CELEX: 31989R1167
Language: en
Date: 1989-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1167/89 of 28 April 1989 fixing the import levies on milk and milk products

No L 121 /20                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                29. 4. 89
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1167/89
                                                          of 28 April 1989
                                     fixing the import levies on milk and milk products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          coming from certain third countries a specific levy is to
                                                                     be applied ; whereas the levy applicable to those products
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                is fixed in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
Economic Community,                                                  1767/82 (^ as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     1 1 56/89 0 ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,
                                                                     Whereas, for as long as it is found that on importation
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of the                   into the Community the price of an assimilated product
Council of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of                for which the levy is not equal to the levy on its pilot
the market in milk and milk products ('), as last amended            product is considerably lower than the price which would
by Regulation (EEC) No 763/89 (2), and in particular                 obtain if the ratio to the price of the pilot product were
Article 14 (8) thereof,                                              normal, the levy must be equal to the sum of two
                                                                     components :
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
                                                                     — one component equal to the amount resulting from
Whereas Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68                          the provisions of Articles 2 to 7 of Regulation (EEC)
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products                   No 2915/79 applicable to the assimilated product in
listed in Article 1 of that Regulation ; whereas these                    question,
products may be divided into groups ; whereas the
product groups and the pilot groups and the pilot product            — an additional component fixed at a level which, the
for each of these groups are set out in Annex I to Council                composition and quality of the assimilated product
Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79 of 18 December 1979                           being taken into account, makes it possible to
determining the groups of products and the special provi­                 re-establish normal price ratios for imports into the
sions for calculating levies on milk and milk products (3),               Community ;
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3609/88 (4) ;
Whereas the levy on the products in any one group must               Whereas Article 14(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68
be equal to the threshold price for the pilot product less           provides that the levy on products in respect of which the
the free-at-frontier price ; whereas these threshold prices          customs duty has been bound within GATT must be
were fixed for the 1989/90 milk year by Council Regula­              limited to the amount resulting from that binding ;
tion (EEC) No 11 14/89 0 ;
Whereas, however, Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79 lays                   Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1073/68 (8), as amended by
down special provisions for calculating the levy on certain          Regulation (EEC) No 222/88 ('), provides that a free-at­
assimilated products ; whereas these products are listed             frontier price must be established for each of the pilot
and the method of calculating the levy on them described             products defined in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No
in Annex II and in Articles 2 to 12 of that Regulation               2915/79 ; whereas these prices must be determined for
respectively ;                                                       products of good marketable quality ;
Whereas, as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
2915/79, the component of the levy established using a               Whereas the free-at-frontier prices must be established on
factor expressing the weight ratio existing between the              the basis of the most favourable purchasing opportunities
milk components contained in the product on the one                  in international trade for the products listed in Article
hand and the product itself on the other is, for products            1 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 other than assimilated
containing sugar or other sweeteners, calculated by multi­           products for which the levy is not equal to the levy on the
plying the basic amount by the quantity of milk                      related pilot products ; whereas, when recording these
components contained in the product ;                                purchasing opportunities, the Commission must take
                                                                     account of all information obtained direct or through the
Whereas Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79                    Member States concerning prices for delivery of third­
provides that for certain products originating in or                 country products free-at-Community-frontier and prices
                                                                     on third-country markets ;
(') OJ No  L   148 , 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13 .
(2) OJ No  L   84, 29. 3. 1989, p. 1 .                                Ä) OJ  No   L  196, 5. 7. 1982, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No  L   329, 24. 12. 1979, p. 1 .                             0   OJ  No   L  119, 29. 4. 1989, p. 96.
(4) OJ No  L   315, 22. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                            (") OJ  No  L   180, 26. 7. 1968 , p. 25.
