CELEX: 31979R2322
Language: en
Date: 1979-10-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2322/79 of 22 October 1979 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

23 . 10 . 79                          Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 265/7
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2322/79
                                                      of 22 October 1979
                                      fixing the export refunds on fishery products
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas economically important quantities of frozen
  COMMUNITIES,                                                     whole mackerel, frozen fillets of mackerel, dried and
                                                                   salted coalfish and mackerel, dried, salted or in brine
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community,                                              can be exported at the present time ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     Whereas pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
  100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza­                No 686/78 of 6 April 1978 laying down additional
 tion of the market in fishery products ('), as last               provisions as regards the granting of export refunds on
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2903/78 (2), and in                fishery products (4), for the purposes of the export
 particular the fourth subparagraph of Article 23 (2)              refund system, fishery products of Community origin
 thereof,                                                          frozen and/or processed on board a vessel registered
                                                                   or recorded in a third country and flying the flag of a
  Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     third country shall be considered to be products
 Committee,
                                                                   which are not of Community origin ;
 Whereas Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76
 provides that, to the extent necessary to enable                  Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
 economically important exports of the products listed             to the present market situation and in particular to
 in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the         prices for fishery products in the Community and on
                                                                   the world market that the refunds should be as set out
 basis of prices for these products on the world market,           in the Annex hereto ;
 the difference between these prices and prices within
 the Community may be covered by an export refund ;                Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                  refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
  110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules             — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 for granting export refunds on fishery products and                   relation to each other at any given moment within
 criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3),                   a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
 provides that when refunds are being fixed account                    their effective parity ;
 must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 tion and the future trend with regard to prices and                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 availabilities of fishery products on the Community                   of these currencies recorded for a given period in
 market and prices on the world market on the other ;                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
 whereas account must also be taken of the costs
                                                                       in the previous indent ;
 referred to in (c) of that Article and of the economic
 significance of the proposed exports and of the aims             Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
 of the common organization of the market in fishery              March 1979 (5) laid down the coefficient for
 products ;                                                        expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
                                                                   ECU ;
 Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76
 provides that, when prices on the Community market               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 are being determined, account must be taken of the               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 ruling prices which are most favourable from the                 ment Committee for Fishery Products,
 exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on
 the world market are being determined, account must
 be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Article ;
                                                                                           Article 1
 Whereas the world market situation or the specific
 requirements of certain markets may make it neces­               The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­
 sary to vary the refund according to the destination of          lation (EEC) No 100/76 shall be as set out in the
 the products in question ;                                       Annex hereto .
Whereas products of Community origin which are
 landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­                                   Article 2
 ated outside the customs territory of the Community
do not qualify for refunds ;                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 October
                                                                   1979 .
(') OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 .
( 2) OJ No L 347, 12. 12. 1978 , p. 1 .                           (4) OJ No L 93, 7. 4. 1978, p. 12.
P) OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 48 .                             (5) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 22 October 1979 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                  Vice-President
                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 22 October 1979 fixing the export refunds on fishery
                                                            products
                                                                                                 (ECU / 100 kg net)
                 CCT
                heading                                     Description                               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 :
                                                For exports to all destinations with the excep­
                                                tion of Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland,
                                                Iceland and the USSR                                    6.04
                                      2. bb) Frozen :
                                                For exports to all destinations with the excep­
                                                tion of Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland,
                                                Iceland and the USSR                                    6.04
                              II . Fillets :                                                     l
                                   b) Frozen :
                                       6 . Of mackerel :
                                           For exports to all destinations with the exception
                                           of Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland
                                           and the USSR                                                 3 - 63
           03.02          Fish, dried, salted or in brine , smoked fish, whether or not
                          cooked before or during the smoking process :                                        \
                          ex A. I. f) — Coalfish , dried and salted, whole, headless or in
                                             pieces :
                                             For exports to Porto Rico, the People's Republic
                                             of the Congo, Zaire, Gabon, Cameroon, Angola,
                                             Jamaica, Trinidad , Barbados, Windward and
                                             Leeward    Islands,     Panama, Surinam   and  the
                                             Dominican Republic                                       1813
                                        — Mackerel, dried , salted or in brine, whole, headless
                                             or in pieces :
                                             For exports to Jamaica, Trinidad and Windward
                                             and Leeward Islands                                        4.84