CELEX: 31989R0960
Language: en
Date: 1989-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 960/89 of 13 April 1989 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat

14. 4. 89                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 102/31
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 960/89
                                                        of 13 April 1989
                                   fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1 November, 1
                                                                   February and 1 May are being fixed, trends in world
                                                                   market prices for feed grain should be taken into account
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              only if at the same time a new sluice-gate price is being
Economic Community,                                                fixed ;
                                                                   Whereas, since a new sluice-gate price has not been fixed
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
                                                                    the levies must remain unchanged until 31 July 1989 ;
Portugal,
                                                                   Whereas, in the case of pigment products, in respect of
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 of the                which the rate of duty has been bound within GATT, the
Council of 29 October 1975 on the common organization               levies should be limited to the amounts resulting from
of the market in pigmeat ('), as last amended by Regula­            that binding ;
tion (EEC) No 3906/87 (2), and in particular Articles 8 and
12 (1 ) thereof,
                                                                    Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 616/86 of 28
                                                                    February 1986 on the application of import levies on
Whereas sluice-gate prices and levies for the products              pigmeat products from Portugal (6) suspended the applica­
specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75,        tion of import levies on pigmeat products from Portugal
must be fixed in advance for each quarter in accordance             owing to the minimal difference between the prices
with the methods of calculation laid down in Commis­                obtaining in the Community on the one hand and in
sion Regulation (EEC) No 2170/88 of 20 July 1988 fixing             Portugal on the other hand ; whereas the situation still
the levies and sluice-gate prices on pigmeat (3) ;                  pertains ;
Whereas, since sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
were last fixed by Commission Regulations (EEC) No                  in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                    Committee for Pigmeat,
73/89 (4) for the period 1 February to 30 April 1989, they
must be fixed anew for the period 1 May to 31 July 1989 ;
whereas such prices and levies should in principle be
fixed by reference to feed grain prices for the period 1
November 1988 to 31 March 1989 :
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, when the sluice-gate price applicable from 1
 November, 1 February and 1 May is being fixed, trends in
world market prices for feed grain are to be taken into
 account only if the value of the quantity of feed grain
 required varies by at least a specified minimum in rela­                                     Article 1
 tion to that used in calculating the sluice-gate price for
 the preceding quarter ; whereas this minimum was fixed
by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2766/75 (*), as last                  1 . For the period 1 May to 31 July 1989, the
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3906/87, at 3 % ;                    sluice-gate prices and the levies provided for in Articles
                                                                     12 and 8 respectively of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 for
                                                                     the products specified in Article 1 (,1 ) of that Regulation
 Whereas the value of the quantity of feed grain varies by           shall be as shown in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No
 less than 3 % from that used for the preceding quarter ;            73/89.
 whereas prices for feed grain must therefore remain
 unchanged until 31 July 1989 ;
                                                                     2.    Provided that, in the case of products falling within
 (') OJ No L 282,-1 . 11 - 1975, p. 1 .                              CN code 0206 30 21 , 0206 30 31 , 0206 41 91 , 0206 49 91 ,
 (j OJ No L 370, 30. 12. 1987, p. 11 .                                1501 00 11 , 1601 00 10, 1602 10 00, 1602 20 90 or
 (3) OJ No L 190, 21 . 7. 1988, p. 32.
 0 OJ No L 11 , 14. 1 . 1989, p. 16.
 Ì5) OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 25.                              («) OJ No L 58, 1 . 3. 1986, p. 45.
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1602 90 10, in respect of which the rate of duty has been      application of the levies specified in paragraphs 1 and 2
bound within GATT, the levy shall not exceed the               shall be suspended.
amount resulting from that binding.
                                                                                        Article 2
3. For imports from Portugal of products specified in
paragraph 1 and in free circulation in that Member State,      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1989.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 13 April 1989.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                    Member of the Commission