CELEX: 31987R4041
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 4041/87 of 30 December 1987 fixing the import levies on milk and milk products

31 . 12. 87
No L 378/82                                Official Journal of the European Communities
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 4041/87
                                                       of 30 December 1987
                                    fixing the import levies on milk and milk products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           plying the basic amount by the quantity of milk compo­
                                                                      nents contained in the product ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                   Whereas Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79
                                                                      provides that for certain products originating in or
                                                                      coming from certain third countries a specific levy is to
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                    be applied ; whereas the levy applicable to those products
Portugal,                                                             is fixed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1767/82 (*), as
                                                                      last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3048/87 Q ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of
27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market                 Whereas, for as long as it is found that on importation
in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­             into the Community the price of an assimilated product
tion (EEC) No 3904/87 (2), and in particular Article 14(8)            for which the levy is not equal to the levy on its pilot
 thereof,                                                             product is considerably lower than the price which would
                                                                      obtain if the ratio to the price of the pilot product were
                                                                       normal, the levy must be equal to the sum of two compo­
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,               nents :
 Whereas Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68                      — one component equal to the amount resulting from
 provides for charging a levy on imports of the products                     the provisions of Articles 2 to 7 of Regulation (EEC)
 listed in Article 1 of that Regulation ; whereas these                      No 2915/79 applicable to the assimilated product in
 products may be divided into groups ; whereas the                           question,
  product groups and the pilot groups and the pilot product            — an additional component fixed at a level which, the
  for each of these groups are set out in Annex I to Council                 composition and quality of the assimilated product
  Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79 of 18 December 1979                            being taken into account, makes it possible to
  determining the groups of products and the special provi­                  re-establish normal price ratios for imports into the
  sions for calculating levies on milk and milk products (3),                Community ;
  as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2346/87 (4) ;
                                                                       Whereas Article 14(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68
  Whereas the levy on the products in any one group must               provides that the levy on products in respect of which the
  be equal to the threshold price for the pilot product less           customs duty has been bound within GATT must be
  the free -at-frontier price ; whereas these threshold prices         limited to the amount resulting from that binding ;
  were fixed for the 1987/88 milk year by Council Regula­
  tion (EEC) No 1895/87 0 ;
                                                                       Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1073/68 provides that a
                                                                        free-at-frontier price must be established for each of the
  Whereas, however, Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79 lays                    pilot products defined in Annex I to Regulation (EEC)
   down special provisions for calculating the levy on certain          No 2915/79 ; whereas these prices must be determined
   assimilated products ; whereas these products are listed             for products of good marketable quality ;
   and the method of calculating the levy on them described
   in Annex II and in Articles 2 to 12 of that Regulation
   respectively ;                                                       Whereas the free-at-frontier prices must be established on
                                                                        the basis of the most favourable purchasing opportunities
                                                                        in international trade for the products listed in Article
   Whereas, as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No                       1 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 other than assimilated
   2915/79, the component of the levy established using a               products for which the levy is not equal to the levy on the
   factor expressing the weight ratio existing between the              related pilot products ; whereas, when recording these
   milk components contained in the product on the one                  purchasing opportunities, the Commission must take
   hand and the product itself on the other is, for products            account of all information obtained direct or through the
   containing sugar or other sweeteners, calculated by multi­           Member States concerning prices for delivery of third­
                                                                         country products free-at-Community-frontier and prices
   (')  OJ No  L  148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.                               on third-country markets ;
   (2)  OJ No  L  370, 30. 12. 1987.
   0    OJ No  L  329, 24. 12. 1979, p. 1 .                              («) OJ No L 196, 5. 7. 1982, p. 1 .
    o   OJ No  L  213, 4. 8 . 1987, p. 1 .
    (*) OJ No  L  182, 3. 7. 1987, p. 33.                                P) OJ No L 289, 13. 10. 1987, p. 18 .
