CELEX: 31996R1539
Language: en
Date: 1996-07-31 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1539/96 of 31 July 1996 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

1 . 8 . 96          EN              Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 191 /23
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1539/96
                                                         of 31 July 1996
                   fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in
                                                        the natural state
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        lation (EC) No 1126/96, to the products listed in the
                                                                     Annex to the last mentioned Regulation;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                     whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other
  Community,
                                                                     products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     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               and quotations or prices for white sugar on the world
  Commission Regulation (EC) No 11 26/96 (2), and in parti­         market and, on the other, of the need to establish a
  cular Article 17 (5) 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
                                                                    in under inward processing arrangements;
 Whereas Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
  provides that the difference between quotations or prices
 on the world market for the products listed in Article 1            whereas the application of the basic amount may be
 (1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those products          limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d)
 within the Community may be covered by an export                   of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ;
 refund;
                                                                    Whereas Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
 Whereas Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No                 makes provision for setting refunds for export in the
 2135/95 of 7 September 1995 laying down detailed rules             natural state of products referred to in Article 1 (1 ) (f) and
 of application for the grant of export refunds in the sugar       (g) and (h) of that Regulation; whereas the refund must be
 sector f), provides that the export refund on 100 kilo­            fixed per 100 kilograms of dry matter, taking account of
 grams of the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regula­      the export refund for products falling within CN code
 tion (EEC) No 1785/81 is equal to the basic amount                 1702 30 91 and for products referred to in Article 1 (1) (d)
 multiplied by the sucrose content, including, where               of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 and of the economic
 appropriate, other sugars expressed as sucrose; whereas the       aspects of the intended exports; whereas, in the case of
 sucrose content of the product in question is determined           the products referred to in the said Article (1) (f) and (g),
 in accordance with Article 3 of Commission Regulation              the refund is to be granted only for products complying
 (EC) No 2135/95;                                                  with the conditions in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
                                                                   2135/95; whereas, for the products referred to in Article 1
                                                                   (1 ) (h), the refund shall be granted only for products
                                                                   complying with the conditions in Article 6 of Regulation
                                                                   (EC) No 2135/95;
Whereas Article 17 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
 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 the produc­             Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed every
tion refund applicable, pursuant to Council Regulation             month; whereas they may be altered in the intervening
(EEC) No 1010/86 of 25 March 1986 laying down general              period;
rules for the production refund on sugar used in the
chemical industry (4), last amended by Commission Regu­
(1) OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                               Whereas application of these quotas results in fixing
(2) OJ No L 150, 25. 6. 1996, p. 3.
0 OJ No L 214, 8. 9. 1995, p. 16.                                  refunds for the products in question at the levels given in
 4 OJ No L 94, 9. 4. 1986, p. 9.                                   the Annex to this Regulation;
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Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 ('), as              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1380/95 (2), prohibits
trade between the European Community and the Federal                                     Article 1
Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro); whereas
this prohibition does not apply in certain situations as        The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )
comprehensively listed in Articles 2, 4, 5 and 7 thereof        (d), (f), (g) and (h) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ,
and in Council Regulation (EC) No 462/96 (3); whereas           exported in the natural state, shall be set out in the Annex
account should be taken of this fact when fixing the            hereto.
refunds;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are                                 Article 2
in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Sugar,                                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August 1996.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 31 July 1996.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             Franz FISCHLER
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 102, 28. 4. 1993, p. 14.
(2) OJ No L 138, 21 . 6. 1995, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 65, 15. 3. 1996, p. 1 .
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                                                         ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 31 July 1996 fixing the export refunds on syrups and
                         certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                  Product code                         Amount of refund
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 00 kg dry matter —
                                1702 40 10 100                            38,72    (2) (3)
                                1702 60 10 000                           38,72     (2) (3)
                                1702 60 90 200                           73,57     0(0
                                                               — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                1702 60 90 800                             0,3872 (') (3)
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 00 kg dry matter —
                                1702 90 30 000                           38,72     (2) (3)
                                                               — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                1702 90 60 000                             0,3872 (') (3)
                                1702 90 71 000                             0,3872 (') (3)
                                1702 90 99 900                             0,3872 (') (3)(4)
                                                                 — ECU/ 1 00 kg dry matter —
                                2106 90 30 000                           38,72     (2) (3)
                                                               — ECU/ 1 % sucrose x 100 kg —
                                2106 90 59 000                             0,3872 (') (3)
                     (') 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.
                     (2) Applicable only to products referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                         No 1469/77.
                     (3) Refunds on exports to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and
                         Montenegro) may be granted only where the conditions laid down in amended
                         Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 and Regulation (EC) No 462/96 are observed.
                     (4) The basic amount is not applicable to the product defined under point 2 of the
                         Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3513/92 (OJ No L 355, 5. 12. 1992, p. 12).
                     (0 Applicable only to products defined under Article 1 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
                         No 394/70.
                      NB: The product codes and the footnotes are defined in amended
                            Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ No L 366, 24. 12.
                            1987, p. 1 ).