CELEX: 31977R1826
Language: en
Date: 1977-08-05 00:00:00
Title: COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1826/77 of 5 August 1977 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 on the arrangements applicable to agri cultural products and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricul tural products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and territories

9 . 8 . 77                           Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 202/ 1
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                                          (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1826/77
                                                    of 5 August 1977
             amending Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 on the arrangements applicable to agri­
             cultural products and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricul­
             tural products originating in the African , Caribbean and Pacific States or in the
                                           overseas countries and territories
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     tion laid down in Article 9 of that Regulation whereby
COMMUNITIES,                                                    the cif price, at the time of exportation from the ACP
                                                                States or overseas countries and territories increased
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 43               by the reduced levy, must be equal to or more than
and 113 thereof,                                                the threshold price, adjusted if necessary for the
                                                                product in question, reduced by a certain amount ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,              whereas the effect is that imports are subject to
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­            normal competition irrespective of the importing
ment (*),                                                       Member State, notwithstanding the application of
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 of 24               accession compensatory amounts ;
June 1975 on the arrangements applicable to agricul­            Whereas the arrangements resulting from the afore­
tural products and certain goods resulting from the             mentioned Regulation should therefore be amended
processing of agricultural products originating in the          retroactively so that the importers concerned by the
African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the over­           measures taken can obtain the cancellation of the
seas countries and territories (2), as last amended by          effects thereof,
Regulation (EEC) No 405/76 (3), provides in particular
for the reduction of import levies on certain agricul­          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tural products ;
Whereas some of these products are subject to the                                        Article 1
system of accession compensatory amounts in trade
between the Community as originally constituted and             The provisions of the second subparagraph of Article
the new Member States ; whereas the application of              22 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75, in force
such amounts to products benefiting from the arrange­           during the period 1 July to 31 December 1975, shall,
ments provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75               at the request of those concerned, not apply to the
is as a rule likely to lead to deflection of trade ;            products listed in Article 8 of that Regulation .
whereas Article 22 of that Regulation consequently
provided for measures to prevent such deflection ;                                       Article 2
Whereas, however, no risk of trade deflection can exist         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
for the products listed in Article 8 of Regulation              following its publication in the Official Journal of
(EEC) No 1599/75 ; whereas this is due to the obliga­           the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 5 August 1977.
                                                                            For the Council
                                                                              The President           ,
                                                                               H. SIMONET
(•) OJ No C 163, 11 . 7. 1977, p. 65.
(*) OJ No L 166, 28 . 6. 1975, p. 67.
(3) OJ No L 50, 26. 2. 1976, p. 1 .