CELEX: 31988R0185
Language: en
Date: 1988-01-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 185/88 of 22 January 1988 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for eggs

No L 19 /20                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   23 . 1 . 88
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 185/88
                                                         of 22 January 1988
                                        fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for eggs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          for feed grain are to be taken into account only if at the
                                                                     same time a new sluice-gate price is fixed ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                  Whereas, since no new sluice-gate prices have been fixed,
                                                                      the levies fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 3216/87 should
                                                                      accordingly be maintained unchanged until 30 April
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                    1988 ;
Portugal,
                                                                     Whereas, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 630/86 of 28
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2771 /75                 February 1986 on the application of import levies on egg
of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the                  products from Portugal (6) suspended the application of
market in eggs ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)               import levies on egg products from Portugal owing to the
No 4000/87 (2), and in particular Articles 3 and 7 ( 1 )              minimal difference between the prices obtaining in the
thereof,                                                              Community on the one hand and in Portugal on the
                                                                      other hand ; whereas the situation still pertains ;
Whereas sluice-gate prices and levies for the products
specified in Article 1 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2771 /75           Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 Q intro­
must be fixed quarterly in advance in accordance with the             duced, with effect from 1 January 1988, a new 'combined'
methods of calculation laid down in Council Regulation                nomenclature', which meets the requirements of both the
(EEC) No 2773/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down rules                 Common Customs Tariff and the Community's statistics
for calculating the levy and the sluice-gate price for                on foreign trade and which replaces the previous nomen­
eggs -(3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     clature ;
3232/86 (4) ;
                                                                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                      in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Whereas, since sluice-gate prices and levies for eggs were,           Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs,
by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3216/87 (^ last
fixed for the period 1 November 1987 to 31 January
 1988, they must be fixed anew for the period 1 February
to 30 April 1988 ; whereas such prices and levies should
in principle be calculated by reference to feed-grain prices           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
for the period 1 August to 31 December 1987 ;
Whereas, when the sluice-gate prices applicable from 1                                            Article 1
 November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed, changes
in world market prices for feed grain are to be taken into
account only if the price of the quantity of feed grain
 required varies by at least a specified minimum in rela­              1 . The levies provided for in Article 3 of Regulation
tion to that used to calculate the sluice-gate price for the           (EEC) No 2771 /75 in respect of the products specified in
 preceding quarter ; whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No                   Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation and the sluice-gate prices
 2773/75, the minimum was set at 3 % ;                                 provided for in Article 7 of that Regulation in respect of
                                                                       the like products shall, for the period 1 February to 30
                                                                       April 1988 be as fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 3216/87.
Whereas the price of the quantity of feed grain required
 does not vary by 3 % or more from that used for the
 preceding quarter ; whereas the sluice-gate prices fixed by
 Regulation (EEC) No 3216/87 should accordingly be                     2. For imports from Portugal of products specified in
 maintained unchanged until 30 April 1988 ;                            paragraph 1 , application of the levies shall be suspended.
 Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1 November, 1
 February and 1 May are being fixed, world market prices                                          Article 2
 (') OJ   No L 282,  1 . 11 . 1975, p. 49.                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February 1988 .
 0   OJ   No L 377,  31 . 12. 1987.
 (3) OJ   No L 282,  1 . 11 . 1975, p. 64.
 (4) OJ   No L 301 , 25. 10. 1986, p. 1 .                              i6) OJ No L 60, 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 10 .
 0   OJ   No L 307,  29. 10. 1987, p. 10.                              0 OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 22 January 1988 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                       Vice-President