31971R1425

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7.7.71 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 151 / 1

REGULATION (EEC) No 1425 /71 OF THE COUNCIL of 2 July 1971

supplementing Regulation (EEC) No 865/68 on the common organisation of the market in products processed from fruit and vegetables by certain provisions on the granting of export refunds

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Regulation (EEC) No 865/68 shall be supplemented Article 43 thereof; by the following Articles :

'Article 3a Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; 1 . Where required, in order to permit economically important exports of the products Having regard to the Opinion of the European not containing added sugar listed in Article 1 on Parliament1 ; the basis of prices for those products in international trade, the difference between these Whereas, if products processed from fruit and prices and prices within the Community may be vegetables are to have access to third country covered by an export refund. markets, provision should be made for the granting of export refunds ; 2. The refund shall be the same throughout the Community; It may be varied according to destination . Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 865/682 of 28 June 1968 on the common organisation The refund shall be granted on application by the of the market in products processed from fruit and party concerned. vegetables, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2613/703 provides that products containing added 3 . The Council, acting in accordance with the sugar are eligible for refunds in respect of the various voting procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of added sugars ; whereas for those products the refund the Treaty on a proposal from the Commission, mentioned . above must therefore be granted only in shall lay down general rules for granting refunds cases where the refund referred to in that Article 3 and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds. would not be sufficient to permit their exportation ;

4. The refunds shall be fixed at regular Whereas the introduction of a system of export intervals in accordance with the procedure laid refunds such as that provided for in this Regulation down in Article 15 . Where necessary the means that the Community must assume financial Commission may, at the request of a Member responsibility for products processed from fruit and State or on its own initiative, alter the refund in vegetables ; the intervening period.

5 . Where the refund fixed pursuant to Article 3 * is not sufficient to permit exports of the products 1 OJ No C 2 , 8.1.1970, p. 40. containing added sugar listed in Article 1 , the 2 OJ No L 153 , 1.7.1968 , p. 8 . provisions of this Article shall apply to these 3 OJ No L 281 , 27.12.1970 , p. 12. products instead of those of Article 3 .

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6. Detailed rules for the application of this 2. Article 11 of Regulation No 159/66/EEC is Article shall be adopted in accordance with the hereby repealed.' procedure laid down in Article 15 .

Article 2 Article 18a This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 1 . The provisions of the Regulations on the day following its publication in the Official Journal financing of the common agricultural policy shall of the European Communities. apply to the market in the products listed in Article 1 . It shall apply from 15 July 1971 .

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

Done at Brussels, 2 July 1971 .

For the Council

The President

M. FERRARI-AGGRADI