31979R2989

29 . 12 . 79 No L 337/23 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2989/79 of 28 December 1979 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN compound feedingstuffs are being fixed, only the COMMUNITIES, products normally used in the manufacture of compound feedingstuffs for which a refund may be fixed should be taken into account : Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1913/69 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No of 29 September 1969 on the granting and the 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­ advance fixing of the export refund on cereal-based tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by compound feedingstuffs (6), as amended by Regulation Regulation (EEC) No 1547/79 (2), and in particular the (EEC) No 31 16/75 (7), provides that calculation of the fourth subparagraph of Article 16 (2) thereof, export refund must be based on the levy applicable to maize ; whereas this calculation must also take account of the cereal products content ; whereas, there­ Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary fore, in the interest of simplification, compound Committee, feedingstuffs should be placed in categories and the refund for each category should be fixed on the basis Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of a quantity of maize which is representative of the provides that the difference between quotations or usual cereal products content for the category prices on the world market for the products listed in concerned ; whereas, futhermore, the amount of the Article 1 of that Regulation and prices for those refund must also take into account the possibilities products within the Community may be covered by and conditions for the sale of those products on the world market, the need to avoid disturbances on the an export refund ; Community market and the economic aspect of the export ; Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general rules for granting export refunds on cereals and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), Whereas the world market situation or the specific requirements of certain markets may make it neces­ provides that when refunds are being fixed account must be taken of the existing situation and the future sary to vary the refund for compound feedingstuffs according to destination ; trend with regard to prices and availabilities of cereals on the Community market on the one hand and prices for cereals and cereal products on the other ; whereas the same Article provides that it is also impor­ Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, tant to ensure equilibrium and the natural develop­ refunds should be calculated on the following basis : ment of prices and trade on the cereal markets ;

— in the case of currencies which are maintained in Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules relation to each other at any given moment within to the present situation on the market in cereal-based a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on compound feedingstuffs that the export refund should their effective parity ; be fixed at an amount which will cover the difference between Community prices and world market prices ; — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No of these currencies recorded for a given period in 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be relation to the Community currencies referred to applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (4), as in the previous indent ; amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (5), provides that, when export refunds on cereal-based Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month ; (>) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ; (2) OJ No L 188 , 26. 7. 1979, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 78 . (<) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60 . (<) OJ No L 246, 30. 9. 1969, p. 11 . (5) OJ No L 303, 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 . (7) OJ No L 309, 29. 11 . 1975, p. 64.

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Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 shall be as set out in are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ the Annex hereto . ment Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 2 Article 1 The export refunds on the compound feedingstuffs This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1980 . covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and subject

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

Done at Brussels, 28 December 1979 . For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 28 December 1979 fixing the export refunds on cereal based compound feedingstuffs

(ECU/tonne) CCT Special Nomenclature in simplified wording Refund heading specification No for refund

23.07 B I Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75, containing starch, glucose or glucose syrup falling Within subheadings 17.02 B and 21.07 F II or milk products (falling within heading Nos 04.01 , 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04 and subheadings 17.02 A and 21.07 F I): Of a milk powder content of less than 50% by weight arid of a cereal products (') content by weight : 3010 — Exceeding 5 % but not exceeding 15 % 8.99 4010 — Exceeding 1 5 % but not exceeding 30 % 22.47 5010 — Exceeding 30 % but not exceeding 50 % 40.45 6010 — Exceeding 50 % but not exceeding 65 % 53.93 7010 — Exceeding 65 % 67-42

(') 'Cereal products means the products falling within Chapter 10 and heading Nos 11.01 and 11.02 (excluding subheading 11.02 G) of the Common Customs Tariff.