

13 . 12. 75                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 322/ 15
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3247/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 12 December 1975
                                        fixing the export refunds on fishery products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     sary to vary the refund according to the destination of
COMMUNITIES,                                                        the products in question ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Whereas products of Community origin which are
Economic Community ;                                                landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­
                                                                   ated outside the customs territory of the Community
                                                                   do not qualify for refunds ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2142/70 ( ! ) of 20 October 1970 on the common organ­
ization of the market in fishery products, as last                 Whereas economically important quantities of frozen
                                                                    fillets of cod and of coalfish and of dried and salted
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 11 82/75 (2), and in
particular the first sentence of Article 21 (4) thereof ;          cod and coalfish can be exported at the tpresent time ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                       Whereas it follows from applying the abovementioned
Committee ;                                                         rules and criteria to the present situation on the
                                                                    market and in particular to prices for fishery products
                                                                    in the Community and on the world market that the
Whereas Article 21 of Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70                   refund should be fixed as shown in the Annex ;
provides that, to the extent necessary to enable
economically important exports of the products listed
in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the          Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
basis of prices for these products on the world market,             refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
the difference between these prices and prices within              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
the Community may be covered by an export refund ;
                                                                         relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                         within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                         on their effective parity ;
 165/71 (J) of 26 January 1971 laying down general
rules for granting export refunds on fishery products              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
provides that when refunds are being fixed account                       of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
tion and the future trend with regard to prices and                      in the previous subparagraph ;
availabilities of fishery products on the Community
market and prices for fishery products on the world                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
market on the other ; whereas account must also be                  are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
taken of the costs referred to in (c) of that Article of            ment Committee for Fishery Products,
the economic significance of the proposed exports
and of the aims of the common organization of the
market in fishery products ;
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 165/71
provides that, when prices on the Community market
are being determined, account must be taken of the
ruling prices which are most favourable from the                                            Article 1
exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on
the world market are being determined, account must                The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­
be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that             lation (EEC) No 2142/70 are hereby fixed at the
Article ;                                                           amounts shown in the Annex.
Whereas the world market situation or the specific
requirements of certain markets may make it neces­                                          Article 2
(>) OJ No L 236, 27. 10 . 1970 , p. 5.
(2) OJ No L 118 , 8 . 5 . 1975, p. 1 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
(3 ) OJ No L 23, 29 . 1 . 1971 , p. 1 .                             1976 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 12 December 1975.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
                                                          ANNEX
                                                                                                (u.a. / 100 kg net)
                  CCT
                heading                               Description of goods                            Refund
                   No
            03.01         Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen :
                           B. Saltwater fish :
                              II . Fillets :
                                   b) Frozen :
                                       1 . Of cod (Gadus morrhua or Gadus callarias)                   7-00
                                       2. Of coalfish (Pollachius virens or Gadus virens)              500
            03.02          Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish, whether or not
                           cooked before or during the smoking process :
                           ex A. I. b) Cod, dried and salted, whole headless or in pieces
                                          For exports to Brazil                                        1500
                                      f) Coalfish, dried and salted, whole, headless or in
                                          pieces
                                          For exports to Congo-Brazzaville, Zaire, Jamaica,
                                          Trinidad, Barbados, Windward and Leeward Islands,
                                          Panama                                                       1500