CELEX: 31974R2762
Language: en
Date: 1974-11-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2762/74 of the Commission of 31 October 1974 fixing the export levies on olive oil

No L 294/48                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             1 . 11 . 74
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2762/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 31 October 1974
                                            fixing the export levies on olive oil
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    be applied to olive oil for the 1966/67 marketing
COMMUNITIES,                                                      year ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                              Whereas this price must be established on the basis of
                                                                  the most favourable actual purchasing opportunities ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/                       whereas the Commission must, theoretically, take into
66/EEC (!) of 22 September 1966 on the establish­                 account all known offers for olive oil of the types
ment of a common organization of the market in oils               listed in 1 and 4 of the Annex to Regulation No 136/
and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                  66/EEC made on the world market ; whereas, if there
1707/73 (2);                                                      are no such offers or if such offers are not representa­
                                                                  tive, the Commission must take account of all offers
                                                                  made on the wholesale markets in the Community
Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/                       which are representative for the importation of these
66/EEC (3) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and                oils ;
fats between the Community and Greece ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 171 /
67/EEC (4) of 27 June 1967 on export refunds and                  Whereas Article 2 (2) of Commission Regulation
levies on olive oil, as last amended by Regulation                (EEC) No 1004/71 (9) of 14 May 1971 on the fixing of
(EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular Article 10 (3)            levies on unrefined olive oil provides, however, that
thereof ;                                                         the Commission must disregard offers for products of
                                                                  mediocre quality, long-dated offers, and offers for
                                                                  small lots and lots presented in small containers ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                      whereas offers which are considered not to be repre­
Committee ;                                                       sentative of the real trend of the market and those to
                                                                  which Article 13 (3) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC
Whereas, pursuant to Article 18 of Regulation No                   applies must also be disregarded ;
 136/66/EEC, a levy equal at most to the difference
between prices on the world market and prices within
the Community may be charged on exports of olive
oil where the former are higher than the latter ;                  Whereas, if no offers of the type mentioned above
                                                                   have been made or if the offers made cannot be
whereas the levy on unrefined olive oil is equal to the
 difference between the cif price and the market target            considered, the prices ruling on the domestic markets
 price ;                                                           of the main oil-producing and oil-exporting third
                                                                   countries and on the Greek market should be taken
                                                                   into account for the purpose of determining the cif
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 11 21 /74 (6) of              price ; whereas in such cases those prices should be
 29 April 1974, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                  increased by marketing, loading, transport and insur­
 2496/74 (7), fixed the market target price and the inter­         ance costs :
 vention price for olive oil for the 1974/75 marketing
 year ;
                                                                   Whereas, of the offers taken into consideration , C and
 Whereas the Commission determines the cif price for
 a Community frontier crossing point ; whereas this                F offers should, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation
 point was fixed by Council Regulation No 165/                     (EEC) No 1775/69, be increased by 1 % ; whereas cif
 66/ EEC (8) of 27 October 1966 on price measures to               offers for frontier crossing points other than the one
                                                                   referred to above should be adjusted for transport and
 (•) OJ  No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66.                        insurance costs ; whereas offers for delivery fas, fob or
 (2) OJ  No L 175, 29 . 6. 1973, p. 5.                             otherwise should be increased by transport and insur­
 (3) OJ  No 197, 29 . 10. 1966, p. 3393 /66.                       ance costs from the point of shipment or loading to
 (4) OJ  No 130, 28 . 6. 1967, p . 2600/67.                        the abovementioned frontier crossing point and, in
 (5) OJ  No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .                          the case of fas offers, by loading costs ;
 (6) OJ  No L 128 , 5 . 10. 1974, p. 7 .
 O   OJ  No L 268 , 3 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 .
 (8) OJ  No 197, 29. 10 . 1966, p . 3399/66.                       (9) OJ No L 109, 15 . 5 . 1971 , p. 17.
