31981R0212

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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 212/81 of 28 January 1981 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ated outside the customs territory of the Community COMMUNITIES, do not qualify for refunds ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas economically important quantities of frozen Economic Community, whole mackerel, frozen fillets of mackerel, dried and salted coalfish and mackerel, dried, salted or in brine Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 100/76 can be exported at the present time ; of 19 January 1976 on the common organization of the market in fishery products ('), as last amended by Whereas pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) Regulation (EEC) No 3443/80 (2), and in particular the No 686/78 of 6 April 1978 laying down additional fourth subparagraph of Article 23 (2) thereof, provisions as regards the granting of export refunds on fishery products (4), for the purposes of the export Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary refund system, fishery products of Community origin Committee, frozen and/or processed on board a vessel registered or Whereas Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76 recorded in a third country and flying the flag of a provides that, to the extent necessary to enable econo­ third country shall be considered to be products which mically important exports of the products listed in are not of Community origin ; Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules basis of prices for these products on the world market, to the present market situation and in particular to the difference between these prices and prices within prices for fishery products in the Community and on the Community may be covered by an export refund ; the world market that the refunds should be as set out Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No in the Annex hereto ; 110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules for granting export refunds on fishery products and Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), refunds should be calculated on the following basis : provides that when refunds are being fixed account — in the case of currencies which are maintained in must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­ relation to each other at any given moment within tion and the future trend with regard to prices and a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on availabilities of fishery products on the Community their effective parity ; market and prices on the world market on the other ; — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the whereas account must also be taken of the costs arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of referred to in (c) of that Article and of the economic these currencies recorded for a given period in significance of the proposed exports and of the aims of relation to the Community currencies referred to the common organization of the market in fishery in the previous indent ; products ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76 are in accordance with the opinion of the Management provides that, when prices on the Community market Committee for Fishery Products, are being determined, account must be taken of the ruling prices which are most favourable from the exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the world market are being determined, account must be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that Article ; Article 1

Whereas the world market situation or the specific The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regu­ requirements of certain markets may make it necessary lation (EEC) No 100/76 shall be as set out in the to vary the refund according to the destination of the Annex hereto . products in question ; Article 2 Whereas products of Community origin which are landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situ­ This Reglation shall enter into force on 29 January 1981 . (') OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1980, p. 13 . (3) OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p . 48 . (4) OJ No L 93, 7. 4. 1978 , p. 12.

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

Done at Brussels , 28 January 1981 .

For the Commission Georges CONTOGEORGIS Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 28 January 1981 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

(ECU/100 kg net) CCT heading Description Refund No

03.01 Fish, fresh (live or dead), chilled or frozen : B. Saltwater fish : I. Whole, headless or in pieces : m) Mackerel : I. bb) Frozen : For exports to all destinations with the excep­ tion of Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland and the USSR 4-75 2, bb) Frozen : For exports to all destinations with the excep­ tion of Sweden , Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland and the USSR 4-75 II . Fillets : b) Frozen : 6 . Of mackerel : For exports to all destinations with the exception of Sweden , Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland and the USSR 310

03.02 Fish, dried, salted or in brine, smoked fish , whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process : ex A. I. f) — Coalfish , dried and salted, whole, headless or in pieces : For exports to Porto Rico, the People's Republic of the Congo, Zaire, Gabon, Cameroon, Angola, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Windward and Leeward Islands , Panama, Surinam and the Domi­ nican Republic 16-50 — Mackerel, dried, salted or in brine, whole , headless or in pieces : For exports to Jamaica, Trinidad and Windward and Leeward Islands 4-00