31992R2599

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2599/92 of 7 September 1992 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, unshelled walnuts may at present be exported in econo­ mically significant quantities ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas the refund applicable to exports of tomatoes to Economic Community, Sweden should be amended during the period 1 July to 30 September 1992 pursuant to the undertakings entered Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and into with that country under the 1980 agreement 0 ; Portugal, Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1432/92 (6), as Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2015/92 f7), prohibits of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the trade between the Community and the Republics of market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by Serbia and Montenegro ; whereas this prohibition does Regulation (EEC) No 1754/92 (2), and in particular Article not apply to certain situations as given in the limitative 30 (4) thereof, enumeration laid down in Articles 2 and 3 ; whereas this should be taken into account when refunds are fixed ; Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­ Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, ically significant quantities to be exported, the difference refunds should be calculated on the following basis : between prices in international trade for the products — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ referred to in that Article and prices for the products within the Community may be covered by an export tion to each other at any given moment within a band refund ; of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central rate, multiplied by the correcting factor provided for Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No in the last indent of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­ 2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general rules tion (EEC) No 1 676/85 (8) as last amended by Regula­ for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit and tion (EEC) No 2205/90 (9), vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3), as — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4), provides average of the ecu rates published in the Official that when refunds are being fixed, account must be taken Journal of the European Communities, C series, over of the existing situation and future trends with regard to a period to be determined, multiplied by the factor prices and availabilities of fruit and vegetables on the referred to in the preceding indent ; Community market on the one hand and prices in inter­ national trade on the other ; whereas account must also be Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules to taken of the costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of the present market situation and to its future trends, and the economic aspects of the proposed exports ; in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegetables in the Community and in international trade that the refunds should be as set out in the Annex Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 2518/69, when prices on the Community market are hereto ; being determined account must be taken of the prices which are most favourable from the exportation point of Whereas, for Spain and Portugal, the Act of Accession view ; whereas, when prices in international trade are introduced transitional measures by phases and stages respectively ; being determined, the quotations and prices referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article must be taken into account ; Whereas where Spain and, from the beginning of the second stage of transition on 1 January 1990, Portugal are Whereas the situation with regard to international trade or concerned when refunds are fixed, account is to be taken the specific requirements of certain markets may make it for each product in accordance with Articles 87 and 255 necessary to vary the refund for a given product according of the Act of Accession, of economically justified price to the destination of that product ; differences ; Whereas tomatoes, fresh lemons, fresh sweet oranges, Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are apples, peaches and nectarines of the common quality in accordance with the opinion of the Management standards 'Extra' Class, Class I and Class II, 'Extra' Class Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, and Class I table grapes, almonds and hazelnuts, and 0 OJ No L 194, 28 . 7. 1980, p. 12. (') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 . f) OJ No L 151 , 3 . 6. 1992, p. 4. (2) OJ No L 180, 1 . 7. 1992, p. 23. f) OJ No L 205, 22. 7. 1992, p. 2. (3) OJ No L 318, 18. 12. 1969, p. 17. (8) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 266, 25. 11 . 1972, p. 7. O OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : in Spain and on the other part in Portugal shall be those given in columns II and III of the Annex. Article 1 Article 2 The export refunds on fruit and vegetables shall be as set out in column I of the Annex hereto. However, the This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 September 1992 . refunds applicable on products harvested on the one part

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

Done at Brussels, 7 September 1992. For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 7 September 1992 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

(ECU/100 kg net) Amounts of refunds Q Product code Destination of refund (') Community as constituted on Spain (II) Portugal (III) 31 December 1985(1)

0702 00 10 100 05 4,50 (2) — 1,19 (*) 0702 00 10 900 — — _ _ 0702 00 90 100 05 4,50 (2) — 1,19 (2) 0702 00 90 900 — — — _ 0802 12 90 000 05 9,67 9,67 9,67 0802 21 00 000 05 1 1 ,30 1 1 ,30 11 ,30 0802 22 00 000 05 21,80 21,80 21,80 0802 31 00 000 05 14,00 14,00 14,00 0805 10 11 100 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 11 300 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 1 1 900 — — _ _ 0805 10 15 100 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 15 300 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 15 900 — — _ _ 0805 10 19 100 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5^99 0805 10 19 300 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 19 900 — — _ _ 0805 10 21 100 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 21 300 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 • 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 21 900 — — _ _ 0805 10 25 100 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 25 300 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5^99 0805 10 25 900 — — _ _ 0805 10 29 100 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 29 300 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 29 900 — — _ _ 0805 10 31 100 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 31 300 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 31 900 — — _ _ 0805 10 35 100 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 35 300 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 35 900 — — _ _

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(ECU/100 kg net) Amounts of refunds (3) Product code Destination of refund (') Community as constituted on Spain (II) Portugal (III) 31 December 1985(1)

0805 10 39 100 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 39 300 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 39 900 — — — _ 0805 10 41 100 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 41 300 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 41 900 — — — _ 0805 10 45 100 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 45 300 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 45 900 — — _ _ 0805 10 49 100 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 49 300 01 11,00 8,78 5,99 04 11,00 8,78 5,99 0805 10 49 900 — — _ _ 0805 20 50 100 — — — _ 0805 20 50 900 — — _ _ 0805 30 10 100 05 13,50 7,62 * 5,92 0805 30 10 900 — — — _ 0806 10 11 100 05 4,84 4,84 0,40 0806 10 11 300 05 4,84 4,84 0,40 0806 10 11 900 — — _ _ 0806 10 15 100 05 4,84 4,84 0,40 0806 10 15 300 05 4,84 4,84 0,40 0806 10 15 900 — — _ _ 0806 10 19 100 05 4,84 4,84 0,40 0806 10 19 300 05 4,84 4,84 0,40 0806 10 19 900 — — _ 0808 10 91 100 — — _ _ 0808 10 91 910 02 6,50 1,39 2,77 0808 10 91 990 — — _ _ 0808 10 93 100 — — — _ 0808 10 93 910 02 6,50 1,39 2,77 0808 10 93 990 — — _ _ 0808 10 99 100 — — — _ 0808 10 99 910 02 6,50 1,39 2,77 0808 10 99 990 — — _ _ 0809 30 00 110 03 5,00 3,79 5,00 0809 30 00 190 — — _ _ 0809 30 00 900 03 5,00 5,00 5 00

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(') The destinations are as follows : 01 Poland, the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 02 Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Austria, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Malta, Syria, Poland, the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, the countries and territories of Africa other than South Africa, countries of the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Bahrein, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm, al Qaiwain, Fujairah and Ras al Khaimah), Kuwait, Yemen), Iran and Jordan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Taiwan, 03 all destinations excluding Switzerland and Austria, 04 Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Greenland, Norway, Iceland and Malta, 05 all destinations. (2) For exports to Sweden in the period 1 July to 30 September 1992, the refund is : — reduced to ECU 0,97 per 100 kg for products originating in the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985, — cancelled for products originating in Portugal. (3) Refunds for exports to the Republics of Serbia and Montenegro may only be granted for humanitarian aid supplied by charitable organizations fulfilling the conditions laid down in Article 2 (a) and Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1432/92.