CELEX: 31980R1443
Language: en
Date: 1980-06-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1443/80 of 9 June 1980 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

10 . 6. 80                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 144/ 13
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1443/80
                                                        of 9 June 1980
                                  fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas the situation with regard to international
COMMUNITIES,                                                      trade or the specific requirements of certain markets
                                                                  may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given
                                                                  product according to the destination of that product ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas sweet fresh oranges, fresh lemons, apples and
                                                                  peaches of the common quality standards 'Extra'
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra' Class and Class I
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                   hothouse grapes and open ground grapes, shelled
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables ^), as last            almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts may at
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1367/80 (2), and in                present be exported in economically significant quanti­
particular Article 30 (4) thereof,                                ties ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
Committee,                                                        Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
                                                                  refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­                relation to each other at any given moment within
ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­              a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
ence between prices in international trade for the                     their effective parity ;
products referred to in that Article and prices for the
products within the Community may be covered by                   — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
an export refund ;                                                     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
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                       in the previous indent ;
2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general
rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit
and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3),
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4),                    Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
provides that when refunds are being fixed, account               to the present market situation and to its future
must be taken of the existing situation and future                trends, and in particular to quotations and prices for
trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit          fruit and vegetables in the Community and in inter­
                                                                  national trade that the refunds should be as set out in
and vegetables on the Community market on the one                 the Annex hereto :
hand and prices in international trade on the other ;
whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­
cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic
aspects of the proposed exports ;                                 Whereas the obligations under Article 10 ( 1 ) (b) of
                                                                  Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 of 29
                                                                   November 1979 laying down common detailed rules
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)                for the application of the system of export refunds on
No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market                   agricultural products (5) may be relaxed in the case of
are being determined account must be taken of the                 exports to non-member countries outside Europe ;
prices which are most favourable from the exportation             whereas, in such a case, Article 23 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation
point of view ; whereas, when prices in international             (EEC) No 2730/79 may be applied ;
trade are being determined, the quotations and prices
referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
taken into account ;                                              Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and
                                                                  Vegetables has not delivered an opinion within the
(»)  OJ  No L 118, 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .                           time limit set by its chairman,
(2)  OJ  No L 140, 5. 6. 1980, p. 22.
(»)  OJ  No L 318, 18. 12. 1969, p. 17.
(4)  OJ  No L 266, 25. 11 . 1972, p. 7.                           (5) OJ No L 317, 12. 12. 1979, p. 1 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION •                              apply to exports of sweet oranges, lemons, walnuts in
                                                           shell, shelled hazelnuts, apples and peaches as set out
                      Article 1                            in the Annex hereto.
1.   The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall
be as set out in the Annex hereto.                                                 Article 2
2. The provisions of Articles 10 (1 ) (b) and 23 ( 1 ) (c) This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 June
of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 shall            1980 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 9 June 1980.
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                         Vice-President
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                                                                    ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 9 June 1980 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                                   vegetables
                                                                                                                   (ECU/100 kg net)
                 CCT heading                                                                                           Refund
                      No                                              Description
           ex 08.02 A 1                Sweet fresh oranges :
                                       — Of varieties Biondo comune and Sanguigno comune
                                           ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                                        5-32
           l                           — Of other varieties ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                       9.67
            ex 08.02 C                 Fresh lemons (' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II )
                                       For export to :
                                       — countries or States with a planned economy in central
                                           or eastern Europe                                                            6 - 04
                                       — other destinations                                                             4-23
           ex 08.04 A I                Table grapes :
                                       — Fresh, open ground ('Extra' Class and Class I)                                 4-84
                                       — Fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I)                                   19-34
           ex 08.05 A II               Shelled almonds, other than bitter almonds                                       9-67
           ex 08.05 B                  Unshelled walnuts                                                               12-09
           ex 08.05 G                  Shelled hazelnuts                                                               14-51
           ex 08.06 A II               Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than
                                       cider apples
                                       For export to :
                                       — Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi,
                                           Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi,
                                           Uganda, Somalia, Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius,
                                           Sudan, Ethiopia, Jibuti, the countries of the Arabian
                                           peninsula ( 1), Iran and Iraq                                               13-50
                                       — countries       and     territories    of    Africa   other     than
                                           those mentioned above and South Africa , Syria,
                                           Jordan, countries with a planned economy in central
                                           and eastern Europe, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru,
                                           Panama, Ecuador, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden,
                                           Austria and the Faroe Islands                                                3-63
           ex 08.07 B                  Peaches (excluding pectorins) ('Extra' Class, Class I
                                       and Class II )                                                                   5-00
           (') For the purpose of this Regulation the ' countries of the Arabian peninsula" are considered to be the following,
               including the territories attached thereto : Saudi Arabia , Bahrain , Qatar, Kuwait, the Sultanate of Oman , United
               Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman , Umm- al Qawain , Fujairah , Ras A1 Khaimah), Yemen
               Arab Republic (North Yemen) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen).