31988R1156

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1156/88 of 28 April 1988 fixing the export refunds on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN required for their manufacture ; whereas these quantities were fixed in Commission Regulation No 162/67/EEC (4), COMMUNITIES, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1607/71 (*) ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas the world market situation or the specific Economic Community, requirements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary the refund for certain products according to destina­ Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and tion ; Portugal, Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ; of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, No 1097/88 (2), and in particular the fourth subparagraph refunds should be calculated on the following basis : of Article 16 (2),

— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, tion to each other at any given moment within a band of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­ provides that the difference between quotations or prices tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (*), as last amended by Regula­ on the world market for the products listed in Article 1 of tion (EEC) No 1636/87 0 ; that Regulation and prices for those products in the Community may be covered by an export refund ; — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­ Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No tion to the Community currencies referred to in the 2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general rules for previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient , granting export refunds on cereals and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), provides that when refunds are being fixed, account must be taken of the Whereas, following the introduction of the "combined existing situation and the future trend with regard to nomenclature" by Council Regulation (EEC) No prices and availabilities of cereals on the Community 2658/87 (8), the nomenclature applicable from 1 January market on the one hand, and prices for cereals and cereal 1988 to export refunds on agricultural products was esta­ products on the world market on the other ; whereas the blished by Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (') ; same Article provides that it is also important to ensure equilibrium and the natural development of prices and trade on cereal markets and, furthermore, to take into Whereas it follows from applying the detailed rules set account the economic aspect of the proposed exports and out above to the present situation on the market in the need to avoid disturbances on the Community cereals, and in particular to quotations or prices for these market ; products within the Community and on the world market, that the refunds should be as set out in the Annex hereto ; Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 2746/75 defines the specific criteria to be taken into account when the refund on cereals is being calculated ; Whereas, pursuant to Article 275 of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, refunds may be granted in the case of exports to Portugal ; whereas, in the light of the situa­ Whereas these specific criteria are defined, as far as wheat tion and the level of prices no refund should be fixed in and rye flour, groats and meal are concerned, in Article 4 the case of exports to Portugal ; of Regulation (EEC) No 2746/75 ; whereas furthermore, when the refund on these products is being calculated, (4) OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 25 /4/ 6 /. account must be taken of the quantities of cereals M OJ No L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 16. (*) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . O OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 . (') OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . (*) OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 . O OJ No L 110, 29. 4. 1988. (») OJ No L 366, 24. 12. 1987, p. 1 . (*) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 78.

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whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are The refund on export to Portugal has not been fixed. in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Article 2 Article 1 The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75, exported in the natural state, shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 April 1988 .

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

Done at Brussels, 28 April 1988 .

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

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ANNEX to the Commission Regulation of 28 April 1988 fixing the export refunds on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

(ECU / tonne)

Destination (') Amount of refund Product code

0709 90 60 000 0712 90 19 000 01 80,00 1001 10 10 000 04 30,00 (2) 1001 10 90000 05 25,00 (J) 10 24,00 (2) 02 20,00 (2) 01 80,00 1001 90 91 000 03 88,00 1001 90 99 000 02 0 08 98,00 1002 00 00 000 03 88,00 06 20,00 07 15,00 02 25,00 09 95,00 11 95,00 01 80,00 1003 00 10 000 03 96,00 1003 00 90 000 02 25,00 01 50,00 1004 00 10 000 1004 00 90 000 1005 10 90 000 03 106,00 1005 90 00 000 02 0

1007 00 90 000 1008 20 00 000 01 144,00 1101 00 00 110 01 144,00 1101 00 00 120 01 125,00 1101 00 00 130 01 116,00 1101 00 00 150 01 107,00 1101 00 00 170 01 96,00 1101 00 00 180 1101 00 00 190 1101 00 00 900 01 144,00 1102 10 00 100 01 144,00 1102 10 00 200 01 144,00 1102 10 00 300 01 144,00 1102 10 00 500 1102 10 00 900 01 280,00 1103 11 10 100 01 265,00 1103 11 10 200 01 236,00 1103 11 10 500 01 223,00 1103 11 10 900 01 144,00 1103 11 90 100 1103 11 90 900

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(') The destinations are identified as follows : 01 All third countries, 02 Other third countries, 03 Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein, 04 Zones II and III, 05 Algeria, 06 Japan, 07 South Korea, 08 Ceuta and Melilla, 09 Zone II (b), 10 Tunisia, 1 1 Israel. (2) The refund cannot be granted if the quality of durum wheat exported corresponds to less than the quality defined in paragraph 2 of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1 569/77 with the exception of impurities constituted by grain (other than mottled grains and grains affected with fusariosis) ; 7 % maximum of which 5 % of soft wheat or other cereals. N.B. The zones are those defined in Regulation (EEC) No 1124/77 (OJ No L 134, 28. 5. 1977), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 296/88 (OJ No L 30, 2. 2. 1988).