CELEX: 31994R1602
Language: en
Date: 1994-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1602/94 of 30 June 1994 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies on pigmeat

1 . 7. 94                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 167/69
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1602/94
                                                       of 30 June 1994
                                   fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies on pigmeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       grain ; whereas, in order to ensure the continued opera­
                                                                  tion of the levy mechanism in question, the amounts of
                                                                  the monthly increases likely to be adopted by the Council
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            for the 1994/95 marketing year should be taken as the
Community,                                                        basis ; whereas, however, this fixing is without prejudice to
                                                                  measures to be adopted as a result of decisions which the
                                                                  Council may adopt at a later date as regards monthly
                                                                  increases for feed grain for the 1994/95 marketing year ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75
of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the
 market in pigmeat ('), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 1249/89 (2), and in particular Articles 8 and 12
(1 ) thereof,
                                                                  Whereas the value within the Community of that quan­
                                                                  tity of feed grain must be determined in accordance with
                                                                  Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2764/75 ; whereas the
Whereas a levy fixed quarterly in advance must be                 value for the same quantity on the world market must be
charged on imports into the Community for the products            determined in accordance with Article 3 thereof ;
specified in Article 1 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
 2759/75 :
                                                                  Whereas Article 3 of that Regulation provides that the
                                                                  price of each cereal on the world market is to be equal to
Whereas, as the levies and sluice-gate prices were last           the average of the cif prices of that cereal ; whereas the cif
fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 687/94 of 28               prices are recorded for the five-month period ending one
March 1994 (3), for the period from 1 April to 30 June            month before the quarter in respect of which the said
 1993, new levies and sluice-gate prices must be fixed for        component is calculated ; whereas that period is 1 January
the period 1 July to 30 September 1994 ;                          to 3 1 May 1 994 ;
Whereas the levy on pig carcases is made up of two                Whereas the second component must be equal to 7 % of
components ;                                                      the average of the sluice-gate prices applicable for the
                                                                  four quarters to 1 April in each year ;
Whereas the first component must be equal to the diffe­
rence between prices within the Community and on the              Whereas the levies on the products specified in Article 1
world market for the quantity of feed grain determined in         (1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 other than
accordance with Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC)             pig carcases must be derived from the levy on pig carcases
No 2764/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down the rules for           on the basis of the coefficients fixed for such products
calculating a component of the levy on pig carcases (4), as       pursuant to Article 10 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 4160/87 (*), the              2759/75 in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
composition whereof is indicated therein ;                        3944/87 of 21 December 1987 fixing coefficients for
                                                                  calculating levies on pigmeat products (6), as last amended
                                                                  by Regulation (EEC) No 2242/91 P);
Whereas, pursuant to Article 9 (1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC)
No 2759/75, for calculating the import levies in the
pigmeat sector, the prices for feed grain within the              Whereas the levies on the products specified in Article 1
Community are determined once a year for a period of 12           (1 ) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 are made up of
months beginning on 1 July, on the basis of the                   two components ;
threshold prices and the monthly increases therein ;
whereas, in spite of all the Commission's efforts, the
Council has not yet fixed the monthly increases for feed          Whereas the first component must be derived from the
                                                                  levy on pig carcases on the basis of the coefficients fixed
(') OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                            in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 3944/87 ;
(2) OJ No L 129, 11 . 5. 1989, p. 12.
(j OJ No L 84, 29. 3. 1994, p. 5.
(4) OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 21 .                           (6) OJ No L 373, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 25.
(*) OJ No L 392, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 46.                            0 OJ No L 204, 27. 7. 1991 , p. 21 .
