31967R0587

270 Official Journal of the European Communities

No 226/ 8 OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 20.9.67

REGULATION No 587/67/EEC OF THE COMMISSION of 19 September 1967

on the fixing of the export refunds on cereals and flour

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation MUNITIES, . are in accordance with the Opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to Regulation No 120/67/EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common organisation of the market Article 1 in cereals, and in particular Article 6 and the fourth subparagraph of Article 16 ' (2) thereof; When, because of the closure of the Suez Canal, exports of the products listed in Article 1 ( a), (b) and Whereas Council Regulation No 139/67/EEC2 of 21 (c) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC which would June 1967 laying down general rules for granting normally take that route travel via the Cape of' Good export refunds on cereals and the criteria for fixing Hope, the refund fixed in accordance with the fourth the amount of such refunds provides that for the subparagraph of Article 16 (2) of Regulation No products listed in Article 1 ( a) and'(b ) of Regulation 120/67/EEC shall be increased . by a specified amount. No 120/67/EEC on the one hand, and Article 1 ( c) of that Regulation on the other hand, the export Article 2 refund must be fixed taking into ■ account, respectively, the initial costs incurred in placing The amount mentioned in Article 1 shall only be paid goods on the world market and the possibilities and when proof is furnished that the goods actually conditions for the sale of the products on that travelled via the Cape of Good Hope. market;

Whereas when the Suez Canal cannot be used for the Article 3 export of these products to certain African or Asian countries, the necessary detour via the Cape of Good In respect of refunds fixed between 1 July 1967 and Hope involves additional freight costs ; whereas an the day following that on which this - Regulation enters into force, the amount mentioned in Article 1 increase in the refund is therefore justified in cases where the latter route has to be taken ; shall be 2 units of account per metric ton of the product. Whereas since the Suez Canal was closed at the time when the common organisation of the market in Article 4 cereals entered into force, the situation that has ' faced Community exporters since 1 July 1967 should in This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 fairness be taken into account ; September 1967 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 19 September 1967. For the Commission The President Jean REY

1 OJ No 117 , 19.6.1967 , p . 2269 / 67 . 2 OJ No 125 , 26.6.1967, p . 2453 /67.