31982R3370

16 . 12. 82 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 354/ 15

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3370/ 82 of 15 December 1982 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the situation with regard to international COMMUNITIES, trade or the specific requirements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given product according to the destination of that product ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas tomatoes, sweet fresh oranges, fresh manda­ rins, fresh lemons and apples of the common quality Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No standards ' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, ' Extra' 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization Class and Class I hothouse grapes and open ground of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last grapes, almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1738/82 (2), and in may at present be exported in economically significant particular Article 30 (4) thereof, quantities ;

Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, Committee, refunds should be calculated on the following basis :

— in the case of currencies which are maintained in Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 relation to each other at any given moment within provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­ a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on ically significant quantities to be exported, the dif­ their central rate, ference between prices in international trade for the products referred to in that Article and prices for the products within the Community may be covered by an — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of export refund ; these currencies recorded for a given period in relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous indent ; Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2518 /69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3), to the present market situation and to its future trends, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4), and in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and provides that when refunds are being fixed, account must be taken of the existing situation and future vegetables in the Community and in international trade that the refunds should be as set out in the trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit Annex hereto ; and vegetables on the Community market on the one hand and prices in international trade on the other ; whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­ Whereas the obligations under Article 10 ( 1 ) (b) of cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic aspects Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 of 29 of the proposed exports ; November 1979 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of export refunds on Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) agricultural products (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 202/82 (6), may be relaxed in the case of No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market exports to non-member countries outside Europe ; are being determined account must be taken of the prices which are most favourable from the exportation whereas, in such a case, Article 23 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 may be applied ; point of view ; whereas, when prices in international trade are being determined, the quotations and prices referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be taken into account ; Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman, (') OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 . (J) OJ No L 190, 1 . 7. 1982, p . 7 . (3) OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p. 17. O OJ No L 317, 12. 12. 1979, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 266, 25. 11 . 1972, p . 7. (6) OJ No L 21 , 29 . 1 . 1982, p. 23 .

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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 1 6 December apply to exports of sweet oranges, mandarins, lemons, 1982 .

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

Done at Brussels, 15 December 1982. For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of IS December 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 : — For export of varieties Biondo comune and Sanguigno comune (' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) to : — Countries or States with a planned economy in central or eastern Europe 8-00 — Other destinations 5·32 — For export of other varieties (' Extra' Class, Class I and Class II) to : — Countries or States with a planned economy in central or eastern Europe 14-50 — Other destinations 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 12-00 — 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 14-00 ex 08.05 G Unshelled hazelnuts 15-00 ex 08.05 G Shelled hazelnuts 30-00 ex 08.06 A 11 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 , Iraq , Jordan and Finland 12-00 — Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong 1200 — Countries and territories of Africa other than those mentioned above and South Africa, Syria, countries with a planned economy in central and eastern Europe, Bolivia, Brazil , Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Iceland, Norway, Sweden , Austria and the Faroe 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 ).