CELEX: 31973R3256
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3256/73 of the Commission of 30 November 1973 fixing the export levies on olive oil

1 . 12. 73                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 331 /55
                                REGULATION ( EEC) No 3256/73                      OF THE COMMISSION
                                                             of 30 November 1973
                                                      fixing the export levies on olive oil
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                              Whereas this price must be established on the basis
COMMUNITIES ,                                                               of the most favourable actual purchasing opportuni­
                                                                            ties ; whereas the Commission must, theoretically,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                          take into account all known offers for olive oil of
pean Economic Community ;                                                   the types listed in 1 and 4 of the Annex to Regula­
                                                                            tion No 136/66/EEC made on the world market ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/                              whereas, if there are no such offers or if such offers
EEC (*) of 22 September 1966 on the establishment                           are not , representative, the Commission must take
                                                                            account of all offers made on the wholesale markets
of a common organization of the market in oils and
fats, as last amended bv Regulation ( EEC ) No 1707/                        in the Community which are representative for the
73 n ■                                                                      importation of these oils ;
                                                                            Whereas Article 2 ( 2 ) of Commission Regulation
Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/66/                               ( EEC ) No 1004/71 ( 8 ) of 14 May 1971 on the fixing
EEC ( 3) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and fats
                                                                            of levies on unrefined olive oil provides, however,
between the Community and Greece ;                                          that the Commission must disregard offers for prod­
                                                                             ucts of mediocre-quality, long-dated offers, and
Having regard to Council Regulation No 171 /67/                             offers for small lots and lots presented in small
EEC ( 4 ) of 27 June 1967 on export refunds and le­                         containers ; whereas offers which are considered not
vies on olive oil, as last amended by Regulation                             to be representative of the real trend of the market
 ( EEC ) No 2429/72 ( 5 ), and in particular Article 10                      and those to which Article 13 ( 3 ) of Regulation No
( 3 ) thereof ;                                                              136/ 66/EEC applies must also be disregarded ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                                Whereas, if no offers of the type mentioned above
Committee ;                                                                 have been made or if the offers made cannot be con­
                                                                            sidered, the prices ruling on the domestic markets of
Whereas, pursuant to Article 18 of Regulation No                             the main oil-producing and oil-exporting third coun­
136/66/EEC, a levy equal at most to the difference                          tries and on the Greek market should be taken into
between prices on the world market and prices                               account for the purpose of determining the cif
within the Community may be charged on exports                              price ; whereas in such cases those prices should be
of olive oil where the former are higher than the lat­                      increased by marketing, loading, transport and insur­
ter ; whereas the levy on unrefined olive oil is equal                      ance costs ;
to the difference between the cif price and the mar­
ket target price ;                                                          Whereas, of the offers taken into consideration , c
                                                                            and f offers should , pursuant to Article 4 of Regula­
Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 3206 73 (")                            tion ( EEC ) No 1775 ' 69 , be increased by 1 °/o ; where­
of 27 November 1973 fixed the market target price                            as cif offers for frontier crossing points other than
and the intervention price for olive oil for the                            the one referred to above should be adjusted for
 1973 /74 marketing year ;                                                  transport and insurance costs ; whereas offers for
                                                                            delivery fas, fob or otherwise should be increased by
                                                                            transport and insurance costs from the point of ship­
Whereas the Commission determines the cif price                             ment or loading to the abovementioned frontier
for a Community frontier crossing point ; whereas                           crossing point and , in the case of fas offers, by load­
this point was fixed by Council Regulation No 165 /                         ing costs ;
66/EEC ( 7 ) of 27 October 1966 on price measures to
be applied to olive oil for the 1966/67 marketing                           Whereas, if the offers taken into consideration are
year ;
                                                                            offers on the Community market, they should be re­
                                                                             duced by unloading or disembarkation costs, import
                                                                            duties and levies and , where appropriate , by for­
(M    OJ  No  172 , 30 . 9 . 1966 , p . 302.5 /66 .                         warding or other costs incurred from the cif or free­
(2)   OJ  No  L 175 , 29 . 6 . 1973 , p . 5 .                               at-frontier stage to the marketing stage for which
(3)   OJ  No  197, 29. 10. 1966, p. 3393/66.                                the offers were made ;
(4 )  OJ  No  130 , 28 . 6 . 1967, p . 2600/67 .
(5)   OJ  No  L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .
(fl)  OJ  No  L 327, 28 . 11 . 1973 , p . 12 .
(7)   OJ  No  197, 29 . 10 . 1966 , p . 3399 /66 .                          f H ) Of No L 109 , 1.5 . .5 . 1971 , p . 17 .
