31979R2541

No L 290/20 17 . 11 . 79 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2541 /79 of 16 November 1979 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given COMMUNITIES, product according to the destination of that product ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas sweet fresh oranges, fresh mandarins, fresh Economic Community, lemons and apples of the common quality standards ' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra' Class and Class I hothouse grapes and open ground grapes, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No shelled almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­ may at present be exported in economically signifi­ tion of the market in fruit and vegetables (!), as last cant quantities ; amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1301 /79 (2), and in particular Article 30 (4) thereof, Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, refunds should be calculated on the following basis : Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, — in the case of currencies which are maintained in relation to each other at any given moment within Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­ their effective parity ; ically significant quantities to be exported, the differ­ — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the ence between prices in international trade for the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each products referred to in that Article and prices for the of these currencies recorded for a given period in products within the Community may be covered by relation to the Community currencies referred to an export refund ; in the previous indent ;

Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules 2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general to the present market situation and to its future rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit trends, and in particular to quotations and prices for and vegetables an^l criteria for fixing their amounts (}), fruit and vegetables in the Community and in inter­ as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4), national trade that the refunds should be as set out in provides that when refunds are being fixed, account the Annex hereto ; must be taken of the exiating situation and future trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit and vegetables on the Community market on the one Whereas the obligations under Article 6 ( 1 ) (b) of hand and prices in international trade on the other ; Commission Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 of 17 whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­ January 1975 laying down detailed rules for the appli­ cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic cation of export refunds in respect of agricultural aspects of the proposed exports ; products (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2145/77 (6), may be relaxed in the case of exports to non-member countries outside Europe ; whereas, in Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) such a case, Article 1 1 (4) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market 192/75 may be applied ; are being determined account must be taken of the prices which are most favourable from the exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices in international Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) fao 652/79 of 29 trade are being determined, the quotations and prices March 1979 (7) laid down the coefficient for referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in taken into account ; ECU ;

Whereas the situation with regard to international Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation trade or the specific requirements of certain markets are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, (!) OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 . (A OJ No L 162, 30. 6. 1979, p. 26. (5) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p. 17. (6) OJ No L 249, 30 . 9 . 1977, p. 12. (<) OJ No L 266, 25. 11 . 1972, p. 7. (7) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : apply to exports of sweet oranges, mandarins, lemons, walnuts in shell, shelled hazelnuts, and apples as set Article 1 out in the Annex hereto .

1 . The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall be as set out in the Annex hereto . Article 2

2. The provisions of Articles 6 ( 1 ) (b) and 11 (4) (c) This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 November 1979 . of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 shall

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

Done at Brussels, 16 November 1979 . For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

No L 290/22 Official Journal of the European Communities 17 . 11 . 79

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 16 November 1979 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

(ECU/100 kg net)

CCT heading Description Refund No

ex 08.02 A I Sweet fresh oranges : — Of varieties Biondo comune and Sanguigno comune ('Extra ' Class, Class I and Class II ) 5.32 — Of other varieties ('Extra ' Class, Class I and Class II) 9.67 ,

ex 08.02 B Fresh mandarins ('Extra' Class , Class I and Class II ) 7.25

ex 08.02 C Fresh lemons (' Extra ' Class , Class I and Class 11 )

For export to : — countries or States with a planned economy in central or eastern Europe 6.04 — other destinations 4.23

ex 08.04 A I Table grapes : — Fresh, open ground ('Extra ' Class and Class I) 4.84 — Fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I ) 19.34

ex 08.05 A 11 9.67 Shelled almonds, other than bitter almonds

ex 08.05 B Unshelled walnuts 12.09

ex 08.05 G Shelled hazelnuts 14.51

ex 08.06 A II Apples ('Extra ' Class, Class I and Class II) other than cider apples

For export to : — Botswana , Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia , Malawi , Mozambique, Tanzania , Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda , Somalia, Madagascar, Comoros , Mauritius , Sudan, Ethiopia , Jibuti, the countries of the Arabian peninsula ('), Iran and Iraq 13.50 — countries and territories of Africa other than those mentioned above and South Africa, Syria , Jordan , countries with a planned economy in central and eastern Europe, Bolivia , Brazil , Venezuela , Peru , Panama , Ecuador, Iceland, Finland , Norway, Sweden, Austria and the Faroe Islands 3.63

•») For the purpose of this Regulation the ' countries of the Arabian peninsula ' are considered to be the following , including the territories attached thereto : Saudi Arabia , Bahrain , Qatar, Kuwait, the Sultanate of Oman , United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman , Umm al Qawain , Fujairah , Ras Al Khaimah ), Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) and the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen ).