31975R2977
14 . 11 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 295/31
REGULATION ( EEC) No 2977/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 13 November 1975 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the situation with regard to international COMMUNITIES, trade or the specific requirements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given product according to the destination of that product ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas tomatoes, sweet fresh oranges, fresh manda rins, fresh lemons and apples of the common quality standards ' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II , ' Extra' Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Class and Class I hothouse and open ground grapes, 1035/72 (') of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza almonds, shelled hazelnuts, and shelled walnuts may tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last at present be exported in economically significant amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2482/75 (2), and in quantities ; particular Article 30 (4) thereof ;
Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary refunds should be calculated on the following basis : Committee ;
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom on their effective parity ; ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ ence between prices in international trade and prices — for other- currencies an exchange rate based on the in the Community for the products referred to in that arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each Article may be covered by an export refund ; of these currencies recorded for a given period, in relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous subparagraph ; Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2518 /69 (3) of 9 December 1969 laying down general rules for granting export refunds on fruit and vegeta Whereas it follows from applying these rules and bles and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds criteria to the present situation on the market of the as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4) prospective development of this situation, and in parti provides that, when refunds are being fixed, account cular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegetables must be taken of the current situation or foreseeable in the Community and in international trade that the developments with regard to prices and availabilities refund should be fixed as indicated below ; of fruit and vegetables on the Community market on the one hand and prices in international trade on the other ; whereas account must also be taken of the Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of the are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage economic aspects of the proposed exports ; ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 2518 /69, when prices on the Community market are being determined account must be taken of the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : prices which are most favourable from the exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices in international trade are being determined, the prices and quotations referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be taken into account ; Article 1
(») OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 254, 1 . 10 . 1975, p. 3 . 1 . The export refunds on fruit and vegetables are (3 ) OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12 . 1969 , p . 17. h) OJ No L 266, 25. 11 . 1972, p. 7. hereby fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex.
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2. The provisions of Article 6 ( 1 ) (b) of Commission grapes of open ground, unshelled walnuts, shelled Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 (l) of 17 January 1975 hazelnuts and apples set out in the Annex. laying down detailed rules for the application of Article 2 export refunds in respect of agricultural products, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 281 8 /75 (2), shall This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 apply to exports of sweet oranges, mandarins, table November 1975 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 13 November 1975 .
For the Commission
P. J. LARDINOIS
Member of the Commission
(■) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p . 1 . (2 ) OJ No L 280, 31 . 10 . 1975, p . 31 .
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ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 13 November 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 A I Sweet fresh oranges : — of the varieties Biondo Cor tune and Sanguigno Co mune ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II ) 4-00 — of other varieties ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II ) 6-00
ex 08.02 B Fresh mandarins ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II ) 6-00
ex 08.02 C Fresh lemons ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II ) tor 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 6-00 — 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 All 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 (*) Iran and Iraq 10-00 — for export to countries and territories of Africa other than those mentioned above and South Africa, Syria, Jordan, countries with a planned economy in central and eastern Europe, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Iceland, Finland and Norway 5-00
(') 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 ).