CELEX: 31979R2402
Language: en
Date: 1979-11-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2402/79 of 31 October 1979 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar, exported in the natural state

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                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2402/79
                                                       of 31 October 1979
               fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar, exported in the natural
                                                               state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas the world market situation or the specific
COMMUNITIES,                                                         requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
                                                                     sary to vary the refund for sugar according to destina­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                tion ;
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                    may be fixed by other legal instruments ;
zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular the               Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 1 9 (2)           refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
thereof,
                                                                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                               relation to each other at any given moment within
Committee,                                                                 a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                           their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
provides that the difference ' between quotations or                 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
prices on the world market for the products listed in                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Article 1 ( l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those                  of these currencies recorded for a given period in
products within the Community may be covered by                            relation to the Community currencies referred to
an export refund ;                                                         in the previous indent ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18                     Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
June 1968 laying down general rules for granting                     whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds                Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out
on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in                  above to the present situation on the market in sugar
the natural state, are being fixed account must be                   and in particular to quotations or prices for sugar
taken of the situation on the Community and world                    within the Community and on the world market that
markets in sugar and in particular of the price and                  the refund should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;
cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ;
whereas the same Article provides that the economic
aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
into account ;                                                       are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                     ment Committee for Sugar,
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in
respect of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is
defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron­
tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
sugar (5) ; whereas, furthermore, this refund should be
fixed in accordance with Article 5 (2) of Regulation                                            Article 1
(EEC) No 766/68 ; whereas candy sugar is defined in
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March                     The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1
 1970 on detailed rules for granting export refunds on               ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, undenatured
sugar (6), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                         and exported in the natural state, shall be as set out in
 1467/77 (7);                                                        the Annex hereto.
 •) OJ   No L  359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
 2) OJ   No L  170, 27. 6. 1978 , p. 1 .
 3) OJ   No L  143, 25. 6. 1968 , p. 6.                                                         Article 2
 4) OJ   No L  167, 26 . 6. 1976, p. 13 .
 5) OJ   No L  89, 10. 4. 1968 , p. 3 .
 6) OJ   No L  50, 4. 3 . 1970, p. 1 .                               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
 7) OJ   No L  162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6.                                1979 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 31 October 1979.
                                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                         Vice-President
                                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 31 October 1979 fixing the export refunds on white sugar
                                             and raw sugar, exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                        (ECU / 100 kg)
                   CCT
                 heading                                                    Description                                                   Refund
                    No
            17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                   A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar                                                          16.50
                                   B. Raw sugar :
                                        (a) Candy sugar                                                                                  16.72 (»)
                                        (b) Other raw sugar                                                                              13.50 (1)
           (') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 % , the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with
               the provisions of Article 5 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 .