31982R2967

No L 310 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 6 . 11 . 82

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2967 /82 of 5 November 1982 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas tomatoes, sweet fresh oranges, fresh manda­ COMMUNITIES , rins, fresh lemons and apples of the common quality standards 'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra' Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Class and Class I hothouse grapes and open ground Economic Community, grapes, almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts may at present be exported in economically significant quantities ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1738/82 (2), and in refunds should be calculated on the following basis : particular Article 30 (4) thereof, — in the case of currencies which are maintained in Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary relation to each other at any given moment within Committee, a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central rate, Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­ arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of ically significant quantities to be exported, the dif­ these currencies recorded for a given period in ference between prices in international trade for the relation to the Community currencies referred to products referred to in that Article and prices for the in the previous indent ; products within the Community may be covered by an export refund ; Whereas on account of the different production prices Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No for peaches in Greece and in the other Member States, 2518 /69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general this difference should be reflected, pursuant to the rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 10/81 (*), when and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3), calculating export refunds for this product ; whereas as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4), application of the above criteria results in fixing the provides that when refunds are being fixed, account refund applicable in Greece at zero ; must be taken of the existing situation and future trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules and vegetables on the Community market on the one to the present market situation and to its future trends, hand and prices in international trade on the other ; and in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­ vegetables in the Community and in international cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic aspects trade that the refunds should be as set out in the of the proposed exports ; Annex hereto ;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) Whereas the obligations under Article 10 ( 1 ) (b) of No 2518 /69, when prices on the Community market Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 of 29 are being determined account must be taken of the November 1979 laying down common detailed rules prices which are most favourable from the exportation for the application of the system of export refunds on point of view ; whereas, when prices in international agricultural products (6), as last amended by Regulation trade are being determined, the quotations and prices (EEC) No 3476/80 Q, may be relaxed in the case of referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be exports to non-member countries outside Europe ; taken into account ; whereas, in such a case, Article 23 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 may be applied ; Whereas the situation with regard to international trade or the specific requirements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and product according to the destination of that product ; Vegetables has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman ,

(') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . 2 OJ No L 190, 1 . 7 . 1982, p . 7. f1) OJ No L 1 , 1 . 1 . 1981 , p. 17 . (3) OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p . 17. 0 OJ No L 317, 12. 12. 1979 , p . 1 . H OJ No L 266, 25 . 11 . 1972, p . 7 . 0 OJ No L 363 , 31 . 12. 1980 , p . 71 .

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : table grapes of open ground, walnuts in shell, almonds, hazelnuts and apples as set out in the Annex hereto. Article 1

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

2. The provisions of Articles 10 ( 1 ) (b) and 23 ( 1 ) (c) of Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 2730/79 shall This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 November 1982 . apply to exports of sweet oranges, mandarins, lemons,

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

Done at Brussels , 5 November 1982. For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission

No L 310 / 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 6 . 11 . 82

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 5 November 1982 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

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

ex 07.01 M Tomatoes ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) 4-50 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 II) 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) 7-00 — Fresh, hothouse (' Extra' Class and Class I) 19 34 ex 08.05 A II Shelled almonds, other than bitter almonds 20-00 ex 08.05 B Unshelled walnuts 1400 ex 08.05 G Unshelled hazelnuts 15-00 ex 08.05 G Shelled hazelnuts 30-00 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 12-00 — Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong 12-00 — 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 Faraoe Islands 4-00

(') 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 ).