CELEX: 31977R0203
Language: en
Date: 1977-02-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 203/77 of 31 January 1977 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

No L 28 / 24                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                 1 . 2. 77
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 203/77
                                                           of 31 January 1977
                 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in
                                                            the natural state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other
COMMUNITIES,                                                           products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                       No 3330/74 exported in the natural state must be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  equal to one-hundredth of an amount which takes
Economic Community,                                                    account, on the one hand, of the difference between
                                                                       the intervention price for white sugar for the Commu­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           nity area with the largest surplus for the month for
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                      which the basic amount is fixed and quotations or
zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by                  prices for white sugar on the world market and, on
Regulation (EEC) No 3138/76 (2), and in particular the                 the other, of the need to establish a balance between
first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 19 (2)              the use of Community basic products in the manufac­
thereof,
                                                                       ture of processed goods for export to third countries
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                           and the use of third country products brought in
Committee ,                                                            under inward processing arrangements ;
                                                                       Whereas the application of the basic amount may be
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
                                                                       limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
provides that the difference between quotations or
                                                                       (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 ;
prices on the world market for the products listed in
Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those            Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
products within the Community may be covered by                        refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
an export refund ;
                                                                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for                       within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
granting export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended                      on their effective parity ;
by Regulation (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that the                  — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
export refund on 100 kilograms of the products listed                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is                   of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
equal to the basic amount multiplied by the sucrose                        relation to the Community currencies referred to
content, including, where appropriate, other sugars                        in the previous subparagraph ;
expressed as sucrose ; whereas the sucrose content of
the product in question is determined in accordance                    Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed
with the provisions of Article 13 of Commission Regu­                  every month ; whereas they may be altered in the
lation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on detailed                     intervening period ;
rules for granting export refunds on sugar (5), as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1499/76 (6) ;                           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                       are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68                        ment Committee for Sugar,
provides that the basic amount of the refund on
sorbose exported in the natural state must be equal to
the basic amount of the refund less one-hundredth of
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the production refund applicable pursuant to Council
Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 of 18 June 1968 laying
down general rules for the production refund on sugar                                         Article 1
used in the chemical industry (6), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 3058/75 (8), to the products                       The refund to be granted on the products listed in
listed in Annex I to the last mentioned Regulation ;                   Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74,
                                                                       exported in the natural state, is hereby fixed as shown
 t) OJ  No L   359 , 31 .  12 . 1974, p. 1 .                           in the Annex to this Regulation .
 2) OJ No  L   354, 24.    12 . 1976, p. 1 .
3)  OJ No  L    143 , 25 . 6 . 1968 , p. 6 .
4)  OJ No  L   167, 26 .   6 . 1976, p. 13 .                                                  Article 2
5)  OJ No  L   50, 4. 3 .   1970 , p. 1 .
b)  OJ No  L    167, 26 .  6 . 1976, p. 29 .
7)  OJ No  L    143 , 25 . 6. 1968 , p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
8   OJ No  L   306, 26 .   11 . 1975, p. 3 .                           1977 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
           Done at Brussels, 31 January 1977.
                                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                                 Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                     Vice-President
                                                                        ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 31 January 1977 fixing the export refunds on syrups and
                                 certain other sugar products exported in the natural state
                                                                                                                                    (u.a./100 ikg)
                                                                                                                                Basic amount
                 CCT
                                                                   Description of goods                                        per percentage
                heading
                  No                                                                                                          point of sucrose
                                                                                                                                 content (')
          17.02                   Other sugars ; sugar syrups ; artificial honey (whether or not
                                  mixed with natural honey) ; caramel :
                                  ex D. Other sugars and syrups, excluding sorbose                                                0.1 430
                                       E. Artificial honey (whether or not mixed with natural
                                            honey)                                                                                0.1 430
                                  ex F. Caramel made from sugar falling within heading No
                                            17.01                                                                                 0.1430
           17.05                  Flavoured or coloured sugars, syrups and molasses, but not
                                  including fruit juices containing added sugar in any proportion :
                                  ex C. Other, excluding flavoured or coloured molasses                                           0.1430
          (') The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure (Regulation ( EEC) No 394/70). Sucrose content is deter­
              mined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 .