31975R0248

No L 27/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 2. 75 »

REGULATION (EEC) No 248/ 75 OF THE COMMISSION

of 31 January 1975 .

fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs

THE COMMISSION « OF THE EUROPEAN when export refunds on cereal-based compound COMMUNITIES, feedingstuffs are being fixed, only the products normally used in the manufacture of compound feedingstuffs for which a refund may be fixed should Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European be taken into account ; Economic Community ;

Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 67/EEC ( 1 ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ 1913/69 (7) of 29 September 1969 on the granting and tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­ the advance fixing of the export refund on cereal­ lation (EEC) No 85/75 (2), and in particular the first based compound feedingstuffs provides that calcula­ sentence of the fourth subparagraph of Article 16 (2) tion of the export refund must be based on the levy thereof ; applicable to maize ; whereas this calculation must also take account of the cereal products content ; Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary whereas, therefore, in the interest of simplification, Committee ; compound feedingstuffs should be placed in catego­ ries and the refund for each category should be fixed on the basis of a quantity of maize which is representa­ Whereas Article 16 of Regulation No 120/67/ EEC tive of the usual cereal products content for the cate­ provides that the difference between quotations or gory concerned ; whereas, furthermore, the amount of prices on the world market for the products listed in the refund may also take into account the situation on Article 1 of that Regulation and prices for those the market in cereal products other than maize ; products within the Community may be covered by an export refund ;

Whereas the world market situation or the specific Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation No 139/ requirements of certain markets may make it neces­ 67/EEC (3) of 21 June 1967 laying down general rules sary to vary the refund for compound feedingstuffs for granting export refunds on cereals and criteria for according to destination ; fixing "the amount of such refunds, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 87/75 (4), provides that - when refunds are being fixed account must be taken of the existing situation and the future trend with regard to Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, prices and availabilities of cereals on the Community refunds should be calculated on the following basis : market on the one hand and prices for cereals and cereal products on the other ; whereas the same — in the case of currencies which are maintained in Article provides that it is also important to ensure relation to each other, at any given moment, equilibrium and the natural development of prices within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based and trade on the cereal markets ; on their effective parity ;

Whereas it follows from applying rules and criteria to — for other currencies' an exchange rate based on the the present situation on the market in cereal-based arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each compound feedingstuffs that the export refund should of these currencies recorded for a given period, in be fixed at an amount which will cover the difference relation to the Community currencies referred to between Community prices and world market prices ; in the previous subparagraph ;

Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation ( EEC) No Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month ; 968/68 (5) of 15 July 1968 on the system to be applied whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ; to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 21 96/69 (6), provides that,

(•) OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269 / 67. Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation (2) OJ No L 11 , 16 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 . are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ (3) OJ No 125, 26 . 6 . 1967, p. 2453/ 67 . ment Committee for Cereals, (4) OJ No L 11 , 16. 1 . 1975 , p. 3 . . (5) OJ No L 166, 17. 7 . 1968 , p. 2. (b) OJ No L 279, 6 . 11 . 1969 , p. 1 . ( 7) OJ No L 246, 30 . 9 . 1969 , p. 11 .

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Regulation (EEC) No 968/68 are hereby fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation . Article 1 Article 2 The export refunds on the compound feedingstuffs This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February covered by Regulation No 120/67/EEC and subject to 1975 .

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

Done at Brussels, 31 January 1975 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Special Refund in CCT heading No specification Nomenclature in simplified wording u. . 100 kg for refund (third countries)

23.07 B I Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by Regulation (EEC) No 968/68 , containing starch , glucose or glucose syrup falling within subheadings 17.02 B and 17.05 B or milk products (falling within heading Nos 04.01 , 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04 and subheadings 17.02 A and 17.05 A) :

of a milk powder ( J ) content of less than 50 °/o by weight and of cereal products (2) content by weight :

3010 — Exceeding 5 °/o but not exceeding 15 °/o 0 4010 0 — Exceeding 15 °/o but not exceeding 30 °/o 5010 0 — Exceeding 30 °/o but not exceeding 50 % 6010 — Exceeding 50 %> but not exceeding 65 %> 0 7010 — Exceeding 65 °/o 0

( l) If the preparation of a kind used in animal feeding contains skimmed-milk powder falling within subheading 04.02 A II b) 1 of the Common Customs Tariff, the amounts fixed in the Annex to Regulation (EEC ) No 757/71 in its version now in force are charged at the importation . (!) ' Cereal products ' means the products falling within Chapter 10 and heading Nos 11.01 and 11.02 (excluding subheading 11.02 G ) of the Common Customs Tariff .