CELEX: 31973R1845
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-10 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1845/73 of the Commission of 9 July 1973 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

No L 187/ 8                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            10. 7. 73
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1845/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 9 July 1973
                                       fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas economically significant quantities of
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II fresh lemons,
                                                                      apples and peaches, of 'Extra' Class and Class I
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                     hothouse grapes of shelled hazelnuts and of un­
pean Economic Community ;                                              shelled walnuts can be exported at the present time ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         Whereas exports of these products to certain destina­
 1035/72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common organi­                     tions cannot be routed through the Suez Canal and
zation of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last                whereas the consequent detQur via the Cape of
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and                       Good Hope entails additional transport costs ;
in particular Article 30 (4) thereof ;                                whereas the refund can therefore be justifiably
                                                                      increased where exports have to be transported via
 Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No                           the latter route ;
1035/72 provides that, to the extent necessary to
allow economically significant quantities to be
exported, the difference between prices in interna­                   Whereas, if the refund system is to operate nor­
tional trade and prices in the Community for the                      mally, refunds should be calculated on the following
products referred to in that Article may be covered                   basis :
by an export refund ;                                                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                          within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange
2518/69 (8) of 9 December 1969 laying down                                based on their effective parity ;
general rules for granting export refunds on fruit
and vegetables and criteria for fixing the amount of                 — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
such refunds as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                            the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
2455/72 (4) provides that, when refunds are being                         each of these currencies recorded for a given
fixed, account must be taken of the current situa­                        period, in relation to the Community currencies
tion or foreseeable developments with regard to                           referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
prices and availabilities of fruit and vegetables on
the Community market on the one hand and prices                      Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee
in international trade          on the other ;         whereas
account must also be taken of the costs indicated in
                                                                      was requested ;
(b) of that Article and of the economic aspects of
the proposed exports ;                                               Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
                                                                     criteria to the present situation on the market of
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)                   the prospective development of this situation,
No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market                      and in particular to quotations and prices for
are being determined account must be taken of the                    fruit and vegetables in the Community and in inter­
prices which are most favourable from the                            national trade that the refund should be fixed as
exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices in                  indicated below ;
international trade are being determined, the prices
and quotations referred to in paragraph 2 of that                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Article must be taken into account ;
                                                                      are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                     ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ;
Whereas the situation with regard to international
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                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
product ;
                                                                                              Article 1
(*)  OJ No   L 118 of 20. 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
 (») OJ No  L 291 of 28. 12. 1972, p. 147.                            1 . The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are
 (») OJ No  L 318 of 18 . 12. 1969, p. 17.
 (*) OJ No  L 266, of 25 . 11 . 1972, p. 7.                          hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex.
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2. If apples are shipped to their destination via                   fruit and vegetables, as supplemented by Regulation
the Cape of Good Hope, the amount indicated in                       (EEC) No 316/71 (2), shall apply to the unshelled
the Annex shall be increased by 4 u.a./lOO kg.                       walnuts, apples and peaches set out in the Annex.
                                                                                             Article 2
3. The provisions of Article 2b of Commission
Regulation (EEC No 497/70 (») of 17 March 1970                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 July
on rules for the application of export refunds on                    1973 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 9 July 1973 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                   The President
                                                                             Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 (*) OJ No L 62 of 18 . 3. 1970, p. 15 .                              («) OJ No L 36 of 13. 2. 1971 , p. 11 .
                                                            ANNEX
                     To the Commission Regulation of 9 July 1973 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                           vegetables
                                                                                                    (u.a.1100 kg net)
                CCT heading
                      No                                   Description of goods                           Refund
            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 exports to countries and territories of Africa
                                         (with the exception of South Africa), countries of the
                                         Arabian peninsula, Syria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland,
                                         Romania, Czechoslovakia, USSR, Yugoslavia, Austria,
                                         Brazil, Venezuela and Peru                                         3-00
             ex 08.07 B             Peaches (excluding nectarines) ('Extra' Class, Class I and
                                    Class II)                                                               4-00