CELEX: 31987R3226
Language: en
Date: 1987-10-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3226/87 of 28 October 1987 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for poultrymeat

29 . 10 . 87                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 307/29
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3226/87
                                                         of 28 October 1987
                                   fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for poultrymeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Whereas, when the sluice-gate prices applicable from 1
                                                                      November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed, trends
                                                                      in world market prices for feed grain are to be taken into
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 account only if the price of the quantity of feed grain
Economic Community,                                                   required varies by at least a specified minimum in rela­
                                                                      tion to that used to calculate the sluice-gate price for the
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                    preceding quarter ; whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      2778/75, this minimum was set at 3 % ;
Portugal,
                                                                      Whereas the price of the quantity of feed grain required
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75                  does not vary by 3 % or more from that used for the
of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the                  preceding quarter ; whereas the sluice-gate prices fixed by
market in poultrymeat ('), as last amended by Regulation              Regulation (EEC) No 2234/87 should accordingly be
(EEC) No 1475/86 (2), and in particular Articles 3 and 7              maintained unchanged until 31 December 1987 for these
(1 ) thereof,                                                         products ;
Whereas the sluice-gate prices and levies for the products            Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1 November, 1
specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75            February and 1 May are being fixed, changes in world
 must be fixed quarterly in advance in accordance with                 market prices for feed grain should be taken into account
 methods of calculation laid down in Council Regulation               only if at the same time a new sluice-gate price is fixed ;
(EEC) No 2778/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down rules
 for calculating the levy and the sluice-gate price for poul­
                                                                      Whereas, since no new sluice-gate prices have been fixed,
 trymeat (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 3233/86 (4) ;                                                         the levies fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 2234/87 should
                                                                       accordingly be maintained unchanged until 31 December
                                                                       1987 :
 Whereas, since the sluice-gate prices and levies for poul­
 trymeat were, by Commission Regulation (EEC) No                       Whereas, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 631 /86 of 28
 2234/87 (*), last fixed for the period 1 August to 31                 February 1986 on the application of import levies on
 October 1987, they must be fixed anew ; whereas such                  products from Portugal suspended the application of
 prices and levies should in principle be calculated by                import levies on poultrymeat products from Portugal (6)
 reference to feed-grain prices for the period 1 May to 30             owing to the minimal difference between the prices obtai­
 September 1987 ;                                                      ning in the Community on the one hand and in Portugal
                                                                       on the other hand ; whereas the situation still pertains ;
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658 /87 of 23
 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 on the Common Customs Tariff (6) introduces, with effect              in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 from 1 January 1988, a new 'combined nomenclature'                    Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs,
 which meets the requirements of both the Common
 Customs Tariff and the Community's statistics on foreign
 trade and which replaces the existing nomenclature ;
 whereas the entry into force of the combined nomencla­
 ture will entail an amendment to Regulation (EEC) No                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 2777/75 and, therefore, to the list of products for which
 sluice-gate prices and levies are set ; whereas in some
 cases the amounts for January 1988 cannot, therefore, be
 determined at this stage ; whereas accordingly, this fixing                                      Article 1
 should, exceptionally, apply until 31 December 1987
 only, the amounts for January 1988 being set at a later
 stage ;                                                                1 . The levies provided for in Article 3 of Regulation
                                                                       (EEC) No 2777/75 in respect of the products specified in
 (') OJ  No  L  282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 77.                             Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation and the sluice-gate prices
 (2) OJ  No  L  133, 21 . 5. 1986, p. 39.                               provided for in Article 7 of that Regulation in respect of
 (3) OJ  No  L  282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 84.                              the like products shall, for the period 1 November to 31
 0   OJ  No  L  301 , 25. 10. 1987, p. 3.
 0   OJ  No   L 206, 28 . 7. 1987, p. 20 .
 o   OJ  No  L  60, 1 . 3. 1986, p. 11 .                                («) OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .
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December 1987, be as fixed by Regulation (EEC) No              3. For imports of products specified in paragraph 1
2234/87.                                                       from Portugal, application of the levies shall be
                                                               suspended.
2.   Provided that, in the case of products falling within
heading No 02.03 and within subheading 15.01 B or
16.02 B I of the Common Customs Tariff, in respect of                                 Article 2
which the rate of duty has been bound within GAIT, the
levy shall not exceed the amount resulting from that           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
binding.                                                       1987.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 28 October 1987.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                           Vice-President