CELEX: 31976R2530
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2530/76 of 19 October 1976 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

20 . 10 . 76                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 288 / 5
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2530/ 76
                                                          of 19 October 1976
                                      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 tomatoes, fresh lemons and apples of the
                                                                      common quality standards ' Extra ' Class, Class I and
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                        Class II , ' Extra' Class and Class I hothouse and open
  1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                      ground grapes, almonds, shelled hazelnuts, and
 tion of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last              shelled walnuts may at present be exported in econom­
 amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 795/76 (2 ), and in                  ically significant quantities ;
 particular Article 30 (4) thereof,
                                                                      Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                         refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 Committee ,
                                                                      — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
 Whereas Article 30 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1035/72                        within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
 provides that, tq the extent necessary to allow econom­                   on their effective parity ;
 ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­
 ence between prices in international trade and prices                — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 in the Community for the products referred to in that                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 Article may be covered by an export refund ;                              of these currencies recorded for a given period , in
                                                                           relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                           in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No
 2518 / 69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general
 rules for granting export refunds on fruit and vegeta­               Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
 bles and criteria for fixing the amount of such                      criteria to the present situation on the market of the
 refunds (3 ), as amended by Regulation ( EEC) No                     prospective development of this situation , and in parti­
 2455/ 72 (4 ), provides that, when refunds are being                 cular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegetables
 fixed , account must be taken of the current situation               in the Community and in international trade that the
 or foreseeable developments with regard to prices and                refund should be fixed as indicated below ;
 availabilities of fruit and vegetables on the Commu­
 nity market on the one hand and prices in interna­
 tional trade on the other ; whereas account must also                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 be taken of the costs indicated in (b) of that Article               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 and of the economic aspects of the proposed exports ;                ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC)
 No 2518 / 69, when prices on the Community market
 are being determined account must be taken of the                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
 prices which are most favourable from the exportation
 point of view ; whereas, when prices in international
 trade are being determined ^ the prices and quotations
 referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
 taken into account ;                                                                           Article 1
(') O | No L 1 IS , 20 . S. 1972 , p . I.
(-') O") No L 9 ?, 8 . 4 . 1976, p. 6 .
(') 0 | No 1 . US , IS . 12 . 1969 , p . 17 .                          1.    The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are
( 4 ) O | No L 266 , 2S . II . 1972 , p . 7 .                         hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex .
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2. The provisions of Article 6 ( 1 ) (b) of Commission                                   Article 2
Regulation ( EEC) No 192/75 of 17 January 1975
laying down detailed rules for the application of
export refunds in respect of agricultural products ('), as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 281 8 /75 (2 ), shall
apply to exports of table grapes of open ground, un­              This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 October
shelled walnuts and apples set out in the Annex .                  1976 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 19 October 1976 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975 , p . 1 .
(-') OJ No L 280 , 31 . 10 . 1975, p . 31 .
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                                                                   ANNEX
           to   the Commission Regulation of 19 October 1976 fixing the export refunds                                on fruit and
                                                                  vegetables
                                                                                                                     (m. a. 1100 kg net)
                CCT heading
                     No                                          Description of goods                                        Refund
           ex   07.01 M II             Tomatoes 'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II                                           4-00
           ex    08.02 C               Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class , Class I and Class II)
                                       for export to :
                                       — countries or States with a planned economy in cen­
                                           tral and eastern Europe                                                            2-50
                                       — other destinations                                                                   1-44
           ex   08.04 A I              Table grapes :
                                       — fresh , open ground 'Extra ' Class and Class I                                      6-00
                                       — fresh , hothouse ' Extra' Class and Class I                                        16-00
           ex   08.05 A II             Shelled almonds other than bitter almonds                                              8-00
           ex   08.05 B                Walnuts unshelled                                                                    10-00
           ex   08.05 G                Shelled hazelnuts                                                                     8-00
           cx   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, Comore
                                           Islands, Mauritius, Sudan , Ethiopia, the French terri­
                                           tory of the Afars and Issas, the countries of the
                                           Arabian peninsula (') Iran and Iraq                                                7-00
                                       — for export to 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, Iceland , Finland , Norway and Sweden                                      3-00
           (') 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 , Ummal-Quaiwain , Fujairah , Ras Al Kaiman ), Yemen
               Arab Republic ( North Yemen ) and the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen ( South Yemen ).