CELEX: 31985R0084
Language: en
Date: 1985-01-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 84/85 of 11 January 1985 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat

12. 1 . 85                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 11 / 13
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 84/85
                                                     of 11 January 1985
                                 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   world market prices to a corrective factor of 0,967445
COMMUNITIES,                                                     used for the calculation of levies and sluice-gate
                                                                 prices ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Whereas, since sluice-gate prices and levies for
Economic Community,                                              pigmeat were last fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                 2916/84 of 17 October 1984 (8) for the period 1
                                                                 November 1984 to 31 Januaiy 1985, they must be
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     fixed anew for the period 1 February to 30 April 1985 ;
2759/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­                 whereas such prices and levies should in principle be
zation of the market in pigmeat ('), as last amended by          fixed by reference to feed grain prices for the period 1
Regulation (EEC) No 2966/80 (2), and in particular               August to 31 December 1984 ;
Articles 8 and 12 ( 1 ) thereof,
                                                                 Whereas, when the sluice-gate price applicable from 1
                                                                 November, 1 February and 1 May is being fixed,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 855/84              trends in world market prices for feed grain are to be
of 31 March 1984 on the calculation and the dis­                 taken into account only if the value of the quantity of
mantlement of the monetary compensatory amounts                  feed grain required varies by at least a specified
applying to certain agricultural products (3), as last           minimum in relation to that used in calculating the
amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1004/84 (4),              sluice-gate price for the preceding quarter ; whereas
and in particular Article 1 thereof,                             this minimum was fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                 2766/75 at 3 % ;
Whereas sluice-gate prices for pig carcases and for the          Whereas the value of the quantity of feed grain varies
other products specified in Article 1 of Council Regu­           by less than 3 % from that used for the preceding
lation (EEC) No 2766/75 of 29 October 1975 esta­                 quarter ; whereas the sluice-gate prices should there­
blishing the list of products for which sluice-gate               fore be maintained unchanged until 30 April 1985 ;
prices are to be fixed and laying down the rules for
fixing the sluice-gate prices for pig carcases (5), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1905/83 (6), and                  Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1
levies for the products specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of           November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed,
Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75, must be fixed in                     trends in world market prices for feed grain should be
advance for each quarter in accordance with the                   taken into account only if at the same time a new
methods of calculation         laid down     in  Commission       sluice-gate price is being fixed ;
Regulation (EEC) No 2028 /83 of 20 July 1983 fixing
the levies and sluice-gate prices on pigmeat Q ;
                                                                  Whereas, since no new sluice-gate price is to be fixed,
                                                                  the levies should accordingly be maintained
                                                                  unchanged until 30 April 1985 ;
Whereas, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No
855/84, the central rate used under the common agri­
cultural policy has been subjected to a corrective factor         Whereas, in the case of products falling within any of
of 1,033651 with effect from the 1984/85 marketing                subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7, 15.01 A I, 16.01 A or
year ; whereas the corrected central rate has led to a            16.02 A II of the Common Customs Tariff, in respect
change in the relationship between the Community                  of which the rate of duty has been bound within
price and the world market price ; whereas account                GATT, the levies should be limited to the amounts
should therefore be taken of this fact by subjecting              resulting from that binding ;
O   OJ  No L  282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No L  307, 18 . 11 . 1980, p. 5 .                         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
(3) OJ  No L  90 , 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .                            are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
(4) OJ  No L  101 , 13 . 4. 1984, p. 2.                           Committee for Pigmeat,
0   OJ  No L  282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 25.
(6) OJ  No L  190 , 14. 7. 1983, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L  199 , 22. 7 . 1983 , p. 16 .                        (8) OJ No L 275, 18 . 10 . 1984, p. 28 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                of that Regulation shall be as shown by Regulation
                                                             (EEC) No 2916/84.
                                                             2. Provided that, in the case of products falling
                                                             within any of subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7, 15.01
                        Article 1                            A I, 16.01 A or 16.02 A II of the Common Customs
                                                             Tariff, in respect of which the rate of duty has been
                                                             bound within GATT, the levy shall not exceed the
1 . For the period 1 February to 30 April 1985, the          amount resulting from that binding.
sluice-gate prices provided for in Article 12 of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 2759/75 for the products specified in                                 Article 2
Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2766/75 and the
levies provided for in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC)         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
No 2759/75 for the products specified in Article 1 ( 1 )      1985 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 11 January 1985 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                   Member of the Commission