CELEX: 31976R0601
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-15 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 601/76 of 15 March 1976 laying down special measures in particular for the determination of the offers of olive oil on the world market

18 . 3 . 76                         Official Journal orthe European Communities                              No L 72/ 1
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                                           (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 601 /76
                                                     of 15 March 1976
                laying down special measures in particular for the determination of the offers of
                                              olive oil on the world market
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     should be altered by providing for the determination
 COMMUNITIES,                                                    of the levy under a tendering procedure ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           Whereas certain by-products are subject to an import
 Economic Community,                                             levy derived from that applicable to olive oil ; whereas
                                                                 experience has shown that in practice there are no
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC               imports of by-products with a very low oil content to
 of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                  be used for extraction of such oil ; whereas therefore
 common organization of the market in oils and                   no import levy should          be   imposed     on   such
 fats (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                by-products ;
  1707/73 (2), and in particular Article 36 thereof,
                                                                 Whereas the period of applicability of this Regulation
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,              should be limited to a period sufficient to assess its
                                                                 efficacy,
 Whereas the provisions currently in force provide for
 a single levy for the different qualities of unrefined
 olive oil ; whereas the offers taken into consideration
 for the fixing of the said levy may, in certain cases, be
 unrepresentative of the real trend of offers for one or         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 more such qualities ; whereas, in these conditions, it
 appears necessary to provide for the possibility of
 replacing the cif price by a price determined in
 respect of the real offer price for these qualities ;                                   Article 1
Whereas the world market in olive oil is limited and
 lacks transparency, thereby sometimes preventing the            Where free quotations on the world market are not a
 precise study of its true tendency and therefore the            determining factor for the offer price for one or more
correct fixing of import levies ; whereas a consequence          qualities of unrefined olive oil, a price determined on
of this situation is that in certain cases olive oil can be      the basis of the offer price shall be substituted for the
imported into the Community at other than the                    cif price referred to in Article 13 of Regulation No
threshold price level which can in some cases cause              136/66/ EEC for only those qualities concerned.
disturbance of the Community market ;
Whereas all the measures for common organization of                                      Article 2
the market in olive oil are being reviewed with a view
to an overall revision of the system ;
                                                                 1.    When offers of unrefined olive oil on the world
Whereas in order to put right the above difficulties,           market do not correspond to real purchasing possibili­
pending the result of this revision, the trading system         ties in quantities which are representative of the
                                                                market, the import levy referred to in Articles 13, 14
(!) OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66 .                      and 15 of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC shall be fixed
(2) OJ No L 175, 29 . 6. 1973, p. 5.                            by tendering procedure.
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2. At regular intervals the persons concerned shall                                  Article 3
submit an application for an import licence to the
competent bodies in the Member States and at the             Notwithstanding Article 15 of Regulation No 136/
same time shall put up a special guarantee for an            66/EEC no levy shall be imposed on imports of olive­
amount to be decided.                                        oil cakes and other residues falling within subheading
                                                             23.04 A of the Common Customs Tariff which have
The application for an import licence shall be accom­        an oil content of not more than 3% .
panied by a statement of :
(a) the quantity of the product covered by the applica­
    tion ;                                                                           Article 4
(b) the rate of levy per 100 kilogrammes of oil which
    the applicant undertakes to pay at the time of           The detailed rules for the implementation of this
    import.                                                  Regulation shall be adopted in accordance with the
                                                             procedure provided for in Article 38 of Regulation No
3.    The Commission shall determine the minimum
                                                              136/66/ EEC .
rate of the levy in units of account per 100 kilo­
grammes of oil.
4. Licences shall be issued for applications stating a                               Article 5
rate of levy greater than or equal to the minimum rate
determined by the Commission . In this event the             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
applicant shall be bound to import the quantity of oil        1976 .
stated in his application at the rate of levy stated
therein .                                                     It shall be applicable until 31 October 1976.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 15 March 1976 .
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                            R. VOUEL