31980R1326

No L 135/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 5. 80

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1326/80 of 30 May 1980 fixing die export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products, exported in the natural state

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN equal to one-hundredth of an amount which takes COMMUNITIES, account, on the one hand, of the difference between the intervention price for white sugar for the Commu­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European nity area with the largest surplus for the month for Economic Community, which the basic amount is fixed and quotations or prices for white sugar on the world market and, on Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No the other, of the need to establish a balance between 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ the use of Community basic products in the manufac­ zation of the market in sugar (^ as last amended by ture of processed goods for export to third countries Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular the and the use of third country products brought in first sentence of the last subparagraph of Article 1 9 (2) under inward processing arrangements ; thereof, Whereas the application of the basic amount may be Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary limited to some of the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) Committee, (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 ;

Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 Whereas, if the- refund system is to operate normally, provides that the difference between quotations or refunds should be calculated on the following basis : prices on the world market for the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of that Regulation and prices for those — in the case of currencies which are maintained in products within the Community may be covered by relation to each other at any given moment within an export refund ; a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on their effective parity ; Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the granting export refunds on sugar (3), as last amended arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each by Regulation (EEC) No 1489/76 (4), provides that the of these currencies recorded for a given period in export refund on 100 kilograms of the products listed relation to the Community currencies referred to in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is in the previous indent ; equal to the basic amount multiplied by the sucrose content, including, where appropriate, other sugars Whereas the refunds referred to above must be fixed expressed as sucrose ; whereas the sucrose content of every month ; whereas they may be altered in the the product in question is determined in accordance intervening period ; with Article 13 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on detailed rules for granting export refunds on sugar (5), as last amended by Regula­ Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation tion (EEC) No 1467/77 ('); are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Sugar, Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 provides that the basic amount of the refund on sorbose exported in the natural state must be equal to the basic amount of the refund less one-hundredth of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the production refund applicable, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1400/78 of 20 June 1978 laying down general rules for the production refund on sugar used in the chemical industry (7), to the products Article 1 listed in Annex I to the last mentioned Regulation ;

Whereas the basic amount of the refund on the other The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, exported in products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) the natural state, shall be as set out in the Annex No 3330/74 exported in the natural state must be hereto . (>) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 143, 25. 6. 1968, p. 6. (<) OJ No L 167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13. Article 2 (5) OJ No L 50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 . (*) OJ No L 162, 1 . 7. 1977, p. 6. (7) OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978 , p. 9. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1980.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 May 1980. For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

ANNEX

to die Commission Regulation of 30 May 1980 fixing die export refunds on syrups and certain other sugar products exported in die natural state

(ECU/ 100 kg)

Basic amount CCT Description per percentage heading No point of sucrose content (')

17.02 Other sugars in solid form ; sugar syrups, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter ; artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey ; caramel : D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and maple) : ex II. Other, excluding sorbose 0 E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey 0 ex F. Caramel made from sugar falling within heading No 17.01 0 21.07 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included : F. Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups : l

IV. Other (than lactose, glucose and isoglucose syrups) 0

(!) The basic amount is not applicable to syrups which are less than 85 */• pure (Regulation (EEC) No 394/70). Sucrose content is deter­ mined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 394/70.