CELEX: 31988R0517
Language: en
Date: 1988-02-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 517/88 of 26 February 1988 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

No L 53/ 14                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                  27. 2. 88
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 517/88
                                                       of 26 February 1988
                                    fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
                                                                    States or in the overseas countries and territories (*), as last
                                                                    amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1821 /87 (*) ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                    Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession,
 Having regard to • the Act of Accession of Spain and               the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985
 Portugal,                                                          must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and in Article 1 of Council
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) (No 2727/75              Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 Q, as last amended by
of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the                Regulation (EEC) No 3990/87 (8), which are imported
 market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (DEC)         from Portugal, apply the arrangements which were appli­
 No 3989/87 (2), and in particular Article 14 (4) thereof,          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
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,            applying to trade in agricultural products between Spain
                                                                    and Portugal (9), the same arrangements are to be applied
Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the variable         in the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied
component of the import levy on compound feedingstuffs              pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy
                                                                    should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid
are laid down in Article 14 (1 ) (A) of Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 ; whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC)             down in Commission Regulation 156/67/EEC                 as last
 No 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be                  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 31 /76 ("), and taking
applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (3), as              into account the situation with regard to market prices in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 944/87 (4), provides                 Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain
that the incidence on the prime costs of these feeding­             the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade
stuffs of the levies applicable to their basic products             between Spain and the Community as constitued at 31
should be calculated on the basis of the average of the             December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ;
levies applicable during the first 25 days of the month
preceding that month of importation to the quantities of
basic products considered to have been used in the manu­            Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 ('^ intro­
facture of such compound feedingstuffs, this average                duces from 1 January 1988 a new combined nomencla­
being adjusted on the basis of the threshold price for the          ture meeting the requirements of both the Common
basic products in question ruling during the month, of              Customs Tariff and the Community's statistics of foreign
importation ;                                                       trade and replacing the previous nomenclature ;
Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the fixed
component, is valid for one month ; whereas the amount              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
of the fixed component of the levy is laid down in Article          should be calculated on the following basis :
6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 ;
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the inte­                 tion to each other at any given moment within a band
rests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and of                of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating to             rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
them in respect of certain products processed from cereals               the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­
must be reduced by the amount of the fixed component                     tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (13), as last amended by Regu­
and, in respect of some of these products, by part of the                lation (EEC) No 1636/87 ("),
variable component ; whereas this reduction must be
made in accordance with Article 12 of Council Regula­
tion (EEC) No 486/85 of 26 February 1985 on the arran­              O OJ No L 61 , 26. 2. 1986, p. 4.
                                                                    CO OJ No L 172, 30. 6. 1987, p. 102.
gements applicable to agricultural products and certain             o OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
goods resulting from the processing of agricultural                 (') OJ No L 377, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 15.
                                                                    0 OJ No L 367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7.
                                                                    O OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2533/67.
0   OJ No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                            (") OJ No L 5, 10. 1 . 1976, p. 18 .
(*) OJ No  L 377, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 1 .                             C 1) OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .
0   OJ No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60.                            (1J) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(«) OJ No  L 90, 2. 4. 1987, p. 2.                                  04) OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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— for other currencies, ah 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 March 1988.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 26 February 1988.
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                         Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                            Vice-President
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                                                      ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 26 February 1988 fixing die import levies on compound
                                                   feedingstuffs
                                                                                         (ECU/ tonne)
                                                                      Levies
                       CN code                                   Third countries
                                                   Portugal       (other than       ACP and OCT
                                                                 ACP and OCT)
                      2309 10 11                    10,88             38,00             27,12
                      2309 10 13                    10,88            655,37            644,49
                      2309 10 31                    10,88             95,62             84,74
                      2309 10 33                    10,88            712,99            702,11
                      2309 10 51                    10,88            18035             169,47
                      2309 10 53                    10,88            797,72            786,84
                      2309 90 31                    10,88             38,00             27,12
                      2309 90 33                    10,88            655,37            644,49
                      2309 90 41                    10,88             95,62             84,74
                      2309 90 43                    10,88            712,99            702,11
                      2309 90 51                    10,88            180,35            169,47
                      2309 90 53                    10,88            797,72            786,84