CELEX: 31974R0295
Language: en
Date: 1974-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 295/74 of the Commission of 4 February 1974 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 32/4                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              5. 2. 74
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 295/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 4 February 1974
                                    fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas the situation with regard to international
COMMUNITIES,                                                        trade or the specific requirements of certain markets
                                                                    may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given
                                                                    product according to the destination of that product ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;
                                                                    Whereas economically significant quantities of 'Extra
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        Class, Class I and Class II sweet fresh oranges, fresh
1035/72 (^ of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                   mandarins, fresh lemons and apples, of 'Extra' Class
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last                 and Class I hothouse grapes, of shelled hazelnuts and
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                  of unshelled walnuts can be exported at the present
particular Article 30 (4) thereof ;                                 time ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                         Whereas exports of these products to certain destina­
                                                                    tions cannot be routed through the Suez Canal and
                                                                    whereas the consequent detour via the Cape of Good
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                   Hope entails additional transport costs ; whereas the
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­             refund can therefore be justifiably increased where
ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­           exports have to be transported via the latter route ;
ence between prices in international trade and prices
in the Community for the products referred to in that
Article may be covered by an export refund ;
                                                                    Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
                                                                    refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
251 8/69 (3) of 9 December 1969 laying down general
rules for granting export refunds on fruit and vegeta­              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
bles and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds                  relation to each other, at any given moment,
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4)                            within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
provides that, when refunds are being fixed, account                     on their effective parity ;
must be taken of the current situation or foreseeable
developments with regard to prices and availabilities               — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
of fruit and vegetables on the Community market on                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 the one hand and prices in international trade on the                   of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
other ; whereas account must also be taken of the                        relation to the Community currencies referred to
costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of the                        in the previous subparagraph ;
 economic aspects of the proposed exports ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)                  Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
 No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market                    criteria to the present situation on the market of the
 are being determined account must be taken of the                   prospective development of this situation, and in parti­
 prices which are most favourable from the exportation              cular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegetables
 point of view ; whereas, when prices in international               in the Community and in international trade that the
 trade are being determined, the prices and quotations               refund should be fixed as indicated below :
 referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
 taken into account ;
 (») OJ No  L  118 , 20.  5. 1972, p. 1 .                           Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and
 (2) OJ No  L 291 ,  28 . 12. 1972, p. 147 .
 (*) OJ No  L 318,   18 . 12. 1969, p. 17.                           Vegetables has not delivered an opinion within the
 (4) OJ No  L 266,   25.  11 . 1972, p. 7.                           time limit set by its Chairman ,
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                        rules for the application of export refunds on fruit and
                                                                     vegetables, as supplemented by Regulation (EEC) No
                        Article 1                                    316/71 (2), shall apply to the sweet oranges, manda­
                                                                     rins, unshelled walnuts and apples set out in the
1 . The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are                   Annex.
hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex.
2. If apples are shipped to their destination via the
Cape of Good Hope, the amount indicated in the                                                Article 2
Annex shall be increased by 4 u.a./ 100 kg.
3 . The provisions of Article 2b of Commission                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 February
Regulation (EEC) No 497/70 of 17 March 1970 on                       1974 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
             Done at Brussels, 4 February 1974.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                   The President
                                                                              Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(!) OJ No L 62, 18 . 3. 1970, p. 15.                                 (2) OJ No L 36, 13. 2. 1971 , p. 11 .
                                                           ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 4 February 1974 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                          vegetables
                                                                                                     (u.a.1100 kg net )
                CCT heading                                                                                Refund
                     No                                  Description of goods
            ex 08.02 A I           Sweet fresh oranges :
                                   — Of the varieties Moro, Tarocco, Sanguinello ('Extra'
                                       Glass, Class I and Class II)                                         6-00
                                   — Of other varieties ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)               4-00
            ex 08.02 B             Fresh manderins ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                    6-00
             ex 08.02 C            Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                       1-44
             ex 08.04 A I          Table grapes, fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I)               16-00
             ex 08.05 B            Unshelled walnuts                                                         8-00
             ex 08.05 G            Shelled hazelnuts                                                         4-00
             ex 08.06 A II         Apples ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) other than
                                   cider apples :
                                   — for export to countries and territories of Africa (with
                                       the exception of South Africa), countries of the
                                       Arabian peninsula, Syria, countries or states with a
                                       planned economy in central and eastern Europe,
                                       Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Brazil, Venezuela
                                       and Peru                                                             3-00