31993R3215

No L 291 /4 Official Journal of the European Communities 25 . 11 . 93

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3215/93 of 24 November 1993 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may be fixed by other legal instruments ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 (8) prohi­ bits trade between the European Community and the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) ; of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the whereas this prohibition does not apply in certain situa­ tions as comprehensively listed in Articles 2, 4, 5 and 7 markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­ thereof ; whereas account should be taken of this fact tion (EEC) No 1548/93 (2), and in particular point (a) of when fixing the refunds ; the first subparagraph of Article 19 (4) thereof,

Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 f) are used to provides that the difference between quotations or prices convert amounts expressed in third country currencies on the world market for the products listed in Article 1 and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural (1 ) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those products conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ; within the Community may be covered by an export refund ; whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­ tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­ lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (,0) ; Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for granting export Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ; refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ; No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds on white and raw sugar, undenatured and exported in its unaltered state are being fixed account must be taken of the situation on Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above the Community and world markets in sugar and in parti­ to the present situation on the market in sugar and in cular of the price and cost factors set out in Article 3 of particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the that Regulation ; whereas the same Article provides that Community and on the world market that the refund the economic aspect of the proposed exports should also should be as set out in the Annex hereto ; be taken into account ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect in accordance with the opinion of the Management of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is defined in Committee for Sugar, Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar (*) ; whereas, furthermore, this refund should be fixed in accordance with Article 5 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 ; whereas candy sugar is defined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 394/70 of 2 March 1970 on detailed rules for granting export Article 1 refunds on sugar (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 684/92 Q ; whereas the refund thus calculated for The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) sugar containing added flavouring or colouring matter (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 , undenatured and must apply to their sucrose content and, accordingly, be exported in the natural state, are hereby fixed to the fixed per 1 % of the said content ; amounts shown in the Annex hereto. Whereas the world market situation or the specific requirements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary the refund for sugar according to destination ; Article 2

(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 November (2) OJ No L 154, 25. 6. 1993, p. 10. 1993 . 0 OJ No L 143, 25. 6. 1968, p. 6. (4) OJ No L 167, 26. 6. 1976, p. 13. 0 OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3. (8) OJ No L 102, 28 . 4. 1993, p. 14. (•) OJ No L 50, 4. 3. 1970, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 176, 30. 6. 1992, p. 31 , (10) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 November 1993 .

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 24 November 1993 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state

Product code Amount of refund (3)

— ECU/100 kg —

1701 11 90 100 33,93 (') 1701 11 90910 32,09 (') 1701 11 90 950 (2) 1701 1290 100 33,93 (') 1701 12 90 910 32,09 (') 1701 12 90 950 (2)

— ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —

1701 91 00 000 0,3689

— ECU/100 kg —

1701 99 10 100 36,89 1701 99 10 910 36,96 1701 99 10 950 36,96

— ECU/ 1 % of sucrose x 100 kg —

1701 99 90 100 0,3689

(') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 %, the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 766/68. (2) Fixing suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2689/85 (OJ No L 255, 26. 9 . 1985, p. 12), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3251 /85 (OJ No L 309, 21 . 11 . 1985, p. 14). (5) Refunds on exports to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Monte­ negro) may be granted only where the conditions laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 are observed.