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Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 788/86 ('), as last amended         Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (3) intro­
by Regulation (EEC) No 1927/86 (2), specifies the free-at­      duces from 1 January 1988 a new combined nomencla­
Spanish-frontier values of certain cheeses imported from        ture meeting the requirements of both the Common
and originating in Switzerland.                                 Customs Tariff and the Community's statistics of foreign
                                                                trade and replacing the present nomenclature ;
                                                                Whereas, in accordance with Article 19 (1 ) of Regulation
Whereas, however, no account should be taken of infor­          (EEC) No 804/68, the nomenclature provided for in this
mation relating to small quantities which are not repre­        Regulation is incorporated in the combined nomencla­
sentative of trade in the products in question and quanti­      ture ;
ties in respect of which price trends in general or other
information available to it lead the Commission to believe
that the price in question is unrepresentative of the real      Whereas Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 1073/68
trend of the market ;                                           provides that the levies are fixed every fortnight ; whereas
                                                                they may be altered in the intervening period if neces­
                                                                sary ; whereas the levy remains valid until another
                                                                becomes applicable ;
Whereas the prices used must be adjusted where they are
not quoted free-at-Community-frontier or where they do          Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
not apply to products of good marketable quality ;              refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
whereas the adjustment in respect of an assimilated
product the levy on which is equal to the levy on its pilot     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
product must be effected in such a way as to allow, in               tion to each other at any given moment within a band
particular, for differences in composition, maturity,                of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
quality and presentation between the assimilated product             rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in the
and the related pilot product ; whereas adjustments rela­            last subparagraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
ting to composition must be calculated by multiplying                tion (EEC) No 1 676/85 (4), as amended by Regulation
the difference between the milk component content of                 (EEC) No 1636/87 (*),
the pilot product and that of the assimilated product in        — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
question by the value attributed in international trade to           arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
one unit of weight of the milk component in question ;               these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
whereas, when the other adjustments are being effected,              tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
the difference between the value attributed on the
                                                                     previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
Community market to each of the relevant characteristics
of the pilot product and the value attributed on that
market to the corresponding characteristics of the assimi­      Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
lated product in question must be taken into account ;          the levies on milk and milk products should be as set out
                                                                in the Annex hereto,
Whereas, if no information on prices is available, the free­
at-frontier price may, by way of exception, be
established on the basis of the value of the. raw materials     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
contained in the pilot product in question (calculated on
the basis of the prices of milk products for which prices
are available), average processing costs and average yields ;
                                                                                          Article 1
                                                                The import levies referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regula­
Whereas, in exceptional circumstances, a free-at-frontier       tion (EEC) No 804/68 shall be as set out in the Annex
price may remain unchanged for a limited period where           hereto.
the new level of the price for a given quality or a specific
origin, used as a basis for establishing the previous free­
at-frontier price, has not reached the Commission to
enable it to establish the next free-at-frontier price and if
                                                                                          Article 2
the Commission considers that the prices which are avai­
lable could lead to sudden and considerable changes in
the free-at-frontier price because they are not sufficiently    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988.
representative of real market trends ;
                                                                0 OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .
(') OJ No L 74, 19. 3. 1986, p. 20.                             (4) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 188,| 8. 7. 1987, p. 34.                            0 OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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No L 378/84                    Official Journal of the European Communities
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 30 December 1987.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                       Vice-President
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                                                      ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 30 December 1987 fixing the import levies on milk and
                                                   milk products
                                                             (ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated)
                      CN code                           Note                           Import levy
                     0401 10 10                                                            18,75
                     0401 10 90             \                                              17,54
                     0401 20 11             \                                              26,13
                     0401 20 19             II                                             24,92
                     0401 20 91             Il                                             32,28
                     0401 20 99             Il                                             31,07
                     0401 30 11             II                                             83,79
                     0401 30 19             II                                             82,58
                     0401 30 31             I                                             161,83
                     0401 30 39             II                                            160,62
                     0401 30 91             II                                            272,09
                     0401 30 99
                                            \                                             270,88
                     0402 10 11             I                                             132,87
                     0402 10 19             II                                            125,62
                     0402 10 91                          (')                      1,2562 / kg + 33,12
                     0402 10 99                          0                        1,2562 / kg + 25,87
                     0402 21 1 1            II                                            206,10
                     0402 21 17             |-I                                           198,85
                     0402 21 19             II                                            198,85
                     0402 21 91             II                                            243,91
                     0402 21 99             II                                            236,66
                     0402 29' 1 1                       CM3)                      1,9885 / kg  +  33,12
                     0402 29 15                          (')                      1,9885 / kg  +  33,12
                     0402 29 19                          (')                      1,9885 / kg  +  25,87
                     0402 29 91                          (')                      2,3666 / kg  +  33,12
                     0402 29 99                          (')                      2,3666 / kg  +  25,87
                     0402 91 11             \                                              30,88
                     0402 91 19             \                                              30,88
                     0402 91 31                                                            38,60
                     0402 91 39             \                                              38,60
                     0402 91 51             \                                             161,83
                     0402 91 59                                                           160,62
                     0402 91 91                                                           272,09
                     0402 91 99             I                                             270,88
                     0402 99 11             \                                              53,76
                     0402 99 19             \                                              53,76
                     0402 99 31                          0)                       1,5820 / kg  +  29,50
                     0402 99 39                          C)                       1,5820 / kg  +  28,29
                     0402 99 91                          (')                      2,6846 / kg  +  29,50
                     0402 99 99                          (')                      2,6846 / kg  +  28,29
                     0403 10 11             I                                              28,54
