31976R2144

No L 240 / 28 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 9 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2144/ 76 of 31 August 1976 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other COMMUNITIES , products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 exported in the natural state must be Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European equal to one hundredth of an amount which takes Economic Community, account, on the one hand , of the difference between the intervention price for white sugar for the Commu­ Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No nity area with the largest surplus for the month for 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ which the basic amount is fixed and quotations or zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by prices for white sugar on the world market and, on Regulation ( EEC) No 1487/76 (2), and in particular the the other, of the need to establish a balance between first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 19 (2) the use of Community basic products in the manufac­ thereof, ture of processed goods for export to third countries Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary and the use of third country products brought in Committee , under inward processing arrangements ;

Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 Whereas the application of the basic amount may be provides that the difference between quotations or limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) prices on the world market for the products listed in (d ) of Regulation ( EEC) No 3330 /74 ; Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those products within the Community may be covered by Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, an export refund ; refunds should be calculated on the following basis : Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No — in the case of currencies which are maintained in 766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for relation to each other, at any given moment, granting export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended within a band of 2 25 % , a rate of exchange based by Regulation (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that the on their effective parity ; export refund on 100 kilogrammes of the products — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation ( EEC) No arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each 3330/74 is equal to the basic amount multiplied by of these currencies recorded for a given period, in the sucrose content, including, where appropriate, relation to the Community currencies referred to other sugars expressed as sucrose ; whereas the sucrose in the previous subparagraph ; content of the product in question is determined in accordance with the provisions of Article 13 of Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March every month ; whereas they may be altered in the 1970 on detailed rules for granting export refunds on intervening period ; sugar (5 ), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1499/76 (6); Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 ment Committee for Sugar, provides that the basic amount of the refund on sorbose exported in the natural state must be equal to the basic amount of the refund less one hundredth of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the production refund applicable pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 765/ 68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for the production refund on sugar Article 1 used in the chemical industry (fa), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 3058 /75 (8), to the products The refund to be granted on the products listed in listed in Annex I to the last mentioned Regulation ; Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation ( EEC) No 3330 / 74, exported in the natural state, is hereby fixed as shown (>) OJ No L 359 , 31 . 12. 1974, p . 1 . in the Annex to this Regulation . (2) OJ No L 167, 26 . 6. 1976, p . 9 . (3 ) OJ No L 143 , 25 . 6 . 1968 , p . 6 . 4 OJ No L 167, 26 . 6 . 1976, p . 13 . Article 2 (5 ) OJ No L 50 , 4. 3 . 1970 , p. 1 . (6) OJ No L 167, 26 . 6 . 1976, p. 29 . ( 7) OJ No L 143 , 25 . 6 . 1968 , p . 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September (8) OJ No L 306, 26 . 11 . 1975, p . 3 . 1976 .

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

Done at Brussels, 31 August 1976 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1976 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state (u.dJlOQ k <')

C CT Basic amount h Description of goods per percentage ■ niling No point of sucrose content (')

17.02 Other sugars ; sugar syrups ; artificial honey (whether or not mixed with natural honey) ; caramel : ex D. Other sugars and syrups , excluding sorbose 00875 E. Artificial honey (whether or not mixed with natural honey) 0-0875 ex F. Caramel made from sugar falling within heading No 17.01 0-0875 17.05 Flavoured or coloured sugars , syrups and molasses, but not including fruit juices containing added sugar in any proportion : ex C. Other, excluding flavoured or coloured molasses 0-0875

(') The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which arc less than X5 % pure ( Regulation ( EEC ) No 394 / 70 ). Sucrose content is deter­ mined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation ( EEC ) No * 94 / 70.