CELEX: 31998R0256
Language: en
Date: 1998-01-30 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 256/98 of 30 January 1998 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable to certain milk products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty

L 25/34              ¬ EN ¬             Official Journal of the European Communities                               31. 1. 98
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 256/98
                                                      of 30 January 1998
                   fixing the rates of the refunds applicable to certain milk products exported in
                                the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Whereas Article 11 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68
                                                                  provides for the payment of aid for Community-produced
                                                                  skimmed milk processed into casein if such milk and the
                                                                  casein manufactured from it fulfil certain conditions set
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             out in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 987/68
Community,                                                        of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for granting aid
                                                                  for skimmed milk processed into casein or caseinates ( 5),
                                                                  as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1435/90 ( 6);
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of            Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2571/97 of 15
27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market             December 1997 on the sale of butter at reduced prices
in milk and milk products ( 1), as last amended by Regula-        and the granting of aid for cream, butter and concentrated
tion (EC) No 1587/96 ( 2), and in particular Article 17 (3)       butter for use in the manufacture of pastry products, ice-
thereof,                                                          cream and other foodstuffs ( 7), lays down that butter and
                                                                  cream at reduced prices should be made available to
                                                                  industries which manufacture certain goods;
Whereas Article 17 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
provides that the difference between prices in interna-           in accordance with the opinion of the Management
tional trade for the products listed in Article 1 (a), (b), (c),  Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
(d), (e), and (g) of that Regulation and prices within the
Community may be covered by an export refund; whereas
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1222/94 of 30 May 1994
laying down common implementing rules for granting
export refunds on certain agricultural products exported
in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the
Treaty, and criteria for fixing the amount of such                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
refunds (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1909/97 (4), specifies the products for which a rate of
refund should be fixed, to be applied where these
products are exported in the form of goods listed in the
                                                                                            Article 1
Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 804/68;
                                                                  1. The rates of the refunds applicable to the basic
                                                                  products appearing in Annex A to Regulation (EC) No
Whereas, in accordance with the first subparagraph of             1222/94 and listed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
Article 4 (1) of Regulation (EC) No 1222/94, the rate of          804/68, exported in the form of goods listed in the Annex
the refund per 100 kilograms for each of the basic                to Regulation (EEC) No 804/68, are hereby fixed as
products in question must be fixed for each month;                shown in the Annex to this Regulation.
                                                                  2. No rates of refund are fixed for any of the products
                                                                  referred to in the preceding paragraph which are not
Whereas Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EC) No 1222/94               listed in the Annex to this Regulation.
provides that, when the rate of the refund is being fixed,
account should be taken, where necessary, of production
refunds, aids or other measures having equivalent effect
applicable in all Member States in accordance with the
Regulation on the common organization of the market in                                      Article 2
the product in question to the basic products listed in
Annex A to that Regulation or to assimilated products;
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February 1998.
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 1
    OJ   L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p.  13.
(2) OJ   L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p.  21.                              (5) OJ L 169, 18. 7. 1968, p. 6.
(3) OJ   L 136, 31. 5. 1994, p.  5.                               (6) OJ L 138, 31. 5. 1990, p. 8.
(4) OJ   L 268, 1. 10. 1997, p.  20.                              (7) OJ L 350, 20. 12. 1997, p. 3.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 30 January 1998.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                     Hans VAN DEN BROEK
                                                                   Member of the Commission
                                                     ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 30 January 1998 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable
          to certain milk products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the
                                                      Treaty
                                                                                           (ECU/100 kg)
                                                                                             Rate of
               CN code                                Description                             refund
          ex 0402 10 19      Powdered milk, in granules or other solid forms, not
                             containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, with a fat
                             content not exceeding 1,5 % by weight (PG 2):
                             (a) On exportation of goods of CN code 3501                        —
                             (b) On exportation of other goods                                 68,00
          ex 0402 21 19      Powdered milk, in granules or other solid forms, not
                             containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, with a fat
                             content of 26 % by weight (PG 3):
                             (a) Where goods incorporating, in the form of products
                                 assimilated to PG 3, reduced-price butter or cream
                                 obtained pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 2571/97 are
                                 exported                                                      64,59
                             (b) On exportation of other goods                               102,60
          ex 0405 10         Butter, with a fat content by weight of 82 % (PG 6):
                             (a) Where goods containing reduced-price butter or cream
                                 which have been manufactured in accordance with the
                                 conditions provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 2571/97
                                 are exported                                                  45,00
                             (b) On exportation of goods of CN code 2106 90 98
                                 containing 40 % or more by weight of milk fat               177,25
                             (c) On exportation of other goods                               170,00