                     0403 10 13             I                                              34,69
                     0403 10 19             \                                              86,20
                     0403 10 31                          C)                       0,2250 / kg + 31,91
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                                                       (ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated)
               CN code                         Note                               Import levy
             0403 10 33                         (')                         0,2865 / kg + 31,91
             0403 10 39                         0)                          0,801 6 / kg + 31,91
             0403 90 11                                                              132,87
             0403 90 13                                                             206,10
             0403 90 19                                                              243,91
             0403 90 31                         (')                          1,2562 / kg + 33,12
             0403 90 33                          C)                          1,9885 / kg + 33,12
             0403 90 39                          0                           2,3666 / kg + 33,12
             0403 90 51                                                                28,54
             0403 90 53                                                                34,69
             0403 90 59                                                                86,20
              0403 90 61                         C)                          0,2250 / kg + 31,91
              0403 90 63                         0)                          0,2865 / kg + 31,91
              0403 90 69                         0                            0,801 6 / kg + 31,91
              0404 10 11                                                               34,77
              0404 10 19                         (')                          0,3477 / kg + 25,87
              0404 10 91                         (2)                          0,3477 / kg
              0404 10 99                          0                           0,3477 / kg + 25,87
              0404 90 1 1                                                             132,87
              0404 90 13                                                              206,10
              0404 90 19                                                              243,91
              0404 90 31                                                              132,87
              0404 90 33                                                              206,10
              0404 90 39                                                              243,91
              0404 90 51                          C)                           1,2562 / kg  +  33,12
              040490 53                           (')                          1,9885 / kg  +  33,12
               0404 90 59                         0                            2,3666 / kg  +  33,12
               0404 90 91                         0)                           1,2562 / kg  +  33,12
               0404 90 93                         (')                          1,9885 / kg  +  33,12
               0404 90 99                          (')                         2,3666 / kg  +  33,12
               0405 00 10                                                              280,99
               0405 00 90                                                              342,81
               0406 10 10                                                              290,85
               0406 10 90                                                              336,99
               0406 20 10                          0                                   405,47
               0406 20 90                                                              405,47
               0406 30 10                           (3)                                223,69
               0406 30 31                           0                                  218,36
               0406 30 39                           (3)                                223,69
                0406 30 90                          0                                   320,41
                0406 40 00                          (3)                                 157,44
                0406 90 11                          (3)                                 257,89
                0406 90 13                          (3)                                 260,63
                0406 90 15                           (3)                                260,63
                0406 90 17                           (3)                                260,63
                0406 90 19                           (3)                                405,47
                0406 90 21                           (3)                                257,89
                0406 90 23                           (3)                                240,27
                0406 90 25                           (3)                                240,27
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                                                                        (ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated)
                            CN code                               Note                              Import levy
                          0406 90 27                               (3)                                 240,27
                          0406 90 29                               0                                   240,27
                          0406 90 31                                                                   240,27
                          0406 90 33               I                                                   240,27
                          0406 90 35                               0                                   240,27
                          0406 90 37                               0                                   240,27
                          0406 90 39                               0                                   240,27
                          0406 90 50                                0                                  240,27
                          0406 90 61               \                                                   405,47
                          0406 90 63               II                                                  405,47
                          0406 90 69               ||                                                  405,47
                          0406 90 71                                                                   290,85
                          0406 90 73               II                                                  240,27
                          0406 90 75               II                                                  240,27
                          0406 90 77               Il                                                  240,27
                          0406 90 79               II                                                  240,27
                          0406 90 81               II                                                  240,27
                          0406 90 83               II                                                  240,27
                          0406 90 85               ll                                                  240,27
                          0406 90 89                                (3)                                240,27
                          0406 90 91               II                                                  290,85
                          0406 90 93               Il                                                  290,85
                          0406 90 97               Il                                                  336,99
                          0406 90 99
                                                   II                                                  336,99
                           1702 10 90                               0                                   42,54
                          2106 90 51
                                                   \                                                    42,54
                          2309 10 15               \                                                    96,64
                          2309 10 19               II                                                  125,53
                          2309 10 39               II                                                  118,23
                          2309 10 59               Il                                                   98,95
                          2309 10 70               II                                                  125,53
                          2309 90 35               II                                                   96,64
                          2309 90 39               ||                                                  125,53
                          2309 90 49               ||                                                  118,23
                          2309 90 59               ||                                                   98,95
                          2309 90 70                                                                   125,53
            (') The levy on 100 kg of product falling within this subheading is equal to the sum of the following :
                (a) the amount per kilogram shown, multiplied by the weight of milk and milk cream contained in 100 kg of
                    product ; and
                (b) the other amount indicated.
            (2) The levy on 100 kg of product falling within this subheading is equal to :
                (a) the amount per kilogram shown, multiplied by the weight of the dried milk contained in 100 kg of product
                    plus, where appropriate,
                (b) the other amount indicated.
            (3) Products falling within this subheading imported from a third country under special arrangements concluded
                between that country and the Community for which an IMA 1 certificate issued under the conditions provided
                for in Regulation (EEC) No 1767/82 is issued are subject to the levies in Annex I to that Regulation.
            (4) Lactose and lactose syrup falling within subheading 1702 10 10 are subject, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No
                2730/75, to the same levy as that applicable to lactose falling within subheading 1702 10 90.