CELEX: 31978R1172
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1172/78 of 31 May 1978 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state

No L 145/28                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             1 . 6. 78
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1172/78
                                                           of 31 May 1978
                fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas the world market situation or the specific
COMMUNITIES,                                                          requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
                                                                     sary to vary the refund for sugar according to destina­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               tion ;
Economic Community,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                    may be fixed by other legal means ;
zation of the market in sugar (J ), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 705/78 (2), and in particular the                Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 1 9 (2)            refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
thereof,
                                                                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                             relation to each other at any given moment within
Committee,                                                                a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                          their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
provides that the difference between quotations or                   — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
prices on the world market for the products listed in                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Article 1 ( l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those                 of these currencies recorded for a given period in
products within the Community may be covered by                           relation to the Community currencies referred to
an export refund ;                                                        in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18                     Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
June 1968 laying down general rules for granting                     whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds
on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in                  Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
the natural state, are being fixed account must be                    present situation on the market in sugar and in parti­
taken of the situation on the Community and world                    cular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
markets in sugar and in particular of the price and                  Community and on the world market that the refund
                                                                     should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ;
whereas the same Article provides that the economic                  to this Regulation ;
aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken
into account ;                                                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                     are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in                      ment Committee for Sugar,
respect of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is
defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard
quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron­
tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
sugar (5) ;
Whereas, furthermore, this refund should be fixed in
                                                                                               Article 1
accordance with Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
766/68 ; whereas candy sugar is defined in Commis­
sion Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on                   The refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a)
detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (6),             of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, undenatured and
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 467/77 (7) ;                     exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed at the
                                                                     amounts shown in the Annex .
(•) OJ  No  L  359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L  94, 8 . 4. 1978 , p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No  L  143 , 25. 6 . 1968 , p. 6 .
(4) OJ  No  L  167, 26 . 6. 1976, p. 13 .                                                      Article 2
(5) OJ  No  L  89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .
(6) OJ  No  L  50, 4. 3 . 1970 , p. 1 .
(7) OJ  No  L  162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6 .                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1978 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 31 May 1978 .
                                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                          Vice-President
                                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 31 May 1978 fixing the refunds on white sugar and raw
                                                      sugar exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                           (u.a. /100 kg)
                   CCT
                  heading                                                   Description                                                    Refund
                    No
            17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                    A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar                                                         20-00
                                    B. Raw sugar :
                                         (a) Candy sugar                                                                                 20.30 (!)
                                         (b) Other raw sugar                                                                              16.50 (i )
           (] ) 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 .