31979R0858

No L 108 /28 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 5 . 79

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 858/79 of 27 April 1979 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable from 1 May 1979 to sugar and molasses exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN (c) the need to ensure equality of competition for the COMMUNITIES, industries which use Community products and those which use third-country products under inward processing arrangements ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2682/72 provides that, when the rate of the refund is being Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No fixed, account should be taken, where appropriate, of 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ refunds, aids or other measures having equivalent zation of the market in sugar (*), as last amended by effect applicable in all Member States in accordance Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular the with the Regulation on the common organization of first sentence of the sixth subparagraph of Article 19 the market in the product in question to the basic (2) thereof, products listed in Annex A to that Regulation or to assimilated products ; Whereas Article 19 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 provides that the difference between quota­ Whereas a production refund is granted in respect of tions or prices on the world market for the products white sugar or raw sugar under the conditions laid listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a), (c) and (d) of that Regulation down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1400/78 of 20 and prices within the Community may be covered by June 1978 laying down general rules for the produc­ an export refund ; whereas Council Regulation (EEC) tion refund on sugar used in the chemical No 2682/72 of 12 December 1972 laying down industry (5) ; general rules for granting export refunds on certain agricultural products exported in the form of goods Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation not covered by Annex II to the Treaty, and the criteria are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), as last ment Committee for Sugar, amended by Regulation (EEC) No 707/78 (4), specifies the products for which a rate of refund should be fixed, to be applied where these products are exported in the form of goods listed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas, in accordance with the first subparagraph of Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2682/72, the rate Article 1 of the refund per 100 kilograms for each of the basic products in question must be fixed for each month ; The rates of the refunds applicable from 1 May 1979 to the basic products appearing in Annex A to Regula­ tion (EEC) No 2682/72 and listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Whereas, in accordance with paragraph 2 of that Article, that rate must be determined with particular Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, exported in the form reference to : of goods listed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, are fixed as shown : (a) the average costs incurred by processing industries (a) in Table I of the Annex hereto for those same in obtaining supplies of the basic products in ques­ goods, in so far as they are shown in the Annex to tion on the Community market and the prices Regulation (EEC) No 1400/78 ; ruling on the world markets ; (b) in Table II of the Annex hereto for goods other (b) the level of the refunds on exports of processed than those mentioned under (a). agricultural products covered by Annex II to the Treaty which are manufactured under similar conditions : Article 2

(i) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1979 . ÌA OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 1 . (>) OJ No L 289, 27. 12. 1972, p. 13 . («) OJ No L 94, 8 . 4. 1978 , p. 7. (5) OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978 , p. 9 .

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

Done at Brussels, 27 April 1979.

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 27 April 1979 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable from 1 May 1979 to sugar and molasses exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty

Table I

Rate of refund in ECU/100 kg : White sugar : 23-47 Raw sugar : 13-46 Syrups of beet sugar or cane sugar con­ taining, in the dry state, 98 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert so sugar expressed as sucrose) : 23-47 X 100 Molasses :

Table II

Rate of refund in ECU/100 kg : White sugar : 27-58 Raw sugar : 17-24 Syrups of beet sugar or cane sugar con­ taining, in the dry state, 98 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert S (M sugar expressed as sucrose) : 27.58 X 100

Molasses :

(') ' S' represents the weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) in 100 kilograms of syrup.