CELEX: 31988R1878
Language: en
Date: 1988-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1878/88 of 30 June 1988 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

No L 168/32                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                    1 . 7. 88
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1878/88
                                                         of 30 June 1988
                    fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in
                                                         the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         rules for the production refund on sugar used in the
                                                                    chemical industry Q, to the products listed in the Annex
                                                                    to the last mentioned Regulation ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                    Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
Portugal,                                                            1785/81 exported in the natural state must be equal to
                                                                    one-hundredth of an amount which takes account, on the
                                                                    one hand, of the difference between the intervention
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                price for white sugar for the Community areas without
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                   deficit for the month for which the basic amount is fixed
markets ,in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­        and quotations or prices for white sugar on the world
tion (EEC) No 1107/88 (2), and in particular Article 19 (4)         market and, on the other, of the need to establish a
thereof,                                                            balance between the use of Community basic products in
                                                                    the manufacture of processed goods for export to third
                                                                    countries and the use of third country products brought
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,             in under inward processing arrangements ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
provides that the difference between quotations or. prices          Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
on the world market for the products listed in Article 1            limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d)
(1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those/products           of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ;
within the Community may be covered by an export ,
 refund ;
                                                                    Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                     makes provision for setting refunds for export in the
766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for                natural state of products referred to in Article 1 (1 ) (f) and
granting export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by            (g) of that Regulation ; whereas the refund must be fixed
Regulation (EEC) No 1 489/76 (4), provides that the export          per 100 kilograms of dry matter, taking account of the
refund on 100 kilograms of the products listed in Article           export refund for products within subheading 1702 30 91
 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 is equal to the          of the combined nomenclature and for products referred
basic amount multiplied by the sucrose content, inclu­              to in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 and
ding, where appropriate, other sugars expressed as                  of the economic aspects of the intended exports ; whereas
sucrose ; whereas the sucrose content of the product in             the refund is to be granted only for products complying
question is determined in accordance with Article 13 of             with the conditions in Article 3 of Commission Regula­
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March                     tion (EEC) No 1469/77 of 30 June 1977 laying down
 1970 on detailed rules for granting export refunds on               rules for applying the levy and the refund in respect of
sugar (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    isoglucose and amending Regulation (EEC) No
 1467/77 «;                                                          192/75 (");
Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68
provides that the basic amount of the refund on sorbose             Whereas the Council has not to date adopted the prices
exported in the natural state must be equal to the basic            for the 1988/89 marketing year, which commences
amount of the refund less one-hundredth of the produc­              on 1 July 1988 ; whereas the price factors determined
tion refund applicable, pursuant to Council Regulation              by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1912/88 (9) should
(EEC) No 1400/78 of 20 June 1978 laying down general                accordingly be taken into account for the calculation of
                                                                     the refunds in order to ensure that the export arrange­
('J OJ No L 1 //, . 1 . /. 1781 , p. 4.                              ments continue to operate in the sector concerned ;
(2) OJ   No   L 110, 29. 4. 1988 , p. 20.
(3) OJ   No   L 143, 25. 6. 1968, p. 6.
(4) OJ   No   L 167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13.                            0 OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 9 .
(*) OJ   No   L 50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 .                              0 OJ No L 162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 9.
(«) OJ   No   L 162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6.                             o See page 115 of this Official Journal.
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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,             Whereas, pursuant to Article 275 of the Act of Accession
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :             of Spain and Portugal, refunds may be granted in the case
                                                                  of exportes to Portugal ; whereas, in the light of the situa­
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                  tion and the level of prices no refund should be fixed in
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band         the case of exports to Portugal ;
     of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
     the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­     in accordance with the opinion of the Management
     tion (EEC) No 1676/85 ('), as last amended by Regula­        Committee for Sugar,
     tion (EEC) No 1636/87 (2);
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
     these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
     tion to the Community currencies referred to in the                                    Article 1
     previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
                                                                  The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )
Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed every         (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 , exported
month ; whereas they may be altered in the intervening             in the natural state, shall be as set out in the Annex
period ;                                                           hereto.
Whereas application of these quotas results in fixing                                       Article 2
 refunds for the products in question at the levels given in
the Annex to this Regulation ;                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1988 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 30 June 1988 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                 Vice-President
 (') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 0 OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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                                                                 ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1988 fixing the export refunds on syrups and
                               certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                   (ECU)
                                                     Basic amount per percentage point
                         Product code
                                                          of sucrose content and          Amount of refund per 100 kg
                                                      per 100 kg net of the product'            of dry matter (2)
                                                               in question (')
                       1702 40 10 100                                                                37,09
                       1702 60 10 000              Il                                                37,09
                       1702 60 90 000                             0,3709
                       1702 90 30 000              I                                                 37,09
                       1702 90 60 000                             0,3709               I
                        1702 90 71 000                            0,3709
                       1702 90 90 900                             0,3709
                       2106 90 30 000              Il                                                37,09
                       2106 90 59 000                             0,3709
            (') 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.
            P) Applicable only to products referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1469/77.
            NB : The product codes and the footnotes are defined in Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 as amended.