31973R1812

6 . 7. 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 184/5

REGULATION (EEC) No 1812/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 5 July 1973 fixing the corrective amount applicable to the refund on cereals

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN whereas the cif forward delivery price is that deter­ COMMUNITIES, mined in accordance with Article 3 (2) of Regulation No 140/67/EEC (6), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2435/70 (7), based, in respect of each mopth for Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European which the export licence is valid, on the cif price Economic Community ; calculated on the basis of offers for shipment during the month of exportation ;

Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ Whereas the corrective amount so fixed will be altered 67/EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ if application of the calculation procedure described tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of above entails a change in that amount of more than 0-125 unit of account ; new Member States to the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, Whereas, however, Article 2 of Regulation No 633/ and in particular the third sentence of the first sub­ 67/EEC provides that the corrective amount appli­ paragraph of Article 1 6 (4) thereof ; cable to the amount of the refund fixed in advance on exports to be effected after the third month following that during which the licence was issued should be Whereas Article 16 (4) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC fixed on the basis of foreseeable market trends ; provides that the export refund applicable to cereals whereas to this end account should be taken of avail­ on the day on which application for an export licence abilities and foreseeable trends on the Community is made, adjusted for the threshold price in force market and of forward trends on the world market, in during the month of exportation, must be applied on particular on those markets whose specific require­ request to exports to be effected during the period of ments have made it necessary to vary the refund ; validity of the export licence ; whereas, in this case, a corrective amount must be applied to the refund ; Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, refunds should be calculated on the following basis : Whereas Regulation No 633/67/ EEC (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1461 /72 (5), lays — in the case of currencies which are maintained in down detailed rules for the advance fixing of the relation to each other, at any given moment, export refund on cereals ; within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on their effective parity ; Whereas that Regulation provides that the refund — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the applicable on the day on which application for an arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each export licence is made must, when the refund is fixed in advance, be reduced by not more that the differ­ of these currencies recorded for a given period, in relation to the Community currencies referred to ence between the cif forward delivery price and the cif price where the former exceeds the latter by more in the previous subparagraph ; than one unit of account per metric ton ; whereas, on the other hand, the refund must be increased by not Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was more than the difference between the cif price and requested ; the cif forward delivery price where the former exceeds the latter by more than one unit of account per metric ton ; Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions that the corrective amount must be fixed as shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation ; Whereas the cif price is that determined in accor­ dance with Article 13 of Regulation No 120/67/ EEC ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ (!) OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67. ment Committee for Cereals : (2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (3) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 . (4) OJ No 233, 28 . 9 . 1967, p. 9 . (6) OJ No 125, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2456/67. (5) OJ No L 155, 11 . 7. 1972, p. 35 . (7) OJ No L 262, 3 . 12. 1970, p. 3 .

No L 184/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 6 . 7 . 73

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : export refunds fixed in advance in respect of cereals is hereby fixed as shown in the Table annexed to this Article 1 Regulation . Article 2 The corrective amount referred to in Article 16 (4) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC which is applicable to This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 July 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 5 July 1973 .

For the Commission

P. J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 5 July 1973 fixing the corrective amount applicable to the refund on cereals

(u.a./ton,

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th CCT Current period period period period period period heading Description of goods No 7 8 9 10 11 12 1

10.01 A Common wheat, and mes­ iin 10.01 B Durum wheat — — — — — — — 10.02 — — — — — — — Rye 10.03 Barley — — — — — — — 10.04 Oats — — — — — — — 10.05 B Maize other than hybrid maize for sowing __ __ 10.07 C Grain sorghum