CELEX: 31988R3395
Language: en
Date: 1988-11-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3395/88 of 31 October 1988 fixing the export refunds on oil seeds

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No L 299/28                                Official Journal of the European Communities
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3395/88
                                                         of 31 October 1988
                                             fixing the export refunds on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           Whereas, in order to determine the amount of the aid,
                                                                      account should be taken among the calculation factors of
                                                                      the latest Commission proposals to the Council on prices
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 and related measures :
Economic Community,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                    Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC
Portugal,                                                             provides that a refund may be granted on exports to third
                                                                      countries of oil seeds harvested within the Community ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of                  whereas the amount of this refund may not exceed the
22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common                    difference between prices within the Community and
organization of the market in oils and fats ('), as last               prices on the world market where the former are higher
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2210/88 (2),                            than the latter ; whereas Article 21 of Regulation No
                                                                       136/66/EEC provides that, at present, Article 28 of that
Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/EEC of                   Regulation applies only to colza, rape and sunflower
                                                                       seeds ;
 21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza, rape and
 sunflower seeds (3), as last amended by the Act of Acces­
 sion of Greece (4), and in particular the first sentence of
 Article 2 (3) thereof,                                                Whereas the refund for colza and rape seeds produced in
                                                                       Spain or Portugal is adjusted in accordance with Council
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1678/85                   Regulation (EEC) No 478/86 (13) ;
 of 11 June 1985 fixing the conversion rates to be applied
 in agriculture (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 2792/88 («),                                                           Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC provides
                                                                        that when the refund is being calculated account must be
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72                   taken of prices ruling on the various Community markets
 of 20 July 1972 laying down special measures for colza,                which are representative from the point of view of proces­
  rape and sunflower seed (J), as last amended by Regulation            sing and exportation ; the most favourable quotations
                                                                        recorded on the various markets of importing third coun­
  (EEC) No 2216/88 (8), and in particular Article 2 (3)                 tries and costs incurred in placing the goods on the world
  thereof,                                                              market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is being
                                                                         fixed, account must also be taken of the level of market
  Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No                        prices within the Community for the oil seeds referred to
   2041 /75 of 25 July 1975 on special detailed rules for the            in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC and the
   application of the system of import and export licences               future trend of these prices ; whereas, furthermore,
   and advance fixing certificates for oils and fats (9), as last        account should be taken of the economic aspect of the
  •amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2662/87 (10), and in                   proposed exports and the situation in the Community
   particular Article 13 thereof,                                        regarding the supply of and demand ,for these seeds ,
   Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
                                                                         Whereas the abatement of the subsidy for colza and tape
   Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in the              seed which arises from the system of maximum guaran­
   target price for colza, rape and sunflower seed for the                teed quantities for the 1988/89 marketing year has been
    1988/89 marketing year were fixed by Council Regula­                  fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2761 /88 (H) ;
   tions (EEC) No 2213/88 (") and (EEC) No 2214/88 (12) ;
      ) OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.
                                                                          Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
    2) OJ No L 197, 26. 7. 1988, p. 1 .                                   651 /71 of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed rules for the
    3) OJ No 125, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2461 /67.                               application of export refunds on oil seeds (!5) as last
    <) OJ No L 291 , 19. 11 . 1979, p. 17.                                amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1815/84 (16) provides
     5) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 11 .                                  that the amount of the refund must be calculated on the
     6) OJ No L 250, 9. 9. 1988, p. 12.
     0 OJ No L 167, 25. 7. 1972, p. 9.
     8) OJ No L 197, 26. 7. 1988, p. 10,                                   P) OJ No L 53, 1 . 3. 1986, p. 55.
     ») OJ No L 213, 11 . 8 . 1975, p. 1 .                                 H OJ No L 247, 6. 9. 1988, p. 7.
     10) OJ No L 252, 3. 9. 1987, p. 6.                                    H OJ No L 75, 30. 3. 1971 , p. 16.
      >') OJ No L 197, 26. 7. 1988, p. 6.                                  (lé) OJ No L 170, 29. 6. 1984, p. 46
    M OJ No L 197, 26. 7. 1988, p. 8.
