CELEX: 31978R1816
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1816/78 of 31 July 1978 fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on cereals, flour and malt

No L 210/ 6                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               1 . 8 . 78
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1816/78
                                                        of 31 July 1978
                fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on cereals, flour and malt
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     importation is expected to take place in the case of
COMMUNITIES,                                                       imports to be effected during the last two months for
                                                                   which the import licence is valid ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                Whereas the premium is equal to 0 unit of account if
                                                                   the cif price determined on the day on which the
                                                                   scale of premiums is fixed is equal to the cif forward
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of 29                 delivery price or exceeds that price by not more than
October 1975 on the common organization of the                     0-125 unit of account per tonne ;
market in cereals ( ! ), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 1 254/78 (2), and in particular Article 15(6)
thereof,                                                           Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
                                                                   higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
                                                                   certain specific limits ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
Committee ,
                                                                   Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 1579 / 74
Whereas the scale of premiums to be added to the                   of 24 June 1974 on the procedure for calculating the
import levies fixed in advance for cereals must include            import levy on products processed from cereals and
a premium for the current month and a premium for                  rice and for the advance fixing of this levy for these
each of the three following months ; whereas the                    products and for compound feedingstuffs manufac­
Amount of each premium must be the same                            tured from cereals (4), as last amended by Regulation
throughout the Community ;                                         (EEC) No 1740/78 (5 ), provides for the addition of a
                                                                    premium to the levy fixed in advance for products
                                                                    falling within tariff heading No 11.07 ; whereas this
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2745/75 of 29                   premium is, per 100 kg of processed product, equal to
October 1 975 (3 ) laid down rules for the advance                  the premium applicable on the day on which the
 fixing of levies on cereals ;                                      licence was applied for to the quantity of basic
                                                                    product taken as a basis for the calculation of the vari­
                                                                    able component of the levy ;
Whereas, under the terms of that Regulation , where
 the cif price for a cereal determined on the day on
 which the scale of premiums is fixed is higher than                Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
 the cif forward delivery price for that cereal, the scale          No 971 /73 of 9 April 1973 on the advance fixing of
 of the premium should as a general rule be equal to                the levy on wheat and meslin flour (b), a premium is
 the difference between these two prices ; whereas the              added to the levy fixed in advance for the products
 cif price is that determined in accordance with Article            falling under subheading 11.01 A of Article 1 (c) of
 13 of Regulation ( EEC) No 2727/75 on the day on                   Regulation ( EEC) No 2727/75 ; whereas this premium
 which the scale of premiums is fixed ; whereas the cif             must be equal, per tonne of the processed product, to
 forward delivery price is also determined in accor­                that applicable on the date of application for an
 dance with Article 13 of Regulation ( EEC) No                      import licences for the basic product, account being
 2727/75 but on the basis of offers at North Sea ports ;            taken of the quantity of the basic cereal required for
 whereas this price must be the cif price for shipment              the production of one tonne of flour ;
 during the month in which the import licence is
 issued in the case of imports to be effected during that
 month ; whereas, in the case of imports to be effected             Whereas, in accordance with Article 18(1 ) of Regula­
 during the month following the month in which the                  tion ( EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided
 import licence is issued, this price must be the cif               for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
 price for shipment during that month ;                             Customs Tariff ;
 Whereas this price must be the cif for shipment                    Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 during the month preceding the month in which                       levies should be calculated on the following basis :
  (!) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                           (4) OJ No L 168 , 25 . 6 . 1974, p. 7 .
  (2) OJ No L 156, 14. 6. 1978 , p. 1 .                             (5 ) OJ No L 202, 26 . 7. 1978 , p. 8 .
  (3 ) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 76 .                         (6) OJ No L 95 , 1 1 . 4 . 1973 , p. 10 .
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— in the case of currencies which are maintained in           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     relation to each other at any given moment within
     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
     their effective parity ;                                                        Article 1
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each         The scale of the premiums to be added, pursuant to
     of these currencies recorded for a given period in       Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75, to the
     relation to the Community currencies referred to         import levies fixed in advance in respect of cereals
     in the previous subparagraph ;                           and malt is hereby fixed as shown in the tables
                                                              annexed to this Regulation .
Whereas it follows from applying all these provision ?
that the premiums should be fixed as shown in the
table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas the amount                                Article 2
of the premiums should be altered only if application
of the abovementioned provisions entails a change of          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August 1
more than 0-125 unit of account,                              1978 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 31 July 1978 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                           Vice-President
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                                                             ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 31 July 1978 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                             import levies on cereals , flour and malt
                                                      A. Cereals and flour
                                                                                                                               (u.a./tonne)
       CCT                                                                     Current        1st period     2nd period   3rd period
      heading                            Description
        No                                                                       8                 9             10            11
10.01 A             Common wheat, and meslin                                     0                0              0              0
10.01 B             Durum wheat                                                  0                0              0              0
10.02               Rye                                                          0                0              0              0
10.03               Barley                                                       0                0              0              0
10.04               Oats                                                         0                0              0              0
10.05 B             Maize, other than hybrid maize for sowing                    0                0              0              0
10.07 A             Buckwheat                                                    0                0              0              0
10.07 B             Millet                                                       0                0              0              0
10.07 C             Grain sorghum                                                0                0              0              0
10.07 D             Other cereals                                                0                0              0              0
11.01 A             Wheat or meslin flour                                        0                0              0              0
                                                              B. Malt
                                                                                                                               (u.a./tonne)
       CCT                                                                               1st           2nd          3rd         4th
                                                                       Current
      heading                         Description                                      period         period       period     period
        No                                                                8               9              10          11          12
1 1 .07 A I (a)      Unroasted malt, obtained from wheat, in the
                     form of flour                                        0              0               0           0            0
11.07 A 1(b)         Unroasted malt, obtained from wheat, other
                     than in the form of flour                            0              0               0           0            0
1 1 .07 A II (a)     Unroasted malt, other than that obtained
                     from wheat, in the form of flour                     0              0               0           0            0
11.07 A II (b)       Unroasted malt, other than that obtained
                     from wheat, other than in the form of flour          0              0               0           0            0
11.07 B              Roasted malt                                         0              0               0           0            0