CELEX: 31979R2114
Language: en
Date: 1979-09-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2114/79 of 28 September 1979 fixing the export refunds on oil seeds

No L 246/24                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             29. 9 . 79
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2114/79
                                                    of 28 September 1979
                                           fixing the export refunds on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC
COMMUNITIES,                                                       provides that when the refund is being calculated
                                                                   account must be taken of prices ruling on the various
                                                                   Community markets which are representative from
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              the point of view of processing and exportation ; the
Economic Community,                                                most favourable quotations recorded on the various
                                                                   markets of importing third countries and Greece, and
                                                                   costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC                  market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                     being fixed, account must also be taken of the level of
common organization of the market in oils and                      market prices within the Community for the oil seeds
fats (l), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
590/79 (*),                                                        66/EEC and the future trend of these prices ; whereas,
                                                                   furthermore, account should be taken of the economic
                                                                   aspect of the proposed exports and the situation in the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Community regarding the supply of and demand for
                                                                   these seeds :
2749/78 of 23 November 1978 on trade in oils and
fats between the Community and Greece (3),
                                                                  Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/EEC                  No 651 /71 of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed rules
of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza, rape and               for the application of export refunds on oil seeds (6), as
sunflower seeds (4), as last amended by Regulation                 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1480/79 (7),
(EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular the first                  provides that the amount of the refund must be calcu­
sentence of Article 2 (3) thereof,                                 lated on the basis of the weight of exported seeds ;
                                                                   whereas this weight must be adjusted to take account
                                                                   of any differences between the percentages of mois­
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       ture and impurities found to exist and those used to
Committee,                                                         define the standard quality for which the target price
                                                                   is fixed ; whereas, when this adjustment is being
                                                                   made, the weight of the exported seeds must be
Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                     increased by the amount of the difference between the
provides that a refund may be granted on exports to                actual moisture and impurities content and that used
third countries of oil seeds harvested within the                  to define the standard quality if the former is lower
Community ; whereas the amount of this refund may                  than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the
not exceed the difference between prices within the                weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the
Community and prices on the world market where                     same amount ;
the former are higher than the latter ; whereas Article
21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that, at
present, Article 28 of that Regulation applies only to
colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                                  Whereas the standard quality referred to above was
                                                                   defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    1294/79 of 25 June 1*979 fixing the target prices and
Whereas Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 2749/78                   basic intervention prices for colza and rape seed and
provides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/                     sunflower seed for the 1979/80 marketing year (8);
66/EEC and measures taken in application thereof
apply, subject to the provisions of the Agreement esta­            Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC
blishing an Association between the European                       provides that the refund may be varied according to
Economic Community and Greece, to trade between                    destination where the world market situation or the
the Community and Greece ;                                         specific requirements of certain markets make this
                                                                   necessary ;
m OT No 172, 30 . 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.
(2) OJ   No L 78, 30. 3. 1979, p. 1 .
(3) OJ   No L 331 , 28 . 11 . 1978, p. 1 .                         (') OJ No L 75, 30. 3. 1971 , p. 16.
(4) OI   No 125, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2461 /67.                         (7) OJ No L 180, 17. 7. 1979, p. 13.
(5) OJ   No L 264, 23. 11 . 1972, p. 1 .                            » OJ No L 162, 30. 6. 1979, p. 13.
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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :                are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                  ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
     relation to each other at any given moment within
     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
     their effective parity ;                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each                                       Article 1
     of these currencies recorded for a given period in
     relation to the Community currencies referred to                The refund on the products referred to in Article 21
     in the previous indent ;                                        of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, exported to third coun­
                                                                     tries and Greece, shall be as set out in the Annex
Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules                hereto.
to the present situation on the market in oil seeds,
and in particular to quotations or prices for these
products within the Community and on the markets                                            Article 2
of third countries and Greece, that the refund should
be as set out in the Annex hereto for those products                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October
for which the marketing year has already begun ;                     1979 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 28 September 1979.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                  Vice-President
                                                          ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 28 September 1979 fixing the export refunds on oil seeds
                                                                                                     (ECU/ 100 kg)
                     CCT
                    heading                               Description                                  Refund
                      No
               ex 12.01        Colza and rape seed, other than for sowing                              13.00
               ex 12.01        Sunflower seed, other than for sowing                                    —