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Commission Regulation (EC) No 142/2008 of 18 February 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 129/2008 fixing the export refunds on white and raw sugar exported without further processing

EU Regulation No 142/2008 · Adopted 18 February 2008 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Commission Regulation (EC) No 142/2008

of 18 February 2008

amending Regulation (EC) No 129/2008 fixing the export refunds on white and raw sugar exported without further processing

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20 February 2006 on the common organisation of the market in the sugar sectorf1, and in particular the fourth subparagraph of Article 33(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Export refunds on products listed in Article 1(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 were fixed from 15 February 2008 by Commission Regulation (EC) No 129/2008f2.

(2)

In the light of additional information available to the Commission, related in particular to the change in the relation between prices in the internal and world market, it is necessary to adjust export refunds currently applying.

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 129/2008 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1260/2007 (OJ L 283, 27.10.2007, p. 1). Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 will be replaced by Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1) as from 1 October 2008.

f2

OJ L 41, 15.2.2008, p. 3.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Annex Annex

1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 129/2008 is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.

2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 February 2008.

Signature

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

Done at Brussels, 18 February 2008.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc Demarty

Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

Export refunds on white and raw sugar exported without further processing applicable from 19 February 2008

Including Kosovo, under the aegis of the United Nations, pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999.

This amount is applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 %. Where the yield for exported raw sugar differs from 92 % the refund amount applicable shall be multiplied, for each exporting operation concerned, by a conversion factor obtained by dividing by 92 the yield of the raw sugar exported, calculated in accordance with paragraph 3 of Point III of the Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006.

NB: The destinations are defined as follows:

S00

  • All destinations with the exception of:

    1. (a)

      third countries: Andorra, Liechtenstein, the Holy See (Vatican City State), Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbiaf1, Montenegro, Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia;

    2. (b)

      territories of the EU Member States not forming part of the customs territory of the Community: the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, Heligoland, Ceuta, Melilla, the Communes of Livigno and Campione d’Italia, and the areas of the Republic of Cyprus in which the Government of the Republic of Cyprus does not exercise effective control;

    3. (c)

      European territories for whose external relations a Member State is responsible and not forming part of the customs territory of the Community: Gibraltar.

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    Product codeDestinationUnit of measurementAmount of refund
    1701 11 90 9100S00EUR/100 kg26,52f2
    1701 11 90 9910S00EUR/100 kg24,09
    1701 12 90 9100S00EUR/100 kg26,52
    1701 12 90 9910S00EUR/100 kg24,09
    1701 91 00 9000S00EUR/1 % sucrose × 100 kg of net product0,2883
    1701 99 10 9100S00EUR/100 kg28,83
    1701 99 10 9910S00EUR/100 kg26,2
    1701 99 10 9950S00EUR/100 kg26,2
    1701 99 90 9100S00EUR/1 % sucrose × 100 kg of net product0,2883