CELEX: 31976R2989
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2989/76 of 9 December 1976 fixing additional amounts for live and slaughtered poultry

No L 341 / 12                           Official Journal of the European Communities                            10 . 12. 76
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2989/76
                                                      of 9 December 1976
                            fixing additional amounts for live and slaughtered poultry
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No
COMMUNITIES,                                                        2474/70 (7), the import levies on slaughtered turkeys
                                                                    originating in and coming from Poland are not
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               increased by an additional amount ;
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        Whereas pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No
2777/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                  2164/72 (8), the import levies on slaughtered fowls and
tion of the market in poultrymeat (!), as amended by                geese originating in and coming from Bulgaria are not
Regulation (EEC) No 369/76 (2), and in particular                   increased by an additional amount ;
Article 8 (4) thereof,
                                                                    Whereas the regular review of the information serving
Whereas if, for a given product, the free-at-frontier               as a basis for the determination of average offer prices
offer price (hereinafter called the 'offer price') falls            for slaughtered poultry and halves or quarters indi­
below the sluice-gate price, the levy applicable to that            cates that additional amounts corresponding to the
product must be increased by an additional amount                   figures shown in the Annex below should be fixed for
equal to the difference between the sluice-gate price               the imports specified in that Annex ;
and the offer price determined in accordance with
Article 1 of Commission Regulation No 163/67/EEC                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
on fixing the additional amount for imports of poul­                are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
try-farming products from third countries (3), as                   ment Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs,
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 527/73 (4) ;
Whereas the offer price must be determined for all                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
imports from all third countries ; whereas, however, if
exports from one or more third countries are effected
at abnormally low prices, lower than prices ruling for                                       Article 1
other third countries, a second offer price must be
determined for exports from these other countries ;                The additional amounts provided for in Article 8 of
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 are hereby fixed as
Whereas, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 565/68 (5),                shown in the Annex for the products listed in Article
the import levies on slaughtered fowls, ducks and                   1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation which appear in the Annex.
geese originating in and coming from Poland are not
increased by an additional amount ;
                                                                                             Article 2
Whereas, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No
2261 /69 (6), the import levies on slaughtered ducks               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
and geese originating in and coming from Romania                    following its publication in the Official Journal of
are not increased by an additional amount ;                         the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 9 December 1976 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 77.
(2  OJ No  L 45, 21 . 2. 1976, p. 3 .
(}) OJ No   129, 28 . 6. 1967, p. 2577/67.
(4) OJ No   L 154, 9 . 6. 1973 , p . 1 .
(5) OJ No  L 107, 8 . 5. 1968, p. 7.                               (7) OJ No L 265, 8 . 12. 1970, p . 13 .
(b) OJ No  L 286, 14. 11 . 1969, p. 24.                            (8) OJ No L 232, 12. 10 . 1972, p. 3 .
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                                                                          ANNEX
                    Additional amounts applicable to live and slaughtered poultry and halves or quarters
       CCT                                                                               Additional
                                                Description of goods                                                  Imports
     heading                                                                               amount
                                                                                                                      affected
        No                                                                              (u.a./ 1 00 kg)
01.05                Live poultry, that is to say, fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys
                     and guinea fowls
                     B. Others :
                           I. Fowls                                                         1000        Origin : Hungary, Yugoslavia or
                                                                                                        Czechoslovakia
                         IV. Turkeys                                                        1000        Origin : Hungary
                          V. Guinea fowls                                                     500       Origin : Hungary or Romania
02.02                Dead poultry (that is to say, fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys
                     and guinea fowls) and edible offals thereof (except liver),
                     fresh, chilled or frozen :
                     A. Whole poultry :
                           I. Fowls :
                               a) Plucked and gutted, with heads and feet,
                                   known as '83 % chickens'                                   800       All imports (])
                                b) Plucked and drawn, without heads and feet
                                    but with hearts, livers and gizzards, known as
                                    '70 % chickens'                                           800       All imports (')
                                c) Plucked and drawn, without heads and feet
                                    and without hearts, livers and gizzards, known
                                    as '65 % chickens'                                        8 00      All imports (')
                         IV. Turkeys                                                        1000        Origin : United States of America
                          V. Guinea fowls                                                   1500        Origin : Hungary
                     B. Poultry cuts (excluding offals) :
                         II . Unboned (bone-in)
                              a) Halves or quarters :
                                  1 . Of fowls                                                8 00      All imports
                                  4. Of turkeys                                            4000         Origin : United States of America
(') With the exception of products originating in and coming from Poland and Bulgaria .