CELEX: 31998R1739
Language: en
Date: 1998-08-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1739/98 of 5 August 1998 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

L 218/6               EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                  6. 8. 98
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1739/98
                                                        of 5 August 1998
                  fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered
                                                                state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           sucrose content and, accordingly, be fixed per 1 % of the
                                                                      said content;
                                                                      Whereas the world market situation or the specific
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 requirements of certain markets may make it necessary to
Community,                                                            vary the refund for sugar according to destination;
                                                                      Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may
                                                                      be fixed by other legal instruments;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 1 June 1981 on the common organization of the                      Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
markets in the sugar sector (1), as last amended by Regula-           1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (6), as last
tion (EC) No 1148/98 (2), and in particular point (a) of the          amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (7), are used to
first subparagraph of Article 19 (4) thereof,                         convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
                                                                      and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                      conversion rates of the Member States’ currencies;
                                                                      whereas detailed rules on the application and determina-
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                     tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu-
provides that the difference between quotations or prices             lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (8), as last amended by Regula-
on the world market for the products listed in Article 1 (1)          tion (EC) No 961/98 (9);
(a) of that Regulation and prices for those products within
the Community may be covered by an export refund;                     Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks;
                                                                      whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
                                                                      Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that                     to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
when refunds on white and raw sugar, undenatured and                  particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
exported in its unaltered state, are being fixed account              Community and on the world market that the refund
must be taken of the situation on the Community and                   should be as set out in the Annex hereto;
world markets in sugar and in particular of the price and
cost factors set out in Article 17a of that Regulation;
                                                                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
whereas the same Article provides that the economic
                                                                      in accordance with the opinion of the Management
aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken into
                                                                      Committee for Sugar,
account;
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
of the standard quality; whereas the latter is defined in
Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 431/68 of 9
April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar                                        Article 1
and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for
calculating cif prices for sugar (3), as amended by Regula-           The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1)
tion (EC) No 3290/94 (4); whereas, furthermore, this                  (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81, undenatured and
refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 17a (4)             exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed to the
of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81; whereas candy sugar is                amounts shown in the Annex hereto.
defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2135/95 of 7
September 1995 laying down detailed rules of application
for the grant of export refunds in the sugar sector (5);
whereas the refund thus calculated for sugar containing                                          Article 2
added flavouring or colouring matter must apply to their
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 August 1998.
(1)  OJ L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.
(2)  OJ L 159, 3. 6. 1998, p. 38.                                     (6) OJ L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.
( 3) OJ L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.                                      (7) OJ L 22, 31. 1. 1995, p. 1.
( 4) OJ L 349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105.                                  (8) OJ L 108, 1. 5. 1993, p. 106.
( 5) OJ L 214, 8. 9. 1995, p. 16.                                     (9) OJ L 135, 8. 5. 1998, p. 5.
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         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States.
         Done at Brussels, 5 August 1998.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                              Monika WULF-MATHIES
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                         ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 5 August 1998 fixing the export refunds on white sugar
                                  and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
                                   Product code                         Amount of refund
                                                                        ECU/100 kg 
                                1701 11 90 9100                            40,29     (1)
                                1701 11 90 9910                            39,30     (1)
                                1701 11 90 9950                                      (2)
                                1701 12 90 9100                            40,29     (1)
                                1701 12 90 9910                            39,30     (1)
                                1701 12 90 9950                                      (2)
                                                                ECU/1 % of sucrose × 100 kg 
                                1701 91 00 9000                              0,4380
                                                                        ECU/100 kg 
                                1701 99 10 9100                            43,80
                                1701 99 10 9910                            44,64
                                1701 99 10 9950                            44,64
                                                                ECU/1 % of sucrose × 100 kg 
                                1701 99 90 9100                              0,4380
                     (1) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 %; if the yield is other than 92 %,
                         the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of
                         Article 17a (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81.
                     (2) Fixing suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2689/85 (OJ L 255, 26. 9.
                         1985, p. 12), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3251/85 (OJ L 309, 21. 11.
                         1985, p. 14).