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Whereas the second component must be equal to 7 %,               Whereas the third amount, which represents overhead
and for products falling within CN codes ex 1 602 and ex         costs of production and marketing, shall, in accordance
 1902 to 10 % of the average offer prices for imports            with Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2766/75, be
during the 12 months to 1 April ; whereas those averages         ECU 38,69 per 100 kilograms of pig carcases ;
should be determined bearing in mind all the informa­
tion available on imports into the Community from third
countries, taking into account the representative character
of prices ;                                                      Whereas the sluice-gate prices of products referred to in
                                                                 Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2766/75, other than pig
Whereas, in the case of products falling within CN codes         carcases, must be derived from the sluice-gate price for
0206 30 21 ,     0206 30 31 ,     0206 41 91 ,   0206 49 91 ,    pig carcases on the basis of the coefficients laid down by
 1501 00 11 ,  1601 00 10, 160210 00, 1602 20 90 and             Regulation (EEC) No 3944/87 ;
 1602 90 10 in respect of which the rate of duty has been
bound under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade           Whereas, by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3834/90 of 20
(GATT), the levies must not exceed the amount resulting          December 1990 reducing for 1991 the levies on certain
from that binding ;                                              agricultural products originating in developing countries
                                                                 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3668/93 (4),
Whereas for pig carcases and other products referred to in       and Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 (*) on the arran­
Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2766/75 of 29           gements applicable to agricultural products and certain
October 1975 establishing the list of products for which         goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
sluice-gate prices are to be fixed and laying down the           products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
rules for fixing the sluice-gate price for pig carcases ('), as  States (ACP States), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3909/87 (2), the             No 235/94 (6), special import arrangements were intro­
sluice-gate prices must be fixed in advance for each             duced involving a reduction to 50 % in levies within the
quarter ;                                                        framework of fixed amounts or annual quotas, in parti­
                                                                 cular for certain pigmeat products ;
Whereas the sluice-gate price for pig carcases is made up        Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (1 ) of Council Decision
of three components ;                                            91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the
                                                                 overseas countries and territories with the European
                                                                 Economic Community Q, no levies shall apply on
Whereas the first component must be equal to the value           imports of products originating in the overseas countries
                                                                 and territories ;
on the world market of the quantity of feed grain equiva­
lent to the quantity of feedingstuffs required for the
production in third countries of one kilogram of pigmeat,        Whereas Council Regulations (EC) No 3491 /93 (8) and
such quantity being composed as provided in Article 2 (1 )       (EC) No 3492/93 (9), on certain procedures for applying
of Regulation (EEC) No 2766/75 ;                                 the Europe Agreement establishing an association
                                                                 between the European Communities and their Member
                                                                 States, of the one part, and the Republics of Hungary and
Whereas the value of that quantity Of grain must be deter­       Poland, of the other part, and Council Regulation (EEC)
mined in accordance with Article 2 (2) and (3) of Regula­        No 520/92 of 27 February 1992 on certain rules for
tion (EEC) No 2766/75 ;                                          applying the Interim Agreement on trade and trade­
                                                                 related matters between the European Economic Commu­
                                                                 nity and the European Coal and Steel Community, of the
                                                                 one part, and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, of
Whereas the said Article 2 provides that the price for           the other part (10), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
each cereal on the world market shall be equal to the            2235/93 (u), and in particular Article 1 thereof introduce
average of the cif prices of such cereal ; whereas the cif       arrangements for reducing import levies on certain
prices shall be determined for the period of five months         products ; whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No
ending one month before the quarter in respect of which          2698/93 (12), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 3560/
the said amount is calculated ; whereas that period is           93 (13), lays down detailed rules for applying the arrange­
1 January to 31 May 1994 ;                                       ments provided for in these agreements as regards
                                                                 pigmeat ;
Whereas the second component, which represents the               (3) OJ No L 370, 31 . 12. 1990, p. 121 .
extra cost, in relation to feed grain of feedingstuffs other     (4) OJ No L 338, 31 . 12. 1993, p. 22.
than grain required for the production of one kilogram of        O OJ No L 84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.
                                                                 (6) OJ No L 30, 3. 2. 1994, p. 12.
pigmeat, shall, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Regula­     O OJ No L 263, 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .
tion (EEC) No 2766/75, be 15% of the value of the                (8) OJ No L 319, 21 . 12. 1993, p. 1 .
quantity of feed grain ;                                         O OJ No L 319, 21 . 12. 1993, p. 4.
                                                                 (10) OJ No L 56, 29. 2. 1992, p. 9.
                                                                 (") OJ No L 200, 10. 8. 1993, p. 5.
(') OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 25.                           H OJ No L 245, 1 . 10. 1993, p. 80.
