CELEX: 31976R0038
Language: en
Date: 1976-01-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 38/76 of 12 January 1976 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour groats and meal

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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 38/76
                                                        of 12 January 1976
                  fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       rable purchasing opportunities on the world market
COMMUNITIES,                                                         among those which are most representative of the real
                                                                     trend of the market, account being taken in particular
                                                                     of the need to prevent sudden variations likely to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                cause abnormal disturbances on the Community
Economic Community,                                                  market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered must
                                                                     also be taken into account, whether this quality corres­
                                                                     ponds to the standard quality fixed in Regulations
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         (EEC) No 2731 /75 (9) and (EEC) No 2734/75, or
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­                     whether adjustments need to be made by applying the
zation of the market in cereals (J), as amended by                   coefficients of equivalence provided for in Regulation
Regulation (EEC) No 3058/75 (2), and in particular                   No 158/67/EEC (10) as last amended by Regulation
Article 13 (5) thereof,                                              (EEC) No 1637/71 (H), and in Regulation No 159/
                                                                     67/EEC ( 12) ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
Committee,
                                                                     Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on
Whereas the first subparagraph of Article 13 ( 1 ) of                the basis of the abovementioned elements, offers for
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 that a levy must be                      other ports being adjusted, account being taken of the
charged on imports of the products listed in Article 1               corrections necessitated by the differences in transport
(a), (b) and (c) of that Regulation ; whereas the levy is            charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
equal for each product to the threshold price less the
cif price ;
                                                                     Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­
Whereas the threshold prices for cereals and for wheat               tion (EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided
and rye flour, and wheat groats and meal, were fixed                 for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
for the 1975/76 marketing year by Regulations (EEC)                  Customs Tariff ;
No 1357/75 (3), (EEC) No 2734/75 (4), (EEC) No
2736/75 (5) and (EEC) No 2756/75 (6) ;
Whereas for the purpose of calculating the cif prices                Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
used to determine the levies, the Commission must                    levies should be calculated on the following basis :
take into account the factors indicated in Regulation
No 156/67/EEC (7), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 31 /76 (8), and in particular the most favou­               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
(') OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                                  within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
(2) OJ   No L 306, 26. 11 . 1975, p. 3.                                    on their effective parity ;
(3) OJ   No L 138 , 29. 5. 1975, p. 18 .
(<) OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 34.
(5) OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 45.                            C) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 22.
(6) OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 103 .                          (> °) OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2536/67.
(7) OJ   No 128 , 27. 6. 1967, p. 2533/67.                           (») OJ No L 170, 29 . 7. 1971 , p. 20.
(8) OJ   No L 5, 10 . 1 . 1976, p. 18 .                              («) OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2542/67.
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— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in                             Article 1
    relation to the Community currencies referred to
    in the previous subparagraph ;                           The import levies to be charged on the products listed
                                                             in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas, it follows from applying all the provisions of      2727/75 are hereby fixed as shown in the table
the abovementioned Regulations that the levies               annexed to this Regulation.
should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regula­
tion ; whereas these levies should be altered only                                  Article 2
where variations in the components used to calculate
them would have the effect of increasing or reducing         This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 January
them by 0-60 unit of account OF more,                        1976 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 12 January 1976.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                 Carlo SCARASCIA MUGNOZZA
                                                                          Vice-President
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                                                                    ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 12 January 1976 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                            on wheat or rye flour groats and meal
                                                                                                     (u.aJmetrtc ton)
                                CCT
                               heading                          Description of goods                      Levies
                                 No
                       10.01 A                   Common wheat and mesiin                              36-71
                       10.01 B                   Durum wheat                                          50-57 ( i) (')
                       10.02                     Rye                                                  53-23 (6)
                       10.03                     Barley                                               26-52
                       10.04                     Oats                                                 16-32
                        10.05 B                  Maize other than hybrid maize for
                                                    sowing                                            35-54 0 0
                        1 0.07   A               Buckwheat                                              2-53
                        10.07    B               Millet                                               23-66 (4)
                        10.07    C               Grain sorghum                                        32-93 (4)
                        10.07    D               Canary seed ; other cereals                            0     (5)
                        11.01    A               Wheat or mesiin flour                                62-83
                        11.01    B               Rye flour                                            85-98
                        1 1.02   Ala             Durum wheat groats and meal                          89-03
                        1 1 .02 A I b            Common wheat groats and meal                         67-01
                       (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the
                            Community, the levy is reduced by 0-50 u.a./metric ton .
                       (2) Where maize originated in the ACP or OCT is imported into the French overseas depart­
                             ments, the levy is reduced by 6 u.a./metric ton as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
                             1599 / 75 .                                               /
                       (3) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the levy is
                             reduced by 1-50 u.a./ metric ton .
                       (4) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community
                             the levy is reduced by 50 % .
                       (5) Where wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly from that country
                             to the Community, the levy is reduced by 0-50 u.a./metric ton .
                       (') The import levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly from that
                             country to the Community is laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2754/75 and
                             Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .