CELEX: 31977R1959
Language: en
Date: 1977-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1959/77 of 31 August 1977 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

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                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1959/77
                                                          of 31 August 1977
                 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in
                                                           the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other
COMMUNITIES,                                                           products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                       No 3330/74 exported in the natural state must be
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 equal to one-hundredth of an amount which takes
 Economic Community,                                                   account, on the one hand, of the difference between
                                                                       the intervention price for white sugar for the Commu­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          nity area with the largest surplus for the month for
 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                     which the basic amount is fixed and quotations or
 zation of the market in sugar (J), as last amended by                 prices for white sugar on the world market and, on
 Regulation (EEC) No 1110/77 (2), and in particular the                the other, of the need to establish a balance between
 first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 19 (2)             the use of Community basic products in the manufac­
"thereof,                                                              ture of processed goods for export to third countries
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                          and the use of third country products brought in
 Committee,                                                            under inward processing arrangements ;
                                                                       Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
 provides that the difference between quotations or
                                                                       limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
                                                                       (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 ;
 prices on the world market for the products listed in
 Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those           Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 products within the Community may be covered by                       refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 an export refund ;
                                                                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                          relation to each other at any given moment within
 766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for                      a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
 granting export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended                     their effective parity ;
 by Regulation (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that the                 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 export refund on 100 kilograms of the products listed                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is                  of these currencies recorded for a given period in
 equal to the basic amount multiplied by the sucrose                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
 content, including, where appropriate, other sugars                       in the previous subparagraph ;
 expressed as sucrose ; whereas the sucrose content of
 the product in question is determined in accordance                   Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed
 with the provisions of Article 1 3 of Commission Regu­                every month ; whereas they may be altered in the
 lation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on detailed                    intervening period ;
 rules for granting export refunds on sugar (5), as
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1499/76 (6) ;                          Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                       are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68                       ment Committee for Sugar,
 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
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 the production refund applicable pursuant to Council
 Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 of 18 June 1968 laying
 down general rules for the production refund on sugar                                          Article 1
 used in the chemical industry (6), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 3138/76 (8), to the products                      The refund to be granted on the products listed in
 listed in Annex I to the last mentioned Regulation ;                  Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74,
                                                                       exported in the natural state, is hereby fixed as shown
 0)   OJ No  L   359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                            in the Annex to this Regulation.
 (2)  OJ No  L   134, 28 . 5. 1977, p. 1 .
 (3)  OJ No  L   143, 25.  6. 1968 , p. 6.
 (4)  OJ No  L   167, 26.  6. 1976, p. 13 .                                                     Article 2
 (5)  OJ No  L   50, 4. 3.  1970, p. 1 .
 (<■) OJ No  L   167, 26.  6. 1976, p. 29.
 (7)  OJ No  L   143, 25.  6. 1968 , p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
 (•)  OJ No  L   354, 24.  12. 1976, p. 1 .                             1977 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 31 August 1977.
                                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                       Vice-President
                                                                          ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1977 fixing the export refunds on syrups and
                                   certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                     (u.a/100 kg)
                                                                                                                                 Basic amount
                   CCT
                                                                     Description of goods                                       per percentage
                  heading
                    No                                                                                                         point of sucrose
                                                                                                                                  content (')
           17.02                    Other sugars ; sugar syrups ; artificial honey (whether or not
                                    mixed with natural honey) ; caramel :
                                         D II Other sugars and syrups, excluding sorbose                                           0-2210
                                         E. Artificial honey (whether or not mixed with natural
                                              honey)                                                                               0-2210
                                    ex F. Caramel made from sugar falling within heading No
                                              17.01                                                                                0-2210
           17.05                    Flavoured or coloured sugars, syrups and molasses, but not
                                    including fruit juices containing added sugar in any proportion :
                                    C II Other, excluding flavoured or coloured molasses                                           0-2210
          ( J ) The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure (Regulation (EEC) No 394/70). Sucrose content is deter­
                mined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 .