31992R3851

No L 390/46 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 12 . 92

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3851 /92 of 29 December 1992 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Class I and Class II, 'Extra Class and Class I table grapes, almonds and hazelnuts, and unshelled walnuts may at present be exported in economically significant quanti­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European ties ; Economic Community,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1432/92 (5), as Portugal , amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2015/92 (6), prohibits trade between the Community and the Republics of Serbia and Montenegro ; whereas this prohibition does Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 not apply to certain situations as given in the limitative of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the enumeration laid down in Articles 2 and 3 ; whereas this market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by should be taken into account when refunds are fixed ; Regulation (EEC) No 1754/92 (2), and in particular Article 30 (4) thereof, Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article Whereas Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 f) are used to provides that, to the extent necessary to allow econom­ convert amounts expressed in third country currencies ically significant quantities to be exported, the difference and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural between prices in international trade for the products conversion rates of the Member States ' currencies ; referred to in that Article and prices for the products whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­ within the Community may be covered by an export tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­ refund ; lation (EEC) No 38 1 9 /92 (8) ;

Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas it follows from applying these detailed rules to 2518/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down general rules the present market situation and to its future trends, and for the granting of refunds on exports of fruit and in particular to quotations and prices for fruit and vegetables and criteria for fixing their amounts (3), as vegetables in the Community and in international trade amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2455/72 (4), provides that the refunds should be as set out in the Annex that when refunds are being fixed, account must be taken hereto ; of the existing situation and future trends with regard to prices and availabilities of fruit and vegetables on the Community market on the one hand and prices in inter­ Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Council Regulation national trade on the other ; whereas account must also be (EEC) No 3816/92 (9) which provides for the abolition , in taken of the costs indicated in (b) of that Article and of the fruit and vegetables sector, of the compensatory the economic aspects of the proposed exports ; mechanism in trade between Spain and Portugal and the other Member States and of associated measures, the basic price and purchase price shall be applied in Spain as from Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1 January 1993 ; whereas, consequently, the amount of 2518/69, when prices on the Community market are the refunds must be the same for all the Member States being determined account must be taken of the prices except for Portugal ; which are most favourable from the exportation point of view ; whereas, when prices in international trade are being determined, the quotations and prices referred to in Whereas under the Act of Accession a phased transitional paragraph 2 of that Article must be taken into account ; arrangement was introduced in respect of Portugal ;

Whereas the situation with regard to international trade or the specific requirements of certain markets may make it Whereas, from the beginning of the second transitional stage on 1 January 1992, it has been necessary, under necessary to vary the refund for a given product according to the destination of that product ; Article 255 of the Act of Accession, in fixing the refunds for Portugal, to take account of the difference in prices economically justified for each of the products Whereas tomatoes, fresh lemons, fresh sweet oranges and concerned ; apples of the common quality standards 'Extra' Class, (5) OJ No L 151 , 3 . 6. 1992, p. 4. (') OJ No L 118, 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . (6) OJ No L 205, 22. 7. 1992, p. 2. (2) OJ No L 180, 1 . 7. 1992, p. 23 . O OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . O OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p. 17. (8) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992. (4) OJ No L 266, 25. 11 . 1972, p. 7. O OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992.

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Whereas account should be taken of the amendments, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : introduced by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3502/92 of 3 December 1992, amending Regulation (EEC) No 3846/92 establishing an agricultural product nomencla­ ture for export refunds ('), to the agricultural product Article 1 nomenclature for export refunds in respect of oranges, grapes, apples and peaches, applicable from 1 January 1993 ; Export refunds in the fruit and vegetables sector shall be fixed at the amounts specified in the Annex to this Regu­ Whereas where Spain and, from the beginning of the lation, in column I for Portugal and in column II for the second stage of transition on 1 January 1990, Portugal are other Member States . concerned when refunds are fixed, account is to be taken for each product in accordance with Articles 87 and 255 of the Act of Accession , of economically justified price differences ; Article 2 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1993 .

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

Done at Brussels, 29 December 1992 . For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 354, 4. 12. 1992, p. 10 .

No L 390/48 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 12. 92

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 29 December 1992 fixing the export refunds on fruit and vegetables

(ECU/100 kg net) Amounts of refunds (2) Destination Product code of refund (') Other Member Portugal (1) States (II)

0702 00 10 100 04 1,19 4,50 0702 00 10 900 — — — 0702 00 90 100 04 1,19 4,50 0702 00 90 900 — — — 0802 12 90 000 04 9,67 9,67 0802 21 00 000 04 11,30 11,30 0802 22 00 000 04 21,80 21,80 0802 31 00 000 04 14,00 14,00 0805 10 11 200 01 7,24 11,00 0805 10 11 900 — — — 0805 10 15 200 01 . 7,24 11,00 0805 10 15 900 — — — 0805 10 19 200 01 7,24 11,00 0805 10 19 900 — — — 0805 10 21 200 01 7,24 11,00 0805 10 21 900 - 0805 10 25 200 01 7,24 11,00 0805 10 25 900 — — — 0805 10 29 200 01 7,24 11,00 0805 10 29 900 — — — 0805 10 31 200 01 7,24 11,00 0805 10 31 900 — — — 0805 10 35 200 01 7,24 11,00 0805 10 35 900 — — — 0805 10 39 200 01 7,24 11,00 0805 10 39 900 — — _ 0805 10 41 200 01 7,24 11,00 0805 10 41 900 — — _ 0805 10 45 200 01 7,24 11,00 0805 10 45 900 — — — 0805 10 49 200 01 7,24 11,00

31 . 12. 92 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 390 /49

(ECU/100 kg net) Amounts of refunds (2) Destination Product code of refund (') Other Member Portugal (I) States (II)

0805 10 49 900 — — — 0805 20 50 100 — — — 0805 20 50 900 — — — 0805 30 10 100 04 5,92 13,50 0805 30 10 900 — — — 0806 10 11 200 04 0,40 4,84 0806 10 11 900 — — — 0806 10 15 100 04 0,40 4,84 0806 10 15 900 — — — 0806 10 19 100 04 0,40 4,84 0806 10 19 900 — — — 0808 10 31 100 — — — 0808 10 31 910 02 4,27 8,00 0808 10 31 990 — — — 0808 10 33 100 — — — 0808 10 33 910 02 4,27 8,00 0808 10 33 990 — — — 0808 10 39 100 — — — 0808 10 39 910 02 4,27 8,00 0808 10 39 990 — — — 0808 10 51 100 — — — 0808 10 51 910 02 4,27 8,00 0808 10 51990 — — — 0808 10 53 100 — — — 0808 10 53 910 02 4,27 8,00 0808 10 53 990 — — — 0808 10 59 100 — — — 0808 10 59 910 02 4,27 8,00 0808 10 59 990 — — — 0808 10 81 100 — — — 0808 10 81 910 02 4,27 8,00 0808 10 81 990 — — — 0808 10 83 100 — — 0808 10 83 910 02 4,27 8,00 0808 10 83 990 — — — 0808 10 89 100 — — — 0808 10 89 910 02 4,27 8,00 0808 10 89 990 — — — 0809 30 10 100 03 — — 0809 30 10 900 03 — — 0809 30 90 100 03 — — 0809 30 90 900 — — —

No L 390/50 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 12 . 92

(') The destinations are as follows : 01 Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Greenland, Norway, Iceland, Malta, Poland, the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz­ stan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and the former 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 former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, the countries and terri­ tories of Africa other than South Africa, countries of the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Bahrein, Qatar, Oman, the1 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 all destinations. (!) 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.