CELEX: 31982R2967
Language: en
Date: 1982-11-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2967/82 of 5 November 1982 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 310/ 12                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                6 . 11 . 82
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2967/82
                                                      of 5 November 1982
                                    fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas tomatoes, sweet fresh oranges, fresh manda­
COMMUNITIES,                                                       rins, fresh lemons and apples of the common quality
                                                                   standards 'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra'
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Class and Class I hothouse grapes and open ground
 Economic Community,                                               grapes, almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts
                                                                   may at present be exported in economically significant
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      quantities ;
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                 Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1738/82 (2), and in                 refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
particular Article 30 (4) thereof,
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                           relation to each other at any given moment within
Committee,                                                             a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                       their central rate,
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­            — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
ically significant quantities to be exported, the dif­                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
ference between prices in international trade for the                  these currencies recorded for a given period in
products referred to in that Article and prices for the                 relation to the Community currencies referred to
products within the Community may be covered by an                     in the previous indent ;
export refund ;
                                                                   Whereas on account of the different production prices
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                   for peaches in Greece and in the other Member States,
2518 /69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general                    this difference should be reflected, pursuant to the
rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit              provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 10/81 (*), when
and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3),          calculating export refunds for this product ; whereas
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4),                     application of the above criteria results in fixing the
 provides that when refunds are being fixed, account               refund applicable in Greece at zero ;
must be taken of the existing situation and future
trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit           Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
and vegetables on the Community market on the one                  to the present market situation and to its future trends,
hand and prices in international trade on the other ;              and in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and
whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­
                                                                   vegetables in the Community and in international
cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic aspects           trade that the refunds should be as set out in the
of the proposed exports ;                                          Annex hereto ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)                 Whereas the obligations under Article 10 ( 1 ) (b) of
 No 2518 /69, when prices on the Community market
                                                                   Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 of 29
are being determined account must be taken of the                  November 1979 laying down common detailed rules
prices which are most favourable from the exportation              for the application of the system of export refunds on
point of view ; whereas, when prices in international              agricultural products (6), as last amended by Regulation
trade are being determined, the quotations and prices
                                                                   (EEC) No 3476/80 Q, may be relaxed in the case of
 referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
taken into account ;
                                                                   exports to non-member countries outside Europe ;
                                                                   whereas, in such a case, Article 23 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 2730/79 may be applied ;
Whereas the situation with regard to international
trade or the specific requirements of certain markets
 may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given              Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and
 product according to the destination of that product ;            Vegetables has not delivered an opinion within the
                                                                   time limit set by its chairman,
(') OJ  No  L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
 2  OJ  No  L 190,  1 . 7 . 1982, p . 7.                           f1) OJ No L 1 , 1 . 1 . 1981 , p. 17 .
(3) OJ  No  L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p . 17.                         0 OJ No L 317, 12. 12. 1979 , p . 1 .
H   OJ  No  L 266,  25 . 11 . 1972, p . 7 .                        0 OJ No L 363 , 31 . 12. 1980 , p . 71 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                               table grapes of open ground, walnuts in shell, almonds,
                                                            hazelnuts and apples as set out in the Annex hereto.
                       Article 1
1.     The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall
be as set out in the Annex hereto .                                                Article 2
2. The provisions of Articles 10 ( 1 ) (b) and 23 ( 1 ) (c)
of Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 2730/79 shall            This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 November
apply to exports of sweet oranges, mandarins, lemons,       1982 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels , 5 November 1982.
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                       Poul DALSAGER
                                                                 Member of the Commission
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                                                              ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 5 November 1982 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                            vegetables
                                                                                                      (ECU/100 kg net)
                    CCT
                  heading                                      Description                                 Refund
                     No
            ex  07.01 M          Tomatoes ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                              4-50
            ex  08.02 A I        Sweet fresh oranges :
                                 — Of varieties Biondo comune and Sanguigno comune ('Extra'
                                     Class , Class I and Class II)                                           5-32
                                 — Of other varieties ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                  9-67
            ex  08.02 B          Fresh mandarins ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                       7-25
            ex  08.02 C          Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)
                                 For export to :
                                 — Countries or States with a planned economy in central or
                                     eastern Europe                                                          6-04
                                 — Other destinations                                                        4-23
            ex  08.04 A I        Table grapes :
                                 — Fresh, open ground ('Extra' Class and Class I)                            7-00
                                 — Fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I)                              19 34
            ex  08.05 A II       Shelled almonds, other than bitter almonds                                 20-00
            ex  08.05 B          Unshelled walnuts                                                          1400
            ex  08.05 G          Unshelled hazelnuts                                                        15-00
            ex  08.05 G          Shelled hazelnuts                                                          30-00
            ex  08.06 A II       Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than cider apples
                                 For export to :
                                 — Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique,
                                     Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi , Uganda, Somalia,
                                     Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Sudan , Ethiopia, Jibuti , the
                                     countries of the Arabian peninsula ('), Iran and Iraq                  12-00
                                 — Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong                             12-00
                                 — Countries      and   territories  of    Africa other  than   those
                                     mentioned above and South Africa, Syria, Jordan, countries
                                     with a planned economy in central and eastern Europe,
                                     Bolivia, Brazil , Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Iceland,
                                     Finland, Norway, Sweden, Austria and the Faraoe Islands                 4-00
            (') For the purpose of this Regulation the 'countries of the Arabian peninsula are considered to be
                the following, including the territories attached thereto : Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the
                Sultanate of Oman , United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman , Umm al Qawain ,
                Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah), Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) and the People's Democratic
                Republic of Yemen (South Yemen ).