CELEX: 31992R3851
Language: en
Date: 1992-12-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3851/92 of 29 December 1992 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 390/46                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               31 . 12 . 92
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3851 /92
                                                   of 29 December 1992
                                   fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      Class I and Class II, 'Extra Class and Class I table grapes,
                                                                 almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts may at
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            present be exported in economically significant quanti­
Economic Community,                                              ties ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and               Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1432/92 (5), as
Portugal,                                                        amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2015/92 (6), prohibits
                                                                 trade between the Community and the Republics of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72             Serbia and Montenegro ; whereas this prohibition does
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                 not apply to certain situations as given in the limitative
                                                                 enumeration laid down in Articles 2 and 3 ; whereas this
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by
                                                                 should be taken into account when refunds are fixed ;
Regulation (EEC) No 1754/92 (2), and in particular Article
30 (4) thereof,
                                                                 Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 f) are used to
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­          convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
ically significant quantities to be exported, the difference     and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
between prices in international trade for the products           conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
referred to in that Article and prices for the products          whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
within the Community may be covered by an export                  tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
refund ;                                                         lation (EEC) No 38 1 9/92 (8) ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                 Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules to
2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general rules             the present market situation and to its future trends, and
for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit and              in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and
vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3), as         vegetables in the Community and in international trade
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4), provides             that the refunds should be as set out in the Annex
that when refunds are being fixed, account must be taken         hereto ;
of the existing situation and future trends with regard to
prices and availabilities of fruit and vegetables on the
Community market on the one hand and prices in inter­            Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Council Regulation
national trade on the other ; whereas account must also be       (EEC) No 3816/92 (9) which provides for the abolition, in
taken of the costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of       the fruit and vegetables sector, of the compensatory
the economic aspects of the proposed exports ;                   mechanism in trade between Spain and Portugal and the
                                                                 other Member States and of associated measures, the basic
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No            price and purchase price shall be applied in Spain as from
2518/69, when prices on the Community market are                  1 January 1993 ; whereas, consequently, the amount of
                                                                 the refunds must be the same for all the Member States
being determined account must be taken of the prices
which are most favourable from the exportation point of          except for Portugal ;
view ; whereas, when prices in international trade are
being determined, the quotations and prices referred to in       Whereas under the Act of Accession a phased transitional
paragraph 2 of that Article must be taken into account ;         arrangement was introduced in respect of Portugal ;
Whereas the situation with regard to international trade or
the specific requirements of certain markets may make it         Whereas, from the beginning of the second transitional
necessary to vary the refund for a given product according       stage on 1 January 1992, it has been necessary, under
to the destination of that product ;                             Article 255 of the Act of Accession, in fixing the refunds
                                                                 for Portugal, to take account of the difference in prices
                                                                 economically justified for each of the products
Whereas tomatoes, fresh lemons, fresh sweet oranges and          concerned ;
apples of the common quality standards 'Extra' Class,
                                                                 (5) OJ No   L 151 , 3 . 6. 1992, p. 4.
(') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                             (6) OJ No   L 205,  22. 7. 1992, p. 2.
(2) OJ No L 180, 1 . 7. 1992, p. 23.                             O   OJ No   L 387,  31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
O OJ No L 318, 18 . 12. 1969, p. 17.                             (8) OJ No   L 387,  31 . 12. 1992.
(4) OJ No L 266, 25. 11 . 1972, p. 7.                            O   OJ No   L 387,  31 . 12. 1992.
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Whereas account should be taken of the amendments,             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
introduced by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3502/92
of 3 December 1992, amending Regulation (EEC) No
3846/92 establishing an agricultural product nomencla­
ture for export refunds ('), to the agricultural product                               Article 1
nomenclature for export refunds in respect of oranges,
grapes, apples and peaches, applicable from 1 January
1993 ;                                                         Export refunds in the fruit and vegetables sector shall be
                                                               fixed at the amounts specified in the Annex to this Regu­
Whereas where Spain and, from the beginning of the             lation, in column I for Portugal and in column II for the
second stage of transition on 1 January 1990, Portugal are     other Member States.
concerned when refunds are fixed, account is to be taken
for each product in accordance with Articles 87 and 255
of the Act of Accession, of economically justified price
differences ;
                                                                                       Article 2
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1993 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 29 December 1992.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                    Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 354, 4. 12. 1992, p. 10.
