CELEX: 31975R1621
Language: en
Date: 1975-06-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1621/75 of the Commission of 26 June 1975 fixing the import levies on olive oil

No L 164/36                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              27 . 6 . 75
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1621 /75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 26 June 1975
                                              fixing the import levies on olive oil
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas, in the case of imports subject to Article 13
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC and to Article 9 of
                                                                   Regulation No 162/66/ EEC, the levy is equal to the
                                                                   difference between the threshold price and the cif
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              price ; whereas, in the case of imports subject to
 Economic Community ;                                              Article 3 of Regulation No 162/66/ EEC, the levy is
                                                                   equal to the difference between the threshold price
                                                                   and the free-at-frontier price, less a standard amount ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/
66/EEC ( 1 ) of 22 September 1966 on the establish­                Whereas the threshold price and the standard amount
ment of a common organization of the market in oils                are fixed by the Council every year ; whereas the
and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   standard amount has been fixed for the           1974/75
 1707/73 (2), and in particular Article 13 (4) thereof ;            marketing year by Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    1 889/74 (7) of 15 July 1974 on the standard amount
                                                                   for unrefined olive oil produced entirely in Greece
                                                                   and transported directly from that country into the
Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/                        Community ; whereas the threshold price to apply
66/EEC (3) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and                  from the 27 June 1975 is fixed by Council Regulation
fats between the Community and Greece, and in parti­               (EEC) No 1597/75 of 24 June 1975 fixing the thre­
cular Articles 3 (4) and 9 thereof ;                               shold price for olive oil for the 1975/ 1 976 marketing
                                                                   year applicable from 27 June 1 975 (8) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Whereas the Commission determines the cif price
443/72 (4) of 29 February 1972 on the levies on
                                                                   and the free-at-frontier price in relation to a Commu­
refined olive oil and on certain products containing               nity frontier crossing point ; whereas this crossing
olive oil and on certain products containing olive oil,            point was fixed by Council Regulation No 165/
and in particular Article 9 thereof ;                              66/ EEC (9) of 27 October 1966 on price measures to
                                                                   be applied to olive oil for the 1966/67 marketing
                                                                   year ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1912/74 (5) of 22 July 1974 on imports of olive oil
from Tunisia, and in particular Article 5 thereof ;                Whereas those prices must be established on the basis
                                                                   of the most favourable actual purchasing opportuni­
                                                                   ties ; whereas the Commission must, theoretically,
                                                                   take into account all offers for olive oil of the types
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       listed in 1 and 4 of the Annex to Regulation No 136/
303/74 (6) of 4 February 1974 on imports of olive oil              66/ EEC made on the world market and on the Greek
from Morocco, and in particular Article 5 thereof ;                market ; whereas, if there are no such offers or if such
                                                                   offers are not representative, the Commission must
                                                                   take account of all offers made on the wholesale
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                       markets in the Community which are representative
Committee ;                                                        for the importation (from the world market and the
                                                                   Greek market) of these oils ;
Whereas Article 13 of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC                    Whereas Article 2 (2) of Commission Regulation
and Article 3 of Regulation No 162/66/ EEC requires                ( EEC) No 1004/71 ( l0) of 14 May 1971 , amended by
the Commission to fix a levy on unrefined olive oil                Regulation (EEC) No 486/73 ("), on the fixing of
imported into the Community ;                                      levies on unrefined olive oil provides, however, that
                                                                   the Commission must disregard offers for products of
(')  OJ No  172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025/ 66.
(2 ) OJ No  L 175, 29 . 6 . 1973, p. 5 .                           ( 7) OJ No L 201 , 23 . 7 . 1974, p. 4.
(3 ) OJ No  197, 29 . 10 . 1966, p . 3393/ 66.                     (8) OJ No L 163 , 26 . 6 . 1975, p. 24.
O    OJ No  L 54, 3 . 3 . 1972, p . 3 .                            (9) OJ No 197, 29 . 10 . 1966, p . 3399 / 66 .
