31973R2272

No L 234 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 22 . 8 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 2272/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 21 August 1973 fixing the export refunds on eggs for the period beginning 1 September 1973

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN within a band of 2-25 °/o, at rate of exchange COMMUNITIES, based on their effective parity ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on pean Economic Community ; the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given Having regard to Council Regulation No 122/67/ period, in relation to the Community currencies EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ referred to in the previous subparagraph ; tion of the market in eggs, as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of Whereas it follows from applying these rules and cri­ new Member States to the European Economic Com­ teria to the present situation on the market in eggs munity and the European Atomic Energy Commu­ that the refund should be fixed at an amount which nity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in would permit of Community participation in world trade and would also take account of the nature of particular the first sentence of the fifth subpara­ graph of Article 9 ( 2) thereof ; these exports and their importance at the present time ; Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Committee ; Whereas the Management Committee for Poultry and Eggs, has not delivered an Opinion within the time Whereas Article 9 of Regulation No 122/67/EEC pro­ limit set by its Chairman ; vides that the difference between prices on the world market for the products listed in Article 1 of that Regulation and prices for those products in the Com­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : munity may be covered by an export refund ; Article 1 Whereas Council Regulation No 175/67/EEC of 27 June 1967 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC ) The list of products for which the export refund re­ No 2683/72 (5), lays down general rules for granting ferred to in Article 9 of Regulation No 122/67/EEC export refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of is granted, and the amount of that refund, are such refunds ; hereby fixed as shown in the Annex. Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, Article 2 refunds should be calculated on the following basis : — in the case of currencies which are maintained in This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 Septem­ relation to each other, at any given moment, ber 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 21 August 1973 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(!) OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p . 2293/67. (*) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p . 14. (s) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 5 . (<) OJ No 130, 28 . 6. 1967, p . 2610/67. (5) OJ No L 289 , 27. 12 . 1972, p . 33 .

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ANNEX

CCT heading No Description of goods Refund

u. a/ 100 units

04.05 Birds' eggs and egg yolks, fresh, dried or otherwise preserved, sweetened or not :

A. Eggs in shell, fresh or preserved : I. Poultry eggs : a) Eggs for hatching (a) 0-80 u. a / 100 kg b) Other 9-16

B. Eggs, not in shell ; egg yolks : I. Suitable for human consumption : a) Eggs, not in shell : 1 . Dried 38-84 2. Other 10-63 b) Egg yolks : 1 . Liquid 18-69 2. Frozen 19-97 3 . Dried 39-39

(a) Only poultry eggs meeting conditions laid down by the competent authorities of the European Communities are admitted to this subheading.