CELEX: 31985R1078
Language: en
Date: 1985-04-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1078/85 of 26 April 1985 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat

No L 114/ 18                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             27. 4. 85
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1078/85
                                                        of 25 April 1985
                                 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     world market prices to a corrective factor of 0,967445
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      used for the calculation of levies and sluice-gate
                                                                   prices ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas, since sluice-gate prices and levies for
 Economic Community,                                               pigmeat were last fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 84/85
                                                                   of 11 January 1985 (8) for the period 1 February to 30
                                                                   April 1985, they must be fixed anew for the period 1
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      May to 31 July 1985 ; whereas such prices and levies
 2759/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­                  should in principle be fixed by reference to feed grain
zation of the market in pigmeat ('), as last amended by            prices for the period 1 November 1984 to 31 March
 Regulation (EEC) No 2966/80 (2), and in particular                 1985 ;
Articles 8 and 12 ( 1 ) thereof,
                                                                   Whereas, when the sluice-gate price applicable from 1
                                                                   November, 1 February and 1 May is being fixed,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 855/84               trends in world market prices for feed grain are to be
 of 31 March 1984 on the calculation and the dis­                  taken into account only if the value of the quantity of
 mantlement of the monetary compensatory amounts                   feed grain required varies by at least a specified
applying to certain agricultural products (3), as last             minimum in relation to that used in calculating the
amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 004/84 (4),               sluice-gate price for the preceding quarter ; whereas
 and in particular Article 1 thereof,                              this minimum was fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   2766/75 at 3 % ;
Whereas sluice-gate prices for pig carcases and for the            Whereas the value of the quantity of feed grain varies
other products specified in Article 1 of Council Regu­             by less than 3 % from that used for the preceding
lation (EEC) No 2766/75 of 29 October 1975 esta­                   quarter ; whereas the sluice-gate prices should there­
blishing the list of products for which sluice-gate                fore be maintained unchanged until 31 July 1985 ;
prices are to be fixed and laying down the rules for
fixing the sluice-gate prices for pig carcases (*), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1905/83 (6), and                    Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1
levies for the products specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of            November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed,
Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75, must be fixed in                      trends in world market prices for feed grain should be
advance for each quarter in accordance with the                    taken into account only if at the same time a new
methods of calculation laid down in Commission                     sluice-gate price is being fixed ;
Regulation (EEC) No 2028/83 of 20 July 1983 fixing
the levies and sluice-gate prices on pigmeat Q ;
                                                                   Whereas, since no new sluice-gate price , is to be fixed,
                                                                   the levies should accordingly be maintained
                                                                   unchanged until 31 July 1985 ;
Whereas, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No
855/84, the central rate used under the common agri­
cultural policy has been subjected to a corrective factor          Whereas, in the case of products falling within any of
of 1,033651 with effect from the 1984/85 marketing                 subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7, 15.01 A I, 16.01 A or
year ; whereas the corrected central rate has led to a              16.02 A II of the Common Customs Tariff, in respect
change in the relationship between the Community                   of which the rate of duty has been bound within
price and the world market price ; whereas account                 GATT, the levies should be limited to the amounts
should therefore be taken of this fact by subjecting               resulting from that binding ;
(') OJ No  L  282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
(2  OJ No  L  307, 18 . 11 . 1980, p. 5.
(3) OJ No  L  90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .                              are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
O   OJ No  L  101 , 13 . 4. 1984, p. 2.                            Committee for Pigmeat,
0   OJ No  L  282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 25.
I6) OJ No L 190, 14. 7. 1983, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 199, 22. 7. 1983, p. 16.                                 (8) OJ No L 11 , 12. 1 . 1985, p. 13 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                of that Regulation shall be as shown by Regulation
                                                             (EEC) No 84/85.
                                                             2. Provided that, in the case of products falling
                        Article 1                            within any of subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7, 15.01
                                                             A I, 16.01 A or 16.02 A II of the Common Customs
                                                             Tariff, in respect of which the rate of duty has been
1 . For the period 1 May to 31 July 1985, the                bound within GATT, the levy shall not exceed the
sluice-gate prices provided for in Article 12 of Regula­     amount resulting from that binding.
tion (EEC) No 2 759/75 for the products specified in
Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2 766/75 and the                                    Article 2
levies provided for in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC)
No 2759/75 for the products specified in Article 1 ( 1 )     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1985.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 25 April 1985.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                           Vice-President