CELEX: 31978R0880
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 880/78 of 28 April 1978 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

No L 117/22                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              29. 4. 78
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 880/78
                                                      of 28 April 1978
                                           fixing the export refund on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC
COMMUNITIES,                                                     provides that when the refund is being calculated
                                                                 account must be taken of prices ruling on the various
                                                                 Community markets which are representative from
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            the point of view of processing and exportation ; the
Economic Community,                                              most favourable quotations recorded on the various
                                                                 markets of importing third countries and Greece, and
                                                                 costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC                market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                   being fixed, account must also be taken of the level of
common organization of the market in oils and                    market prices within the Community for the oil seeds
fats ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                 referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
2560/77 (2),                                                     66/EEC and the future trend of these prices ; whereas,
                                                                 furthermore, account should be taken of the economic
                                                                 aspect of the proposed exports and the situation in the
Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/66/EEC                Community regarding the supply of and demand for
of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and fats between             these seeds :
the Community and Greece (3),
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/EEC               Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
 of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza, rape and             No 651 /71 of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed rules
 sunflower seeds (4), as last amended by Regulation               for the application of export refunds on oil seeds (6),
 (EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular the first                provides that the amount of the refund must be calcu­
 sentence of Article 2(3) thereof,                                lated on the basis of the weight of exported seeds ;
                                                                  whereas this weight must be adjusted to take account
                                                                  of any differences between the percentages of mois­
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     ture and impurities found to exist and those used to
 Committee,                                                       define the standard quality for which the target price
                                                                  is fixed ; whereas, when this adjustment is being
                                                                  made, the weight of the exported seeds must be
 Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                   increased by the amount of the difference between the
  provides that a refund may be granted on exports to             actual moisture and impurities content and that used
 third countries of oil seeds harvested within            the     to define the standard quality if the former is lower
  Community ; whereas the amount of this refund may               than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the
  not exceed the difference between prices within the             weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the
  Community and prices on the world market where                  same amount ;
  the former are higher than the latter ; whereas Article
  21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that, at
  present, Article 28 of that Regulation applies only to
  colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                               Whereas the standard quality referred to above was
                                                                   defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   1069/77 of 17 May 1977 fixing the target prices and
  Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/EEC                    basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the 1977/78
  provides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/                   marketing year (7) ;
  66/EEC and measures taken in application thereof
  apply, subject to the provisions of the Agreement esta­
  blishing an Association between the European                     Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/ EEC
   Economic Community and Greece, to trade between                 provides that the refund may be varied according to
  the Community and Greece ;                                       destination where the world market situation or the
                                                                   specific requirements of certain markets make this
  (')- OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.
  (2) OJ  No L 303, 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .                         necessary ;
  (3) OJ  No 197, 29. 10. 1966, p. 3393/66.
  (4) OJ  No 125, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2461 /67.                        (6) OJ No L 75, 30 . 3 . 1971 , p. 16 .
  (s) OJ  No L 264, 23. 11 . 1972, p. 1 .                          (7) OJ No L 129 , 25 . 5. 1977, p. 5 .
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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,               to this Regulation for those products for which the
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :               marketing year has already begun ;
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation '
    relation to each other at any given moment within               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
    a band of 2.25 % , a rate of exchange based on                  ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
    their effective parity ;
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
    of these currencies recorded for a given period in                                     Article 1
    relation to the Community currencies referred to
    in the previous subparagraph ;                                  The refund on the products referred to in Article 21
                                                                    of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, exported to third coun­
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and                    tries and Greece, is hereby fixed as shown in the
criteria to the present situation on the market in oil              Annex to this Regulation.
seeds, and in particular to quotations or prices for
these products within the Community and on the                                             Article 2
markets of third countries and Greece, that the refund
should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 28 April 1978 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
                                                         ANNEX
                                Export refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 May 1978
                                                                                                     (u.a/100 kg)
                    CCT
                   heading                                Description                                Refund
                     No
              ex 12.01         Colza and rape seed, other than for sowing                             8.00
              ex 12.01         Sunflower seed, other than for sowing