31977R2981

No L 351 /24 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 12 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2981 /77 of 30 December 1977 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 2560/77 (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 and the use of third country products brought in Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary under inward processing arrangements ; Committee, Whereas the application of the basic amount may be Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) provides that the difference between quotations or (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 ; prices on the world market for the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, refunds should be calculated on the following basis : products within the Community may be covered by an export refund ; — in the case of currencies which are maintained in relation to each other at any given moment within Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on 766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for their effective parity ; granting export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the by Regulation (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each export refund on 100 kilograms of the products listed of these currencier recorded for a given period in in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is relation to the Community currencies referred to equal to the basic amount multiplied by the sucrose in the previous subparagraph ; content, including, where appropriate, other sugars expressed as sucrose ; whereas the sucrose content of Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed the product in question is determined in accordance every month ; whereas they may be altered in the with the provisions of Article 13 of Commission Regu­ intervening period ; lation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (5), as Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1499/76 (6) ; are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Sugar, Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 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 Article 1 down general rules for the production refund on sugar used in the chemical industry (6), as last amended by The refund to be granted on the products listed in Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77, to the products listed Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, in Annex I to the last mentioned Regulation ; exported in the natural state, is hereby fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation . ( 1 ) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 303, 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 . (J) OJ No L 143 , 25 . 6 . 1968 , p. 6. Article 2 (4) OJ No L 167, 26 . 6 . 1976, p. 13 . (5 ) OJ No L 50 , 4. 3 . 1970 , p. 1 . («) OJ No L 167, 26. 6 . 1976, p. 29 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 7 OJ No L 143 , 25 . 6 . 1968 , p. 1 . 1978 .

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

Done at Brussels, 30 December 1977. For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 December 1977 fixing the export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in the natural state (u.iiJlOO kv)

CCT Basic amount Description per percentage heading No point of sucrose content (')

17.02 Other sugars in solid form ; sugar syrups, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter ; artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey ; caramel : D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and maple) : ex II Other, excluding sorbose 0-2043 E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey 0-2043 ex F. Caramel made from sugar falling within heading No 17.01 0-2043

21.07 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included : F. Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups : IV. Other (than lactose, glucose and isoglucose syrups) 0-2043

(') The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 % pure (Regulation (EEC) No 394/ 70 ). Sucrose content is deter­ mined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation ( EEC) No 394/70 .