CELEX: 31978R0169
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 169/78 of 27 January 1978 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

No L 25/ 12                            Official Journal of the European Communities                              31 . 1 . 78
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 169/78
                                                     of 27 January 1978
                                 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    amount of the fixed component and, in respect of
COMMUNITIES,                                                      some of these products, by part of the variable compo­
                                                                  nent ; whereas this reduction must be made in accor­
                                                                  dance with Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC)
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             No 706/76 of 30 March 1976 on the arrangements
Economic Community,                                               applicable to agricultural products and certain goods
                                                                  resulting from the processing of agricultural products
                                                                  originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
                                                                  States or in the 'overseas countries and territories' (4),
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3013/77 (5) ;
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­
zation of the market in cereals ( J ), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2), and in particular                Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Article 14 (4) thereof,                                           levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                        relation to each other at any given moment within
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                            a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
Committee,
                                                                        their effective parity ;
                                                                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the vari­                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
able component of the import levy on compound                           of these currencies recorded for a given period in
feedingstuffs are laid down in Article 14 ( 1 ) (A) of                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 ; whereas the incidence                     in the previous subparagraph ;
of the levies applicable to the basic products of
compound feedingstuffs on their prime costs should
be determined, in pursuance of Article 4 of Council               Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 (1 ) of Regula­
Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on                 tion (EEC) No 2727/75 the nomenclature provided for
the system to be applied to cereal-based compound                 in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
                                                                  Customs Tariff,
feedingstuffs (3), on the basis of the average of the
levies applicable during the first 25 days of the month
preceding the month of importation to the quantities
of basic products considered to have been used in the
manufacture of such compound feedingstuffs, this
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
average being adjusted on the basis of the threshold
price for the basic products in question ruling during
the month of importation ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the
fixed component, is valid for one month ; whereas the             The import levies to be charged on the compound
amount of the fixed component of the levy is speci­                feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No
fied in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75, as               2727/75 and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 ;                           are fixed hereby as shown in the Annex to this Regula­
                                                                   tion .
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the
interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States                                       Article 2
or in the 'overseas countries and territories', the levy
 relating to them in respect of certain products
 processed from cereals must be reduced by the                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
                                                                   1978 .
(i ) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 303 , 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .                           (<) OJ No L 85, 31 . 3. 1976, p. 2.
h) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60.                             (s ) OJ No L 355, 31 . 12. 1977, p. 31 .
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               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 27 January 1978 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                     Vice-President
                                                             ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 27 January 1978 fixing the import levies on compound
                                                          feedingstuffs
                                                                                                                           (u.a./tonne)
                                                                                                                  Levies
                                                                                                    Third countries
    CCT heading No                            Nomenclature in simplified wording                      (other than        ACP and
                                                                                                       ACP and            OCT
                                                                                                         OCT)
                        Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by Regulation
                        (EEC) No 968/68, containing starch, glucose or glucose syrup falling
                        within subheadings 17.02 B and 21.07 F II, or milk products (falling
                        within heading Nos 04.01 , 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04, and subheadings
                        17.02 A and 21.07 F I) containing starch, glucose or glucose syrup :
                        Containing no starch or containing 10 % or less by weight of starch :
23.07 B I a) 1          — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by
                            weight of such products                                                      21-48            12.48
23.07 B I a) 2          — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk
                            products                                                                    454.98           445.98
                        Containing more than 10 % but not more than 30 % by weight of
                        starch :
23.07 B I b) 1          — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by
                            weight of such products                                                      47.99            38.99
23.07 B I b) 2          — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by wight of milk
                            products                                                                   481-49            472.49
                        Containing more than 30 % by weight of starch :
23.07 B I c) 1          — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by
                            weight of such products                                                      86.98            77.98
23.07 B I c) 2          — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk
                            products                                                                    520-48           511.48