CELEX: 31989R3943
Language: en
Date: 1989-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3943/89 of 27 December 1989 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

No L 379/ 18                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 28 . 12. 89
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3943/89
                                                      of 27 December 1989
                                    fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         tion (EEC) No 486/85 of 26 February 1985 on the arran­
                                                                    gements applicable to agricultural products and certain
                                                                    goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
Economic Community,                                                  States or in the overseas countries and territories (*), as last
                                                                     amended by Regulation (EEC) No 967/89 (6) ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,
                                                                    Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                 the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985
of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the                 must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of
market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)           Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and in Article 1 of Council
No 3707/89 (2), and in particular Article 14 (4) thereof,            Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 Q, as last amended by
                                                                     Regulation (EEC) No 1806/89 (% which are imported
                                                                     from Portugal, apply the arrangements which were appli­
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,              cable in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas,
                                                                     under Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/ 85
                                                                     of 20 December 1985 laying down the arrangements
Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the variable          applying to trade in agricultural products between Spain
component of the import levy on compound feedingstuffs               and Portugal (9), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
are laid down in Article 14 ( 1 ) (A) of Regulation (EEC) No         3296/88 (I0), the same arrangements are to be applied in
2727/75 ; whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC)              the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied
No 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be                    pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy
                                                                     should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid
applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (3), as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 944/87 (4), provides                  down in Commission Regulation 156/67/EEC (u), as last
that the incidence on the prime costs of these feeding­              amended by Regulation (EEC) No 31 /76 (12), and taking
stuffs of the levies applicable to their basic products              into account the situation with regard to market prices in
should be calculated on the basis of the average of the              Portugal ; whereas, in the case of imports into Spain, the
levies applicable during the first 25 days of the month              accession compensatory amount applicable to trade
preceding that month of importation to the quantities of             between Spain and the Community as constitued at 31
basic products considered to have been used in the manu­             December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ;
facture of such compound feedingstuffs, this average
being adjusted on the basis of the threshold price for the
basic products in question ruling during the month of
importation ;
                                                                     Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
                                                                     should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the fixed
component, is valid for one month ; whereas the amount
of the fixed component of the levy is laid down in Article           — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 ;                                        tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                          of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
                                                                          rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the inte­                  the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
rests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and of                 tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (13), as last amended by Regu­
the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating to              lation (EEC) No 1 636/87 (14),
them in respect of certain products processed from cereals
must be reduced by the amount of the fixed component
                                                                     0 OJ No L 61 , 26. 2. 1985, p. 4.
and, in respect of some of these products, by part of the            («) OJ No L 103 , 15. 4. 1989, p. 1 .
variable component ; whereas this reduction must be                  0 OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
made in accordance with Article 12 of Council Regula                 (8) OJ No L 177, 24. 6. 1989, p. 1 .
                                                                     (') OJ No L 367, 31 . 12. 1985, p . 7.
                                                                     (10) OJ No L 293, 27. 10. 1988, p. 7 .
(•) OJ  No L  281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                            (u) OJ No 128 , 27. 6. 1967, p. 2533/67.
(2) OJ  No L  363, 13. 12. 1989, p. 1 .                              (12) OJ No L 5, 10. 1 . 1976, p. 18 .
(3) OJ  No L  281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60.                            (13) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No L  90, 2. 4. 1987, p. 2.                                  (u) OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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— for other currencies, an exchange^ rate based on the            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
     these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­                               Article 1
     tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
     previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;             The import levies to be charged on the compound
                                                                  feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75
                                                                  and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 shall be as
                                                                  set out in the Annex.
Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 (1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided for in this                                   Article 2
Regulation is incorporated in the combined nomencla­
ture,                                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1990.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                  Done at Brussels, 27 December 1989 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                       Member of the Commission
                                                           ANNEX
                  to the Commission Regulation of 27 December 1989 fixing the import levies on compound
                                                         feedingstuffs
                                                                                                   (ECU/ tonne)
                                                                             Levies
                              CN code                                                       Third countries
                                                         Portugal        ACP and OCT          (other than
                                                                                            ACP and OCT)
                             2309 10 11                   10,88               20,23               31,11
                             2309 10 13                   10,88              452,48             463,36
                             2309 10 31                   10,88               63,23               74,1 1
                             2309 10 33                   10,88              495,48             506,36
                             2309 10 51                   10,88              126,45              137,33
                             2309 10 53                   10,88              558,70             569,58
                             2309 90 31                   10,88               20,23               31,11
                             2309 90 33                   10,88              452,48             463,36
                             2309 90 41                   10,88               63,23               74,11 :
                             2309 90 43                   10,88              495,48             506,36
                             2309 90 51                   10,88              126,45              137,33
                             2309 90 53                   10,88              558,70             569,58