CELEX: 31973R1737
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1737/73 of the Commission of 29 June 1973 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs

No L 176/28                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              30 . 6. 73
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1737/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 29 June 1973
                             fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2196/69 (®), 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 (x) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                    1913/69 (7) 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 on
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession                 cereal-based compound feedingstuffs provides that
of new Member States to the European Econo­                        calculation of the export refund must be based on the
mic Community and the European Atomic Energy                       levy applicable to maize ; whereas this calculation
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,
                                                                   must also take account of the cereal products con­
and in particular the first sentence of the fourth                 tent ; whereas, therefore, in the interest of simplifica­
subparagraph of Article 16 (2) thereof ;                           tion, compound feedingstuffs should be placed in
                                                                   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 (4) 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             — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Community market on the one hand and prices for
                                                                         relation to each other, at any given moment,
cereals and cereal products on the other ; whereas
                                                                         within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange
the same Article provides that it is also important to
                                                                         based on their effective parity ;
ensure equilibrium and the natural development of
prices and trade on the cereal markets ;                          — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
                                                                         the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates
Whereas it follows from applying rules and criteria                      of each of these currencies recorded for a given
to the present situation on the market in cereal­                        period, in relation to the Community currencies
based compound feedingstuffs that the export re­                         referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
fund should be fixed at an amount which will cover
the difference between Community prices and world                  Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee
market prices ;                                                    was requested ;
Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC)                Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month ;
No 968/68 (5) of 15 July 1968 on the system to be                  whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs, as
                                                                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
                                                                   tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the
                                                                   Management Committee for Cereals ;
 í1) OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
 (s) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
 (®) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 .
 (<) OJ No 125, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2453/67.                            (fl) OJ No L 279, 6. 11 . 1969, p. 1 .
 (s) OJ No L 166, 17. 7. 1968, p . 2 .                              (7 ) OJ No L 246, 30. 9. 1969, p . 11 .
 ---pagebreak--- 30. 6 . 73                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                            No L 176/29
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 July
covered by Regulation No 120/67/EEC and subject                                1973 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 29 June 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 kg
                         for refund                                                                                                (third countries)
23.07 B I                                   Preparations of a kind used in animal 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 (J) content of less than 50 %> by weight and of
                                            cereal products (2) content by weight :
                           30 10            — Exceeding 5 % but not exceeding 15 °/o                                                     0-060
                           4010             — Exceeding 15 °/o but not exceeding 30%                                                     0-150
                           5010             — Exceeding 30 °/o but not exceeding 50 °/o                                                  0-270
                            6010            — Exceeding 50 °/o but not exceeding 65 %                                                    0-360
                            7010            — Exceeding 65 °/o                                                                           0-450
 (') If the preparation of a kind used in animal feeding contains skimmed - milk powder falling within subheading No 04.02 A II b) of the Common
     Customs Tariff, the amounts fixed in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 757/71 in its version now in force 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.