31975R2791

29 . 10 . 75 No L 278 / 9 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2791 /75 OF THE COMMISSION of 28 October 1975 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas tomatoes, fresh lepions and apples of the COMMUNITIES, common quality standards ' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra' Class and Class I hothouse and open ground grapes, almonds, shelled hazelnuts, and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European shelled walnuts may at present be exported in econom­ Economic Community ; ically significant quantities ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, 1035/72 ( ! ) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­ refunds should be calculated on the following basis : tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2482/75 (2), and in — in the case of currencies which are maintained in particular Article 30 (4) thereof ; relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary on their effective parity ; Committee ; — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of these currencies recorded for a given period, in provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­ relation to the Community currencies referred to ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­ in the previous subparagraph ; ence between prices in international trade and prices in the Community for the products referred to in that Whereas it follows from applying these rules and Article may be covered by an export refund ; criteria to the present situation on the market of the prospective development of this situation, and in parti­ Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No cular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegetables 2518 /69 (3) of 9 December 1969 laying down general in the Community and in international trade that the rules for granting export refunds on fruit and vegeta­ refund should be fixed as indicated below ; bles and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4) Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and provides that, when refunds are being fixed, account Vegetables has not delivered an opinion within the must be taken of the current situation or foreseeable time limit set by its Chairman , developments with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit and vegetables on the Community market on the one hand and prices in international trade on the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : other ; whereas account must also be taken of the costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of the economic aspects of the proposed exports ; Article 1

Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) 1 . The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are No 2518 /69 , when prices on the Community market hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex. are being determined account must be taken of the prices which are most favourable from the exportation 2. The provisions of Article 6 ( 1 ) (b) of Commission point of view ; whereas, when prices in international Regulation (EEC) No 1 92/75 (5) of 17 January 1975 trade are being determined, the prices and quotations laying down detailed rules for the application of referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be export refunds in respect of agricultural products, taken into account ; shall apply to exports of unshelled walnuts, shelled hazelnuts and apples set out in the Annex. Whereas the situation with regard to international trade or the specific requirements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given Article 2 product according to the destination of that product ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 October (!) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . 1975 . (2) OJ No L 254, 1 . 10 . 1975, p. 3 . (3) OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969 , p . 17. (4) OJ No L 266, 25. 11 . 1972, p. 7 . (5) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 .

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

Done at Brussels, 28 October 1975.

For the Commission P. J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 28 October 1975 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

(u.a. /100 kg net)

CCT heading Description of goods Refund No

ex 07.01 M II Tomatoes ' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II 4-00

ex 08.02 C Fresh lemons (' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II ) for export to ; — Countries or States with a planned economy in cen­ tral and eastern Europe 2-50 — Other destinations 1-44

ex 08.04 A I Table grapes : — fresh , open ground 'Extra ' Class and Class I 4-00 — fresh , hothouse 'Extra ' Class and Class I 16-00

ex 08.05 A II Shelled almonds other than bitter almonds 8-00

ex 08.05 B Walnuts unshelled 10-00

ex 08.05 G Shelled hazelnuts 8-00

ex 08.06 A II Apples ('Extra' Class , Class I and Class II) other than cider apples : — for export to Botswana , Lesotho , Swaziland, Zambia , Malawi , Mozambique , Tanzania , Kenya , Rwanda , Burundi , Uganda , Somalia , Madagascar, Comore Islands , Mauritius , Sudan , Ethiopia , the French terri­ tory of the Afars and Issas, the countries of the Arabian peninsula (*) and Iran 10-00 — for export to countries and territories of Africa other than those mentioned above and South Africa , Syria , countries with a planned economy in central and eastern Europe, Brazil , Venezuela , Peru , Panama , 5-00 Iceland, Finland, Sweden and Norway J

(') For the purpose of this Regulation the ' countries of the Arabian peninsula ' are considered to be the following , including the territories attached thereto : Saudi Arabia , Bahrain , Qatar , Kuwait , the Sultanate of Oman , United Arab Emirates ( Abu Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ummal-Quaiwain , Fujairah , Ras A1 Kaiman ), Yemen Arab Repu­ blic ( North Yemen ) and the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen ( South Yemen ).