0   OJ No  L   118 , 29. 4. 1989, p. 37.                             (') OJ  No  L  28, 1 . 2. 1988, p. 1 .
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Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 788/86 ('), as last amended         they may be altered in the intervening period if neces­
by Regulation (EEC) No 2431 /88 (2), specifies the free-at­     sary ; whereas the levy remains valid until another
Spanish-frontier values of certain cheeses imported from        becomes applicable ;
and originating in Switzerland ;
                                                                Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2730/75 of the Council of
Whereas, however, no account should be taken of infor­          29 October 1975 on glucose and lactose (3) stipulates that
mation relating to small quantities which are not repre­        the treatment provided for lactose and lactose syrup
sentative of trade in the products in question and quanti­      falling within CN code 1702 10 90 by Regulation (EEC)
ties in respect of which price trends in general or other       No 804/68 and by the provisions adopted for the applica­
information available to it lead the Commission to believe      tion of that Regulation is to be extended to lactose and
that the price in question is unrepresentative of the real      lactose syrup falling within CN code 1702 10 10 ; whereas
trend of the market ;                                           consequently the levy fixed for products falling within
                                                                CN code 1702 10 90 also applies to products falling
                                                                within CN code 1702 10 10 ; whereas to ensure that the
Whereas the prices used must be adjusted where they are         provision in question is properly applied these products
not quoted free-at-Community-frontier or where they do          and the levy thereon should be explicitly mentioned in
not apply to products of good marketable quality ;              the list of levies ;
whereas the adjustment in respect of an assimilated
product the levy on which is equal to the levy on its pilot
product must be effected in such a way as to allow, in          Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
particular, for differences in composition, maturity,           refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
quality and presentation between the assimilated product        — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
and the related pilot product ; whereas adjustments                  tion to each other at any given moment within a band
relating to composition must be calculated by multiplying            of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
the difference between the milk component content of                 rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in the
the pilot product and that of the assimilated product in             last subparagraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
question by the value attributed in international trade to           tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (4), as last amended by Regula­
one unit of weight of the milk component in question ;               tion (EEC) No 1636/87 0,
whereas, when the other adjustments are being effected,
the difference between       the value attributed on the        — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Community market to each of the relevant characteristics             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
of the pilot product and the value attributed on that                these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
market to the corresponding characteristics of the assimi­           tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
lated product in question must be taken into account ;               previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
Whereas, if no information on prices is available, the free­    Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
at-frontier price may, by way of exception, be                   the levies on milk and milk products should be as set out
established on the basis of the value of the raw materials
                                                                 in the Annex hereto,
contained in the pilot product in question (calculated on
the basis of the prices of milk products for which prices
are available), average processing costs and average yields ;
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in exceptional circumstances, a free-at-frontier
price may remain unchanged for a limited period where
the new level of the price for a given quality or a specific                                Article 1
origin, used as a basis for establishing the previous free­
at-frontier price, has not reached the Commission to             1 . The import levies referred to in Article 14 of Regu­
enable it to establish the next free-at-frontier price and if    lation (EEC) No 804/68 shall be as set out in the Annex
the Commission considers that the prices which are               hereto.
available could lead to sudden and considerable changes
in the free-at-frontier price because they are not suffici­      2. There shall be no levy for imports from Portugal,
ently representative of real market trends ;                     including the Azores and Madeira, for milk and milk
                                                                 products listed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas, in accordance with Article 19(1 ) of Regulation         804/68 .
(EEC) No 804/68, the nomenclature provided for in this
Regulation is incorporated in the combined nomen­
clature ;                                                                                   Article 2
Whereas Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 1073/68                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1989.
provides that the levies are fixed every fortnight ; whereas
                                                                 (3) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 20.
