CELEX: 31975R1977
Language: en
Date: 1975-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1977/75 of the Commission of 31 July 1975 fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on cereals, flour and malt

No L 202/4                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               1 . 8 . 75
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1977/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 31 July 1975
                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
Having regard to Regulation No 120/67/ EEC (*) of 13                scale of premiums is fixed is equal to the cif forward
June 1967 on the common organization of the market                  delivery price or exceeds that price by not more than
in cereals, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                  0-125 unit of account per metric ton ;
665/75 (2), and in particular Article 15(6) thereof ;
                                                                   Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                        higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
Committee ;                                                         certain specific limits ;
Whereas the scale of premiums to be added to the
import levies fixed in advance for cereals must include             Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No
a premium for the current month and a premium for                   1 579/74 (5) of 24 June 1974 on the procedure for
each of the three following months ; whereas the                    calculating the import levy on products processed
amount of each premium must be the vsame                            from cereals and rice and for the advance fixing of
throughout the Community ;                                          this levy for these products and for compound feeding­
                                                                    stuffs manufactured from cereals, provides for the addi­
                                                                    tion of a premium to the levy fixed in advance for
Whereas Council Regulation No 140/67/EEC (3) of 21                  products falling within tariff heading No 1 1 .07 ;
June 1967, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                        whereas this premium is, per 100 kg of processed
2435/70 (4), laid down rules for the advance fixing of              product, equal to the premium applicable on the day
levies on cereals ;                                                 on which the licence was applied for to the quantity
                                                                    of basic product taken as a basis for the calculation of
Whereas, under the terms of that Regulation, where                  the variable component of the levy ;
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 (6) of 9 April 1973, on the advance fixing
of the premium should as a general rule be equal to                 of the levy on wheat and meslin flour, 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 No 120/67/ EEC on the day on                      Regulation No 120/67/EEC ; whereas this premium
which the scale of premiums is fixed ; whereas the cif
                                                                    must be equal, per metric ton of the processed
forward delivery price is also determined in accor­
                                                                    product, to that applicable on the date of application
dance with Article 13 of Regulation No 120/67/ EEC                  for an import licences for the basic product, account
but on the basis of offers at North Sea ports ; whereas             being taken of the quantity of the basic cereal
this price must be the cif price for shipment during                required for the production of one metric ton of
the month in which the import licence is issued in                  flour ;
the case of imports to be effected during that month ;
whereas, in the case of imports to be effected during
the month following the month in which the import                   Whereas, in accordance with Article 18(1 ) of Regula­
licence is issued, this price must be the cif price for             tion No 120/67/EEC, the nomenclature provided for
shipment during that month ;                                        in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
                                                                    Customs Tariff ;
Whereas this price must be the cif for shipment
during the month preceding the month in which
                                                                    Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
(>)  OJ No  117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/ 67 .                       levies should be calculated on the following basis :
(2)  OJ No  L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p. 14.
(J)  OJ No  125, 26. 6 . 1967, p. 2456/ 67.                         (5) OJ No L 168 , 25. 6. 1974, p. 7.
(•») OJ No  L 262, 3 . 12. 1970 , p. 3 .                            (6) OJ No L 95, 11 . 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 No 120/67/ EEC, 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 provisions
that the premiums should be fixed as shown in the
Table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas the                                      Article 2
amount of the premiums should be altered only if
application of the abovementioned provisions entails a        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August
change of more than 01 25 unit of account,                    1975 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 31 July 1975.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                         P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                   Member of the Commission
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                                                                                  ANNEX
                    to the Commission Regulation of 31 July 1975 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                           import levies on cereals, flour and malt
                                                                       A. Cereals and flour (1 )
                                                                                                                                                              (u.a. / metric ton)
        CCT                                                                                           Current          1st period             2nd period         3rd period
       heading                                    Description of goods
         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                 0.78                   0.78                 0
 10.04                   Oats                                                                           0                  109                   109                0.31
10.05 B                  Maize other than hybrid maize for sowing                                       0                 4.68                   4.68              1 1.69
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                                                                          0                    0                     0                  0
 11.01 A                 Wheat or meslin flour                                                          0                    0                     0                  0
(') The period of validity of the licence is limited in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2196/71 (OJ No L 231 , 14. 10 . 1971 , p. 28), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
      No 3148 /73 (OJ No L 321 , 22. 11 . 1973, p. 13).
                                                                                   B. Malt
                                                                                                                                                                  (u.a./1 000 kg)
        CCT                                                                                                     1st                2nd              ,  3rd             4th
                                                                                              Current
       heading                                 Description of goods                                           period            period                period         period
         No                                                                                     8                9                  10                  11              12
 11.07 A I (a)           Unroasted malt, obtained from wheat, in the
                         form of flour                                                          0                0                   0                  0               0
 1 1 .07 A I (b)         Unroasted malt, obtained from wheat, other
                         than in the form of flour                                              0                0                   0                  0               0
 11.07 A II (a)          Unroasted malt, other than that obtained
                         from wheat, in the form of flour                                       0              1.39               1 -39                 0               0
 1 1 .07 A II (b)        Unroasted malt, other than that obtained
                          from wheat, other than in the form of flour                           0              1-04               104                   0               0
 1 1 .07 B               Roasted malt                                                           0              1.21               1.21                  0               0