CELEX: 31997R1841
Language: en
Date: 1997-09-24 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1841/97 of 24 September 1997 fixing the export refunds on olive oil

25 . 9 . 97            I EN I           Official Journal of the European Communities                                    L 263/23
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1841 /97
                                                       of 24 September 1997
                                             fixing the export refunds on olive oil
    THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          refund and may be limited to certain countries of des­
                                                                         tination, quantities, qualities and presentations;
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
    Community,                                                           Whereas the second indent of Article 3 (3) of Regulation
                                                                         No 136/66/EEC provides that the refund on olive oil
                                                                         may be varied according to destination where the world
    Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of                 market situation or the specific requirements of certain
    22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common                   markets make this necessary;
    organization of the market in oils and fats ('), as last
    amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 58 1 /9 6 (2), and in                Whereas the refund must be fixed at least once every
    particular Article 3 (3) thereof,                                    month; whereas it may, if necessary, be altered in the
                                                                         intervening period;
   Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                        Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules to
    provides that, where prices within the Community are                the present situation on the market in olive oil and in
    higher than world market prices, the difference between             particular to olive oil prices within the Community and
   these prices may be covered by a refund when olive oil is            on the markets of third countries that the refund should
   exported to third countries;                                         be as set out in the Annex hereto;
                                                                        Whereas the representative market rates defined in
   Whereas the detailed rules for fixing and granting export            Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (^ as
   refunds on olive oil are contained in Commission Regu­               last amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (6), are used
   lation (EEC) No 616/72 (3), as last amended by Regulation            to convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
   (EEC) No 2962/77 (4);
                                                                       and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                       conversion rates of the Member States' currencies;
                                                                       whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
  Whereas Article 3 (3) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC
  provides that the refund must be the same for the whole
                                                                       tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
  Community;                                                           lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (J), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                       tion (EC) No 1482/96 (8);
  Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (4) of Regulation              Whereas the Management Committee for Oils and Fats
  No 136/66/ EEC, the refund for olive oil must be fixed in            has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by
  the light of the existing situation and outlook in relation          its chairman,
  to olive oil prices and availability on the Community
  market and olive oil prices on the world market; whereas,
  however, where the world market situation is such that
  the most favourable olive oil prices cannot be deter­                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
  mined, account may be taken of the price of the main
  competing vegetable oils on the world market and the
 difference recorded between that price and the price of
 olive oil during a representative period; whereas the                                              Article 1
 amount of the refund may not exceed the difference
 between the price of olive oil in the Community and that             The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (2)
 on the world market, adjusted, where appropriate, to take            (c) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC shall be as set out in
 account of export costs for the products on the world                the Annex hereto.
 market;
 Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (3) third indent,                                            Article 2
 point (b) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, it may be
 decided that the refund shall be fixed by tender; whereas           This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 September
 the tendering procedure should cover the amount of the               1997 .
(')  OJ   172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66.                            O    OJ  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
0    OJ   L 206, 16 . 8 . 1996, p. 11 .                              (6)  OJ  L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
0    OJ   L 78 , 31 . 3 . 1972, p. 1 .                               0    OJ  L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(4)  OJ   L 348 , 30 . 12. 1977, p. 53.                              0    OJ  L 188, 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 24 September 1997.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                     Franz FISCHLER
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                                ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 24 September 1997 fixing the export refunds on olive oil
                                                                                                           (ECU/100 kg)
                                  Product code                                     Amount of refund (')
                                1509 10 90 9100                                            15,00
                                1509 10 90 9900                                             0,00
                                1509 90 00 9100                                            15,00
                                1509 90 00 9900                                             0,00
                                1510 00 90 9100                                             0,00
                                1510 00 90 9900                                             0,00
          (') For destinations mentioned in Article 34 of amended Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 3665/87 (OJ L 351 , 14.
              12. 1987, p 1 ), as well as for exports to third countries.
          NB: The product codes and the footnotes are defined in amended Commission Regulation (EEC)
                 No 3846/ 87 .