CELEX: 31978R2511
Language: en
Date: 1978-10-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2511/78 of 27 October 1978 fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on cereals, flour and malt

No L 301 /4                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            28 . 10. 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2511 /78
                                                      of 27 October 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 1254/78 (2), and in particular Article 15(6)
thereof,                                                          Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
                                                                   higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       certain specific limits ;
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 1975 (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 (6), 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 .                            (<) OJ No L 168, 25. 6. 1974, p. 7.
I2) OJ No L 156, 14. 6. 1978, p. 1 .                               (5) OJ No L 202, 26. 7. 1978 , p. 8 .
(3) OJ No L 281 , i . 11 . 1975, p. 76.                            (6) OJ No L 95, 11 . 4. 1973, p. 10 .
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 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in            table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas the amount
      relation to each other at any given moment within        of the premiums should be altered only if application
      a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on           of the abovementioned provisions entails a change of
      their effective parity ;                                 more than 0*125 unit of account,
 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
     of these currencies in relation to the Community          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     currencies referred to in the previous subpara­
     graph ;
                                                                                       Article 1
 Whereas the Monetary Committee will be consulted ;
 whereas, in view of the urgency, the measures envis­          The scale of the premiums to be added, pursuant to
 aged should be adopted in accordance with the condi­          Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75, to the
 tions laid down in Article 3 (2) of Council Regulation        import levies fixed in advance in respect of cereals
 No 129 on the value of the unit of account and the            and malt is hereby fixed as shown in the tables
 exchange rates to be applied for the purposes of the          annexed to this Regulation .
 common agricultural policy (*), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 2543/73 (2), and in particular
 Article 3 thereof ;                                                                   Article 2
 Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions         This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 October
 that the premiums should be fixed as shown in the              1978 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 27 October 1978.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                             Vice-President
(') OJ No 106, 30. 10. 1962, p. 2553/62.
(2) OJ No L 263, 19. 9. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                           ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 27 October 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                                                                     10               11             12             1
10.01 A            Common wheat, and meslin                                   0              0.15           015              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              0.21           0.21             0
                                                            B. Malt
                                                                                                                            (u.a./tonne)
      CCT                                                                             1st            2nd         3rd         4th
                                                                    Current
    heading                         Description                                     period         period       period     period
       No                                                             10              11              12          1            2
11.07 A I (a)      Unroasted malt, obtained from wheat, in the
                   form of flour                                       0            0.27            0.27          0            0
11.07 A I (b)      Unroasted malt, obtained from wheat, other
                   than in the form of flour                           0            0.20            0.20          0            0
11.07 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