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Whereas, for the purpose of adjusting the offers                     immediate packings of a net capacity not exceeding
taken into consideration, the Commission should                      5 kg, are granted an exemption from the levy­
take account only of the costs which to its know­                    amounting to seven units of account per 100 kg of
ledge are the lowest ;                                               oil exported ;
                                                                     Whereas no export levies are fixed for olive oil fall­
"Whereas the cif price should be determined for the
product presented in bulk ; whereas, if oil is pre­                  ing within subheading No 15.07 A of the Common
sented otherwise than in bulk, the consequent in­                    Customs Tariff, in immediate packings of a net ca­
crease in value should be deducted from the offers                   pacity of more than 5 kg, unless the difference re­
and the additional cost to the importer added to                     ferred to in the first subparagraph of Article 10 (2)
                                                                     of Regulation No 171 /67/BBC is 2-5 units of ac­
them ; whereas offers for unfiltered oil, whether vir­
gin, extra, fine or ordinary, should be increased by                 count or more ; whereas no export levy is fixed for
 an amount which allows for filtering costs ;                        olive oil falling within subheadings Nos 15.07 A I
                                                                     and 15.07 A II ( a), in immediate packings of a net
                                                                     capacity not exceeding 5 kg, unless exports of this
Whereas, in order to obtain comparable information                   oil are likely to cause disturbances on the Commu­
on oil of the type and quality for which the thres­                  nity market or the world market ; whereas the levies
 hold price was fixed, it is necessary to deduct from or             are fixed as frequently as is necessary to ensure sta­
 add to the offers considered , according to the type                bility of the Community market and in such a way
 and quality in question, the values resulting from                  as to ensure that they can be applied at least once a
                                                                      week ;
 the provisions of Commission Regulation No 172/66/
 EEC (*) fixing coefficients of equivalence for the dif­
 ferent types and qualities of unrefined olive oil, as               Whereas the levies previously fixed should be re­
last amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 992/72 (2 ) ;                  tained where variations in the factors used to calcu­
 whereas, in exceptional circumstances, different or                 late the levy would lead to an increase or reduction
 derived coefficients of equivalence may be applied                  Tariff and subheading No 15.07 II ( a) referred to in
 for a limited period ;                                              of less than 0-50 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes
                                                                      in such levies ;
 Whereas a comparison of the information thus ob­
 tained makes it possible to determine the most favour­               Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 able offers on the world market ; whereas, if no of­                 levies should be calculated on the following basis :
 fer can be considered for the purpose of determining
                                                                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 the cif price, the price previously taken into account
 should be maintained ;                                                   relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                          within a band of 2-25 %, a rate of exchange based
                                                                          on their effective parity ;
 Whereas the export levy on refined olive oil is equal               — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 to the difference between the cif price and the mar­
                                                                          arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 ket target price, this difference being adjusted as pro­
                                                                          of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 vided for in Articles 2 or 3 , as the case may be, of
                                                                          relation to the Community currencies referred to
 Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 443 /72 ( 3 ) of 29 Febru­
                                                                          in the previous subparagraph ;
 ary 1972 on the levies on refined olive oil and on cer­
 tain products containing olive oil ;
                                                                     Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
                                                                      sions to the offer prices known to the Commission
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Commission Regu­                  that the levies should be fixed as shown in the Table
 lation ( EEC ) No 616/72 ( 4 ) of 27 March 1972 on de­              annexed to this Regulation ,
 tailed rules for the application of export refunds and
 levies on olive oil , as amended by Regulation (EEC )
 No 2563/72 ( 5 ), exports of olive oil falling within
 subheading No 15.07 A I of the Common Customs
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Tariff and subheading No 15.07 A II a ) referred to in
 the first indent of Article 2 of that Regulation , in
                                                                                               Article 1
 (l)  OJ No  202 , 7 . 11 . 1966, p . 3482/ 66 .
 (*)  OJ No  L 115 , 17. 5 . 1972, p . 7.                            The export levies referred to in Article 18 of Regula­
 (3 ) OJ No  L 54, 3 . 3 . 1972, p. 3 .
 ( 4) OJ No  L 78, 31 . 3 . 1972, p . 1 .                            tion No 136/66/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in
 (5)  OJ No  L 274 , 7 . 12 . 1972 , p . 1 I.                        the Table annexed to this Regulation .
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The levies shall apply to products falling within sub­                                    Article 2
heading No 15.07 A in immediate packings of a net
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 Decem'
capacity exceeding 5 kg.                                        ber 1973 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 30 November 1973 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                     Member of the Commission
                                                        ANNEX
                                   Levies on olive oil to third countries and Greece
                                CCT heading No                                  Amounts in u.a. / 100 kg
             ex 15.07 Ala )                                                            16-458
             ex 15.07 A lb )                                       ;                  22-092
             ex 15.07 A II                                         !                   14-827