(5 ) OJ No  L 202, 24. 7. 1974, p. 6.                              ( 10) OJ No L 109 , 15 . 5 . 1971 , p. 17 .
(6)  OJ No  L 34, 7 . 2. 1974, p. 4.                               (") OJ No L 48 , 21 . 2. 1973, p . 10 .
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mediocre quality, long-dated offers, and offers for           Commission Regulation No 172/66/EEC ( l) of 5
small lots and lots presented in small containers ;            November 1966 fixing coefficients of equivalence for
whereas offers which are considered not to be repre­          the different types and qualities of unrefined olive oil,
sentative of the real trend of the market and those to        as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 992/72 (2) ;
which Article 13 (3) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC              whereas, in exceptional circumstances, different or
applies must also be disregarded ;                            derived coefficients of equivalence may be applied for
                                                              a limited period ;
Whereas, if no offers of the type mentioned above             Whereas a comparison of the information thus
have been made or if the offers made cannot be
                                                              obtained makes it possible to determine the most
considered, the prices ruling on the domestic markets          favourable offers on both the world market and on the
of the main oil-producing and oil-exporting third             Greek market ;
countries and on the Greek market should be taken
into account for the purpose of determining the cif
price and the free-at-frontier price ; whereas in such        Whereas, if no offer can be considered for the purpose
cases those prices should be increased by marketing,          of determining the cif price and the free-at-frontier
loading, transport and insurance costs ;                       price, the price previously taken into account should
                                                               be maintained ;
Whereas, of the offers taken into consideration, c and
f offers should, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation          Whereas, when the levies on refined (olive) oil, on
(EEC) No 1004/71 , be increased by 1 % ; whereas cif           olives falling within subheadings 07.01 N II and 07.03
offers for frontier crossing points other than the one        A II and on the products listed in Article 1 (2) (e) of
referred to above should be adjusted for transport and         Regulation No 136/66/EEC are being calculated, the
insurance costs ; whereas offers for delivery fas, fob or      adjustment provided for in Articles 2, 3, 5 ( 1 ) and
otherwise should be increased by transport and insur­         Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 443/72 should be
ance costs from the point of shipment or loading to            applied to the levies previously defined and, in the
the abovementioned frontier crossing point and, in             case of those same products produced entirely in
the case of fas offers, by loading costs ;                     Greece and transported directly from that country into
                                                               the Community, the adjustments provided for in
                                                              Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 162/66/EEC and
                                                              Articles 4, 5 (2) and 7 of Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas, if the offers taken into consideration are           443/72 ;
offers on the Community market, they should be
reduced by unloading or disembarkation costs, import
duties and levies and, where appropriate, by                  Whereas the fixed component of the levy determined
forwarding or other costs incurred from the cif or free­       pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC
at-frontier stage to the marketing stage for which the         is not charged on imports of refined olive oil
offers were made ;                                             produced entirely in Tunisia or Morocco and trans­
                                                               ported directly from those countries into the Commu­
                                                               nity ;
Whereas, for the purpose of adjusting the offers taken
into    consideration,  the   Commission     should  take     Whereas Article 5 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 443/72
account only of the costs which to its knowledge are           provides that the levy on olives falling within subhead­
the lowest ;
                                                               ings 07.01 N II and 07.03 A II should be reduced by
                                                               the amount resulting from the application of the
                                                               customs duty to the value of the imported product ;
Whereas the cif price and the free-at-frontier price           whereas that amount was fixed at a standard rate by
should be determined for the product presented in              Commissiion Regulation (EEC) No 617/72 (3) on deter­
bulk ; whereas, if oil is presented otherwise than in          mining the incidence of customs duty on imports of
bulk, the consequent increase in value should be               certain olives ;
deducted from the offers for unfiltered oil , whether
virgin , extra fine or ordinary, and should be increased
by an amount which allow for filtering costs ;                 Whereas the levy on unrefined olive oil falling within
                                                               subheading 15.07 A II of the Common Customs
                                                               Tariff, produced entirely in Spain , Tunisia or Morocco
                                                               and transported directly from those countries into the
Whereas, in order to obtain comparable information             Community is defined in Council Regulation (EEC)
on oil of the type and quality for which the threshold
price was fixed, it is necessary to deduct or add to the       (') OJ No 202, 7 . 11 . 1966, p. 3482/66.
offers considered, according to the type and quality in        (2) OJ No L 115, 17 . 5. 1972, p. 7.
question , the values resulting from the provisions of         (J) OJ No L 78 , 31 . 3 . 1972, p. 3 .