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whereas, if the offers taken into consideration are           Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Commission Regula­
offers on the Community market, they should be                 tion (EEC) No 616/72 (4) of 27 March 1972 on
reduced by unloading or disembarkation costs, import           detailed rules for the application of export refunds
duties and levies and, where appropriate, by                   and levies on olive oil, as amended by Regulation
forwarding or other costs incurred from the cif or free­       (EEC) No 2563/72 (5), exports of olive oil falling
at-frontier stage to the marketing stage for -which the        within subheading 1 5.07 A I of the Common
offers were made ;                                             Customs Tariff and subheading 15.07 A II a) referred
                                                               to in the first indent of Article 2 of that Regulation , in
                                                               immediate packings of a net capacity not exceeding 5
                                                               kg, are granted an exemption from the levy
Whereas, for the purpose of adjusting the offers taken         amounting to seven units of account per 100 kg of oil
into    consideration , the  Commission      should  take      exported ;
account only of the costs which to its knowledge are
the lowest ;
                                                               Whereas no export levies are fixed for olive oil falling
                                                               within subheading 15.07 A of the Common Customs
Whereas the cif price should be determined for the             Tariff, in immediate packings of a net capacity of
product presented in bulk ; whereas, if oil is presented       more than 5 kg, unless the difference referred to in
otherwise than in bulk, the consequent increase in             the first subparagraph of Article 10 (2) of Regulation
value should be deducted from the offers and the addi­         No 171 / 67/ EEC is 2-5 units of account or more ;
tional cost to the importer added to them ; whereas            whereas no export levy is fixed for olive oil falling
offers for unfiltered oil, whether virgin, extra, fine or      within subheadings 15.07 A I and 15.07 A II a), in
Ordinary, should be increased by an amount which               immediate packings of a net capacity not exceeding 5
allows for filtering costs ;                                   kg, unless exports of this oil are likely to cause distur­
                                                               bances on the Community market or the world
                                                               market ; whereas the levies are fixed as frequently as is
                                                               necessary to ensure stability of the Community
Whereas, in order to obtain comparable information             market and in such a way as to ensure that they can
on oil of the type and quality for which the threshold         be applied at least once a week ;
price was fixed, it is necessary to deduct from or add
to the offers considered, according to the type and
quality in question, the values resulting from the provi­      Whereas the levies previously fixed should be retained
sions of Commission Regulation No 172/66/EEC (^                where variations in the factors used to calculate the
fixing coefficients of equivalence for the different           levy would lead to an increase or reduction of less
types and qualities of unrefined olive oil, as last            than 0-50 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 992/72 (2) ;                    such levies ;
whereas, in exceptional circumstances, different or
derived coefficients of equivalence may be applied for
a limited period ;
                                                               Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                               levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas a comparison of the information thus                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
obtained makes it possible to determine the most                    relation to each other, at any given moment,
favourable offers on the world market ; whereas, if no              within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
offer can be considered for the purpose of deter­                   on their effective parity ;
mining the cif price, the price previously taken into
account should be maintained ;                                 — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
                                                                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
                                                                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas the export levy on refined olive oil is equal               in the previous subparagraph ;
to the difference between the cif price and the market
target price, this difference being adjusted as provided
for in Articles 2 or 3 , as the case may be, of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 443/72 (3) of 29 February 1972             Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
on the levies on refined olive oil and on certain              to .the offer prices known to the Commission that the
                                                               levies should be fixed as shown in the Table annexed
products containing olive oil ;
                                                               to this Regulation ,
(») OJ No 202, 7. 11 . 1966, p . 3482/ 66.
(2) OJ No L 115, 17. 5. 1972, p. 7.                            (4) OJ No L 78 , 31 . 3 . 1972, p. 1 .
P) OJ No L 54, 3 . 3 . 1972, p. 3 .                            (5 OJ No L 274, 7 . 12 . 1 972, p. 1 1 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                   The levies shall apply to products falling within
                                                                 subheading 15.07 A in immediate packings of a net
                       Article 1                                 capacity exceeding 5 kg.
                                                                                          Article 2
The export levies referred to in Article 18 of Regula­
tion No 136/66/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
Table annexed to this Regulation .                               1974 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 31 October 1974.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                       Member of the Commission
                                                         ANNEX
                                    Levies on olive oil to third countries and Greece
                                 CCT heading No                                 Amounts in u. «. / 100 kg
            ex 15.07 A I a )                                                          70-023
            ex 15.07 A I b )                                                          93-995
            ex 15.07 A II                                                             63-084