CELEX: 31987R0987
Language: en
Date: 1987-04-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 987/87 of 3 April 1987 amending Regulation (EEC) No 846/87 in respect of the tax on export of maize from Spain

7. 4. 87                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 93/7
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 987/87
                                                        of 3 April 1987
                amending Regulation (EEC) No 846/87 in respect of the tax on export of maize
                                                          from Spain
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       applying the tax to maize exported or delivered from
                                                                  ports in southern Spain ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas the Management Committee for Cereals has not
Economic Community,                                               delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its
                                                                  Chairman,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal and in particular Article 90 thereof,                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 846/87 (')                                         Article 1
introduced a tax on the export from Spain of maize for            The following sentence is hereby added to Article 2 (1 ) of
the purpose of preventing the re-export of maize                  Regulation (EEC) No 846/87 :
imported under Commission Regulation (EEC) No
3593/86 of 26 November 1986 on the granting of a                      'However, the tax shall not apply to maize exported
subsidy for the import of maize into Spain (2), whereas               from Valencia, or from Spanish ports situated to the
these imports have taken place in the consumption areas               south of Valencia, or by road or rail to Portugal,
of northern Spain ;                                                   provided that the competent, authorities are satisfied
                                                                      that the exported maize originates in Spain.'
Whereas, moreover, there is surplus production of maize                                   Article 2
in the production areas situated in particular in southern
Spain ; whereas, to avoid massive intervention purchasing         This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
of maize in that region, the disposal of such maize should        publication in the Official Journal of the European
not be hindered ; whereas this may be achieved by not              Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                 Done at Brussels, 3 April 1987.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                               Vice-President
(') OJ No L 81 , 25. 3. 1987, p. 40.
(2) OJ No L 334, 27. 11 . 1986, p. 21 .