CELEX: 31988R3018
Language: en
Date: 1988-10-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3018/88 of 30 September 1988 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

1 . 10 . 88                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 271 /49
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3018/88
                                                        of 30 September 1988
                       fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in
                                                           the natural state
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                                        amount of the refund less one-hundredth pf the produc­
                                                                        tion refund applicable, pursuant to Council Regulation
                                                                        (EEC) No 1400/78 of 20 June 1978 laying down general
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                rules for the production refund on sugar used in the
   Economic Community,                                                  chemical industry 0, to the products listed in the Annex
                                                                        to the last mentioned Regulation ;
   Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
   Portugal,
                                                                        whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other
                                                                        products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                 1785/81 exported in the natural state must be equal to
   of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                    one-hundredth of an amount which takes account, on the
   markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­         one hand, of the difference between the intervention
   tion (EEC) No 2306/88 (2), and in particular Article 19 (4)         price for white sugar for the Community areas without
   thereof,                                                            deficit for the month for which the basic amount is fixed
                                                                       and quotations or prices for white sugar on the world
                                                                       market and, on the other, of the need to establish a
  Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,              balance between the use of Community basic products in
                                                                       the manufacture of processed goods for export to third
                                                                       countries and the use of third country products brought
                                                                       in under inward processing arrangements ;
  Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
  provides that the difference between quotations or prices
  on the world market for the products listed in Article 1
  (1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those products
  within the Community may be covered by an export                     Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
  refund :                                                             limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 (1) (d)
                                                                       of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ;
  Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
  766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for
 granting export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by              Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
 Regulation (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that the export            makes provision for setting refunds for export in the
 refund on 100 kilograms of the products listed in Article            natural state of products referred to in Article 1 (1) (f) and
  1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 is equal to the           (g) of that Regulation ; whereas the refund must be fixed
 basic amount multiplied by the sucrose content, inclu­               per 100 kilograms of dry matter, taking account of the
 ding, where appropriate, other sugars expressed as                   export refund for products within subheading 1702 30 91
 sucrose ; whereas the sucrose content of the product in              of the combined nomenclature and for products referred
 question is determined in accordance with Article 13 of              to in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 and
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March                     of the economic aspects of the intended exports ; whereas
 1970 on detailed rules for granting export refunds on                the refund is to be granted only for products complying
 sugar 0, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     with the conditions in Article 3 of Commission Regula­
 1467/77(0 ;                                                         tion (EEC) No 1469/77 of 30 June 1977 laying down
                                                                     rnles for applying the levy and the refund in respect of
                                                                     isoglucose and amending Regulation (EEC) No
 whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68                      192/75 (8) ;
provides that the basic amount of the refund on sorbose
exported in the natural state must be equal to the basic
(')  OJ   No   L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                            whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
(2)  OJ   No   L 210, 27. 7. 1988, p. 65.                            refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
(3)  OJ   No   L 143, 25. 6. 1968, p. 6.
(4)  OJ   No   L 167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13.
0    OJ   No   L 50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 .                              0 OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 9.
(«)  OJ   No   L 162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6.                             0 OJ No L 162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. '9 .
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— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­         tion and the level of prices no refund should be fixed in
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band         the case of exports to Portugal ;
     of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
     the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­      in accordance with the opinion of the Management
     tion (EEC) No 1676/85 ('), as last amended by Regula­        Committee for Sugar,
     tion (EEC) No 1636/87 (2) ;
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
     tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
     previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;                                       Article 1
Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed every
month ; whereas they may be altered in the intervening            The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )
period ;                                                          (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 , exported
                                                                  in the natural state, shall be as set out in the Annex
Whereas application of these quotas results in fixing             hereto.
refunds for the products in question at the levels given in
the Annex to this Regulation ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 275 of the Act of Accession                                    Article 2
of Spain and Portugal, refunds may be granted in the case
of exportes to Portugal ; whereas, in the light of the situa­     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October 1988 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels, 30 September 1988 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Frans ANDRIESSEN     *
                                                                                 Vice-President
 (■) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
  2) OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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                                                                ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 30 September 1988 fixing the export refunds on syrups
                            and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                  (ECU)
                                                   Basic amount per percentage point
                         Product code                    of sucrose content and         Amount of refund per 100 kg
                                                    per 100 kg net of the product             of dry matter (2)
                                                              in question (')
                       1702 40 10 100                                                               39,21
                       1702 60 10 000            II                                                 39,21
                       1702 60 90 000                            0,3921
                       1702 90 30 000            Il                                                 39,21
                       1702 90 60 000                            0,3921
                       1702 90 71 000                            0,3921
                       1702 90 90 900                            0,3921
                      2106 90 30 000                                                                39,21
                      2106 90 59 000                             0,3921
           (') The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure (Regulation (EEC) No -394/70).
               Sucrose content is determined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 394/70.
           (J) Applicable only to products referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1469/77.
           NB : The product codes and the footnotes are defined in Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 as amended.