5. 12. 85 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 324/9
COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3413/85
of 4 December 1985
fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural
state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES,
(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
refunds on sugar (6), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
1467/77 17) ; whereas the refund thus calculated for aroma
tized sugars or for sugars with colouring added must apply
to their sucrose content and, accordingly, be fixed per
1 % of the said content :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 785/8 1
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula
tion (EEC) No 1482/85 (2), and in particular point (a) of
the first subparagraph of Article 19 (4) thereof,
Whereas the world market situation or the specific requi
rements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary
the refund for sugar according to destination ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, Whereas, in special cases, the amount of the refund may
be fixed by other legal instruments ;
Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
provides that the difference between quotations or prices
on the world market for the products listed in Article 1
( 1 ) (a) of that Regulation and prices for those products
within the Community may be covered by an export
refund ; — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela
tion to each other at any given moment within a band
of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in
Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 (8), as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 855/84 ('),
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
these currencies recorded over a given period in rela
tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 of 18 June
1968 laying down general rules for granting export
refunds on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1489/76 (4), provides that when refunds on white and
raw sugar, undenatured and exported in the natural state,
are being fixed account must be taken of the situation on
the Community and world markets in sugar and in parti
cular of the price and cost factors set out in Article 3 of
that Regulation ; whereas the same Article provides that
the economic aspect of the proposed exports should also
be taken into account ;
Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks ;
whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed in respect
of the standard quality ; whereas the latter is defined in
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
Whereas it follows from applying the rules set out above
to the present situation on the market in sugar and in
particular to quotations or prices for sugar within the
Community and on the world market that the refund
should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;
(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7 . 1981 , p. 4.
(2) OJ No L 151 , 10 . 6 . 1985, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 143 , 25 . 6 . 1968 , p. 6 .
(
0 OJ No L 89 , 10 . 4 . 1968 , p. 3 .
(«) OJ No L 50, 4 . 3 . 1970, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 162, 1 . 7 . 1977, p. 6 .
(*) OJ No L 106, 12 . 5 . 1971 , p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 90, 1 . 4 . 1984, p. 1 .
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exported in the natural state, shall be as set out in the
Annex hereto.
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Sugar,
Article 2
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article 1
The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
(a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 undenatured and
This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 December
1985 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States .
Done at Brussels, 4 December 1985 .
For the Commission
Frans ANDRIESSEN
Vice-President
ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 4 December 1985 fixing the export refunds on white
sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state
(ECU)
CCT
heading
No
Description
Amount of refund
per 100 kg
per percentage point of
sucrose content and
per 100 kg net of the
product in question
17.01 Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar :
( I) White sugar :
(a) Candy sugar 40,18
(b) Other 40,37
(II) Flavoured or coloured sugar 0,4018
B. Raw sugar :
I II . Other :
l (a) Candy sugar 36,96 (') -
(b) Sugar with added anti-caking agent I 0,4018
(c) Raw sugar in immediate packing not exceeding 5 kilograms net
of product 37,14 0 )
(d) Other raw sugar (2)
(') 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).
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