CELEX: 31967R0175
Language: en
Date: 1967-06-27
Title: Regulation No 175/67/EEC of the Council of 27 June 1967 laying down general rules for granting export refunds on eggs and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds

142                                 Official Journal of the European Communities
 2610/67                      OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES                                       28.6.67
                                REGULATION No 17S/67/EEC OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 27 June 1967
               laying down general rules for granting export refunds on eggs and criteria for fixing
                                                the amount of such refunds
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC                           Whereas provision must be made for varying the
 COMMUNITY,                                                      amount of the refund according to the destination of
                                                                the products, since markets in the countries of desti­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­             nation are at varying distances from Community
pean Economic Community ;                                       markets and special conditions apply to imports in
                                                                certain countries of destination ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 122/67/
EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common organisation                 "Whereas to ensure Community exporters some stab­
of the market in eggs, and in particular the fourth             ility in the amount of the refund and certainty with
subparagraph of Article 9 (2) thereof;                          regard to the list of products eligible for a refund, it
                                                                should be possible for the list and the amounts to re­
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;             main valid for a relatively long period;
Whereas export refunds on products subject to the               Whereas, to avoid distortions of competition between
common organisation of the market in eggs must be               individual Community traders, the administrative
fixed in accordance with certain criteria which would
                                                                conditions under which they operate must be identical
make it possible to cover the difference between                throughout the Community; whereas there does
prices for those products within the Community and
on the world market; whereas to this end the supply
                                                                not appear to be any justification for granting a re­
situation and prices for those products within the              fund where the products in question are imported
Community and the price situation on the world
                                                                from third countries and re-exported to third countries ;
market must be taken into account;
                                                                whereas the reimbursement, under certain conditions,
                                                                of the levy collected on importation is sufficient to
Whereas the difference between prices within the                allow these products to be placed on the world
                                                                market again;
Community and prices on the world market for the
quantity of feed grain required for the production of
one kilogramme of eggs in shell and for the pro­
duction of one egg for hatching must also be taken              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
into account; whereas for the products listed in
Article 1 ( 1 ) (b) of Regulation No 122/67/EEC the
coefficients referred to in Article 5 (2) of that Regu­                                 Article 1
lation should be taken into account;
                                                                This Regulation lays down rules for fixing and grant­
Whereas, if price trends are to be noted, prices must           ing export refunds on the products listed in Article
be determined in accordance with general principles ;           1 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 122/67/EEC.
whereas to this end prices on third country markets
and in countries of destination, producer prices re­                                    Article 2
corded in third countries and iree-at-Community­
frontier prices should be taken into account when               The following shall be taken into account when
prices on the world market are being determined ;               refunds are being fixed :
whereas, in the absence of representative markets for
egg products, prices ruling at the various marketing            ( a) the existing situation and the future trend with
stages and on exportation should be used as a basis                  regard to :
in determining Community prices ;
                                                                     — prices and availabilities of egg products on
                                                                          the Community market;
1 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p . 2293/67.                                 — prices for egg products on the world market;
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  (b) the need to avoid disturbances which might lead            granted and the amount of such refund shall be fixed
       to a prolonged imbalance between supply and               at least once every three months.
       demand on the Community market; and
  (c) the economic aspect of the proposed exports .                                      Article 6
  When the refund on the products listed in Article              1.    The refund shall be paid upon proof:
 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 122/67/EEC is being calcu­            — that the products have been exported from the
 lated, account shall also be taken of the difference be­
                                                                     Community, and
 tween prices within the Community and prices on the
 world market for the quantity of feed grain deter­             — that the products are of Community origin,
 mined in accordance with the provisions of Article                  except where Article 7 applies.
 4 ( 1 ) of that Regulation, the coefficients referred to
 in Article 5 (2) of that Regulation also being taken           2. Where Article 4 applies, the refund shall be paid
 into account in the case of derived products.                  under the conditions laid down in paragraph 1,
                                                                provided it is proved that the product has reached the
                                                                destination for which the refund was fixed.
                          Article 3
                                                                Exceptions may be made to this rule in accordance
 1 . The following shall be taken into account when             with the procedure referred to in paragraph 3,
 the price on the Community market is being deter­              provided conditions are laid down which offer
 mined :                                                        equivalent guarantees.
 ( a) prices ruling at the various marketing stages in          3 . Additional provisions may be adopted in
      the Community;                                            accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
 (b) prices ruling on exportation.                              17 of Regulation No 122/67/EEC.
2.      The following shall be taken into account when
                                                                                         Article 7
 the price on the world market is being determined:
 (a) prices ruling on third country markets;                   No export refund shall be granted on products listed
                                                                in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 122/67/EEC which
(b) the most favourable import prices in third                  are imported from third countries and re-exported to
      countries of destination for third country                third countries, unless the exporter proves :
      imports;
 (c) producer prices recorded in exporting third               — that the product to be exported and the product
      countries,     account    being     taken;   where             previously imported are one and the same, and
      appropriate, of subsidies granted by those               — that the levy was collected on importation.
      countries ; and
                                                               In such cases the refund on each product shall be
 (d) free-at-Community-frontier offer prices.                  equal to the levy collected on importation where this
                                                               levy is lower than the refund applicable on the day of
                         Article 4                             exportation ; the refund shall be equal to the refund)
                                                               applicable on the day of exportation where the levy
Where the world market situation or the specific               collected on importation is higher than this refund.
requirements of certain markets make this necessary,
the refund for the Community may be varied
                                                                                         Article 8
according to the destination of the products listed in
Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 122/67/EEC.                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
                                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                         Article 5                             European Communities.
The list of products on which an export refund is              It shall apply from 1 July 1967.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 27 June 1967.
                                                                                       For the Council
                                                                                        The President
                                                                                         Ch. HEGER