CELEX: 31979R1261
Language: en
Date: 1979-06-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1261/79 of 27 June 1979 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 160 / 20                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              28 . 6 . 79
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1261 /79
                                                           of 27 June 1979
                                     fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given
COMMUNITIES,                                                         product according to the destination of that product ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                Whereas fresh lemons, apples and peaches of the
 Economic Community,                                                 common quality standards ' Extra' Class, Class I and
                                                                     Class II, ' Extra' Class and Class I hothouse grapes,
                                                                     shelled almonds and hazelnuts , and unshelled walnuts
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                      may at present be exported in economically signifi­
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last              cant quantities ;
amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 208 /79 (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
                                                                          relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                          a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                         their effective parity ;
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­
ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­            — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
ence between prices in international trade for the                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
products referred to in that Article and prices for the                  of these currencies recorded for a given period in
products within the Community may be covered by                           relation to the Community currencies referred to
an export refund ;                                                        in the previous indent ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                     Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
 2518 /69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general                     to the present market situation and to its future
 rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit               trends, and in particular to quotations and prices for
and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3),            fruit and vegetables in the Community and in inter­
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4),                       national trade that the refunds should be as set out in
 provides that when refunds are being fixed, account                 the Annex hereto ;
 must be taken of the exiating situation and future
trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit
and vegetables on the Community market on the one                    Whereas the obligations under Article 6 ( 1 ) (b) of
 hand and prices in international trade on the other ;               Commission Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 of 17
 whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­               January 1975 laying down detailed rules for the appli­
cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic                     cation of export refunds in respect of agricultural
aspects of the proposed exports ;                                    products (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     2145/ 77 (6), may be relaxed in the case of exports to
                                                                     non-member countries outside Europe ; whereas, in
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC)                  such a case, Article 1 1 (4) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
 No 2518 /69, when prices on the Community market                     192/75 may be applied ;
 are being determined account must be taken of the
 prices which are most favourable from the exportation
 point of view ; whereas, when prices in international               Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
 trade are being determined, the quotations and prices               March 1 979 (7) laid down the coefficient for
 referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be                  expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
 taken into account ;                                                ECU ;
Whereas the situation with regard to international                   Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and
trade or the specific requirements of certain markets                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 153 , 21 . 6 . 1979 , p. 1 .                           (5) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 .
(}) OJ  No  L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p . 17.                           (0) OJ No L 249, 30 . 9 . 1977, p. 12.
(<) OJ  No  L 266,  25 . 11 . 1972, p. 7 .                            7) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979 , p. 1 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                              apply to exports of lemons, walnuts in shell, shelled
                                                           hazelnuts, apples and pears as set out in the Annex
                      Article 1                            hereto .
1.    The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall
be as set out in the Annex hereto .                                               Article 2
2. The provisions of Articles 6 ( 1 ) (b) and 11 (4) (c)   This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 June
of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 shall              1979 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
             Done at Brussels, 27 June 1979 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                        Vice-President
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                                                                     ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 27 June 1979 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                                    vegetables
                                                                                                                     ,(ECU/100 kg net)
                 CCT heading
                      No                                               Description                                        Refund
            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, 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                                                                 12-09
           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 :
                                        — Botswana, Lesotho,             Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi,
                                            Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi,
                                            Uganda, Somalia, Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius,
                                            Sudan, Ethiopia, Jibuti, the countries of the Arabian
                                            peninsula ( 1 ), Iran and Iraq                                                 8-46
                                        — 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, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Austria
                                            and the Faroe Islands                                                          3-63
           ex 08.07 B                   Peaches (excluding pectorins), 'Extra' Class, Class I and
                                        Class II                                                                           9-67
            (') 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 A1 Khaimah), Yemen
                Arab Republic ( North Yemen) and the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen).