31975R1575

No L 161 / 12 24 . 6 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1575 / 75 OF THE COMMISSION of 23 June 1975 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN sary to vary the refund according to the destination of COMMUNITIES , the products in question ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas products of Community origin which are Economic Community ; landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­ ated outside the customs territory of the Community do not qualify for refunds ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70 (') of 20 October 1970 on the common organ­ ization of the market in fishery products, as last Whereas economically important quantities of frozen amended by Regulation (EEC) No 11 82/75 (2), and in fillets of cod and of coalfish can be exported at the particular the first sentence of Article 21 (4) thereof ; present time ;

Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Whereas it follows from applying the abovementioned Committee ; rules and criteria to the present situation on the market and in particular to prices for fishery products in the Community and on the world market that the Whereas Article 21 of Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70 refund should be fixed as shown in the Annex ; provides that, to the extent necessary to enable economically important exports of the products listed in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, basis of prices for these products on the world market, refunds should be calculated on the following basis : the difference between these prices and prices within — in the case of currencies which are maintained in the Community may be covered by an export refund ; relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No on their effective parity ; 165/71 (3) of 26 January 1971 laying down general rules for granting export refunds on fishery products — for other currencies , an exchange rate based on the and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each provides that when refunds are being fixed account of these currencies recorded for a given period, in must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­ relation to the Community currencies referred to tion and the future trend with regard to prices and in the previous subparagraph ; availabilities of fishery products on the Community market and prices for fishery products on the world Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation market on the other ; whereas account must also be are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ taken of the costs referred to in (c) of that Article of ment Committee for Fishery Products , the economic significance of the proposed exports and of the aims of the common organization of the market in fishery products ;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Article 3 of - Regulation (EEC) No 165 /71 provides that, when prices on the Community market are being determined, account must be taken of the ruling prices which are most favourable from the Article 1 exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on the world market are being determined, account must be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­ Article ; lation (EEC) No 2142/ 70 are hereby fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex . Whereas the world market situation or the specific requirements of certain markets may make it neces­ Article 2 (') OJ No L 236, 27 . 10 . 1970, p. 5. I1) OJ No L 1 18 , 8 . 5. 1975, p. 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 23 , 29 . 1 . 1971 , p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1975 .

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

Done at Brussels, 23 June 1975 . For the Commission P. J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

ANNEX

(u.a.. / 100 kg net)

CCT Description of goods Refund heading No

03.01 Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen : B. Saltwater fish : II . Fillets : b) Frozen : 1 . Of cod (Gadus morrhua or Gadus callarias) 10-00 2. Of coalfish (Pollachius virens or Gadus virens) 6-50