CELEX: 31981R0120
Language: en
Date: 1981-01-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 120/81 of 7 January 1981 fixing the export refund on candy sugar

8 . 1 . 81                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 8 /9
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 120/81
                                                          of 7 January 1981
                                             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                                relation to each other at any given moment within
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                           a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by                       their effective parity ;
the Act of Accession of Greece (2), and in particular
the first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
1 9 (2) thereof,                                                            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                            of these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                            relation to the Community currencies referred to
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                                in the previous indent ;
Committee ,
                                                                       Whereas the refund for candy sugar must be fixed
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                      every two weeks ; whereas it may be altered in the
provides that the difference between quotations or                     intervening period ;
prices on the world market for the products listed in
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
                                                                       within the Community and on the world market that
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18                       the refund should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;
June 1968 laying down general rules for granting
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 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 was defined in Article 1 1 of
 Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on
 detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (5 ),                                       Article 1
 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 467/77 (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
 (2) OJ  No  L 291 , 19 . 11 . 1979 , p . 17 .
 (3) 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 8 January
 (') OJ  No  L 162, 1 . 7. 1977, p . 6 .                                 1981 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 7 January 1981 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                 Gaston THORN
                                                           ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 7 January 1981 fixing the export refund on candy sugar
                                                                                                      (ECU / 100 kg)
                   CCT
                                                          Description                                    Refund
                 heading
                    No
             17.01              Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                ex A. White sugar :
                                       — Candy sugar                                                       0
                                    B. Raw sugar :
                                       ex II. Other raw sugar :
                                              — Candy sugar                                                0 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 .