CELEX: 31976R0602
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-15 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 602/76 of 15 March 1976 laying down special measures in particular for the determination of the offers of olive oil on the Greek market

18 . 3 . 76                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 72/3
                                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 602/76
                                                      of 15 March 1976
                laying down special measures in particular (or the determination of the offers of
                                              olive oil on the Greek market
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 COMMUNITIES,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                                                     Article 1
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/66/EEC
 of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and fats between           Where free quotations on the Greek market are not a
 the Community and Greece ( 1), and in particular               determining factor for the offer price for one or more
 Article 10 thereof,                                            qualities of unrefined olive oil, a price determined on
                                                                the basis of the offer price shall be substituted for the
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,             free-at-frontier price referred to in Article 3 of Regula­
                                                                tion No 162/66/EEC for only those qualities
 Whereas the provisions currently in force provide for          concerned .
 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                                 Article 2
 more such qualities ; whereas, in these conditions, it
 appears necessary to provide for the possibility of             1.   When offers of unrefined olive oil on the Greek
 replacing the free-at-frontier price by a price deter­
 mined in respect of the real offer price for these quali­      market do not correspond to real purchasing possibili­
 ties ;
                                                                ties in quantities which are representative of the
                                                                market, the import levy referred to in Articles 3, 4 and
 Whereas the Greek market in olive oil is limited and           5 of Regulation No 162/66/EEC shall be fixed by
 lacks transparency, thereby sometimes preventing the           tendering procedure.
 precise study of its true tendency and therefore the
 correct fixing of import levies ; whereas a consequence        2. At regular intervals the persons concerned shall
 of this situation is that in certain cases olive oil can be    submit an application for an import licence to the
 imported into the Community at other than the                  competent bodies in the Member States and at the
 threshold price level which can in some cases cause            same time shall put up a special guarantee for an
 disturbance of the Community market ;                          amount to be decided .
 Whereas all the measures for common organization of
 the market in olive oil are being reviewed with a view         The application for an import licence shall be accom­
 to an overall revision of the system ;                         panied by a statement of :
Whereas in order to put right the above difficulties,           (a) the quantity of the product covered by the applica­
 pending the result of this revision, the trading system            tion ;
 should be altered by providing for the determination
 of the levy under a tendering procedure ;                      (b) the rate of levy per 100 kilogrammes of oil which
                                                                    the applicant undertakes to pay at the time of
Whereas certain by-products are subject to an import                import.
 levy derived from that applicable to olive oil ; whereas
 experience has shown that in practice there are no             3.    The Commission shall determine the minimum
 imports of by-products with a very low oil content to          rate of the levy in units of account per 100 kilo­
 be used for extraction of such oil ; whereas therefore         grammes of oil .
no import levy should             be   imposed    on    such
by-products ;
                                                                4.    Licences shall be issued for applications stating a
Whereas the period of applicability of this Regulation          rate of levy greater than or equal to the minimum rate
should be limited to a period sufficient to assess its          determined by the Commission . In this event the
efficacy,                                                       applicant shall be bound to import the quantity of oil
                                                                stated in his application at the rate of levy stated
(') OJ No 197, 29. 10. 1966, p. 3393/66.                        therein .
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                          Article 3                                                          Article 5
Notwithstanding Article 5 of Regulation No 162/                  The detailed rules for the implementation of this
66/EEC no levy shall be imposed on imports of olive­             Regulation shall be adopted in accordance with the
oil cakes and other residues falling within subheading           procedure provided for in Article 38 of Council Regu­
23.04 A of the Common Customs Tariff which have                  lation No 136/66/ EEC of 22 September 1966 on the
an oil content of not more than 3 % .                            establishment of a common organization of the
                                                                  market in oils and fats (2), as last amended by Regula­
                          Article 4                               tion (EEC) No 1707/73 (3).
Imports of the products referred to in Article 9 of                                          Article 6
Regulation No 162/66/EEC shall be subject to
Council Regulation (EEC) No 601 /76 of 15 March                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
1976 laying down special measures in particular for               1976 .
the determination of the offers of olive oil on the
world market ( !).                                                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
                                                                   (2 ) OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66 .
( ! ) See page 1 of this Official Journal .                        (3) OJ No L 175, 29. 6. 1973, p. 5.