31979R0800

25 . 4 . 79 No L 102/ 5 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 800/79 of 24 April 1979 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas economically important quantities of frozen COMMUNITIES, whole mackerel , frozen fillets of mackerel , dried and salted coalfish and mackerel , dried, salted or in brine Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Can be exported at the present time ; Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) 100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza­ No 686/78 of 6 April 1978 laying down additional tion of the market in fishery products ('), as last provisions as regards the granting of export refunds on amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2903/78 (2), and in fishery products (4), for the purposes of the export particular the fourth subparagraph of Article 23 (2) refund system, fishery products of Community origin thereof, frozen and/or processed on board a vessel registered or recorded in a third country and flying the flag of a Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary third country shall be considered to be products Committee, which are not of Community origin ; Whereas Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76 Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules provides that, to the extent necessary to enable to the present market situation and in particular to economically important exports of the products listed prices for fishery products in the Community and on in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the the world market that the refunds should be as set out basis of prices for these products on the world market, in the Annex hereto ; the difference between these prices and prices within the Community may be covered by an export refund ; Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No refunds should be calculated on the following basis : 110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules — in the case of currencies which are maintained in » for granting export refunds on fishery products and relation to each other at any given moment within criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on provides that when refunds are being fixed account their effective parity ; must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­ • — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the tion and the future trend with regard to prices and arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each availabilities of fishery products on the Community of these currencies recorded for a given period in market and prices on the world market on the other ; relation to the Community currencies referred to whereas account must also be taken of the costs in the previous indent ; referred to in (c) of that Article and of the economic significance of the proposed exports and of the aims Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29 of the common organization of the market in fishery March 1979 (5) laid down the coefficient for products ; expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in ECU ; Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76 provides that, when prices on the Community market Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are being determined, account must be taken of the are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ ruling prices which are most favourable from the ment Committee for Fishery Products, exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on the world market are being determined, account must HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that Article ; Article 1 Whereas the world market situation or the specific requirements of certain markets may make it neces­ The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­ sary to vary the refund according to the destination of lation ( EEC) No 100/76 shall be as set out in the the products in question ; Annex hereto . Whereas products of Community origin which are landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­ Article 2 ated outside the customs territory of the Community do not qualify for refunds ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 April 1979 . (') OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 347, 12. 12. 1978 , p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 93 , 7. 4. 1978 , p. 12. (3) OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 48 . (5) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979 , p. 1 .

25 . 4 . 79 No L 102/6 Official Journal of the European Communities

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

Done at Brussels, 24 April 1979 . For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 24 April 1979 fixing the export refunds on fishery products (ECU / IOC /H' tut)

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 6.04 2. bb) Frozen : For exports to all destinations with the excep­ tion of Sweden , Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Yugoslavia and the USSR 6.04 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 3.63 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 18.13 — Mackerel , dried , salted or in brine , whole , headless or in pieces : For exports to Jamaica, Trinidad and Windward and Leeward Islands 4-84