(2) OJ No L 370, 30. 12. 1987, p. 11 .                           H OJ No L 324, 24. 12. 1993, p. 42.
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 Whereas, in addition, account must be taken of Decision            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 94/1 /ECSC, EC of the Council and Commission ('),
 concerning the conclusion of the Agreements on the
 European Economic Area, between the European                                                 Article 1
 Community, the European Coal and Steel Community
 and their Member States, on the one hand, and Austria,             1 . From the 1 July 1994, the sluice-gate prices and
 Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Liechtenstein, on             levies provided for in Articles 12 and 8 respectively of
 the other hand, hereafter referred to as the 'EEA Agree­           Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 for the products referred to
 ment'; whereas the Bilateral Agreements on agriculture             in Article 1 (1 ) thereof shall be as set out in the Annex
 between the Community, on the one hand, and Austria                hereto.
 and Finland, on the other hand, enter into force at the
 same time as the EEA Agreement ; whereas Commission
 Regulation (EC) No 3580/93 (2) lays down detailed rules
 for the application of the import arrangements for these           2.    Nevertheless, in the case of products falling within
 products originating in Austria and Finland ;                      CN codes 0206 30 21 , 0206 30 31 , 0206 41 91 ,
                                                                    02064991 ,       1501 00 11 ,    1601 00 10,     16021000,
 Whereas Council Regulations (EC) No 3641 /93 (3) and               1602 20 90 or 1602 90 10, in respect of which the rate of
 (EC) No 3642/93 (4) on certain rules for applying the              duty has been bound conforming to the general Agree­
 Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters               ment on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the levy shall not
 between the European Economic Community and the                    exceed the amount resulting from that binding.
 European Coal and Steel Community, of the one part,
 and the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania, of the other
 part ; whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No                                                 Article 2
 1590/940 lays down detailed rules for applying the
 arrangements provided for in these agreements as regards
 pigmeat ;
                                                                    The levies fixed in this Regulation shall apply without
                                                                    prejudice to measures to be taken as a result of decisions
 Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 774/94 of 29 March              which may be adopted by the Council at a later date,
 1994(6) jjgg 0pened Community tariff quotas for certain            possibly with effect from 1 July 1994, as regards the
 agricultural products and fixed the levies to be applied on        monthly increases applicable to feed grain.
 imports of those products ; whereas Regulation (EC) No
 1 432/94 Q has established the detailed rules of the import
 regime for pigmeat laid down in Regulation (EC) No
 774/94 ;                                                                                     Article 3
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 Committee for Pigmeat,                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1994.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 30 June 1994.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               Rene STEICHEN
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(')  OJ No  L 1 , 3. 1 . 1994, p. 1 .
O    OJ No  L 326, 28. 12. 1993, p. 16.
(3)  OJ No  L 333, 31 . 12. 1993, p. 16.
(4)  OJ No  L 333, 31 . 12. 1993, p. 17.
Is) See page 16 of this Official Journal.
(6) OJ No L 91 , 8. 4. 1994, p. 1 .
o OJ No L 156, 23. 6. 1994, p. 14.
