CELEX: 31987R3216
Language: en
Date: 1987-10-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3216/87 of 28 October 1987 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for eggs

No L 307/ 10                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                  29 . 10. 87
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3216/87
                                                          of 28 October 1987
                                        fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for eggs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             accordingly be maintained unchanged until 31 January
                                                                        1988 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                     Whereas, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 630/86 of 28
                                                                        February 1986 on the application of import levies on egg
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                      products from Portugal (®) suspended the application of
Portugal,                                                               import levies on egg products from Portugal owing to the
                                                                        minimal difference between the prices obtaining in the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2771 /75                   Community on the one hand and in Portugal on the
of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the                    other hand ; whereas the situation still pertains ;
market in eggs ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1475/86 (2), and in particular Articles 3 and 7 ( 1 )              . Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23
thereof,                                                                July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and
                                                                        on the Common Customs Tariff Q introduces, with effect
Whereas sluice-gate prices and levies for the products                  from 1 January 1988, a new 'combined nomenclature',
specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2771 /75            which meets the requirements of both the Common
must be fixed quarterly in advance in accordance with the               Customs Tariff and the Community's statistics on foreign
methods of calculation laid down in Council Regulation                  trade and which replaces the existing nomenclature ;
(EEC) No 2773/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down rules                   whereas the combined nomenclature codes should there­
for calculating the levy and the sluice-gate price for                  fore be specified, together with the relevant sluice-gate
eggs (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                        price and levies ;
3232/86 (4) ;
                                                                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
Whereas, since sluice-gate prices and levies for eggs were,             in accordance with the opinion of the Management
by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2235/ 87 (f), last                     Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs,
fixed for the period 1 August to 31 October 1987, they
must be fixed anew for the period 1 November 1987 to
31 January 1988 ; whereas such prices and levies should                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
in principle be calculated by reference to feed-grain prices
for the period 1 May to 30 September 1987 ;
                                                                                                    Article 1
Whereas, when the sluice-gate prices applicable from 1
 November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed, changes
in world market prices for feed grain are to be taken into               1 . The levies provided for in Article 3 of Regulation
account only if the price of the quantity of feed grain                  (EEC) No 2771 /75 in respect of the products specified in
required varies by at least a specified minimum in rela­                 Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation and the sluice-gate prices
tion to that used to calculate the sluice-gate price for the             provided for in Article 7 of that Regulation in respect of
 preceding quarter ; whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No                     the like products shall, for the period 1 November 1987
 2773/75, the minimum was set at 3 % ;                                   to 31 January 1988 be as fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                         2235/87.
Whereas the price of the quantity of feed grain required
 does not vary by 3 % or more from that used for the
 preceding quarter ; whereas the sluice-gate prices fixed by             2.      For imports from Portugal of products specified in
 Regulation (EEC) No 2235/87 should accordingly be                       paragraph 1 , application of the levies specified in the
 maintained unchanged until 31 January 1988 ;                            Annex shall be suspended.
 Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1 November, 1                  3 . With effect from 1 January 1988 the sluice-gate
 February and 1 May are being fixed, world market prices                 price and the levies fixed in accordance with the prece­
 for feed grain are to be taken into account only if at the              ding paragraphs of this Article shall apply as shown in
 same time a new sluice-gate price is fixed ;                            the table set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
 Whereas, since no new sluice-gate prices have been fixed,                                          Article 2
 the levies fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 2235/87 should
                                                                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
 (') OJ  No L  282,  1 . 11 . 1975, p. 49 .                               1987 .
 0   OJ  No L  133,  21 . 5. 1986, p. 39.
 (3) OJ  No L  282,  1 . 11 . 1975, p. 64.
 (4) OJ  No L  301 , 25. 10 . 1986, p. 1 .                               (*) OJ No L 60, 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 10.
 0   OJ  No L  206,  28 . 7. 1987, p. 25.                                0 OJ No L 256, 7. 9 . 1987, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 28 October 1987
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                   Vice-President
                                                         ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 28 October 1987 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies
                                                         for eggs
                                     CN
                                                      Sluice-gate price               Levy
                                   code (')
                                      1                       2                        3
                                                       ECU/ 100 units         ECU/ 100 units
                                 0407 00 1 1                 50,52                    15,57
                                 0407 00 19                  10,59                     5,03
                                                        ECU/ 100 kg             ECU/ 100 kg
                                 0407 00 30                  79,96                    43,52
                                 0408 11 10                390,56                   203,67
                                 0408 19 11                176,87                     88,78
                                 0408 19 19                188,45                     94,87
                                 0408 91 10                327,91                    196,71
                                 0408 99 10                  86,99                    50,48
                          (') See Regulation (EEC) No 2658 /87 (OJ No L 256, 7. 9 . 1987, p. 1 ).