CELEX: 31977R2979
Language: en
Date: 1977-12-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2979/77 of 29 December 1977 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs

No L 351 /20                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             31 . 12. 77
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2979/77
                                                       of 29 December 1977
                         fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      feedingstuffs for which a refund may be fixed should
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       be taken into account ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                    Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1913/69
 Economic Community,
                                                                    of 29 September 1969 on the granting and the
                                                                    advance fixing of the export refund on cereal-based
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       compound feedingstuffs (5), as amended by Regulation
 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                 (EEC) No 31 16/75 (6), provides that calculation of the
 tion of the market in cereals ( ! ), as last amended by            export refund must be based on the levy applicable to
 Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2), and in particular the             maize ; whereas       this  calculation   must also   take
 fourth subparagraph of Article 16 (2) thereof,                     account of the cereal products content ; whereas, there­
                                                                    fore, in the interest of simplification, compound
                                                                    feedingstuffs should be placed in categories and the
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
 Committee ,
                                                                    refund for each category should be fixed on the basis
                                                                    of a quantity of maize which is representative of the
                                                                    usual cereal products content for the category
Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                   concerned ; whereas, futhermore, the amount of the
 provides that the difference between quotations or                 refund must also take into account the possibilities
 prices on the world market for the products listed in              and conditions for the sale of those products on the
 Article 1 of that Regulation and prices for those                  world market, the need to avoid disturbances on the
 products within the Community may be covered by                    Community market and the economic aspect of the
 an export refund ;                                                 export ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    Whereas the      world market situation or the specific
 2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general
                                                                    requirements     of certain markets may make it neces­
 rules for granting export refunds on cereals and
                                                                    sary to vary    the refund for compound feedingstuffs
 criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3),
                                                                    according to    destination ;
 provides that when refunds are being fixed account
 must be taken of the existing situation and the future
 trend with regard to prices and availabilities of cereals          Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 on the Community market on the one hand and
                                                                    refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 prices for cereals and cereal products on the other ;
 whereas the same Article provides that it is also impor­
 tant to ensure equilibrium and the natural develop­                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 ment of prices and trade on the cereal markets ;                        relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                        a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                         their effective parity ;
 Whereas it follows from applying rules and criteria to
 the present situation on the market in cereal-based                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 compound feedingstuffs that the export refund should                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 be fixed at an amount which will cover the difference                  of these currencies recorded for a given period in
 between Community prices and world market prices ;                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                         in the previous subparagraph ;
 Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be
                                                                    Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month ;
 applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (4), as
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77, provides                   whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
 that, when export refunds on cereal-based compound
 feedingstuffs are being fixed, only the products
 normally used in the manufacture of compound                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                    are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                    ment Committee for Cereals,
(')  OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2)  OJ  No L 303 , 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .
(3 ) OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 78 .                          (5) OJ No L 246, 30 . 9 . 1969, p. 11 .
 4   OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60 .                          (6) OJ No L 309 , 29 . 11 . 1975, p . 64.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                        to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 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 January
covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and subject                                    1978 .
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                     Done at Brussels, 29 December 1977.
                                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                       Vice-President
                                                                             ANNEX
                     to the Commission Regulation of 29 December 1977 fixing the export refunds on cereal­
                                                             based compound feedingstuffs
                                                                                                                                                     (u.dJtonnt)
         CCT              Special
        heading        specification                                      Nomenclature in simplified wording                                       Refund
          No            for refund
23.07 B I                                 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by Regulation (EEC) No
                                          2743/75, containing starch, glucose or glucose syrup falling within subheadings
                                          17.02 B and 21.07 F II or milk products (falling within heading Nos 04.01 ,
                                          04.02, 04.03 and 04.04 and subheadings 17.02 A and 21.07 F I) :
                                          of a milk powder content of less than 50 % by weight and of cereal products (')
                                          content by weight :
                          3010            — Exceeding 5 % but not exceeding 1 5 %                                                                   6-57
                          4010            — Exceeding 15% but not exceeding 30 %                                                                   1643
                          5010            — Exceeding 30 % but not exceeding 50 %                                                                  29-57
                          6010            — Exceeding 50 % but not exceeding 65 %                                                                  39-42
                          7010            — Exceeding 65 %                                                                                         49-28
(') ' Cereal products means the products falling within Chapter 10 and heading Nos 11.01 and 11.02 (excluding subheading 11.02 G ) of the Common Customs Tariff.