CELEX: 31977R1730
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1730/77 of 29 July 1977 fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on cereals, flour and malt

30 . 7. 77                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 191 /7
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1730/77
                                                         of 29 July 1977
                fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on cereals, flour and malt
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      importation is expected to take place in the case of
COMMUNITIES,                                                        imports to be effected during the last two months for
                                                                    which the import licence is valid ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                 Whereas the premium is equal to 0 unit of account if
                                                                    the cif price determined on the day on which the
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of 29                  scale of premiums is fixed is equal to the cif forward
                                                                    delivery price or exceeds that price by not more than
October 1975 on the common organization of the
                                                                    0125 unit of account per tonne ;
market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 1386/77 (2), and in particular Article 15(6)
thereof,                                                            Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
                                                                    higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                        certain specific limits ;
Committee,
                                                                    Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1579/74
Whereas the scale of premiums to be added to the                    of 24 June 1974 on the procedure for calculating the
import levies fixed in advance for cereals must include             import levy on products processed from cereals and
a premium for the current month and a premium for                   rice and for the advance fixing of this levy for these
each of the three following months ; whereas the                    products and for compound feedingstuffs manufac­
amount of each premium must be the same                             tured from cereals (4), as last amended by Regulation
throughout the Community ;                                          (EEC) No 1 997/75 (5), provides for the addition of a
                                                                    premium to the levy fixed in advance for products
                                                                    falling within tariff heading No 11.07 ; whereas this
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2745/75 of 29                   premium is, per 100 kg of processed product, equal to
October 1975 (3) laid down rules for the advance                    the premium applicable on the day on which the
fixing of levies on cereals ;                                       licence was applied for to the quantity of basic
                                                                    product taken as a basis for the calculation of the vari­
                                                                    able component of the levy ;
Whereas, under the terms of that Regulation, where
the cif price for a cereal determined on the day on
which the scale of premiums is fixed is higher than                 Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
the cif forward delivery price for that cereal, the scale           No 971 /73 of 9 April 1973 on the advance fixing of
of the premium should as a general rule be equal to                 the levy on wheat and meslin flour (6), a premium is
the difference between these two prices ; whereas the               added to the levy fixed in advance for the products
cif price is that determined in accordance with Article             falling under subheading 11.01 A of Article 1(c) of
13 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 on the day on                     Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 ; whereas this premium
which the scale of premiums is fixed ; whereas the cif              must be equal, per tonne of the processed product, to
forward delivery price is also determined in accor­                 that applicable on the date of application for an
dance with Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No                        import licences for the basic product, account being
2727/75 but on the basis of offers at North Sea ports ;             taken of the quantity of the basic cereal required for
whereas this price must be the cif price for shipment               the production of one tonne of flour ;
during the month in which the import licence is
issued in the case of imports to be effected during that
month ; whereas, in the case of imports to be effected              Whereas, in accordance with Article 18(1 ) of Regula­
during the month following the month in which the                   tion (EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided
import licence is issued, this price must be the cif                for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
price for shipment during that month ;                              Customs Tariff ;
Whereas this price must be the cif for shipment                     Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
during the month preceding the month in which                       levies should be calculated on the following basis :
(>) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p . 1 .                            (4 ) OJ No L 168 , 25 . 6 . 1974, p . 7 .
(2 ) OJ No L 158 , 29 . 6. 1977, p . 1 .                            (5 ) OJ No L 202 , 1 . 8 . 1975 , p . 57.
(3) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 76.                             (6) OJ No L 95 , 11.4 . 1973 , p . 10 .
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— in the case of currencies which are maintained in          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    relation to each other, at any given moment,
    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
    on their effective parity ;                                                     Article 1
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each         The scale of the premiums to be added, pursuant to
    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in      Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75, to the
    relation to the Community currencies referred to         import levies fixed in advance in respect of cereals
    in the previous subparagraph ;                           and malt is hereby fixed as shown in the tables
                                                             annexed to this Regulation.
Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
that the premiums should be fixed as shown in the
table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas the amount                               Article 2
of the premiums should be altered only if application
of the abovementioned provisions entails a change of         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August
more than 01 25 unit of account,                             1977 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 29 July 1977.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                          Vice-President
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                                                                 ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 29 July 1977 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                import levies on cereals, flour and malt
                                                           A. Cereals and flour
                                                                                                                                   (u.a. / tonne)
       CCT                                                                        Current        1st period      2nd period     3rd period
      heading                         Description of goods
        No                                                                          8                 9              10              11
10.01 A              Common wheat, and mesiin                                       0                 0              0                0
10.01 B              Durum wheat                                                    0                 0              0                0
10.02                Rye                                                            0               0-72           0-72            0-72
10.03                Barley                                                         0                 0              0                0
10.04                Oats                                                           0                 0              0                0
10.05 B              Maize, other than hybrid maize for sowing                      0                 0              0                0
10.07 A              Buckwheat                                                      0                 0              0                0
10.07 B              Millet                                                         0                 0              0                0
10.07 C              Grain sorghum                                                  0                 0              0                0
10.07 D              Other cereals                                                  0                 0              0                0
11.01 A              Wheat or mesiin flour                                          0                 0              0                0
                                                                 B. Malt
                                                                                                                                    (u.a. / tonne)
        CCT                                                                                 1st            2nd          3rd            4th
                                                                          Current
      heading                       Description of goods                                  period          period       period        period
         No                                                                 8                9              10           U              12
 1 1.07 A I (a)      Unroasted malt, obtained from wheat, in the
                     form of flour                                          0               0               0            0              0
 1 1.07 A I (b)      Unroasted malt, obtained from wheat, other
                     than in the form of flour                              0               0               0            0              0
 1 1.07 A II (a)     Unroasted malt, other than that obtained
                     from wheat, in the form of flour                       0               0               0            0              0
 1 1.07 A II (b)     Unroasted malt, other than that obtained
                     from wheat, other than in the form of flour            0                0              0            0              0
 1 1.07 B            Roasted malt                                           0                0              0            0              0