CELEX: 31976R0975
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 975/76 of 28 April 1976 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

No L 112/28                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            29 . 4. 76
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 975 /76
                                                       of 28 April 1976
                                 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    amount of the fixed component and, in respect of
COMMUNITIES,                                                      some of these products, by part of the variable compo­
                                                                  nent ; whereas this reduction must be made in accor­
                                                                  dance with Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 706/76 of 30 March 1976 on the arrangements
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                  applicable to agricultural products and certain goods
                                                                  resulting from the processing of agricultural products
                                                                  originating in the African, Caribbean , and Pacific
                                                                  States or in the 'overseas countries and territories' (4) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­
zation of the market in cereals (!), as amended by                Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Regulation (EEC) No 3058/75 (2), and in particular                levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Article 14 (4) thereof,
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                       relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                       within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                           on their effective parity ;
Committee,
                                                                  — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
                                                                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the vari­               of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
able component of the import levy on compound                          relation to the Community currencies referred to
feedingstuffs are laid down in Article 14 ( 1 ) (A) of                 in the previous subparagraph ;
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 ; whereas the incidence
of the levies applicable to the basic products of
compound feedingstuffs on their prime costs should                Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­
be determined, in pursuance of Article 4 of Council                tion (EEC) No 2727/75 the nomenclature provided for
Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on                  in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
                                                                   Customs Tariff.
the system to be applied to cereal-based compound
feedingstuffs (3), on the basis of the average of the
levies applicable during the first 25 days of the month
preceding the month of importation to the quantities
of basic products considered to have been used in the
manufacture of such compound feedingstuffs, this                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
average being adjusted on the basis of the threshold
price for the basic products in question ruling during
the month of importation ;
                                                                                            Article 1
Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the
fixed component, i? valid for one month ; whereas the             The import levies to be charged on the compound
amount of the fixed component of the levy is speci­                feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No
fied in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 ;                 2727/75 and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75
                                                                   are fixed hereby as shown in the Annex to this Regula­
                                                                   tion .
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the
interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States
or in the 'overseas countries and territories', the levy
relating to them in respect of certain products                                             Article 2
processed from cereals must be reduced by the
(!) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1976.
(2) OJ No L 306, 26. 11 . 1975, p . 3 .
(>) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p . 60 .                         (4) OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 2.
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               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 28 April 1976.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                           ANNEX
                                                                                                     Levies in u. a. /metric ton
                                                                                                Third countries
    CCT heading No                         Nomenclature in simplified wording                     (other than          ACP and
                                                                                                    ACP and              OCT
                                                                                                     OCT)
                       Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by
                       Regulation (EEC) No 968/68, containing starch, glucose or glucose
                       syrup falling within subheadings 17.02 B and 17.05 B, or milk
                       products (falling within heading Nos 04.01 , 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04,
                       and subheadings 17.02 A and 17.05 A) containing starch, glucose
                       or glucose syrup :
                       Containing no starch or containing 10% or less by weight of
                       starch :
23.07 B I a) 1         — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10% by                  15.34                6.34
                           weight of such products
23.07 B I a) 2         — Containing 10% or more but less than 50% by weight of                      429.94             420.94
                           milk products
                       Containing more than 10 •/« but not more than 30 % by weight of
                       starch :
23.07 Bib) 1           — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10% by                  28.81              19.81
                           weight of such products
23.07 Bib ) 2          — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk              443.41              434.41
                           products
                       Containing more than 30 % by weight of starch :
23.07 B I c) 1         — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10% by                  48.62              39.62
                           weight of such products
23.07 B I c) 2         — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk              463.22              454-22
                           products