CELEX: 31985R3252
Language: en
Date: 1985-11-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3252/85 of 20 November 1985 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

21 . 11 . 85                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 309 / 15
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3252/85
                                                        of 20 November 1985
                                        fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           necessary to vary the refund for a given product according
                                                                      to the destination of that product ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                   Whereas tomatoes, sweet fresh oranges, fresh mandarins,
                                                                      fresh lemons and apples of the common quality standards
                                                                      'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II. 'Extra' Class and Class I
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                  hothouse grapes and open ground grapes, almonds and
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                      hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts may at present be
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by                exported in economically significant quantities ;
Regulation (EEC) No 1631 /84 (2), and in particular Article
30 (4) thereof,
                                                                      Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
                                                                      refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
                                                                      — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                          tion to each other at any given moment within a band
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­                    of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
ically significant quantities to be exported, the difference               rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in
between prices in international trade for the products                     Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 (*), as
referred to in that Article and prices for the products                    last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 855/84 (*),
within the Community may be covered by an export
refund ;                                                              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                           arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
                                                                           these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
                                                                           tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                           previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
2518 /69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general rules
for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit and vegeta­
bles and criteria for fixing their amounts (3), as amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4), provides that when                Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules to
refunds are being fixed, account must be taken of the                 the present market situation and to its future trends, and
existing situation and future trends with regard to prices            in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegeta­
and availabilities of fruit and vegetables on the Commu­              bles in the Community and in international trade that the
nity market on the one hand and prices in international               refunds should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;
trade on the other ; whereas account must also be taken of
the costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of the
economic aspects of the proposed exports ;                            Whereas the obligations under Article 10 ( 1 ) (b) of
                                                                       Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 of 29
                                                                       November 1979 laying down common detailed rules for
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No                  the application of the system of export refunds on agri­
2518 /69, when prices on the Community market are                      cultural products Q, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
being determined account must be taken of the prices                   No 568/85 (8), may be relaxed in the case of exports to
which are most favourable from the exportation point of                non-member countries outside Europe ; whereas, in such
view ; whereas , when prices in international trade are                a case, Article 23 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79
being determined, the quotations and prices referred to in             may be applied ;
paragraph 2 of that Article must be taken into account ;
                                                                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
Whereas the situation with regard to international trade or            in accordance with the opinion of the Management
the specific requirements of certain markets may make it               Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
(■) OJ   No  L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                             0   OJ  No  L 106, 12.    5. 1971 , p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No  L 154,  9 . 6 . 1984, p. 24.                              (6) OJ  No  L 90 , 1 . 4.  1984, p. 1 .
(3) OJ   No  L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p . 17.                            0   OJ  No  L 317, 12.    12. 1979, p. 1 .
(4) OJ   No  L 266,  25 . 11 . 1972, p . 7.                             8) OJ  No  L 65, 6 . 3 .  1985, p. 5 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                  ground, walnuts in shell, shelled 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 ( l)(b) and 23 ( l)(c) of
Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 shall apply to export of­          This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 November
sweet oranges, mandarins, lemons, table grapes or open         1985 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 20 November 1985.
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                         Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                            Vice-President
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                                                                 ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 20 November 1985 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 :
                                   For export of varieties Biondo comune and Sanguigno comune
                                   ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) to :
                                   — Countries or States with a planned economy in central or
                                        eastern Europe and Yugoslavia                                           8,00
                                   — Other destinations                                                         5,32
                                   For export of other varieties ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)
                                   to :
                                  — Countries or States with a planned economy in central or
                                        eastern Europe and Yugoslavia                                          14,50
                                   — Other destinations                                                         9,67
             ex 08.02 B II         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 and Yugoslavia                                          12,00
                                  — Other destinations                                                          8,00
             ex 08.04 A I         Table grapes :
                                  — Fresh, open ground ('Extra' Class and Class I)                             10,50
                                  — Fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I)                                19,34
             ex 08.05 A II        Shelled almonds, other than bitter almonds                                    9,67
             ex 08.05 B           Unshelled walnuts                                                            14,00
             ex 08.05 G           Unshelled hazelnuts                                                           7,50
             ex 08.05 G           Shelled hazelnuts                                                            14,51
             ex 08.06 A II        Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than cider
                                  apples :
                                   For export to :
             l                    — 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, Iraq and Jordan
                                  — Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia
                                                                                                               12,00
                                                                                                               12,00
                                  — Countries       and    territories   of   Africa other  than   those
                                        mentioned above and South Africa, Syria, countries with a
                                        planned economy in central and eastern Europe, Yugoslavia,
                                        Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia,
                                        Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, the Faroe Islands, Finland
                                        and Greenland                                                          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).