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15 . 2. 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 43/ 11

REGULATION (EEC) No 394/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 14 February 1973 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN on the world market are being determined, account COMMUNITIES, must be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that Article ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ pean Economic Community ; Whereas the world market situation or the specific requirements of certain markets may make it neces­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No sary to vary the refund according to the destination 2142/70 (*) of 20 October 1970 on the common of the products in question ; organization of the market in fishery products, as last amended by Regulation (EEC ) No 220/73 (2), Whereas products of Community origin which are and in particular the first sentence of Article 21 (4) landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­ thereof ; ated outside the customs territory of the Commu­ nity do not qualify for refunds ; Whereas Article 21 of Regulation (EEC) 2142/70 provides that, to the extent necessary to enable econ­ Whereas economically important quantities of dried omically important exports of the products listed and salted cod and coalfish can be exported at the in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on present time ; the basis of prices for these products on the world Whereas it follows from applying the above­ market, the difference between these prices and mentioned rules and criteria to the present situation prices within the Community may be covered by an on the market and in particular to prices for fishery export refund ; products in the Community and on the world market Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No that the refund should be fixed as shown in the 165/71 (3) of 26 January 1971 laying down general Annex ; rules for granting export refunds on fishery pro­ Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­ ducts and criteria for fixing the amount of such tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­ refunds provides that when refunds are being fixed agement Committee for Fishery Products ; account must be taken on the one hand of the exist-; ing situation and the future trend with regard to prices and availabilities of fishery products on the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Community market and prices for fishery products on the world market on the other ; whereas account Article 1 must also be taken of the costs referred to in ( c) of that Article, of the economic significance of the pro­ The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of posed exports and of the aims of the common organ­ Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70 are hereby fixed at ization of the market in fishery products ; the amounts shown in the Annex.

Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 165/71 Article 2 provides that, when prices on the Community mar­ ket are being determined, account must be taken of This Regulation shall enter into force on the day fol­ the ruling prices which are most favourable from lowing its publication in the Official Journal of the the exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices European Communities .

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

Done at Brussels, 14 February 1973 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

í 1) OJ No L 236, 27. 10 . 1970 , p . 5 . (*) OJ No L 27, 1 . 2 . 1973 , p . 1 . (3) OJ No L 23 , 29 . 1 . 1971 , p . 1 .

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ANNEX

(u.a . / 100 kg net) CCT heading Description of goods Refund No

03.02 Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process : ex Alb) Cod, dried and salted, whole, headless or in pieces : for exports to : — Brazil, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Wind­ ward and Leeward Islands 8·00 ex A I f) Coalfish, dried and salted, whole, headless or in pieces : for exports to : 15·00 — Congo-Brazzaville, Zaire — Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Windward and Leeward Islands, Panama 8·00