CELEX: 31975R2791
Language: en
Date: 1975-10-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2791/75 of the Commission of 28 October 1975 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

29 . 10 . 75                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 278 /9
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2791 /75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 28 October 1975
                                      fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas tomatoes, fresh lepions and apples of the
COMMUNITIES,                                                           common quality standards ' Extra' Class, Class I and
                                                                       Class II, 'Extra' Class and Class I hothouse and open
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  ground grapes, almonds, shelled hazelnuts, and
Economic Community ;                                                   shelled walnuts may at present be exported in econom­
                                                                       ically significant quantities ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 ( ! ) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­
                                                                       Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
                                                                       refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2482/75 (2), and in                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
particular Article 30 (4) thereof ;                                         relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                           within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                                on their effective parity ;
Committee ;
                                                                       — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
                                                                            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                           of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­                   in the previous subparagraph ;
ence between prices in international trade and prices
in the Community for the products referred to in that                  Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
Article may be covered by an export refund ;                           criteria to the present situation on the market of the
                                                                       prospective development of this situation, and in parti­
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                       cular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegetables
2518 /69 (3) of 9 December 1969 laying down general                    in the Community and in international trade that the
rules for granting export refunds on fruit and vegeta­                 refund should be fixed as indicated below ;
bles and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4)                          Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and
provides that, when refunds are being fixed, account                   Vegetables has not delivered an opinion within the
must be taken of the current situation or foreseeable                  time limit set by its Chairman,
developments with regard to prices and availabilities
of fruit and vegetables on the Community market on
the one hand and prices in international trade on the                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
other ; whereas account must also be taken of the
costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of the
economic aspects of the proposed exports ;                                                      Article 1
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)                      1.    The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are
 No 2518 /69 , when prices on the Community market                     hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex.
are being determined account must be taken of the
 prices which are most favourable from the exportation                 2. The provisions of Article 6 ( 1 ) (b) of Commission
 point of view ; whereas, when prices in international                 Regulation (EEC) No 1 92/75 (5) of 17 January 1975
 trade are being determined, the prices and quotations                 laying down detailed rules for the application of
 referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be                    export refunds in respect of agricultural products,
 taken into account ;
                                                                       shall apply to exports of unshelled walnuts, shelled
                                                                       hazelnuts and apples set out in the Annex.
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                                            Article 2
 product according to the destination of that product ;
                                                                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 October
(!) OJ   No  L  118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                             1975 .
(2) OJ   No  L 254,   1 . 10 . 1975, p. 3 .
(3) OJ   No  L 318 ,  18 . 12. 1969, p. 17.
(4) OJ   No  L 266,   25. 11 . 1972, p. 7 .                            (5) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 28 October 1975.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                               Member of the Commission
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                                                                     ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 28 October 1975 fixing the export refunds on fruit and
                                                                    vegetables
                                                                                                                       (u.a. /100 kg net)
                  CCT heading
                        No                                        Description of goods                                        Refund
             ex 07.01 M II               Tomatoes ' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II                                         4-00
             ex 08.02 C                  Fresh lemons (' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II )
                                         for export to ;
                                        — Countries or States with a planned economy in cen­
                                             tral and eastern Europe                                                           2-50
                                        — Other destinations                                                                   1-44
             ex 08.04 A I                Table grapes :
                                        — fresh, open ground 'Extra ' Class and Class I                                       4-00
                                        — fresh , hothouse 'Extra ' Class and Class I                                        16-00
            ex 08.05 A II               Shelled almonds other than bitter almonds                                              8-00
            ex 08.05 B                  Walnuts unshelled                                                                   10-00
            ex 08.05 G                  Shelled hazelnuts                                                                     8-00
            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, Comore
                                             Islands , Mauritius , Sudan , Ethiopia , the French terri­
                                             tory of the Afars and Issas, the countries of the
                                             Arabian peninsula (*) and Iran                                                10-00
                                        — for export to countries and territories of Africa other
                                             than those mentioned above and South Africa, Syria,
                                            countries with a planned economy in central and
                                            eastern Europe, Brazil , Venezuela, Peru, Panama,
                                             Iceland, Finland, Sweden and Norway                                     J       5-00
            (') 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 , Ummal-Quaiwain , Fujairah , Ras A1 Kaiman ), Yemen Arab Repu­
                blic ( North Yemen ) and the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen ( South Yemen ).