CELEX: 31988R2694
Language: en
Date: 1988-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2694/88 of 31 August 1988 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

No L 241 /6                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                      1 . 9 . 88
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2694/88
                                                          of 31 August 1988
                  fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered
                                                                  state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             apply to their sucrose content and, accordingly, be fixed
                                                                        per 1 % of the said content ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   Whereas the world market situation or the specific
Economic Community,                                                     requirements of certain markets may make it necessary to
                                                                        vary the refund for sugar according to destination ;
Having regard to the Act . of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,                                                               Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may
                                                                        be fixed by other legal instruments ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                    Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                       refunds should be calculated on the following basis : ,
markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 2306/88 (2), and in particular point (a) of               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
the first subparagraph of Article 19 (4) thereof,                             tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                              of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,                       rats, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
                                                                              the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
                                                                              tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (8), as last amended by Regula­
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                             tion (EEC) No 1636/87 0,
provides that the difference between quotations or prices
on the world market for the products listed in Article 1                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
(1 ) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those products                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
within the Community may be covered by an export                              these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
 refund ;                                                                     tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
                                                                              previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18 June                   Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
 1968 laying down general rules for granting export                     whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
 refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
 No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds on white and                 Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
 raw sugar, undenatured and exported in its unaltered state              to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
 are being fixed account must l^e taken of the situation on              particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
 the Community and world markets in sugar and in parti­                  Community and on the world market that the refund
 cular of the price and cost factors set out in Article 3 of             should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;
 that Regulation ; whereas the same Article provides that
 the economic aspect of the proposed exports should also                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 be taken into account ;                                                 in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                         Committee for Sugar, »
 Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect
 of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is defined in
 Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar
 and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for
 calculating cif prices for sugar (*) ; whereas, furthermore,                                       Article 1
 this refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 5
 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 ; whereas candy sugar                 The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )
  is defined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of                 (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 undenatured and
  2 March 1970 on detailed rules ' for granting export                   exported in their unaltered state shall be as set out in the
  refunds on sugar (6), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                Annex hereto.
   1714/88 0 ; whereas the refund thus calculated for sugar
  containing added flavouring or colouring matter must
                                                                                                    Article 2
  (') OJ No  L  177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
  (2) OJ No  L  201 , 27. 7. 1988, p. 65.                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
  (3) OJ No  L  143, 25. 6. 1968, p. 6.                                    1988 .
  (<) OJ No  L  167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13.
  0   OJ No  L  89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.
  (6) OJ  No L  50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 .                                    (8) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
  (A OT No T. 152. 18 . 6 . 1988 . D . 23 .                                9 OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 31 August 1988 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                 Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                     Vice-President
                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1988 fixing the export refunds on white sugar
                                    and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
                                                                                                     (ECU)
                                                                           Amount of refund
                                     Product code                               per percentage point of
                                                                                  sucrose content and
                                                                per 100 kg
                                                                                 per 100 kg net of the
                                                                                 product in question
                                   1701 11 90 100                34,69 (')
                                   1701 11 90 910                32,03 (')
                                   1701 11 90 950                   0
                                   1701 12 90 100                34,69 (')
                                   1701 12 90 910                32,03 (')
                                   1701 12 90 950                   0
                                   1701 91 00 000            I                          0,3771
                                   1701 99 10 100                37,71
                                   1701 99 10 910                38,75 (3)
                                   1701 99 10 950                34,25
                                   1701 99 90 100                                       0,3771
                      (') 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 .
                      (2) Fixing suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2689/85 (OJ No L 255,
                          26. 9. 1985, p. 12), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3251 /85 (OJ No L 309,
                          21 . 11 . 1985, p. 14).
                      (3) Applicable under the conditions laid down in particular in Article 9 (5) of
                          Regulation (EEC) No 2630/81 .