31983R3090

1 . 11 . 83 No L 301 / 65 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 3090 /83 of 31 October 1983 fixing the export refunds on fishery products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the world market situation or the specific COMMUNITIES , requirements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary the refund according to the destination of the products in question ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas products of Community origin which are landed, direct from the fishing grounds, in ports situated outside the customs territory of the Commu­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No nity do not qualify for refunds ; 3796/ 81 of 29 December 1981 on the common organization of the market in fishery products ('), and in particular the fourth subparagraph of Article 25 (2) Whereas economically important quantities of frozen thereof, whole mackerel , frozen fillets of mackerel , dried and salted coalfish and mackerel, dried, salted or in brine, can be exported at the present time ; Having regard to • the opinion of the Monetary Committee, Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 686/78 of 6 April 1978 laying down additional provisions as regards the granting of export refunds on Whereas Article 25 of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 fishery products (3), for the purposes of the export provides that, to the extent necessary to enable econo­ refund system , fishery products of Community origin mically important exports of the products listed in frozen and/or processed on board a vessel registered or Article 1 (2) of that Regulation to be effected on the recorded in a third country and flying the flag of a basis of prices for these products on the world market, third country shall be considered to be products which the difference between these prices and prices within are not of Community origin ; the Community may be covered by an export refund ;

Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No to the present market situation, and in particular to 110/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down general rules prices for fishery products in the Community and on for granting export refunds on fishery products and the world market, characterized in particular by the criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (2), small difference between these prices during the provides that, when refunds are being fixed, account recent period, that the refunds should be as set out in must be taken on the one hand of the existing situa­ the Annex hereto ; tion and the future trend with regard to prices and availabilities of fishery products on the Community Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, market and prices on the world market on the other ; refunds should be calculated on the following basis : whereas account must also be taken of the costs referred to in subparagraph (c) of that Article and of — in the case of currencies which are maintained in the economic significance of the proposed exports and relation to each other at any given moment within of the aims of the common organization of the market a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on in fishery products ; their central rate , — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 110/76 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of provides that, when prices on the Community market these currencies recorded for a given period in are being determined, account must be taken of the relation to the Community currencies referred to ruling prices which are most favourable from the in the previous indent ; exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices on the world market are being determined, account must Whereas the Management Committee for Fishery be taken of the prices indicated in paragraph 2 of that Article ; Products has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman ,

0 OJ No L 379 , 31 . 12 . 1981 , p . 1 . (2) OJ No L 20 , 28 . 1 . 1976 , p . 48 . (>) OJ No L 93 , 7. 4. 1978 , p. 12 .

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Article1¶

The export refunds referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto .

Article2¶

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November 1983 .

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

Done at Brussels, 31 October 1983 .

For the Commission Giorgios CONTOGEORGIS Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 31 October 1983 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 : o) Mackerel : 1 . bb) Frozen : For exports to all destinations with the excep­ tion of Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland , Iceland and the USSR 0 2. bb) Frozen : For exports to all destinations with the excep­ tion of Sweden , Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland , Iceland and the USSR 0 II . Fillets : b) Frozen : 8 . Of mackerel : For exports to all destinations with the exception of Sweden , Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland and the USSR 0

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 Puerto Rico, the People's Republic of the Congo, Zaire, Gabon, Cameroon , Angola, Jamaica, Trinidad , Barbados, Windward and Leeward Islands , Panama, Surinam and the 0 Dominican Republic — Mackerel , dried, salted or in brine, whole, headless or in pieces : For exports to Jamaica, Trinidad and Windward and Leeward Islands 0