CELEX: 31971R1425
Language: en
Date: 1971-07-02 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1425/71 of the Council of 2 July 1971 supplementing Regulation (EEC) No 865/68 on the common organisation of the market in products processed from fruit and vegetables by certain provisions on the granting of export refunds

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7.7.71                              Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 151 / 1
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 1425/71 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 2 July 1971
              supplementing Regulation (EEC) No 865/68 on the common organisation of the market
              in products processed from fruit and vegetables by certain provisions on the granting of
                                                    export refunds
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                         Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular                  Regulation (EEC) No 865/68 shall be supplemented
Article 43 thereof;                                             by the following Articles :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                  'Article 3a
                                                                    1.     Where    required,    in order      to  permit
                                                                    economically important exports of the products
Having regard to the Opinion of the European
Parliament1 ;                                                        not containing added sugar listed in Article 1 on
                                                                     the basis of prices for those products in
                                                                     international trade, the difference between these
Whereas, if products processed from fruit and                        prices and prices within the Community may be
vegetables are to have access to third country                       covered by an export refund.
markets, provision should be made for the granting
of export refunds ;                                                 2. The refund shall be the same throughout the
                                                                     Community; It may be varied according to
                                                                     destination .
Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
865/682 of 28 June 1968 on the common organisation                  The refund shall be granted on application by the
of the market in products processed from fruit and                   party concerned.
vegetables, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
2613/703 provides that products containing added
sugar are eligible for refunds in respect of the various            3 . The Council, acting in accordance with the
added sugars ; whereas for those products the refund                 voting procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of
mentioned . above must therefore be granted only in                  the Treaty on a proposal from the Commission,
cases where the refund referred to in that Article 3                shall lay down general rules for granting refunds
would not be sufficient to permit their exportation ;                and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds.
                                                                    4. The refunds shall be fixed at regular
Whereas the introduction of a system of export                       intervals in accordance with the procedure laid
refunds such as that provided for in this Regulation                 down in Article 15 . Where necessary the
means that the Community must assume financial                       Commission may, at the request of a Member
responsibility for products processed from fruit and                 State or on its own initiative, alter the refund in
vegetables ;                                                         the intervening period.
                                                                     5 . Where the refund fixed pursuant to Article 3
                                                                   * is not sufficient to permit exports of the products
1 OJ No C 2 , 8.1.1970, p. 40.                                       containing added sugar listed in Article 1 , the
2 OJ No L 153 , 1.7.1968 , p. 8.                                     provisions of this Article shall apply to these
3 OJ No L 281 , 27.12.1970 , p. 12.                                   products instead of those of Article 3 .
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6. Detailed rules for the application of this                   2. Article 11 of Regulation No 159/66/EEC is
Article shall be adopted in accordance with the                 hereby repealed.'
procedure laid down in Article 15 .
                                                                                   Article 2
Article 18a
                                                            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
1 . The provisions of the Regulations on the                day following its publication in the Official Journal
financing of the common agricultural policy shall           of the European Communities.
apply to the market in the products listed in
Article 1 .                                                 It shall apply from 15 July 1971 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 2 July 1971 .
                                                                                  For the Council
                                                                                   The President
                                                                              M. FERRARI-AGGRADI