CELEX: 31979R2761
Language: en
Date: 1979-12-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2761/79 of 7 December 1979 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 312/24                            Official Journal of the European Communities                              8 . 12 . 79
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2761 /79
                                                    of 7 December 1979
                                  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 sweet fresh oranges, fresh mandarins, fresh
                                                                 lemons and apples of the common quality standards
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    ' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, ' Extra' Class and
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                  Class I hothouse grapes and open ground grapes,
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables (1), as last          shelled almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1301 /79 (2), and in              may at present be exported in economically signifi­
particular Article 30 (4) thereof,                               cant quantities ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Committee,                                                       refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
                                                                       relation to each other at any given moment within
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­               a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­             their effective parity ;
ence between prices in international trade for the
products referred to in that Article and prices for the          — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
products within the Community may be covered by                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
an export refund ;                                                    of these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                       in the previous indent ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general
rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit            Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules
and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3),        to the present market situation and to its future
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4),                   trends, and in particular to quotations and prices for
provides that when refunds are being fixed, account              fruit and vegetables in the Community and in inter­
must be taken of the exiating situation and future               national trade that the refunds should be as set out in
trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit         the Annex hereto ;
and vegetables on the Community market on the one
hand and prices in international trade on the other ;
whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­
                                                                 Whereas the obligations under Article 6 ( 1 ) (b) of
cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic                 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 of 17
aspects of the proposed exports ;                                January 1975 laying down detailed rules for the appli­
                                                                 cation of export refunds in respect of agricultural
                                                                 products (5 ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)               2145/77 (6), may be relaxed in the case of exports to
No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market                  non-member countries outside Europe ; whereas, in
are being determined account must be taken of the                such a case, Article 1 1 (4) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
prices which are most favourable from the exportation             192/75 may be applied ;
point of view ; whereas, when prices in international
trade are being determined, the quotations and prices
referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be
taken into account :
                                                                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                 ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
(») OJ No  L  118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
 2) OJ No  L  162, 30. 6. 1979, p. 26.
P)  OJ No  L  318, 18. 12. 1969, p. 17.                          (5) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 .
(4) OJ No  L  266, 25. 11 . 1972, p. 7.                          (<•) OJ No L 249 , 30 . 9 . 1977, p. 12.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                              apply to exports of sweet oranges, mandarins, lemons,
                                                           table grapes of open ground, walnuts in shell, shelled
                      Article 1                            hazelnuts, and apples as set out in the Annex hereto.
1.    The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall
be as set out in the Annex hereto .                                               Article 2
2. The provisions of Articles 6 ( 1 ) (b) and 11 (4) (c)   This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 December
of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 shall              1979 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
             Done at Brussels, 7 December 1979 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                        Vice-President
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                                                                    ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 7 December 1979 fxing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                                    vegetables
                                                                                                                     (ECU/ 100 kg net)
                 CCT heading                                                                                             Refund
                      No                                               Description
            ex 08.02 A I                Sweet fresh oranges :
                                        — Of varieties Biondo comune and Sanguigno comune
                                            ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                                          5.32
                                        — Of other varieties ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                         9.67
            ex 08.02 B                  Fresh mandarins ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)                              7.25
            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                                                              6-04
                                        — other destinations                                                               4.23
            ex 08.04 A I                Table grapes :
                                        — Fresh, open ground ('Extra' Class and Class I)                                   7.00
                                        — 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                                                                12.09
            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 ( 1), Iran and Iraq                                                13.50
                                        — countries       and     territories    of    Africa   other      than
                                            those mentioned above and South Africa, Syria,
                                            Jordan, countries with a planned economy in central
                                            and eastern Europe, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru,
                                            Panama, Ecuador, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden,
                                            Austria and the Faroe Islands                                                  3.63
            (l) 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).