31988R3156

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3156/88

of 13 October 1988 fixing the export refunds on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

account must be taken of the quantities of cereals THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, required for their manufacture ; whereas these quantities were fixed in Commission Regulation No 162/67/EEC (4), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1607/71 (*) , Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas the world market situation or the specific requirements of certain markets may make it necessary to Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and vary the refund for certain products according to destina­ Portugal, tion :

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month ; of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the whereas it may be altered in the intervening period , market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2221 /88 (2), and in particular the fourth subparagraph of Article 1 6 (2), 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 rela­ tion to each other at any given moment within a band Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central provides that the difference between quotations or pnces rate,'multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in on the world market for the products listed in Article 1 of the last paragraph of Article 3 (1) of Council Regula­ that Regulation and prices for those products in the tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (% as last amended by Regula­ Community may be covered by an export refund ; tion (EEC) No 1636/87 0 ;

for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of 2746/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general rules for these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­ tion to the Community currencies referred to in the granting export refunds on cereals and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), provides that when previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient , refunds are being fixed, account must be taken of the existing situation and the future trend with regard to prices and availabilities of cereals on the Community Whereas it follows from applying the detailed rules set market on the one hand, and prices for cereals and cereal out above to the present situation on the market in products on the world market on the other ; whereas the cereals, and in particular to quotations or prices for these same Article provides that it is also important to ensure products within the Community and on the world equilibrium and the natural development of prices and market, that the refunds should be as set out in the trade on cereal markets and, furthermore, to take into Annex hereto ; account the economic aspect of the proposed exports and the need to avoid disturbances on the Community market ; 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 Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 2746/75 tion and the level of prices no refund should be fixed in defines the specific criteria to be taken into account when the case of exports to Portugal ; the refund on cereals is being calculated ;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are Whereas these specific criteria are defined, as far as wheat in accordance with the opinion of the Management and rye flour, groats and meal are concerned, in Article 4 Committee for Cereals, of Regulation (EEC) No 2746/75 ; whereas furthermore, when the refund on these products is being calculated, H OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2574/67. M OJ No L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 16. (') OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . («) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . ft OJ No L 197, 26. 7. 1988, p. 16. 0 OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 78.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : The refund on export to Portugal has not been fixed.

Article 1 Article 2 The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75, exported in This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 October the natural state, shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. 1988 .

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

Done at Brussels, 13 October 1988 .

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 13 October 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 06 120,00 1001 10 10 000 02 0 01 20,00 (2) 1001 10 90 000 01 0 1001 90 91 000 05 50,00 1001 90 99 000 08 70,00 02 0 01 20,00 1002 00 00 000 07 68,00 1003 00 10 000 02 0 05 55,00 1003 00 90 000 02 0 01 0 1004 00 10 000 01 0 1004 00 90 000 1005 10 90 000 03 35,00 1005 90 00 000 02 0

1007 00 90 000 1008 20 00 000 01 84,00 1101 00 00 110 01 84,00 1101 00 00 120 01 76,00 1101 00 00 130 01 66,00 1101 00 00 150 01 56,00 1101 00 00 170 ' 01 46,00 1101 00 00 180 1101 00 00 190 1101 00 00 900 01 84,00 1102 10 00 100 01 84,00 1102 10 00 200 01 84,00 1102 10 00 300 01 84,00 1102 10 00 500 1102 10 00 900 04 229,00 1103 1110 100 02 175,00 04 229,00 1103 11 10 200 02 165,00 01 148,00 1103 11 10 500 01 139,00 1103 11 10 900 01 84,00 1103 11 90 100 110311 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 Algeria, 05 Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Ceuta and Melilla, 06 Tunisia and Algeria, 07 Israel, Tunisia and Algeria, 08 Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Zaire. 0 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 Commission Regulation {EEC) No 1569/77 with the exception of impuri­ ties constituted by grain (other than mottled grains and grains affected with fusariosis) ; 7 % maximum of which 5 % of soft wheat or other cereals.

NB : The zones are those defined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1124/77 (OJ No L 134, 28. 5. 1977, p. 53), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 296/88 (OJ No L 30, 2. 2. 1988, p. 9).