CELEX: 31996R2521
Language: en
Date: 1996-12-30 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2521/96 of 30 December 1996 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

No L 345/68           rENI                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 31 . 12. 96
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2521 /96
                                                        of 30 December 1996
                      fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in
                                                           the natural state
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          market and, on the other, of the need to establish a
                                                                       balance between the use of Community basic products in
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                the manufacture of processed goods for export to third
  Community,                                                           countries and the use of third country products brought
                                                                       in under inward processing arrangements;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                 Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
  of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
                                                                       limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d)
  markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­          of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ;
  tion (EC) No 1599/96 (2), and in particular Article 17 (5)
  thereof,
                                                                       Whereas Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
                                                                       makes provision for setting refunds for export in the
  Whereas Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                    natural state of products referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ) (f) and
  provides that the difference between quotations or prices           (g) and (h) of that Regulation; whereas the refund must be
  on the world market for the products listed in Article 1             fixed per 100 kilograms of dry matter, taking account of
 ( 1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those products            the export refund for products falling within CN code
 within the Community may be covered by an export                      1702 30 91 and for products referred to in Article 1 (1 ) (d)
  refund;                                                             of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 and of the economic
                                                                      aspects of the intended exports; whereas, in the case of
 Whereas Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No                   the products referred to in the said Article ( 1 ) (f) and (g),
 2135/95 of 7 September 1995 laying down detailed rules               the refund is to be granted only for products complying
 of application for the grant of export refunds in the sugar          with the conditions in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
 sector (3), provides that the export refund on 100 kilo­             2135/95; whereas, for the products referred to in Article 1
 grams of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regula­       (1 ) (h), the refund shall be granted only for products
 tion (EEC) No 1785/81 is equal to the basic amount                   complying with the conditions in Article 6 of Regulation
 multiplied by the sucrose content, including, where                  (EC) No 2135/95;
 appropriate, other sugars expressed as sucrose; whereas the
 sucrose content of the product in question is determined             Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed every
 in accordance with Article 3 of Commission Regulation                month; whereas they may be altered in the intervening
 (EC) No 2135/95;                                                     period;
 Whereas Article 17 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                Whereas application of these quotas results in fixing
 provides that the basic amount of the refund on sorbose              refunds for the products in question at the levels given in
 exported in the natural state must be equal to the basic             the Annex to this Regulation;
 amount of the refund less one-hundredth of the produc­
 tion refund applicable, pursuant to Council Regulation               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 (EEC) No 1010/86 of 25 March 1986 laying down general                in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 rules for the production refund on sugar used in the                 Committee for Sugar,
 chemical industry (4), last amended by Commission Regu­
 lation (EC) No 1 126/96 (^ to the products listed in the
 Annex to the last mentioned Regulation;
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other
 products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1785/81 exported in the natural state must be equal to                                         Article 1
 one-hundredth of an amount which takes account, on the
one hand, of the difference between the intervention                 The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
 price for white sugar for the Community areas without               (d), (f), (g) and (h) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ,
deficit for the month for which the basic amount is fixed            exported in the natural state, shall be set out in the Annex
and quotations or prices for white sugar on the world                hereto .
(')   OJ  No  L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
(2)   OJ  No  L 206, 16. 8 . 1996, p. 43.                                                       Article 2
(3    OJ  No  L 214, 8. 9. 1995, p. 16.
(4)   OJ  No  L 94, 9 . 4. 1986, p. 9 .
 5    OJ  No  L 150 , 25. 6. 1996, p. 3 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1997.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 30 December 1996 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Franz FISCHLER
                                                               Member of the Commission
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                                                           ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 30 December 1996 fixing the export refunds on syrups
                       and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                    Product code                         Amount of refund
                                                                   — ECU/ 1 00 kg dry matter —
                                 1702 40 10 9100                             43,29    (2)
                                 1702 60 10 9000                             43,29    (2)
                                 1702 60 90 9200                             82,25    (4)
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                 1702 60 90 9800                              0,4329 (')
                                                                   — ECU/ 1 00 kg dry matter —
                                 1702 90 30 9000                             43,29    (2)
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                 1702 90 60 9000                              0,4329 (')
                                 1702 90 71 9000                              0,4329 (')
                                 1702 90 99 9900                              0,4329 (') 0
                                                                   — ECU/ 1 00 kg dry matter —
                                 2106 90 30 9000                             43,29    (2)
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                 2106 90 59 9000                              0,4329 (')
                       (') The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure
                           (Regulation (EEC) No 394/70). Sucrose content is determined in accordance
                           with Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 394/70.
                       (2) Applicable only to products referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                           No 1469/ 77 .
                       (3) The basic amount is not applicable to the product defined under point 2 of the
                           Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3513/92 (OJ No L 355, 5. 12. 1992, p. 12).
                       (4) Applicable only to products defined under Article 13 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
                           No 394/70 .
                       NB: The product codes and the footnotes are defined in amended
                              Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ No L 366, 24. 12.
                              1987, p. 1 ).