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No L 200/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 20 . 7 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1956/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 19 July 1973 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN may make it necessary to vary the refund for a COMMUNITIES, given product according to the destination of that product ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ pean Economic Community ; Whereas economically significant quantities of 'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II tomatoes, fresh Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No lemons, apples and peaches, of 'Extra' Class and 1035/72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common organi­ Class I hothouse grapes of shelled hazelnuts and of zation of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last unshelled walnuts can be exported at the present amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2 ), and time ; in particular Article 30 (4) thereof ; Whereas exports of these products to certain destina­ Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary tions cannot be routed through the Suez Canal and Committee ; whereas the consequent detour via the Cape of Good Hope entails additional transport costs ; Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No whereas the refund can therefore be justifiably 1035/72 provides that, to the extent necessary to increased where exports have to be transported via allow economically significant quantities to be the latter route ; exported, the difference between prices in interna­ tional trade and prices in the Community for the Whereas, if the refund system is to operate nor­ products referred to in that Article may be covered mally, refunds should be calculated on the following by an export refund ; basis :

— in the case of currencies which are maintained in Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC ) No relation to each other, at any given moment, 2518/69 (3) of 9 December 1969 laying down within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange general rules for granting export refunds on fruit based on their effective parity ; and vegetables and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds as amended by Regulation (EEC) No — for other currencies an exchange rate based on 2455/72 (4) provides that, when refunds are being the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of fixed, account must be taken of the current situa­ each of these currencies recorded for a given tion or foreseeable developments with regard to period, in relation to the Community currencies prices and availabilities of fruit and vegetables on referred to in the previous subparagraph ; the Community market on the one hand and prices in international trade on the other ; whereas Whereas it follows from applying these rules and account must also be taken of the costs indicated in criteria to the present situation on the market of (b) of that Article and of the economic aspects of the prospective development of this situation, the proposed exports ; and in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegetables in the Community and in inter­ Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) national trade that the refund should be fixed as No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market indicated below ; are being determined account must be taken of the prices which are most favourable from the Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices in are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ international trade are being determined, the prices ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ; and quotations referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be taken into account ;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the situation with regard to international trade or the specific requirements of certain markets Article 1 (*) OJ No L 118 of 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . (■) OJ No L 291 of 28 . 12 . 1972, p. 147. 1 . The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are (•) OJ No L 318 of 18 . 12 . 1969, p. 17 . hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex . (*) OJ No L 266, of 25 . 11 . 1972, p. 7 .

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2. If apples are shipped to their destination via fruit and vegetables, as supplemented by Regulation the Cape of Good Hope, the amount indicated in (EEC) No 316/71 (2), shall apply to the unshelled the Annex shall be increased by 4 u.a./ 100 kg. walnuts, apples and peaches set out in the Annex.

Article 2 3 . The provisions of Article 2b of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 497/70 (*) of 17 March 1970 This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 July on rules for the application of export refunds on 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 19 July 1973 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI

(«) OJ No L 62, 18 . 3 . 1970, p . 15 . (2) OJ No L 36, 13. 2 . 1971 , p. 11 .

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 19 July 1973 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

(u.a. /100 kg net)

CCT heading No Description of goods Refund

ex 07.01 M II Tomatoes (' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II ) for exports to Austria 4.00

ex 08.02 C Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) 1.44

ex 08.04 A I Table grapes — fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I) 16.00

ex 08.05 B Unshelled walnuts 8.00

ex 08.05 G Shelled hazelnuts 4.00

ex 08.06 A II Apples ('Extra' Class , Class I and Class II) other than cider apples : — for exports to countries and territories of Africa (with the exception of South Africa ), countries of the Arabian peninsula, Syria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, USSR, Yugoslavia, Austria , Brazil, Venezuela and Peru 3.00

ex 08.07 B Peaches ( excluding nectarines) ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) 6.00