CELEX: 31988R0188
Language: en
Date: 1988-01-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 188/88 of 22 January 1988 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for poultrymeat

No L 19/24                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                 23 . 1 . 88
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 188/88
                                                           of 22 January 1988
                                   fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for poultrymeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            preceding quarter ; whereas the sluice-gate prices fixed by
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 4019/87 should accordingly be
                                                                        maintained unchanged until 30 April 1988 for these
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   products ;
Economic Community,
                                                                        Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1 November, 1
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                      February and 1 May are being fixed, changes in world
Portugal,                                                               market prices for feed grain should be taken into account
                                                                        only if at the same time a new sluice-gate price is fixed ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75                    Whereas, since no new sluice-gate prices have been fixed,
of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the                    the levies fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 4019/87 should
market in poultrymeat ('), as last amended by Regulation                accordingly be maintained unchanged until 30 April
(EEC) No 3907/87 (2), and in particular Articles 3 and 7                1988 :
( 1 ) thereof,
                                                                        Whereas, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 631 /86 of 28
Whereas the sluice-gate prices and levies for the products              February 1986 on the application of import levies on
specified in Article 1 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75              products from Portugal suspended the application of
must be fixed quarterly in advance in accordance with                   import levies on poultrymeat products from Portugal (6)
methods of calculation laid down in Council Regulation                  owing to the minimal difference between the prices obtai­
(EEC) No 2778/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down rules                   ning in the Community on the one hand and in Portugal
for calculating the levy and the sluice-gate price for                  on the other hand ; whereas the situation still pertains ;
poultrymeat (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
3986/87 (4) ;
                                                                        Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (8) intro­
                                                                        duced, with effect from 1 January 1988, a new combined
Whereas, since the sluice-gate prices and levies for                    nomenclature, which meets the requirements of both the
poultrymeat were, by Commission Regulations (EEC) No                    Common Customs Tariff and the Community's statistics
3226/87 (^ and (EEC) No 4019/87 (6), last fixed for the                 on foreign trade and which replaces the previous nomen­
period 1 November 1987 to 31 January 1988 , they must                   clature ;
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 for the period             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 1 August to 31 December 1987 ;                                         in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                        Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs,
Whereas, when the sluice-gate prices applicable from 1
 November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed, trends
 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               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 tion to that used to calculate the sluice-gate price for the
 preceding quarter ; whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No
 2778/75, this minimum was set at 3 % ;
                                                                                                   Article 1
Whereas the price of the quantity of feed grain required
 does not vary by 3 % or more from that used for the
                                                                         1 . The levies provided for in Article 3 of Regulation
 (')  OJ No   L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 77.                              (EEC) No 2777/75 in respect of the products specified in
 (2)  OJ No   L 370, 30. 12. 1987, p. 14.                               Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation and the sluice-gate prices
 (3)  OJ No   L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 84.
 («)  OJ No   L 376, 31 . 12. 1987.
 0    OJ No   L 307, 29 . 10 . 1987, p. 29 .                             0 OJ No L 256, 7. 9 . 1987, p. 1 .
 (*)  OJ No   L 378, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 33.                               (8) OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .
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provided for in Article 7 of that Regulation in respect of     3. For imports of products specified in paragraph 1
the like products shall, for the period 1 February to 30       from Portugal, application of the levies shall be
April 1988, be as fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 4019/87.        suspended.
2.     However for products falling within codes 0207 31 ,
0207 39 90, 0207 50, 0210 90 71 , 0210 90 79, 1501 00 90,
1602 31 , 1602 39 19, 1602 39 30 and 1602 39 90 of the                                 Article 2
combined nomenclature for which the rate of duty has
been bound under GATT, the levies shall be limited to
the amount resulting from that binding.                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February 1988 .
                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