CELEX: 31973R1956
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1956/73 of the Commission of 19 July 1973 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 200/30                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             20 . 7 . 73
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 1956/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 19 July 1973
                                      fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     may make it necessary to vary the refund for a
COMMUNITIES,                                                       given product according to the destination of that
                                                                   product ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community ;                                          Whereas economically significant quantities of
                                                                    'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II tomatoes, fresh
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        lemons, apples and peaches, of 'Extra' Class and
1035/72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common organi­                    Class I hothouse grapes of shelled hazelnuts and of
zation of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last               unshelled walnuts can be exported at the present
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2 ), and                    time ;
in particular Article 30 (4) thereof ;
                                                                   Whereas exports of these products to certain destina­
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                      tions cannot be routed through the Suez Canal and
Committee ;                                                        whereas the consequent detour via the Cape of
                                                                   Good Hope entails additional transport costs ;
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No                          whereas the refund can therefore be justifiably
1035/72 provides that, to the extent necessary to                  increased where exports have to be transported via
allow economically significant quantities to be                    the latter route ;
exported, the difference between prices in interna­
tional trade and prices in the Community for the                   Whereas, if the refund system is to operate nor­
products referred to in that Article may be covered                 mally, refunds should be calculated on the following
by an export refund ;                                               basis :
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                        relation to each other, at any given moment,
2518/69 (3) of 9 December 1969 laying down
                                                                        within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange
general rules for granting export refunds on fruit
                                                                         based on their effective parity ;
and vegetables and criteria for fixing the amount of
such refunds as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                      — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
2455/72 (4) provides that, when refunds are being                       the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
fixed, account must be taken of the current situa­                      each of these currencies recorded for a given
tion or foreseeable developments with regard to                         period, in relation to the Community currencies
prices and availabilities of fruit and vegetables on                     referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
the Community market on the one hand and prices
in    international trade       on the other ;       whereas        Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
account must also be taken of the costs indicated in
                                                                    criteria to the present situation on the market of
 (b) of that Article and of the economic aspects of                 the prospective development of this situation,
the proposed exports ;                                              and in particular to quotations and prices for
                                                                    fruit and vegetables in the Community and in inter­
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)                  national trade that the refund should be fixed as
 No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market                    indicated below ;
 are being determined account must be taken of the
 prices which are most favourable from the                          Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices in                 are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
international trade are being determined, the prices                 ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ;
 and quotations referred to in paragraph 2 of that
 Article must be taken into account ;
 Whereas the situation with regard to international                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 trade or the specific requirements of certain markets
                                                                                              Article 1
 (*) OJ No L 118 of 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
 (■) OJ No L 291 of 28. 12 . 1972, p. 147.                           1 . The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are
  (•) OJ No L 318 of 18 . 12. 1969, p. 17.
  (*) OJ No L 266, of 25 . 11 . 1972, p. 7.                         hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex .
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2. If apples are shipped to their destination via                         fruit and vegetables, as supplemented by Regulation
the Cape of Good Hope, the amount indicated in                            (EEC) No 316/71 (2), shall apply to the unshelled
the Annex shall be increased by 4 u.a./ 100 kg.                           walnuts, apples and peaches set out in the Annex.
                                                                                                   Article 2
3 . The provisions of Article 2b of Commission
 Regulation (EEC) No 497/70 (*) of 17 March 1970                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 July
on rules for the application of export refunds on                         1973 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 19 July 1973 .
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                        The President
                                                                                  François-Xavier ORTOLI
 («) OJ No L 62, 18 . 3 . 1970, p . 15 .                                   (2) OJ No L 36, 13. 2 . 1971 , p. 11 .
                                                                 ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 19 July 1973 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                               vegetables
                                                                                                           (u.a. /100 kg net)
                 CCT heading
                      No                                        Description of goods                              Refund
             ex 07.01 M II             Tomatoes ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) for exports
                                        to Austria                                                                 4.00
             ex 08.02 C                Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                          1.44
             ex 08.04 A I              Table grapes
                                       — fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I)                              16.00
             ex 08.05 B                 Unshelled walnuts                                                          8.00
             ex 08.05 G                 Shelled hazelnuts                                                          4.00
             ex 08.06 A II              Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than
                                        cider apples :
                                       — for exports to countries and territories of Africa
                                            (with the exception of South Africa), countries of the
                                            Arabian peninsula, Syria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland,
                                             Romania, Czechoslovakia, USSR, Yugoslavia, Austria,
                                             Brazil, Venezuela and Peru                                            3.00
             ex 08.07 B                 Peaches (excluding nectarines) ('Extra' Class, Class I and
                                         Class II)                                                                 6.00