CELEX: 31975R2493
Language: en
Date: 1975-10-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2493/75 of the Commission of 30 September 1975 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

1 . 10 . 75                             Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 254/29
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 2493/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 30 September 1975
                                             fixing the export refund on oil seeds
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC
  COMMUNITIES,                                                       provides that when the refund is being calculated
                                                                     account must be taken of prices ruling on the various
                                                                     Community markets which are representative from
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             the point of view of processing and exportation ; the
  Economic Community ;                                               most favourable quotations recorded on the various
                                                                     markets of importing third countries and Greece, and
                                                                    costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/                       market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
 66/EEC (J) of 22 September 1966 on the establish­                  being fixed, account must also be taken of the level of
 ment of a common organization of the market in oils                market prices within the Community for the oil seeds
 and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
  1707/73 (2);                                                      66/EEC and the future trend of these prices ; whereas,
                                                                    furthermore, account should be taken of the economic
                                                                    aspect of the proposed exports and the situation in the
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/                        Community regarding the supply of and demand for
 66/EEC (3) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and                 these seeds ;
 fats between the Community and Greece ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/                         Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
 67/EEC (4) of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on                    No 651 /71 (6) of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed
 colza, rape and sunflower seeds, as last amended by                rules for the application of export refunds on oil seeds
 Regulation (EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular the             provides that the amount of the refund must be calcu­
 first sentence of Article 2 (3) thereof ;                          lated on the basis of the weight of exported seeds ;
                                                                    whereas this weight must be adjusted to take account
                                                                    of any differences between the percentages of mois­
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                       ture and impurities found to exist and those used to
 Committee :                                                        define the standard quality for which the target price
                                                                    is fixed ; whereas, when this adjustment is being
                                                                    made, the weight of the exported seeds must be
 Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                     increased by the amount of the difference between the
 provides that a refund may be granted on exports to                actual moisture and impurities content and that used
 third countries of oil seeds harvested within the                  to define the standard quality if the former is lower
 Community ; whereas the amount of this refund may                  than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the
 not exceed the difference between prices within the                weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the
 Conimunity and prices on the world market where                    same amount :
.the former are higher than the latter ; whereas Article
 21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that, at
 present, Article 28 of that Regulation applies only to
 colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                                  Whereas the standard quality referred to above is
                                                                    defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    657/75 (7) of 4 March 1975 fixing the target prices and
 Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/EEC                      basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the 1975/
 provides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/                      1976 marketing year ;
 66/EEC and measures taken in application thereof
 apply, subject to the provisions of the Agreement esta­
 blishing an Association between the European                       Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC
 Economic Community and Greece, to trade between                    provides that the refund may be varied according to
 the Community and Greece ;                                         destination where the world market situation or the
                                                                    specific requirements of certain markets make this
 (')  OJ  No  172, 30 . 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.                        necessary ;
(2)  OJ   No  L 175, 29 . 6. 1973 , p. 5.
(3)  OJ   No  197, 29 . 10 . 1966, p. 3393/66.
(4)  OJ   No  125, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2461 /67.                        (6) OJ No L 75, 30 . 3 . 1971 , p. 16.
(5 ) OJ   No  L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .                         (7) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p. 3 .
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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :                  are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                    ment Committee for Oils and Fats.
    relation to each other, at any given moment,
    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
    on their effective parity ;                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in                                       Article 1
    relation to the Community currencies referred to
    in the previous subparagraph ;                                     The refunds on the products referred to in Article 21
                                                                       of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, exported to third coun­
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and                       tries and Greece, are hereby fixed as shown in the
criteria to the present situation on the market in oil                 Annex to this Regulation.
seeds, and in particular to quotations or prices for
these products within the Community and on the
markets of third countries and Greece, that the refund                                        Article 2
should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
to this Regulation for those products for which the                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October
marketing year has already begun ;                                     1975 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 30 September 1975.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                 * P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                             Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                                  Refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 October 1975
                                                                                                        (u.aJlOO kg)
                    CCT
                  heading                               Description of goods                            Refund
                     No
              ex 1 2.0 1        Colza and rape seed, other than for sowing                              1-500
              ex 12.01          Sunflower seed, other than for sowing