CELEX: 31978R0642
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 642/78 of 31 March 1978 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

No L 86/ 18                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                  1 . 4. 78
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 642/78
                                                            of 31 March 1978
                fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in
                                                            the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other
COMMUNITIES,                                                            products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                        No 3330/74 exported in the natural state must be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   equal to one-hundredth of an amount which takes
Economic Community,                                                     account, on the one hand, of the difference between
                                                                        the intervention price for white sugar for the Commu­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                            nity area with the largest surplus for the month for
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                       which the basic amount is fixed and quotations or
zation of the market in sugar (J), as last amended by                   prices for white sugar on the world market and, on
Regulation (EEC) No' 2560/77 (2), and in particular the                 the other, of the need to establish a balance between
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 19 (2)               the use of Community basic products in the manufac­
thereof,                                                                ture of processed goods for export to third countries
                                                                        and the use of third country products brought in
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                            under inward processing arrangements ;
Committee,
                                                                        Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                       limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
provides that the difference between quotations or                      (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 ;
prices on the world market for the products listed in
Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those             Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
products within the Community may be covered by                         refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
an export refund ;                                                      — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                            relation to each other at any given moment within
Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                            a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for                        their effective parity ;
granting export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that the                   — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
export refund on 100 kilograms of the products listed                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is                    of these currencies recorded for a given period in
equal to the basic amount multiplied by the sucrose                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
content, including, where appropriate, other sugars                         in the previous subparagraph ;
expressed as sucrose ; whereas the sucrose content of                   Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed
the product in question is determined in accordance
with the provisions of Article 13 of Commission Regu­                   every month ; whereas they may be altered in the
lation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on detailed                      intervening period ;
rules for granting export refunds on sugar (5), as                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1499/76 (6) ;                            are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                        ment Committee for Sugar,
Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68
provides that the basic amount of the refund on
sorbose exported in the natural state must be equal to
the basic amount of the refund less one-hundredth of                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the production refund applicable pursuant to Council
Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 of 18 June 1968 laying                                                Article 1
down general rules for the production refund on sugar
used in the chemical industry (6), as last amended by                   The refund to be granted on the products listed in
Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77, to the products listed                     Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
 in Annex I to the last mentioned Regulation ;                          exported in the natural state, is hereby fixed as shown
                                                                        in the Annex to this Regulation .
(0   OJ No  L   359, 31 .  12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2)  OJ No  L   303, 28 .  11 . 1977, p. 1 .
(3 ) OJ No  L   143, 25 .  6. 1968 , p. 6 .                                                      Article 2
(4)  OJ No  L   167, 26 .  6 . 1976, p. 13 .
(5)  OJ No  L   50, 4. 3.   1970, p. 1 .
(6)  OJ No  L   167, 26 .  6. 1976, p. 29 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
(7)  OJ No  L   143 , 25 . 6 . 1968 , p. 1 .                             1978 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 31 March 1978 .
                                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                      Vice-President
                                                                         ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 31 March 1978 fixing the export refunds on syrups and
                                  certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                    (u.a./100 kg)
                                                                                                                                Basic amount
                   CCT
                 heading                                                  Description                                          per percentage
                   No                                                                                                         point of sucrose
                                                                                                                                 content (')
           17.02                   Other sugars in solid form ; sugar syrups, not containing added
                                   flavouring or colouring matter ; artificial honey, whether or not
                                   mixed with natural honey ; caramel :
                                        D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and
                                             maple) :
                                             ex II. Other, excluding sorbose                                                      0-2275
                                        E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey                              0-2275
                                   ex F. Caramel made from sugar falling within heading No
                                             17.01                                                                                0-2275
          21.07                    Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included :
                                   F. Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups :
                                        IV. Other (than lactose, glucose and isoglucose syrups)                                   0-2275
          ( !) The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure (Regulation (EEC) No 394/70). Sucrose content is deter­
               mined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation ( EEC) No 394/70 .