CELEX: 51973PC0377
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Date: 1973-03-07
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Regulations (EEC) Nos 766/68 and 1052/68 relating to sugar, cereals and rice, with reference to the advance fixing of refunds (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                             Proposal for a
                    REGULATION (EEC ) OP THE COUNCIL
      amending Council Regulations (EEC ) Nos 766/68 and 1052/68
      relating to sugar , cereals and rice , with reference to the
                       advance fixing of refunds
             (submitted to the Council by the Commission)
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                                                           Orig. î F
EXPLANATORY MBMORAEDUM
Council Regulation ( 3EC ) No 2429/72 concerning the suspension of the
application of the provisions for the advance fixing of levies and export
refunds in different sectors of the common organization of the market , lays
dovrn certain measures which specify an hour of the day "by which applications
for licences accompanied by a request for advance fixing must he lodged.
Given that Council Regulations ( SEC ) No 776/63 of 18 June 1968 laying
down the general rules for the payment of export refunds for sugar, and
No IO52/68 of 23 July 1968 on the import and export system for products
processed from cereals and from rice , do not lay down preoisely "by what hour
applications for licences must "be lodged it is desirable that they be
rectified in this respect . The present proposal makes the necessary amendments
to those Regulations .
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                              REGULATION (EEC ) OP THE COUNCIL
                  amending Council Regulations ( ESC ) Nos 1&S/63 and 1052/68
                  relating to sugary cereals and noe , with reference to the
                              advance fixing of refunds
THE COmiC I L OF THE EUROPEAN COOIUNITISS :                                          – ^
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ?
Having regard to Council Regulation No I20/67/EEC ( l), of 13 Jutoe 1967 on
the common organization of the market in cereals , as last amended "by the
Act ( 2 ) annexed to the Treaty concerning the accession of new Member States
to the European Economic Community and to the European Atomic Energy Community
( 3 ) » signed at Brussels cn 22 January 1972 , hereinafter called the *ActM , and in
particular Article 6 ( 5) .thereof?
Having regard to Council Regulation. No 359/67/E2C ( 4) of 25 July 1967 on
the common organization of the market in rioe as last amended by the Act ^
and in particular Article 17 ( 5 ) thereof ?
Having regard to Council Regulation ITo IOO9/67/EEC (5 ) of 18 December 1967
on the common organization of the market in sugar , as last amended by Regulation
(EEC ) Bo 174/73 ( 6), and in particular Article 17 ( 2 ) thereof ,
Having regard' to the proposal from the Commission !
Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 2429/72 ( 7 ) of 21 November 1972 concerning
the suspension of the application of the provisions for the advance fixing-
of levies and export refunds in different seotors of the common organization
of the market , provides for certain measures which specify by what hour of
the day applications for licences must be lodged?
VJhereas Counoil Regulations No 766/68 ( 8) of 18 June 1968 laying down general
rules for granting export refunds on sugar, as last amended by Regulations
( EEC ) No 43/72 ( 9 ) and No 1052/63 - ( 10) of 23 July 1968 concerning the import
and export system for products processed from cereals and from rice , als last
amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 2723/71 ( ll), are not sufficiently precise as
 regards -he hour of the day by which applications for lioenees must be lodged?
whereas it is desirable that they be supplemented accordingly!
f?A3 ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                ( 6 ) OJ No L 35 r 7 February 1973 .
trroj No 117 , 19 June 1967 .                   ( 7 ) OJ No 264 , 23 November 1972 .
 ( 2) OJ No L 73 , 27 March 1972 .              ( 8)  OJ No 143 , 25 June 1968 .
 ( 3 ) OJ No L 73 , 27 March 1972 .             ( 9)  OJ No L 53 » 2 March 1972 .
 ( 4) OJ No 174; 31 July 1967 *               ( 10)
                                              ( 11 )
                                                      CJ
                                                      OJ
                                                         No
                                                         No
                                                            L 179 , 25 July 1968 .
                                                            L 282 , 23 December 1971 .
 ( 5 ) OJ No 308 , 18 December 1967 .
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                                      iàrtirle 1
The text of Article 11 ( 2) of Regulation ( ESC ) Fo 766/68 is replaced by
the following :
 "2 , However, the amount of the refund or the basio amount of the refund
      in foroe on the day on which the application is lodged, Bhould he
      applied to to an export transaction to "bo effected during the validity
      of the licence , at the request of the applioant , such request to he
      lodged at the same time on the application for a licence , and in any
      event "before 13.00 hours ."
                                      Article 2
                                                                 J
The text of Article 7i first paragraph, and first sentence of the second
paragraph , of Regulation ( EEC ) Ho 1052/68 is replaced by the following :
"The refund in force on the day on which the application for a licenoe
is lodged shall be applied to a transaction to be carried out during the
validity . of the lioenoe , at the request of the applicant , such request to
be lodged at the same time as the application for a licence and in any event
before 13.00 hours ."
In the case referred to in the foregoing paragraph the refund shall be
adjusted by reference to the threshold price in foroe during the month of
exportation for the basio product or products .
                                     Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into foroe on the day following its publication
in the Official Journal of the European Coimunities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and direotly applicable
  in all Member States .-
Done at Brussels ,                                   . For the Council
                                                       The President