31979R0113

24 . 1 . 79 No L 17 / 5 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 113/ 79 of 23 January 1979 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ated outside the customs territory of the Community COMMUNITIES , do not qualify for refunds ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas economically important quantities of frozen Economic Community, whole mackerel , frozen fillets of mackerel , dried and salted coalfish and mackerel, dried, salted or in brine Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No can be exported at the present time ; 100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in fishery products ( !), as last Whereas pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2903/78 (2), and in No 686/78 of 6 April 1978 laying down additional particular the fourth indent of Article 23 (2) thereof, provisions as regards the granting of export refunds on fishery products (4), for the purposes of the export Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary refund system, fishery products of Community origin Committee, frozen and/or processed on board a vessel registered or recorded in a third country and flying the flag of a Whereas Article 23 of Regulation ( EEC) No 100/76 third country shall be considered to be products provides that, to the extent necessary to enable which are not of Community origin ; economically important exports of the products listed in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the Whereas it follows from applying the abovementioned basis of prices for these products on the world market, rules and criteria to the present situation on the the difference between these prices and prices within market and in particular to prices for fishery products the Community may be covered by an export refund ; in the Community and on the world market that the refund should be fixed as shown in the Annex ; Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, for granting export refunds on fishery products and refunds should be calculated on the following basis : criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), — in the case of currencies which are maintained in provides that when refunds are being fixed account relation to each other at any given moment within must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­ a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on tion and the future trend with regard to prices and their effective parity ; availabilities of fishery products on the Community market and prices for fishery products on the world — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the market on the other ; whereas account must also be arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each taken of the costs referred to in (c) of that Article of of these currencies recorded for a given period in the economic significance of the proposed exports relation to the Community currencies referred to and of the aims of the common organization of the in the previous subparagraph ; market in fishery products ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ provides that, when prices on the Community market ment Committee for Fishery Products, are being determined, account must be taken of the ruling prices which are most favourable from the exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the world market are being determined, account must be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that Article 1 Article ;

Whereas the world market situation or the specific The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­ requirements of certain markets may make it neces­ lation (EEC) No 100/76 are hereby fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex . sary to vary the refund according to the destination of the products in question ; Article 2 Whereas products of Community origin which are landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 January 1979 . (') OJ No L 20 , 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 347, 12. 12. 1978 , p. 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 20 , 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 48 . (4) OJ No L 93 , 7. 4 . 1978 , p. 12.

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

Done at Brussels, 23 January 1979 . For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 23 January 1979 fixing the export refunds on fishery products (u.a. / 100 kg net)

CCT Description Refund heading No

03.01 Fish , fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen : B. Saltwater fish : I. Whole, headless or in pieces : m) Mackerel : 1 . bb) Frozen : For exports to all destinations with the excep­ tion of Sweden , Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Yugoslavia and the USSR 5.00 2 . bb) Frozen : For exports to all destinations with the excep­ tion of Sweden , Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, 500 Iceland, Yugoslavia and the USSR II . Fillets : b) Frozen : 6 . Of mackerel : For exports to all destinations with the exception of Sweden , Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Yugoslavia and the USSR 300

03.02 Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish , whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process : ex A. I. f) — Coalfish , dried and salted, whole, headless or in pieces : For exports to the People's Republic of the Congo, Zaire, Gabon, Cameroon , Angola, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Windward and Leeward Islands, Panama , Surinam and the Dominican Republic 1500 — Mackerel , dried, salted or in brine, whole , headless or in pieces : For exports to Jamaica, Trinidad and Windward and Leeward Islands 400