31976R1245

27 . 5 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 139 /37

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1245 /76 of 26 May 1976 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable from 1 June 1976 to sugar and molasses exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN (b) the level of the refunds on exports of processed COMMUNITIES , agricultural products covered by Annex II to the Treaty which are manufactured under similar Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European conditions ; Economic Community, (c) the need to ensure equality of competition for the Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No industries which use Community products and 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ those which use third-country products under zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by inward processing arrangements ; Regulation (EEC) No 832/ 76 (2), and in particular the first sentence of the sixth subparagraph of Article 19 Whereas Article 4 (3) of Regulation ( EEC) No 2682/72 (2) thereof, provides that, when the rate of the refund is being Whereas Article 19 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No fixed , account should be taken , where appropriate, of refunds, aids or other measures having equivalent 3330/74 provides that the difference between quota­ tions or prices on the world market for the products effect applicable in all Member States in accordance listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a), (c) and (d) of that Regulation with the Regulation on the common organization of the market in the product in question to the basic and prices within the Community may be covered by an export refund ; whereas Council Regulation (EEC) products listed in Annex A to that Regulation or to assimilated products ; whereas at present no produc­ No 2682/72 of 12 December 1972 laying down tion refunds are granted ; whereas it is therefore unnec­ general rules for granting export refunds on certain essary to fix differentiated export refunds for the agricultural products exported in the form of goods goods in question ; not covered by Annex II to the Treaty, and the criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), as amended Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation by Regulation (EEC) No 3058/75 (4), specifies the are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ products for which a rate of refund should be fixed , to ment Committee for Sugar, be applied where these products are exported in the form of goods listed in Annex I to Regulation ( EEC) No 3330 /74 ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas, in accordance with the first subparagraph of Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2682/72, the rate Article 1 of the refund per 100 kilogrammes for each of the basic products in question must be fixed for each The rates of the refunds applicable from 1 June 1976 month ; to the basic products appearing in Annex A to Regula­ tion ( EEC) No 2682/72 and listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Whereas, in accordance with paragraph 2 of that Regulation ( EEC) No 3330/74, exported in the form Article, that rate must be determined with particular reference to : of goods listed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 3330 / 74, are fixed as shown in the Annex hereto. (a) the average costs incurred by processing industries in obtaining supplies of the basic products in ques­ Article 2 tion on the Community market and the prices ruling on the world market ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1976.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 May 1 976 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 359 , 31 . 12 . 1974, p . 1 . (2 OJ No L 100 , 14. 4. 1976, p . 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 289 , 27. 12. 1972, p. 13 . (4) OJ No L 306, 26 . 11 . 1975, p . 3 .

No L 139 / 38 Official Journal of the European Communities 27 . 5 . 76

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 26 May 1976 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable from 1 June 1976 to sugar and molasses exported in the form of goods listed in Annex I to Regulation ( EEC ) No 3330/74

Rate of refund in u .a ./ 100 kg : White sugar : ' 3-50 Raw sugar : 0 Syrups of beet sugar or cane sugar con­ taining, in the dry state , 98 % or more by weight of sucrose ( including invert sugar expressed as sucrose ) : 3-50 X S ( 1 ) 100 Molasses , whether or not decolorized : —

( x ) S represents the weight of sucrose ( including invert sugar expressed as sucrose ) in 100 kilogrammes of syrup .