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                                                      ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1994 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies on
                                                      pigmeat
                                                                                     Conventional
                                    Sluice-gate price         Amount of levies        rate of duty
                   CN code
                                     (ECU/ 100 kg)            (ECU/ 100 kg)(3)       bound within
                                                                                       GATT (%)
                 0103 91 10                71,09                   36,28                   —
                 0103 92 11                60,16                   30,85                   —
                 0103 92 19                71,09                   36,28 (4)               —
                 0203 11 10                92,44                   47,17000                —
                 0203 1211               134,04                    68,40 000               —
                 0203 12 19              1 03,53                   52,84 («) 0 0           —
                 0203 19 11              103,53                    52,84 0 00              —
                 0203 19 13              149,75                    76,42 0 0 00            —
                 0203 19 15                80,42                   41,04 000               —
                 0203 19 55              149,75                    76,42 0 0 0             —
                 0203 19 59              149,75                     76,42 0 0 0            —
                 0203 21 10                92,44                   47,17 000               —
                 0203 22 11              134,04                     68,40 0 0 0            —
                 0203 22 19              103,53                     52,84 0 0 0            —
                 0203 29 11              103,53                     52,84 0 0 0            —
                 0203 29 13              149,75                     76,420000              —
                 0203 29 15                 80,42                  41 ,04 0 0 WO           —
                 0203 29 55              149,75                     76,420000              —
                 0203 29 59              149,75                     76,42 000              —
                 0206    30  21          111,85                     57,08                    7
                 0206    30  31             8135                    41,51                    4
                 0206    41  91          111,85                     57,08                    7
                 0206    49  91             81,35                   41,51                    4
                 0209    00  11             36,98                   18,87                  —
                 0209    00  19             40,67                   20,76                  —
                 0209    00  30             22,19                   11,32                  —
                 0210    11 11           134,04                     68,40OO                —
                 0210    11 19           103,53                     52,84 0                —
                 0210    11 31           260,68                   133,03 0 0               —
                 0210    11 39         . 205,22                   104,73 0                 —
                 0210    12 11              80,42                   41,04(')0              —
                 0210    12 19           134,04                     68,40 0 0              —
                  0210   19 10           118,32                     60,38 0                —
                  0210   19 20           129,42                     66,04 0                —
                  0210   19 30           103,53                     52,84 0                —
                  0210   19 40            149,75                    76,42 0 0              —
                  0210   1951             1 49,75                   76,42 0                —
                  0210   19 59            149,75                    76,42 0                —
                  02 1 0 1 9 60          205,22                   1 04,73 0                —
                  0210   19 70           257,91                   131,62 0                 —
                  0210   19 81           260,68                   133,03 0 0               —
                  0210   19 89           260,68                   133,03 0                 —
                  0210   90 31            111,85                    57,08                  —
                  0210   90 39              8135                    41,51                  —
                  1501   00 11              29,58                   15,10                    3
                  1501   00 19              29,58                   15,10                  —
                  1601 00 10              129,42                  103,88 0                 24
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                                                                                                         Conventional
                                         Sluice-gate price              Amount of levies                 rate of duty
                   CN code
                                           (ECU/100 kg)                  (ECU/100 kg)(3)                bound within
                                                                                                          GAIT (%)
                  1601 00 91                  217,23                         153,17 (') 00 00                 —
                  1601 00 99                  147,90                           99,07 00000                    —
                  160210 00                   103,53                           56,96                          26
                  1602 20 90                  120,17                           91,18                          25
                  160241 10                   226,48                          159,74 00                       —
                  160242 10                   189,50                          124,56 0 0                      —
                  1602 49 11                  226,48                          163,67 0 0                      —
                  160249 13                   189,50                          121,31 00                       —
                  1602 49 15                  189,50         ^                117,28 000                      —
                  1602 49 19                  124,79                           82^3 (') OO                    —
                  1602 49 30                  103,53                           7033 0 0                       —
                  1602 49 50                   61,93                           59,4900                        —
                  1602 90 10                  120,17                           82,59                          26
                  1602 90 51                  124,79                           79,97                          —
                  1902 20 30                   61,93                           51,01                          —
          {') The levy on products originating in the developing countries and listed in the Annex to Regulation (EEC)
              No 3834/90 is reduced by 50 % within the limits of the fixed amounts referred to in that Annex.
          0'The levy on products originating in the ACP and listed in Article 8 of amended Regulation (EEC) No 715/90
              reduced by 50 % within the limits of the quotas referred to in that Regulation.
          (*) No levy applies to OCT originating products according to Article 101 (1 ) of Decision 91 /482/EEC.
          (4) For products imported from Poland, Hungary and the Czech and Slovak Republics, the levy applicable is
              restricted within the conditions provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 2698/93.
          O For products imported from Austria or Finland, the levy applicable is restricted within the conditions provided
              for in Regulation (EC) No 3580/93.
          0 For products imported from Bulgaria and Romania, the levy applicable is restricted within the conditions
              provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1590/94.
          0 For these imported products, the levy applicable is restricted within the conditions provided for in Regulation
              (EC) No 774/94.
          NB : The CN codes and the footnotes are defined in amended Commission Regulation (EEC)
                  No 2658/87.