CELEX: 31976R0398
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 398/76 of 24 February 1976 fixing the export refunds for wine

25. 2. 76                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 49/7
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 398/76
                                                   of 24 February 1976
                                           fixing the export refunds for wine
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   mined on the basis of the most advantageous export
COMMUNITIES,                                                     prices ; whereas the prices referred to in Article 3 (2)
                                                                 must be taken into account when the prices in interna­
                                                                 tional trade are being determined ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                 Whereas     the  international  trade situation or  the
                                                                specific requirements of certain markets may make it
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     necessary to vary the refund according to the use or
8 1 6/70 of 28 April 1 970 laying down additional provi­         destination of a specific product ;
sions for the common organization of the market in
wine (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
1932/75 (2), and in particular Article 10(4) thereof,           Whereas table wines of types R I, R II, A I, A II and
                                                                A III defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 945/70
                                                                of 26 May 1970 determining the types of table
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                    wines (4), may now be exported in economically signif­
Committee,                                                      icant quantity ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 10 of Regulation (EEC)             Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 of Commission Regula­
No 816/70, to the extent necessary to enable the                tion (EEC) No 325/71 of 15 February 1971 on
products listed in Article 1 (2) of this Regulation to be       detailed rules for the application of export refunds on
exported in economically significant quantity on the            wine (5), refunds must be fixed at least once every
basis of the prices for those products on the world              three months ; whereas if need be, they can be
market, the difference between those prices and the             amended in the interval between fixing dates ;
prices in the Community may be covered by an
export refund ; whereas, however, refunds may be
granted only for the products referred to in Article            Whereas if the refund system is to operate normally,
1 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 957/70 of 26               refunds should be calculated on the follQwing basis :
May 1970 laying down general rules for granting
export refunds on wine and criteria for fixing the              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
amount of such refunds (3) ;                                         relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                     on their effective parity ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 of Regulation (EEC)
No 957/7 0, the existing state and probable future              — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
trends of prices and quantities available of the                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
products of the Community market on the one hand,                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
and world market prices for these products on the                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
other, must be taken into account when refunds are                   in the previous subparagraph ;
being fixed ; whereas account must also be taken of
the costs referred to in Article 2 (b) and of the
economic aspects of the exports intended ; whereas              Whereas the application of the abovementioned rules
the objectives defined in Article 2(c) and the need to          to the present market situation and in particular to
avoid disturbances which might lead to imbalance of             the prices of wines in the Community and on the
supply and demand on the Community market must                  world market leads to the fixing of refunds as indi­
also be taken into account :                                    cated below ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
No 957/70, Community market prices must be deter­               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                ment Committee for Wine,
(!) OJ No L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. I.
(2) OJ No L 198 , 29 . 7. 1975, p. 19 .                         (4) OJ No L 114, 27. 5. 1970, p. 1 .
(J) OJ No L 115, 28 . 5. 1970, p. 1 .                           (5) OJ No L 38, 16. 2. 1971 , p. 16.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                              Article 2
                         Article 1
The amounts of the export refunds for the products
listed in Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 957/70                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March
shall be as set out in the Annex.                                    1976 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 24 February 1976.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                   CCT
                                                                                                     Amount of
                                                            Description                                  refund
                heading No
                                                                                                    u. a. /degree/hi
             ex 22.05 C I         White table wine, other than white table wine of types
                        C»        A II and A III of an actual alcoholic strength of not less
                                  than 9-5° and not exceeding 14°
                                 — For export to all third countries with the exception
                                     of third countries of the American continent including
                                      thpse islands politically linked thereto, as well as
                                      those third countries listed in Article 1 of Regulation
                                      ( EEC ) No 2223 /70 and Greece                                      0-65
             ex 22.05 C I         Red table wine, other than red table wine of type R III
                       CII        of an actual alcoholic strength of not less than 9·5° and
                                  not exceeding 14°
                                  — For export to all third countries with the exception
                                     of third countries of the American continent including
                                     those islands politically linked thereto, as well as
                                     those third countries listed in Article 1 of Regulation
                                     ( EEC ) No 2223 /70 and Greece                                       065
                                                                                                     Amount of
                                                                                                         refund
             ex 22.05 C I         White table wine of types A 11 and A III                               u.a./hl
                       CII        {White table wine exclusively from the Sylvaner, Miiller­
                                  Thurgau or Riesling vine variety type)
                                 -— For export to all third countries with the exception
                                     of third countries of the American continent including
                                     those islands politically linked thereto, as well as
                                     those third countries listed in Article 1 of Regulation
                                     ( EEC ) No 2223/70 and Greece                                        3-50