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No 2164/70 ( J ) of 27 October 1970 on imports" of               Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
olive oil from Spain, as amended by Regulation (EEC)             levies should be calculated on the following basis :
No 2277/71 (2) and by Regulations (EEC) No 1912/74               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
and (EEC) No 303/74 ; whereas the levy to be charged                 relation to each other, at any given monient,
on products other than those defined in the above­                   within a band of 2-25 %, a rate of exchange based
mentioned Regulations is calculated in accordance                    on their effective parity ;
with Article 13 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC ;
                                                                 — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
Whereas, in accordance with Article 42 (a) of Regula­                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
tion No 136/66/EEC, the nomenclature provided for                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
Customs Tariff ;                                                     in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas the levies should be fixed as frequently as is           Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
necessary to ensure stability of the Community                   to the offer prices known to the Commission that the
market and in such a way as to ensure that they can              levies should be fixed as shown in the Table annexed
be applied at least once a week ; whereas the levies             to this Regulation,
previously fixed should be retained where variations in
the factors used to calculate the levy would lead to an
increase or reduction of less than 0-50 unit of account          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
in such levies ;
Whereas, however, levies cannot be fixed in accor­                                      Article 1
dance with this periodicity in the case of the applica­          The import levies referred to in Article 13 of Regula­
tion of the export levies referred to in Article 18 of           tion No 136/66/EEC, Article 3 of Regulation No 162/
Regulation No 136/ 66/EEC and during the whole of                66/EEC, Article 9 of Regulation (ECC) No 443/72,
the period in which these export levies apply ;                  Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1912/74 and Article
Whereas Article 13 (3) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC               5 of Regulation (EEC) No 303/74 are hereby fixed as
provides that where free quotations on the world                 shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation .
market are not a determining factor for the offer price
and where this price is lower than world market                                         Article 2
prices, a price determined on the basis of the offer
price shall be substituted for the cif price in respect of       This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 June
these imports and these imports only ;                            1975 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 26 June 1975.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                                                                  \
                                                                             P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 238 , 29 . 10 . 1970, p . 3 .
(2) OJ No L 241 , 27. 10 . 1971 , p. 2.
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                                                                    ANNEX
                                            Levies on imports from 27 June 1975 in u.a./100 kg
                               Products entirely    obtained   in one  of  these       Products not entirely obtained
          CCT                  countries and transported directly from one             in Greece or not transported              Third
        heading                       of these countries to the Community              from that country to the Com­           countries
           No                                                                                      munity
                                Greece             Morocco             Tunisia
07.01 N II                       3-567               3-612              3-612                       4-312                        3-612
07.03 A II                       3-567               3-512              3-512                       4-312                        3-512
15.07 A I a)                   18-551               21-757            21-757                       24-957                      24-957
15.07 A lb)                    24-902                29-205            29-205                      35-205                      35,205
15.07 A II                     16-213               19-101 (»)        19-101 (*)                   19-601                       19-601 (2)
15.17 A I                        8-107                9-801             9-801                       9-801                        9-801
15.17 A II                      12-970              15-681             15-681                      15-681                       15-681
23.04 A                          1-297                1-568             1-568                       1-568                        1-568
(') The levy to be charged on imports of this product is defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 303/74.
{*) The levy - to be charged on imports of olive oil other than refined, entirely obtained in Spain or in Turkey and transported directly from
    one of these countries to the Community, is defined in Council Regulations (EEC) No 2164/70 and (EEC) No 1912/74.
                                                                                  /