Decision No 1/2023 of the EU-Switzerland Joint Committee of 12 June 2023 amending Tables III and IV of Protocol 2 to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation of 22 July 1972, as amended (2023/1314)
Date: 2023-06-12
Institutions: EU–Switzerland Joint Committee
Subjects: Switzerland, agricultural product, agricultural trade, fixing of prices, protocol to an agreement, reference price, revision of an agreement, trade agreement (EU)








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28.6.2023   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 162/67








            DECISION No 1/2023 OF THE EU-SWITZERLAND JOINT COMMITTEE
         
of 12 June 2023
         
amending Tables III and IV of Protocol 2 to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation of 22 July 1972, as amended (2023/1314)


THE JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation of 22 July 1972 (1), as amended by the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation of 26 October 2004 amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation of 22 July 1972 as regards the provisions applicable to processed agricultural products (2) (‘Agreement’), and in particular Article 7 of its Protocol 2,

Whereas:







(1)


In accordance with Article 5(2) of Protocol 2 to the Agreement, the Union and the Swiss Confederation, as Contracting Parties, provided to the Joint Committee the domestic reference prices, for the 12-month reference period from September 2021 to August 2022, of all raw materials for which price compensation measures are applied. It follows from those prices that the actual price situation regarding those raw materials in the territory of the Contracting Parties has changed.












(2)


It is therefore necessary to update the domestic reference prices and the price differences for agricultural raw materials listed in Table III of Protocol 2 to the Agreement, as well as to adapt the basic amounts of the agricultural raw materials listed in Table IV of that Protocol,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
Protocol 2 to the Agreement is amended as follows:






(a)


Table III is replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Decision;










(b)


in Table IV, point (b) is replaced by the text set out in Annex II to this Decision.






Article 2
This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.



Article 3
This Decision shall enter into force on 1 July 2023.




Done at Brussels, 12 June 2023.


For the Joint Committee


The Chairman

Marco DUEERKOP
            





(1)  
            OJ L 300, 31.12.1972, p. 189.

(2)  
            OJ L 23, 26.1.2005, p. 19.




ANNEX I


‘TABLE III


EU and Swiss domestic reference prices










Agricultural raw material


Swiss domestic reference price
CHF per 100 kg net


EU domestic reference price
CHF per 100 kg net


Article 4(1)
Applied on Swiss side Difference Swiss/EU reference price
CHF per 100 kg net


Article 3(3)
Applied on EU side Difference Swiss/EU reference price
EUR per 100 kg net




Common wheat


55,03 


34,01 


21,00 


0,00 




Durum wheat


-


-


1,20 


0,00 




Rye


45,00 


30,60 


14,40 


0,00 




Barley


-


-


-


-




Maize


-


-


-


-




Common wheat flour


95,24 


60,71 


34,55 


0,00 




Whole-milk powder


652,27 


463,32 


188,95 


0,00 




Skimmed-milk powder


437,33 


372,75 


64,60 


0,00 




Butter


1 168,37 


648,74 


519,65 


0,00 




White sugar


-


-


-


-




Eggs


-


-


38,00 


0,00 




Fresh potatoes


40,06 


15,77 


24,30 


0,00 




Vegetable fat


-


-


170,00 


0,00 ’










ANNEX II






‘(b)


Basic amounts for agricultural raw materials taken into account for the calculation of the agricultural components:







Agricultural raw material


Applied basic amount on the Swiss side
Art 3(2)


Applied basic amount on the EU side
Art 4(2)




CHF per 100 kg net


EUR per 100 kg net




Common wheat


17,10 


0,00 




Durum wheat


1,00 


0,00 




Rye


11,05 


0,00 




Barley


-


-




Maize


-


-




Common wheat flour


28,15 


0,00 




Whole-milk powder


154,00 


0,00 




Skimmed-milk powder


52,65 


0,00 




Butter


423,50 


0,00 




White sugar


-


-




Eggs


30,95 


0,00 




Fresh potatoes


18,55 


0,00 




Vegetable fat


138,55 


0,00 ’