31985R1425

No L 142/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 5 . 85

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1425/85 of 30 May 1985 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN may make it necessary to vary the refund for a given COMMUNITIES, product according to the destination of that product ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas tomatoes, sweet fresh oranges, fresh lemons, Economic Community, apples and peaches of the common quality standards 'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra' Class and Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Class I hothouse grapes and open ground grapes, almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts may at 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last present be exported in economically significant quan­ tities ; amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1631 /84 (2), and in particular Article 30 (4) thereof, Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, refunds should be calculated on the following basis : Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, — in the case of currencies which are maintained in relation to each other at any given moment within Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­ their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient ically significant quantities to be exported, the dif­ provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC) ference between prices in international trade for the No 974/71 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) products referred to in that Article and prices for the No 855/84 (6), products within the Community may be covered by an export refund ; — for other currencies, an exchange rates based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded over a given Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No period in relation to the Community currencies 2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general referred to in the previous indent, and the aforesaid rules for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit coefficient ; and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4), provides that when refunds are being fixed, account Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules must be taken of the existing situation and future to the present market situation and to its future trends, trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit and in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and and vegetables on the Community market on the one vegetables in the Community and in international hand and prices in international trade on the other ; trade that the refunds should be as set out in the whereas account must also be taken of the costs indi­ Annex hereto ; cated in (b) of that Article and of the economic aspects of the proposed exports ; Whereas the obligations under Article 10 ( 1 ) (b) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 of 29 Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) November 1979 laying down common detailed rules No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market for the application of the system of export refunds on are being determined account must be taken of the agricultural products Q, as last amended by Regulation prices which are most favourable from the exportation (EEC) No 519/83 (8), may be relaxed in the case of point of view ; whereas, when prices in international exports to non-member countries outside Europe ; trade are being determined, the quotations and prices whereas, in such a case, Article 23 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be (EEC) No 2730/79 may be applied ; taken into account ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Whereas the situation with regard to international are in accordance with the opinion of the Management trade or the specific requirements of certain markets Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,

(') OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 106, 12. 5. 1971 , p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 154, 9. 6. 1984, p. 24. (°) OJ No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 . O OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p. 17. 0 OJ No L 317, 12. 12. 1979, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 266, 25. 11 . 1972, p. 7. (8) OJ No L 58 , 5. 3 . 1983, p. 5.

31 . 5. 85 No L 142/21 Official Journal of the European Communities

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 2. The provisions of Articles 10 (1 ) (b) and 23 (1 ) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2730/79 shall apply to exports of sweet oranges, lemons, walnuts in shell, shelled hazelnuts and apples as set out in the Annex hereto. Article 1

Article 2 1 . The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1985.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 May 1985.

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

No L 142/22 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 5 . 85

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 May 1985 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

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

ex 07.01 M 4,50 Tomatoes ('Extra' Class, Class I and Class II)

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 and Yugoslavia 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 and Yugoslavia 14,50 — Other destinations 9,67

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 and Yugoslavia 12,00 — Other destinations 8,00

ex 08.04 A I Table grapes :

— Fresh, open ground ('Extra' Class and Class I) 4,84 — Fresh, hothouse ('Extra' Class and Class I) 19,34 \

ex 08.05 A II Shelled almonds, other than bitter almonds 9,67

ex 08.05 B Unshelled walnuts 14,00

ex 08.05 G Unshelled hazelnuts 7,50

ex 08.05 G Shelled hazelnuts 14,51

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, Iraq and Jordan 12,00 — Countries and territories of Africa other than those mentioned above and South Africa, Syria, countries with a planned economy in central and eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, the Faroe Islands and Finland 4,00

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

ex 08.07 B Peaches (other than nectarines) in categories Extra, I and II : — originating in Greece : — for export to countries or States with a planned economy in central or eastern Europe and Yugoslavia 5,00 — for export to all other destinations other than Switzerland and Austria 1,63 — originating in other Member States for export to all destina­ tions other than Switzerland and Austria 5,00

(') 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, Aiman, Umm al Qawain, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah), Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) and tne People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen).