CELEX: 31973R2971
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2971/73 of the Commission of 26 October 1973 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs

1 . 11 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 303/35
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 2971/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 26 October 1973
                              fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2196/69 (s), pro­
COMMUNITIES,                                                          vides that, when export refunds on cereal-based com­
                                                                      pound feedingstuffs are being fixed, only the pro­
                                                                      ducts normally used in the manufacture of com >
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    pound feedingstuffs for which a refund may be fixed
pean Community ;                                                      should be taken into account ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/                        Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No
EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                       1913/69 (6) of 29 September 1969 on the granting
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the                 and the advance fixing of the export refund OP
Regulation (EEC) No 1346/73 ( 2), and in particular                   cereal-based compound feedingstuffs provides that
the first sentence of the fourth subparagraph of                      calculation of the export refund must be based on the
Article 16 (2) thereof ;                                              levy applicable to maize ; whereas this calculation
                                                                      must also take account of the cereal products con­
                                                                      tent ; whereas, therefore, in the interest of simplifica­
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                          tion, compound feedingstuffs should be placed in
Committee ;                                                           categories and the refund for each category should
                                                                      be fixed on the basis of a quantity of maize which is
Whereas Article 16 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC                        representative of the usual cereal products content
provides that the difference between quotations or                    for the category concerned ; whereas, furthermore,
prices on the world market for the products listed in                 the amount of the refund may also take into ac­
Article 1 of that Regulation and prices for those pro­                count the situation on the market in cereal products
ducts within the Community may be covered by an                       other than maize ;
export refund ;
                                                                      Whereas the world market situation or the specific
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation No 139/67/                    requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
(EEC) (3) of 21 June 1967 laying down general rules                   sary to vary the refund for compound feedingstuffs
for granting export refunds on cereals and criteria                    according to destination ; .
for fixing the amount of such refunds provides that
when refunds are being fixed account must be taken                    Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
of the existing situation and the future trend with                   refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
regard to prices and availabilities of cereals on the
Community market on the one hand and prices for                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
cereals and cereal products on the other ; whereas                         relation to each other, at any , given moment,
the same Article provides that it is also important to                     within a band of 2*25 °/o, a rate of exchange
ensure equilibrium and the natural development of                          based on their effective parity ;
prices and trade on the cereal markets ;
                                                                      — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
Whereas it follows from applying rules and criteria                        the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates
to the present situation on the market in cereal­                          of each of these currencies recorded for a given
based .compound feedingstuffs that the export re­                          period , in relation to the Community currencies
fund should be fixed at an amount which will cover                         referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
the difference between Community prices and world
market prices ;                                                       Whereas the refund must be fixed .once a month ;
                                                                      whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation ( EEC)
No 968/68 (4) of 15 July 1968 on the system to be                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs, as                    tion arc in accordance with the Opinion of the
                                                                      Management Committee for Cereals ;
 (')  OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p . 2269/67.
 (*)  OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p. 8 .
 (s)  OJ No 125, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2453/67.                              (5) OJ No L 279, 6. 11 . 1969, p. 1 .
 (4 ) OJ No L 166, 17. 7. 1968, p . 2 .                                H O J No I. 246, 30. 9 . 1969, p . 11 .
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   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                to Regulation (EEC) No 968/68 are hereby fixed as
                                                                                shown in the Annex to this Regulation.
                                 Article 1
                                                                                                            Article 2
 The export refunds on the compound feedingstuffs                               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 Novem­
  covered by Regulation No 120/67/EEC and subject                               ber 1973 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                  Done at Brussels, 26 October 1973 .
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                             P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                     Member of the Commission
                                                                     ANNEX
                          Special                                                                                                       Refund in
   CCT heading
         No            specification                               Nomenclature in simplified wording                                  u. a. / 100 kç
                        for refund                                                                                                 ( thir^ roiintrtet)
23.07 R 1                                   Preparations of a kind used in anima , feeding, covered by
                                            Regulation ( EEC) No 968/68, containing starch, glucose or glucose
                                            syrup falling within subheadings Nos 17.02 B and 17.05 B or milk
                                            products ( falling within headings Nos 04.01 , 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04
                                            and subheadings 17.02 A and 17.05 A ):
                                            of a milk powder (') content of less than 50 % by weight and of
                                           cereal products (2) content by weight :
                           3010             —   Exceeding 5 °/o but nor exceeding 15 %                                                         0
                          4010             —    Exceeding 15% but nor exceeding 30%                                                            0
                          .5010             —   Exceeding 30 % but not exceeding 50%                                                          0
                          6010             —    Exceeding 50 % but not exceeding 65 %                                                         0
                          7010             —    Exceeding 65 %                                                                                0
(') If the preparation of a kind used in animal feeding contains skimmed - milk powder falling within subheading No 04.02 A 11 b) of the Common
    Customs Tariff, the amounts fixed in the Annex to Regulation (IT.O No 757/71 in its version now in forcc are charged at the importation
(•) ' Cereal products' means the products falling within Chapter 10 and headings Nos 11.01 and 11.02 (excluding subheading No 11.02 G ) of the
    Common Customs Tariff.