CELEX: 31977R1627
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1627/77 of 20 July 1977 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

No L 181 / 18                          Official Journal of the European Communities                             21 . 7 . 77
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1627/77
                                                       of 20 July 1977
                                      fixing the export refunds on fishery products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   sary to vary the refund according to the destination of
COMMUNITIES,                                                     the products in question ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           Whereas products of Community origin which are
Economic Community,                                              landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­
                                                                 ated outside the customs territory of the Community
                                                                 do not qualify for refunds ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in fishery products (*), as amended           Whereas economically important quantities of frozen
by Regulation (EEC) No 2429/76 (2), and in particular            fillets of cod, frozen whole mackerel, dried and salted
the fourth indent of Article 23 (2) thereof,                     cod and coalfish can be exported at the present time ;
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                    Whereas it follows from applying the abovementioned
 Committee,                                                      rules and criteria to the present situation on the
                                                                 market and in particular to prices for fishery products
                                                                 in the Community and on the world market that the
Whereas Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76                 refund should be fixed as shown in the Annex ;
provides that, to the extent necessary to enable
economically important exports of the products listed
in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the        Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
basis of prices for these products on the world market,          refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
the difference between these prices and prices within            — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
the Community may be covered by an export refund ;                    relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                      within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                      on their effective parity ;
 110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules
for granting export refunds on fishery products and              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3),                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
provides that when refunds are being fixed account                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
                                                                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­
tion and the future trend with regard to prices and
                                                                      in the previous subparagraph ;
availabilities of fishery products on the Community
market and prices for fishery products on the world              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
market on the other ; whereas account must also be               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
taken of the costs referred to in (c) of that Article of         ment Committee for Fishery Products,
the economic significance of the proposed exports
and of the aims of the common organization of the
market in fishery products ;
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76
provides that, when prices on the Community market
are being determined, account must be taken of the
                                                                                         Article 1
ruling prices which are most favourable from the
exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on
the world market are being determined, account must              The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­
be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that          lation (EEC) No 100/76 are hereby fixed at the
Article ;                                                        amounts shown in the Annex.
Whereas the world market situation or the specific
requirements of certain markets may make it neces­                                       Article 2
(') OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 276, 7. 10 . 1976, p. 5.                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 July
(3) OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 48 .                            1977 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 20 July 1977.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 20 July 1977 fixing the export refunds on fishery
                                                           products
                                                                                                (u.a. / 100 kg net)
                 CCT
                heading                                 Description of goods                          Refund
                  No
           03.01          Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen :
                          B. Saltwater fish :
                              I. Whole, headless or in pieces :
                                   m) Mackerel :
                                         1 . bb) Frozen                                                 5.00
                                         2. bb) Frozen                                                  5.00
                               II . Fillets :
                                    b) Frozen :
                                        1 . Of cod (Gadus morrhua or Gadus callarias)                    1.50
           03.02           Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish, whether or not
                          cooked before or during the smoking process :
                          ex A. I. b) Cod, dried and salted, whole headless or in pieces
                                           For exports to Brazil, Puerto Rico, Congo-
                                           Brazzaville, Zaire and Venezuela                            15-00
                                       f) Coalfish, dried and salted, whole, headless or in
                                           pieces
                                           For exports to Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, Zaire,
                                           Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Windward and
                                           Leeward Islands, Panama, Surinam and the Domin­
                                           ican Republic                                               15-00