CELEX: 31988R3692
Language: en
Date: 1988-11-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3692/88 of 25 November 1988 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

26. 11 . 88                              Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 321 /39
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3692/88
                                                     of 25 November 1988
                                    fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs
THE , COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       tion (EEC) No 486/85 of 26 February 1985 on the arran­
                                                                    gements applicable to agricultural products and certain
                                                                    goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
Economic Community,                                                 States or in the overseas countries and territories (*), as last
                                                                    amended by Regulation (EEC) No" 1821 /87 (*) ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) (No 2727/75               Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession,
of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the                the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985
market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)          must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of
No 2221 /88 (2), and in particular Article 14 (4) thereof,          Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and in Article 1 of Council
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 Q, as last amended by
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 2229/88 (8), which are imported
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,             from Portugal, apply the arrangements which were appli­
                                                                  , cable in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas,
                                                                    under Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85
Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the variable         of 20 December 1985 laying down the arrangements
component of the import levy on compound feedingstuffs              applying to trade in agricultural products between Spain
are laid down in Article 14 (1 ) (A) of Regulation (EEC) No         and Portugal (9), the same arrangements are to be applied
2727/75 ; whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC)             in the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied
No 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be                   pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy
                                                                    should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid
applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (3), as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 944/87 (4), provides                 down in Commission Regulation 1 56/67/EEC (10), as last
that the incidence on the prime costs of these feeding­             amended by Regulation (EEC) No 31 /76 (u), and taking
stuffs of the levies applicable to their basic products             into account the situation with regard to market prices in
should be calculated on the basis of the average of the             Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain
levies applicable during the first 25 days of the month             the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade
preceding that month of importation to the quantities of            between Spain and the Community as constitued at 31
basic products considered to have been used in the manu­            December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ;
facture of such compound feedingstuffs, this average
being adjusted on the basis of the threshold price for the
basic products in question ruling during the month of
importation ;
                                                                    Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
                                                                    should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the fixed
component, is valid for one month ; whereas the amount
of the fixed component of the levy is laid down in Article
6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 ;                                       in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                         tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                         of 2,25% , a rate of exchange based on their central
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the inte­                 rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
rests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and of                the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating to             tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (12), as last amended by Regu­
them in respect of certain products processed from cereals               lation (EEC) No 1636/87 (13),
must be reduced by the amount of the fixed component
and, in respect of some of these products, by part of the           0 OJ No L 61 , 26. 2. 1986, p. 4.
variable component ; whereas this reduction must be                 (6) OJ No L 172, 30. 6. 1987, p. 102.
made in accordance with Article 12 of Council Regula­               0 OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
                                                                    (8) OJ No L 197, 26. 7. 1988, p. 30.
                                                                    0 OJ No L 367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7.
(') OJ No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                            (I0) OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2533/67.
(2) OJ No  L  197, 26. 7. 1988, p. 16.                              (") OJ No L 5, 10. 1 . 1976, p. 18 .
0   OJ No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60.                            (12) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(4) OJ No  L 90, 2. 4. 1987, p. 2.                                  (13) OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
    these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­                              Article 1
    tion to the Community currencies referred to in the        The import levies to be charged on the compound
    previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;           feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75
                                                               and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 shall be as
                                                               set out in the Annex.
Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 (1 ) of Regulation                               Article 2
(EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided for in this
Regulation is incorporated in the combined nomencla­            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December
                                                                1988 .
ture,
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 25 November 1988 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                             Vice-President
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                                                      ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 25 November 1988 fixing the import levies on compound
                                                   feedingstuffs
                                                                                         (ECU / tonne)
                                                                      Levies
                                                                                 l
                       CN code                                   Third countries
                                                   Portugal        (other than      ACP and OCT
                                                                 ACP and OCT)
                      2309 10 11                    10,88              32,10            21,22
                      2309 10 13                    10,88            532,25            521,37
                      2309 10 31                    10,88              77,19            66,31
                      2309 10 33                    10,88            577,34            566,46
                      2309 10 51                    10,88             143,49           132,61
                      2309 10 53                    10,88 ,          643,64            632,76
                      2309 90 31                    10,88              32,10            21,22
                      2309 90 33                    10,88            532,25            521,37
                      2309 90 41                    10,88              77,19            66,31
                      2309 90 43                    10,88            577,34            566,46
                      2309 90 51                    10,88            143,49            132,61
                      2309 90 53                    10,88            643,64            632,76