31979R0091

19 . 1 . 79 No L 13 / 29 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 91 /79

of 18 January 1979

fixing the export refunds on poultrymeat for the period beginning 1 February 1979

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, COMMUNITIES, refunds should be calculated on the following basis : — in the case of currencies which are maintained in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No on their effective parity ; 2777/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organ­ — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the ization of the market in poultrymeat ('), as amended arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each by Regulation (EEC) No 369/76 (2), in particular the of these currencies recorded for a given period in first sentence of the fifth subparagraph of Article 9 (2) relation to the Community currencies referred to thereof, in the previous subparagraph ; Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Whereas, since economically important quantities of Committee, other poultrymeat products are not being exported, there is no need to fix a refund for these at present ; Whereas Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 provides that the difference between prices on the Whereas the Management Committee for Poultrymeat world market for the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of and Eggs has not delivered an opinion within the that Regulation and prices for those products in the time limit set by its chairman, Community may be covered by an export refund ;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2779/75 Of 29 October 1975 (3), lays down general rules for granting Article 1 export refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds ; 1 . The list of products for which the export refund referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No Whereas it follows from applying these rules and 2777/75 is granted, and the amount of that refund, are criteria to the present situation on the market in poul­ hereby fixed as shown in the Annex. trymeat that the refund should be fixed as indicated below ; 2. No refund is fixed for any of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 not Whereas, for the other products listed in the Annex to included in the Annex . this Regulation, the refund should be limited to an amount which, while permitting of Community parti­ Article 2 cipation in international trade, takes account of the nature of these exports and their importance at the This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February present time ; 1979 .

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

Done at Brussels, 18 January 1979 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President

(') OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p . 77. (2 ) OJ No L 45, 21 . 2. 1976, p . 3 . P OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p . 90 .

No L 13 /30 Official Journal of the European Communities 19 . 1 . 79

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 18 January 1979 fixing the export refunds on poultrymeat for the period beginning 1 February 1979

CCT Description Refund heading No

u.a. / 100 kg

02.02 Dead poultry ( that is to say fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls ) and edible offals thereof ( except liver), fresh, chilled or frozen :

A. Whole poultry :

For export to European third countries ( including the Canary Islands) (*), to Jordan , to third countries of Africa and to other third countries on the Medi­ terranean or on the Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian Peninsula (2) and Cuba :

I. Fowls :

a) Plucked and gutted, with heads and feet, known as ' 83 % chickens' 22.00 b) Plucked and drawn, without heads and feet but with hearts, livers and gizzards, known as '70 % chickens ' 22.00 c) Plucked and drawn , without heads and feet and without hearts , livers and gizzards, known as ' 65 % chickens' 22.00

(!) As European third countries are to be understood in the sense of this Regulation also the destinations mentioned in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 . (') As ' countries of the Arabian Peninsula ' are to be understood in the sense of this Regulation the following countries situated in the Peninsula and the territories connected : Saudi Arabia , Bahrain , Qatar , Kuwait , Sultanate of Oman , Union of Arab Emirates ( Abu Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman , Ummal Quaiwain , Fujairah , Ras al Kaimah ), Republic of Yemen ( Yemen North) and Democratic Popular Republic of Yemen ( Yemen South).