31973R1868

No L 191 / 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 12 . 7 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1868/73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 11 July 1973

adjusting the rates of the refunds applicable to certain milk products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN No 2682/72 (5) of 12 December 1972 laying COMMUNITIES , down general rules for granting export refunds on certain agricultural products exported in the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ form of goods not covered by Annex II pean Economic Community ; to the Treaty, and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds ; whereas this rule, estab­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No lished in order to create security conditions necessary 804/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organi­ for the processing industry to conclude their export zation of the market in milk and milk products, as contracts , should not form an obstacle to adjusting last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) the rates of refunds during the month for which they concerning the Accession of new Member States to were fixed in exceptional situations created by im­ the European Economic Community and the Euro­ portant fluctuations of the world market prices ; it is pean Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels therefore necessary to discontinue the rate of restitu­ on 22 January 1972, in particular Article 17, para­ tion which applied to skimmed milk powder exported graph 4, second subparagraph thereof ; in the form of products which are not included in Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1780/ Annex II of the Treaty ; 73 (4) of 28 June 1973 has fixed the rates of the re­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : funds applicable from 1 July 1973 to certain dairy products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty ; Article 1

Whereas the rates of the refunds per 100 kg of each The rate of restitution applicable to skimmed-milk of the basic products concerned shall be fixed for powder exported in the form of the products each month, according to Article 4, first paragraph, hereinafter listed and which appear in the Annex first subparagraph of Council Regulation (EEC) to Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 is hereby fixed at nil :

CCT heading Description No

18.06 Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa :

ex D. Other, in powder or granules (with the exception of prep­ arations for the manufacture of ice cream, flavoured and/or coloured), with a lactose content by weight equal to or exceeding 20% and with a milk fat content by weight less than 11 %, close wrapped in individual packages, the net weight of the contents being in excess of 2-5 kg

21.07 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included :

ex F. Other, in powder or granules ( with the exception of preparations for the manufacture of ice cream , flavoured and/or coloured and improvers for baking) having a lactose content equal to or exceeding 20% .by weight and a milk­ fat content of less than 11 % by weight, close wrapped in individual packages the net weight of the contents being in excess of 2-5 kg.

(>) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968, p . 13 . (») OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 14 . (•) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 . (4) OJ No L 179 , 3 . 7. 1973 , p . 13 . («) OJ No L 289, 27. 12 . 1972, p . 13,

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This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 July 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 11 July 1973 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission