31989R1508

No L 148/26 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 6. 89

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1508/89 of 31 May 1989 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable to certain products from the sugar sector exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas Article 4(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80 provides that, when the rate of the refund is being fixed, account should be taken, where appropriate, of refunds, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European aids or other measures having equivalent effect, applicable Economic Community, in all Member States in accordance with the Regulation on the common organization of the market in the product in question, to the basic products listed in Annex Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/ A to that Regulation or to assimilated products ; 81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1069/89 -(2) and in particular Article 19 (4) (a) and (7) thereof,

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1010/86 of 26 Whereas Article 19 (1 ) and (2) of Regulation (EEC) No March 1986 laying down general rules for production 1785/81 provide that for the products listed in Article 1 refunds on certain products of the chemical industry (*), as (l)(a), (c), (d), (f) and (g) of that Regulation an export last amended by Regulation (EEC) 2306/88 (*), provides refund may be granted when these goods are exported in for the granting of production refunds of white sugar, raw the form of goods listed in Annex I to that same Regula­ sugar, certain sucrose syrups falling within CN codes ex tion ; whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80 of 1702 60 90 and ex 1702 90 90 having a certain purity, and 11 November 1980 laying down general rules for granting unprocessed isoglucose falling within CN codes export refunds for certain agricultural products exported 1 702 30 1 0, 1 702 40 1 0, 1 702 60 10 and 1 702 90 30, which are used in the manufacture of the chemical in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty, and the criteria for fixing the amount of such products listed in the Annex thereto ; whereas this refunds (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No production refunds' scheme has been established in parti­ 3209/88 (4), specifies the products for which a rate of cular to bring the conditions under which Community refund should be fixed, to be applied where these processors operate progressively into line with those of products are exported in the form of goods listed in processors employing sugar at world market prices ; Annex I of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ; whereas therefore, in the absence of proof that the basic product has not benefited from the production refund, the amount of the export refund must be reduced by the Whereas, in accordance with the first subparagraph of amount of the production refund applicable to the basic Article 4 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80, the rate of product on the day of acceptance of the export declara­ the refund per 100 kilograms for each of the basic tion ; whereas this system is the only one which discards the risk of fraud ; products in question must be fixed for each month ; and whereas, in accordance with paragraph 2 of that Article, that rate must be determined with particular reference to :

(a) the average costs incurred by processing industries in obtaining supplies of the basic products on the Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 565/80 of 4 Community market and the prices ruling on the March 1980 on the advance payment of export refunds in world market ; respect of agricultural products f), as amended by Regula­ tion (EEC) No 2026/83 (8), and Commission Regulation (b) the level of the refunds on exports of processed agri­ (EEC) No 798/80 of 31 March 1980 laying down general cultural products covered by Annex II to the Treaty rules on the advance payment of export refunds and posi­ which are manufactured under similar conditions ; tive monetary compensatory amounts in respect of agri­ cultural products ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 471 /87 (10), lay down rules on the advance payment of (c) the need to ensure equality of competition for the export refunds that must be adhered to when these are industries which use Community products and those adjusted ; which use third-country products under inward processing arrangements ; 0 OJ No L 94, 9. 4. 1986, p. 9. (°) OJ No L 201 , 27. 7. 1988, p. 65. (>) OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. o OJ No L 62, 7. 3. 1980, p. 5. 0 OJ No L 114, 27. 4. 1989 , p. 1 . (8) OJ No L 199, 22. 7. 1983, p. 12. 3) OJ No L 323, 29 . 11 . 1980, p. 27. 0 OJ No L 87, 1 . 4. 1980, p. 42. I4) OJ No L 286, 20. 10. 1988, p. 6. (l0) OJ No L 48, 17. 2. 1987, p. 10.

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Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are The proof referred to in the first subparagraph is provided in accordance with the opinion of the Management by the presentation by the exporter of a declaration from Committee for Sugar, the processor of the basic product in question attesting that the latter product has not benefited from a produc­ tion refund as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 1010/86, and that no application for such refund will be made . Article 1 3. When the proof referred to in paragraph 2 is not 1 . Without prejudice to paragraphs 2 and 3, the rates of provided, the export refund : the refunds applicable to the basic products appearing in (a) applicable on the date of export of the goods, when Annex A to Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80 and listed in the rate is not fixed in advance ; or Article 1 (1 ) and (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 , exported in the form of goods listed in Annex I to Regu­ (b) of which the rate is fixed in advance, lation (EEC) No 1785/81 , are fixed as shown in the Annex hereto. will be reduced by the amount of the production refund applicable under Regulation (EEC) No 1010/86 to the 2. For the chemical products listed in the Annex to basic product in question on the day of acceptance of the Regulation {EEC) No 1010/86, the refunds given in the export declaration for the goods, or on the day specified Annex to this Regulation shall be applied on presenta­ in Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 798/80, if the tion, at the acceptance of the export declaration and the goods have been placed under the export refund advance request for obtaining the export refund, of proof that the payment arrangements. basic products used in the manufacture of the chemical products to be exported have not benefited from the Article 2 production refund provided for in that Regulation, and that such refund will not be applied for. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1989 .

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

Done at Brussels, 31 May 1989. For the Commission Martin BANGEMANN Vice-President

No L 148/28 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 6. 89

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 31 May 1989 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable to certain products in the sugar sector exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty

Rate of refund in ECU/100 kg : White sugar : 29,04 Raw sugar : 26,71 Syrups of beet sugar or cane sugar containing, in the dry state, 85 % or more by weight of sucrose (inclu­ so ding invert sugar expressed as sucrose) : 29,04 x or 100

If those syrups are obtained by dissolving white or raw The rate fixed above for 100 kg of sugar in the solid state, whether or not the dissolving white or raw sugar used for the is followed by inversion : dissolution Molasses : Isoglucose (2) : 29,04 (3)

(') 'S represents in 100 kilograms of syrup — the sucrose content (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) of the syrup in question, where the latter is not less than 98 % pure, — the extractable sugar content of the syrup in question, where the latter is not less than 85 %, but less than 98 % pure. (2) Products obtained by isomerization of glucose, which have a content by weight in the dry state of at least 41 % fructose and of which the total content by weight in the dry state of polysaccharides and oligosaccharides, inclu­ ding the di- or trisaccharides content, does not exceed 8,5% . (3) Amount of refund per 1 00 kilograms of dry matter.