31977R2647

No L 308 / 28 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 12 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2647/77 of 30 November 1977 fixing the export refund on oil seeds

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 142/67/EEC COMMUNITIES, provides that when the refund is being calculated account must be taken of prices ruling on the various Community markets which are representative from Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European the point of view of processing and exportation ; the Economic Community, most favourable quotations recorded on the various markets of importing third countries and Greece, and costs incurred in placing the goods on the world Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC market ; whereas, when the amount of the refund is of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a being fixed, account must also be taken of the level of common organization of the market in oils and market prices within the Community for the oil seeds fats (!), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/ 1707/73 (2), 66/EEC and the future trend of these prices ; whereas, furthermore, account should be taken of the economic aspect of the proposed exports and the situation in the Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/66/EEC Community regarding the supply of and demand for of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and fats between these seeds ; the Community and Greece (3),

Having regard to Council Regulation No 142/67/EEC Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) of 21 June 1967 on export refunds on colza, rape and No 651 /71 of 29 March 1971 on certain detailed rules sunflower seeds (4), as last amended by Regulation for the application of export refunds on oil seeds (6), (EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular the first provides that the amount of the refund must be calcu­ sentence of Article 2 (3) thereof, lated on the basis of the weight of exported seeds ; whereas this weight must be adjusted to take account of any differences between the percentages of mois­ Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary ture and impurities found to exist and those used to Committee, define the standard quality for which the target price is fixed ; whereas, when this adjustment is being made, the weight of the exported seeds must be Whereas Article 28 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC increased by the amount of the difference between the provides that a refund may be granted on exports to actual moisture and impurities content and that used third countries of oil seeds harvested within the to define the standard quality if the former is lower Community ; whereas the amount of this refund may than the latter ; whereas, if the opposite applies, the not exceed the difference between prices within the weight of the exported seeds must be reduced by the same amount : Community and prices on the world market where the former are higher than the latter ; whereas Article 21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that, at present, Article 28 of that Regulation applies only to colza, rape and sunflower seeds ; Whereas the standard quality referred to above was defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1069/77 of 17 May 1977 fixing the target prices and Whereas Article 8 of Regulation No 162/66/EEC basic intervention prices for oil seeds for the 1977/78 provides that Article 28 of Regulation No 136/ marketing year (7) ; 66/ EEC and measures taken in application thereof apply, subject to the provisions of the Agreement esta­ blishing an Association between the European Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 142/ 67/ EEC Economic Community and Greece, to trade between provides that the refund may be varied according to the Community and Greece ; destination where the world market situation or the specific requirements of certain markets make this (•) OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66. necessary ; (2 ) OJ No L 175, 29 . 6 . 1973, p. 5. (3 ) OJ No 197, 29 . 10 . 1966, p. 3393/66 . («) OJ No 125, 26. 6 . 1967, p. 2461 /67. (') OJ No L 75, 30 . 3 . 1971 , p. 16. (5) OJ No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p . 1 . (7) OJ No L 129, 25. 5 . 1977, p. 5.

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Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation refunds should be calculated on the following basis : are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Oils and Fats, — in the case of currencies which are maintained in relation to each other at any given moment within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on their effective parity ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each Article 1 of these currencies recorded for a given period in relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous subparagraph ; The refunds on the products referred to in Article 21 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, exported to third coun­ Whereas it follows from applying these rules and tries and Greece, are hereby fixed as shown in the criteria to the present situation on the market in oil Annex to this Regulation. seeds, and in particular to quotations or prices for these products within the Community and on the markets of third countries and Greece, that the refund Article 2 should be fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex to this Regulation for those products for which the This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December marketing year has already begun ; 1977 .

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

Done at Brussels, 30 November 1977. For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

ANNEX i Export refund applicable to oil seeds from 1 December 1977

(u.aJlOO kg) CCT heading Description of goods Refund No

ex 12.01 Colza and rape seed, other than for sowing 8-30 ex 12.01 Sunflower seed, other than for sowing