CELEX: 31974R3016
Language: en
Date: 1974-11-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3016/74 of the Commission of 29 November 1974 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

No L 321 / 32                            Official Journal of the European Communities                              30 . 11 . 74
                              REGULATION ( EEC) No 3016/ 74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 29 November 1974
                                               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/                          market ; whereas , when the amount of the refund is
66/ EEC (') of 22 September 1966 on the establish­                   being fixed, account must also be taken of the level of
ment of a common organization of the market in oils                  market prices within the Community for the oil seeds
and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/
1707/73 (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/                          Community regarding the supply of and demand for
66/ EEC (3 ) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and                 these seeds ;
fats between the Community and Greece ;
                                                                     Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation ( EEC)
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/                          No 651 / 71 (b) of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed
 67/ EEC (4) of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on                     rules for the application of export refunds on oil seeds
colza, rape and sunflower seeds, as last amended by                   provides that the amount of the refund must be calcu­
 Regulation ( EEC) No 2429/72 (5 ), and in particular the             lated on the basis of the weight of exported seeds ;
 first sentence of Article 2 (3) thereof ;                            whereas this weight must -be adjusted to take account
                                                                      of any differences between the percentages of mois­
                                                                      ture and impurities found to exist and those used to
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                         define the standard quality for which the target price
 Committee ;                                                          is fixed ; whereas, when this adjustment is being
                                                                      made , the weight of the exported seeds must be
                                                                      increased by the amount of the difference between the
 Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/ 66/ EEC                     actual moisture and impurities content and that used
 provides that a refund may be granted on exports to                  to define the standard quality if the former is lower
 third   countries    of   oil  seeds    harvested    within the
                                                                      than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the
 Community ; whereas the amount of this refund may                    weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the
 not exceed the difference between prices within the                  same amount ;
 Community and prices on the world market where
 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               Whereas the standard quality referred to above is
 colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                                    defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No
                                                                        11 22/74 ( 7) of 29 April 1974 fixing the target prices
                                                                      and basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the
 Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/ 66/ EEC                        1974/ 1975 marketing year, as amended by Regulation
  provides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/                      ( EEC) No 2496/ 74(8 );
  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
                                                                       destination where the world market situation or the
  the Community and Greece ;
                                                                       specific requirements of certain markets make this
                                                                       necessary ;
 (') OJ No 172, .50 . 9 . 1966 , p . 3025 / 66 .
 (2 ) OJ No L 175 , 29 . 6 . 1973 , p. 5 .
 (3 ) OJ No 197 , 29 . 10 . 1966 , p . 3393 / 66.                      ( b) OJ No L 75 , 30 . 3 . 1971 , p. 16 .
 h) OJ No 125, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2461 /67.                               ( 7 ) OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 8 .
 (5 ) OJ No L 264 , 23 . 1 1 . 1972 , p. 1 .                             s ) Oj No L 268 , v 10 . 1974 , p. 1 .
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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :                     are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                       ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
     relation to each other, at any given moment,
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
     on their effective parity ;                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                                               Article 1
     of these currencies recorded for a given period , in
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
     in the previous subparagraph ;                                      The refunds 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, are 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
markets of third countries and Greece , that the refund                                        Article 2
should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex
to this Regulation for those products for which the                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 December
marketing year has already begun ;                                        1974 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels , 29 November 1974 .
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                     P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                Member of the Commission
                                                               ANNEX
                                  Refund applicable to oil seeds from 2 December 1974
                                                                                                        'u.a.'lOO kg )
               C.CT hc.i JiriR                                                                           Refund
                     No                                 Description lit yoruK
             e \ 1 2.1 1 1             .m J r.ipe seed , other than for sow ing                            —
             ev   12.01          Sunflower seed , other than for sowing