31979R0874

3 . 5 . 79 No L 110 /9 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 874/79 of 2 May 1979 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar, exported in the natural state

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN sary to vary the refund for sugar according to destina­ COMMUNITIES, tion ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund Economic Community, may be fixed by other legal instruments ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, zation of the market in sugar (*), as last amended by refunds should be calculated on the following basis : Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular the — in the case of currencies which are maintained in first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 19 (2) thereof, relation to each other at any given moment within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary their effective parity ; Committee , — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each provides that the difference between quotations or of these currencies recorded for a given period in prices on the world market for the products listed in relation to the Community currencies referred to Article 1 ( l)(a) of that Regulation and prices for those in the previous indent ; products within the Community may be covered by an export refund ; Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29 March 1979 (8) laid down the coefficient for Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for granting expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in ECU ; export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regula­ tion (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ; on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in the natural state, are being fixed account must be whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ; taken of the situation on the Community and world markets in sugar and in particular of the price and Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out cost factors set out in Article 3 of that Regulation ; above to the present situation on the market in sugar whereas the same Article provides that the economic and in particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the Community and on the world market that aspect of the proposed exports should also be taken the refund should be as set out in the Annex hereto ; into account ; Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation respect of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No ment Committee for Sugar, 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron­ tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar (5) ; whereas, furthermore, this refund should be HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : fixed in accordance with Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 ; whereas candy sugar is defined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March Article 1 1970 on detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (6), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 1467/77 (7) ; ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, undenatured and exported in the natural state, shall be as set out in Whereas the world market situation or the specific the Annex hereto . requirements of certain markets may make it neces­

(') OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . Article 2 (^) OJ No L 170 , 27 . 6. 1978 , p. 1 . (>) OJ No L 143 , 25. 6 . 1968 , p. 6 . (<) OJ No L 167, 26 . 6. 1976, p. 13 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 May 1979 . f) OJ No L 89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 . (<>) OJ No L 50, 4. 3 . 1970, p. 1 . (7) OJ No L 162, 1 . 7 . 1977, p. 6 . (8 ) OJ No L 84, 4 . 4. 1979 , p. 1 .

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

Done at Brussels, 2 May 1979 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 2 May 1979 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar, exported in the natural state (ECU / 100 kg)

CCT Description Refund heading No

17.01 Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid : A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar 24.50 B. Raw sugar : (a) Candy sugar 25.37 (1 ) (b) Other raw sugar 21-50 (')

( l ) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 % , the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 ( 3 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No 766/68 .