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basis of the weight of exported seeds ; whereas this weight               the currencies of the Member States referred to in
must be adjusted to take account of any differences                      (a), as recorded over a period to be determined ;
between the percentages of moisture and impurities found
to exist and those used to define the standard quality for       Whereas pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
which the target price is fixed ; whereas, when this adjust­      1 569/7^' forward differential amounts are to be deter­
ment is being made, the weight of the exported seeds             mined where the forward exchange rate for one or more
must be increased by the amount of the difference                currencies differs from the spot rate by at least a given
between the actual moisture and impurities content and           percentage ; whereas this percentage has been fixed at 0,5
that used to define the standard quality if the former is        by Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 ;
lower than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the
weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the
same amount :                                                    Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 specifies the spot
                                                                 and forward exchange rates and the period to be used for
                                                                 calculating the differential amounts ; whereas in cases
                                                                 where, for one or more months, quotations of forward
Whereas the standard quality referred to above was               exchange rates are not available, the rates adopted for the
defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No              previous months or the following months, as the case may
 1 102/84 (');                                                   be, must be used ;
                                                                 Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to the
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC provides           current situation of the oil-seeds market and to the rates
that the refund may be varied according to destination           or prices of these products that, pursuant to Article 4 of
where the world market situation or the specific require­        Regulation (EEC) No 651 /71 , the amount of the refund in
ments of certain markets make this necessary ;                   ECU and the amount of the final refund in each of the
                                                                 national currencies must, in the case of colza and rape
                                                                 seed, be fixed in accordance with the Annex to this Regu­
Whereas Article ' 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 651 /71               lation ; whereas it is not necessary to fix a refund for
provides for the publication of the amount of the final          sunflower seed ;
refund obtained from the conversion into each of the
national currencies of the amount of the refund in ECU           Whereas Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 2041 /75
plus or minus the differential amount ; whereas Article 1        makes provision for the period of validity of certificates
of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 (2), as last           fixing refunds in advance to be reduced if the market
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2138/87 (3), defined the          situation warrants ; whereas in the interests of sound
elements which determine the differential amounts ;              market management a reduction should be made ;
whereas these elements are equal to the incidence on the
target price reduced by 7,5 % or the refund of the coeffi­       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
cient derived from the percentage referred to in Article 2       in accordance with the opinion of the Management
(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72 ; whereas, according         Committee for Oils and Fats,
to these provisions, this percentage represents :
(a) for those Member States whose currencies are main­
     tained as between themselves within a spread at any         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     given moment of 2,25 % , the difference between :
     — the conversion rate used under the common agri­                                       Article 1
          cultural policy, and
     — the conversion rate resulting from the central rate,
                                                                 1 . In the case of colza and rape seed, the amounts of
                                                                 the refund referred to in Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
(b) for the other Member States, the difference between :        No 651 /71 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
     — the relationship between the conversion rate used         2.     There shall be no refund on sunflower seed.
          under the common agricultural policy for the
          currency of the Member State concerned and the         3.     Certificates fixing the export refund in advance shall
          central rate of each of the currencies of the          be valid from their date of issue until the end of the follo­
          Member States referred to in (a), and                  wing month.
     — the spot market rate for the currency of the
          Member State in question in relation to each of
                                                                                             Article 2
(') OJ No L 113, 28. 4. 1984, p. 8 .
0 OJ No L 170, 29. 6. 1984, p. 41 .                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
O OJ No L 200, 21 . 7. 1987, p. 9.                               1988 .
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                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 31 October 1988.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                 Vice-President
                                                            ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 31 October 1988 fixing the export refunds on oil seeds
                                                                                                    (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                                Current     1st period   2nd period    3rd period  4th period     5th period
                                                   11            12           1             2           3               4
1 . Gross refunds (ECU) :
    — Spain                                        17,342        17,660      —             —           —                —
    — Portugal                                     21,502        21,820
    — other Member States                          17,000        17,318
2. Final refunds :
    Seeds harvested and exported from :
    — Federal Republic of Germany (DM)             40,57         41,32
    — Netherlands (Fl)                             45,20         46,04
    — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs)                            812,30       827,59                      —
    — France (FF)                                 118,90        121,28                                 —
    — Denmark (Dkr)                               145,02        147,80
    — Ireland (£ Irl)                              13,207        13,472                                                 —
    — United Kingdom (£)                             9,407         9,616
                                             ■ 24 359       24 867
    — Italy (Lit)                                                            —
    —. Greece (Dr)                              1 628,85     1 667,06
    —- Spain (Pta)                              2 680,30     2 729,34
    — Portugal (Esc)                            3 960,85     4 020,64