CELEX: 31994R2656
Language: en
Date: 1994-11-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2656/94 of 31 October 1994 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

No L 284/20                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                1 . 11 . 94
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2656/94
                                                       of 31 October 1994
                                    fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         conclusion of the Agreements in the form of exchanges
                                                                    of letters between the European Economic Community,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               of the one part, and the Republic of Austria, the Republic
Community,                                                          of Finland, the Republic of Iceland, the Kingdom of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92                Norway and the Kingdom of Sweden, of the other part,
of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of the                   on the provisional application of the Agreements on
market in cereals (!), as last amended by Regulation (EC)           certain arrangements in the field of agriculture, signed by
No 1866/94 (2), and in particular Article 11 (3) thereof,           the said parties in Oporto on 2 May 1992 Q ; whereas
                                                                    Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1267/93 (8), lays down
Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the variable         detailed rules for the application of the import arrange­
component of the import levy on compound feedingstuffs              ments for these products originating in Sweden ;
are laid down in Article 1 1 ( 1 ) (A) of Regulation (EEC) No
1766/92 ; whereas Article 4 of Commission Regulation                Whereas equally account must be taken of Council Regu­
(EEC) No 1619/93 of 25 June 1993 on the arrangements                lation (EC) No 3641 /93 of 20 December 1993, on certain
applicable to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (3)               rules for applying the Interim Agreement on trade and
provides that the incidence on the prime costs of those             trade-related matters between the European Economic
feedingstuffs of the levies applicable to their basic               Community and the European Coal and Steel Commu­
products should be calculated on the basis of the sum of            nity, of the one part, and Bulgaria, of the other part (9) ;
the amounts equal to the average levies applicable during           whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1550/94 (10), as
the first 25 days of the month preceding the month of               amended by Regulation (EC) No 2221 /94 ("), for the
importation to the quantities of basic products, maize and          importation of products falling within CN codes
milk powder, considered to have been used in the manu­              2309 90 31 and 2309 90 41 originating in Bulgaria ;
facture of such compound feedingstuffs, the averages
being adjusted on the basis of the threshold price for the          Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
basic products in question applicable during the month of            1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (I2), as
importation ;                                                        amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (13), are used to
                                                                     convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
Whereas the fixed component is laid down in Article 6 of             and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
Regulation (EEC) No 1619/93 ;                                        conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
                                                                    whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the inte­             tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
rests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States, the levy         lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (14), as amended by Regulation
relating to them in respect of certain products processed           (EC) No 547/94 (15),
from cereals must be reduced by the amount of the fixed
component and, in respect of some of these products, by
part of the variable component ; whereas this reduction
must be made in accordance with Article 14 of Council                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of 5 March 1990 on the
arrangements applicable to agricultural products and                                            Article 1
certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific           The import levies to be charged on the compound
States or in the overseas countries and territories (4), as last     feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No 1619/93
amended by Regulation (EC) No 235/94 (*) ;                           and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 shall be as
                                                                     set out in the Annex hereto .
Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 ( 1 ) of Council Decision
91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the
overseas countries and territories with the European                                            Article 2
Economic Community (6), no levies shall apply on
imports of products originating in the overseas countries            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
and territories ;                                                     1994.
Whereas, in addition, account must be taken of Council
Decision 93/239/EEC of 15 March 1993 concerning the                  0 OJ No L 109, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 1 .
                                                                     (8) OJ No L 129, 27. 5. 1993, p. 14.
                                                                     0 OJ No L 333, 31 . 12. 1993, p. 16.
(') OJ  No  L 181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 .                             H OJ No L 166, 1 . 7. 1994, p. 43.
(2) OJ  No  L 197, 30. 7. 1994, p. 1 .                               (") OJ No L 239, 14. 9. 1994, p. 6.
(3) OJ  No  L 155, 26. 6. 1993, p. 24.                               (» 2) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No  L 84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.                                (13) OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
O   OJ  No  L 30, 3. 2. 1994, p. 12.                                 (») OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(6) OJ  No  L 263, 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .                              (1S) OJ No L 69, 12. 3. 1994, p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 31 October 1994.
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                        Rene STEICHEN
                                                                               Member of the Commission
                                                               ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 31 October 1994 fixing the import levies on compound
                                                             feedingstuffs
                                                                                                                      (ECU / tonne)
                                                                                    Levies (')
                            CN code                                                                   Third countries
                                                                   ACP                                   (other than
                                                                                                             ACP)
                           2309 10 11                              15,00                                     25,88 (2)
                           2309 10 13                            575,39                                    586,27 (2)
                           2309 10 31                              46,88                                     57,76 (2)
                           2309 10 33                            607,27                                    61 8,1 5 (2)
                           2309 10 51                              93,76                                    104,64 (2)
                           2309 10 53                            654,15                                    665,03 (2)
                           2309 90 31                              15,00                                     25,88 (3)
                           2309 90 33                            575,39                                    586,27
                           2309 90 41                              46,88                                     57,76 (3)
                           2309 90 43                            607,27                                    618,15
                           2309 90 51                              93,76                                    104,64
                           2309 90 53                            654,15                                    665,03
            (') No import levy applies to OCT originating products according to Article 101 ( 1 ) of Decision 91 /482/EEC.
            (2) The levy may be reduced in accordance with the Agreement between the Community and Sweden (OJ No L
                109, 1 . 5. 1993) and Regulation (EEC) No 1267/93 (OJ No L 129, 27. 5. 1993).
            (') The levy may be reduced in accordance with the Agreement between the Community and Bulgaria (OJ No L
                333, 31 . 12. 1993, p. 16) and Regulation (EC) No 623/94 (OJ No L 78 , 22. 3 . 1994, p. 7).