CELEX: 31985R2751
Language: en
Date: 1985-10-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2751/85 of 30 September 1985 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 259/56                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               1 . 10 . 85
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2751/85
                                                     of 30 September 1985
                                   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 tomatoes, fresh lemons, apples, apricots and
 Economic Community,                                               peaches of the common quality standards 'Extra' Class,
                                                                   Class I and Class II, 'Extra' Class and Class I hothouse
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      grapes and open ground grapes, almonds and hazel­
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organisation                 nuts, and unshelled walnuts may at present be
 of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                exported in economically significant quantities ;
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 332/84 (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
                                                                       relation to each other at any given moment within
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                      a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
 provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­               their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient
 ically significant quantities to be exported, the dif­                provided for in Article 2b . (2) of Regulation (EEC)
 ference between prices in international trade for the                 No 974/71 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
 products referred to in that Article and prices for the               No 855/84 («),
 products within the Community may be covered by an
 export refund ;                                                   — for other currencies, an exchange rates based on
                                                                       the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
                                                                       each of these currencies recorded over a given
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                       period in relation to the Community currencies
2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general                         referred to in the previous indent, and the aforesaid
 rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit                 coefficient ;
and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3),
 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4),
 provides that when refunds are being fixed, account               Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
must be taken of the existing situation and future                 to the present market situation and to its future trends,
trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit           and in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and
and vegetables on the Community market on the one                  vegetables in the Community and in international
hand and prices in international trade on the other ;              trade that the refunds should be as set out in the
whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­              Annex hereto ;
cated 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
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)                 November 1979 laying down common detailed rules
No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market                    for the application of the system of export refunds on
are being determined account must be taken of the                  agricultural products (% as last amended by Regulation
prices which are most favourable from the exportation              (EEC) No 519/83 (8), may be relaxed in the case of
point of view ; whereas, when prices in international              exports to non-member countries outside Europe ;
trade are being determined, the quotations and prices              whereas, in such a case, Article 23 (1 ) (c) of Regulation
referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be                 (EEC) No 2730/79 may be applied ;
taken into account ;
                                                                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas the situation with regard to international                 are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
trade or the specific requirements of certain markets              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  130, 16.  5. 1984, p. 1 .                              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.                          C) OJ  No   L 58, 5. 3.   1983, p. 5­
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                              2. The provisions of Articles 10 ( 1 ) (b) and 23 ( 1 ) (c)
                                                           of Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 shall apply to exports
                                                           of lemons, walnuts in shell, shelled hazelnuts, apricots
                                                           and apples as set out in the Annex hereto.
                      Article 1
                                                                                 Article 2
1.    The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October
be as set out in the Annex hereto .                        1985 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 30 September 1985.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                       Vice-President
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                                                            ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of'30 September 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 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)                             4,84
                               — 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 :
                               — 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           12,00
                               — Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia                              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
               08.07 A         Apricots in categories Extra, I and II for export to all destinations
                               other than Switzerland and Austria                                          12,00
          ex   08.07 B         Peaches (other than nectarines) in categories Extra, I and II :
                               — originating in Greece :
                                   — for export to countries or States with a planned economy
                                       in central or eastern Europe, Yugoslavia and the countries
                                       of the Arabian peninsula (')                                         5,00
                                   — for export to all other destinations other than Switzerland
                                       and Austria                                                          1,63
                               — originating in other Member States for export to all destina­
                                   tions other than Switzerland and Austria                                 5,00
          (') 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).