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                                                     ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 29 December 1992 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                    vegetables
                                                                                                    (ECU/100 kg net)
                                                                          Amounts of refunds (2)
                                       Destination
              Product code
                                      of refund (')                                         Other Member
                                                               Portugal (1)
                                                                                                 States (II)
            0702 00 10 100                 04                       1,19                            4,50
            0702 00 10 900                 —                       —                                —
            0702 00 90 100                 04                      1,19                             4,50
            0702 00 90 900                 —                       —                                —
            0802 12 90 000                 04                      9,67                             9,67
            0802 21 00 000                 04                    11,30                             11,30
            0802 22 00 000                 04                    21,80                            21,80
            0802 31 00 000                 04                     14,00                            14,00
            0805 10 11 200                 01                      7,24                            11,00
            0805 10 11 900                 —                       —                                —
            0805 10 15 200                 01          .           7,24                            11,00
            0805 10 15 900                —                        —                                —
            0805 10 19 200                 01                      7,24                            11,00
            0805 10 19 900                —                        —                                —
            0805 10 21 200                 01                      7,24                            11,00
            0805 10 21 900                  -
            0805 10 25 200                01                       7,24                            11,00
            0805 10 25 900                —                        —                                —
            0805 10 29 200                01                       7,24                           11,00
            0805 10 29 900                —                        —                                —
            0805 10 31 200                01                       7,24                           11,00
            0805 10 31 900                —                        —                                —
            0805 10 35 200                01                       7,24                           11,00
            0805 10 35 900                —                        —                                —
            0805 10 39 200                01                       7,24                           11,00
            0805 10 39 900                —                        —                                _
            0805 10 41 200                01                       7,24                           11,00
            0805 10 41 900                —                        —                                _
            0805 10 45 200                01                       7,24                           11,00
            0805 10 45 900                —                        —                                —
            0805 10 49 200                01                       7,24                           11,00
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                                                                                               (ECU/100 kg net)
                                                                     Amounts of refunds (2)
                                   Destination
             Product code
                                  of refund (')                                        Other Member
                                                          Portugal (I)                      States (II)
            0805 10 49 900             —                      —                                —
            0805 20 50 100             —                      —                                —
            0805 20 50 900             —                      —                                —
            0805 30 10 100             04                     5,92                            13,50
            0805 30 10 900             —                      —                                —
            0806 10 11 200             04                     0,40                             4,84
            0806 10 11 900             —                      —                                —
            0806 10 15 100             04                     0,40                             4,84
            0806 10 15 900             —                      —                                 —
            0806 10 19 100             04                     0,40                             4,84
            0806 10 19 900             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 31 100             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 31 910             02                     4,27                             8,00
            0808 10 31 990             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 33 100             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 33 910             02                     4,27                             8,00
            0808 10 33 990             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 39 100             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 39 910             02                     4,27                              8,00
            0808 10 39 990             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 51 100             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 51 910             02                     4,27                              8,00
            0808 10 51990              —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 53 100             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 53 910             02                     4,27                              8,00
            0808 10 53 990             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 59 100             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 59 910             02                     4,27                              8,00
            0808 10 59 990             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 81 100             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 81 910             02                     4,27                              8,00
            0808 10 81 990             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 83 100             —                      —
            0808 10 83 910             02                     4,27                              8,00
            0808 10 83 990             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 89 100             —                      —                                 —
            0808 10 89 910             02                     4,27                              8,00
            0808 10 89 990             —                      —                                 —
            0809 30 10 100             03                     —                                 —
            0809 30 10 900             03                     —                                 —
            0809 30 90 100             03                     —                                 —
            0809 30 90 900             —                      —                                 —
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       (') The destinations are as follows :
           01 Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Greenland, Norway, Iceland, Malta, Poland, the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic,
              Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz­
              stan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and the former
              Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
           02 Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Austria, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Malta, Syria, Poland, the Czech and Slovak Federal
              Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
               Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and the
              former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, the countries and terri­
              tories of Africa other than South Africa, countries of the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Bahrein, Qatar, Oman, the1 United
              Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm, al Qaiwain, Fujairah and Ras al Khaimah), Kuwait, Yemen), Iran
              and Jordan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Taiwan,
           03 all destinations excluding Switzerland and Austria,
           04 all destinations.
       (!) Refunds for exports to the Republics of Serbia and Montenegro may only be granted for humanitarian aid supplied by charitable
           organizations fulfilling the conditions laid down in Article 2 (a) and Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1432/92.