(') OJ No L 74, 19 . 3. 1986, p. 20.                             (*) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
P) OJ No L 210, 3. 8 . 1988, p. 6.                               0 OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 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, 28 April 1989.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                Member of the Commission
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                                                    ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 28 April 1989 fixing the import levies on milk and milk
                                                    products
                                                           (ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated)
                     CN code                          Note                           Import levy
                    0401 10 10                                                            14,17
                    0401 10 90                                                            12,96
                    0401 20 11                                                            19,70
                    0401 20 19                                                            18,49
                    0401 20 91                                                           24,66
                    0401 20 99                                                           23,45
                    0401 30 11                                                           63,55
                    0401 30 19                                                           62,34
                    0401 30 31                                                          122,82
                    0401 30 39                                                          121,61
                    0401 30 91                                                          206,82
                    0401 30 99                                                          205,61
                    0402 10 11                                                           92,64
                    0402 10 19                                                            85,39
                    0402 10 91                         0                        0,8539 / kg + 26,88
                    0402 10 99                         (')                      0,8539 / kg + 19,63
                    0402 21 1 1                                                         143,62
                    0402 21 17                                                          136,37
                    0402 21 19                                                          136,37
                    0402 21 91                                                          186,87
                    0402 21 99                                                          179,62
                    0402 29 1 1                       00                         1,3637 / kg + 26,88
                    0402 29 15                         0                         1,3637 / kg + 26,88
                    0402 29 19                         0                         1,3637 / kg + 19,63
                    0402 29 91                         0                        1,7962 / kg + 26,88
                    0402 29 99                         0                        1,7962 / kg + 19,63
                    0402 91 1 1                                                           31,42
                    0402 91 19                                                            31,42
                    0402 91 31                                                            39,27
                    0402 91 39                                                            39,27
                    0402 91 51                                                          122,82
                    0402 91 59                                                          121,61
                    0402 91 91                                                          206,82
                    0402 91 99                                                          205,61
                    0402 99 11                                                            52,87
                    0402 99 19                                                            52,87
                    0402 99 31                         0                        1,1919 / kg + 23,26
                    0402 99 39                         0                        1,1919 / kg + 22,05
                    0402 99 91                         0                        2,03 19 / kg: + 23,26
                    0402 99 99                         0                        2,031 9 / kg + 22,05
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                                                       (ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated)
               CN code                         Note                               Import levy
             0403 10 11                                                              22,11
             0403 10 13                                                              27,07
             0403 10 19                                                              65,96
             0403 10 31                         (')                         0,1 607 / kg + 25,67
             0403 10 33                         (')                         0,21 03 / kg + 25,67
             0403 10 39                         (')                         0,5992 / kg + 25,67
             0403 90 1 1                                                             92,64
             0403 90 13                                                             143,62
             0403 90 19                                                             186,87
             0403 90 31                         (')                         0,8539 / kg + 26,88
             0403 90 33                         (')                         1,3637 / kg + 26,88
             0403 90 39                         (')                         1,7962 / kg + 26,88
             0403 90 51                                                               22,11
             0403 90 53                                                               27,07
             0403 90 59                                                               65,96
             0403 90 61                         (')                         0,1 607 / kg + 25,67
             0403 90 63                         0                           0,21 03 / kg + 25,67
             0403 90 69                         (')                         0,5992 / kg + 25,67
             0404 10 11                                                               18,93
             0404 10 19                         (')                         0,1 893 / kg + 19,63
             0404 10 91                          (2)                        0,1 893 / kg
             0404 10 99                          (2)                        0,1 893 / kg + 19,63
             0404 90 11                                                               92,64
             0404 90 13                                                             143,62
             0404 90 19                                                             186,87
             0404 90 31                                                               92,64
             0404 90 33                                                              143,62
             0404 90 39                                                              186,87
              0404 90 51                         (')                         0,8539 / kg + 26,88
              0404 90 53                          (')                         1,3637 / kg + 26,88
              0404 90 59                          (')                         1,7962 / kg  +  26,88
              0404 90 91                          (')                        0,8539 / kg   +  26,88
              0404 90 93                          (')                         1,3637 / kg  +  26,88
              0404 90 99                          (')                         1,7962 / kg  +  26,88
              0405 00 10                                                             212,68
              0405 00 90                                                             259,47
              0406 10 10                                                             248,19
              0406 10 90                                                             306,63
              0406 20 10                          0                                  378,42
              0406 20 90                                                             378,42
              0406 30 10                           (3)                               189,08
              0406 30 31                           (3)                                190,65
              0406 30 39                           (T                                 189,08
               0406 30 90                          0                                 285,80
               0406 40 00                          0                                  158,11
               0406 90 11                          0                                  241,53
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                                                 (ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated)
            CN code                         Note                           Import levy
           0406 90 13                        0                                238,89
           0406 90 15                        0                                238,89
           0406 90 17                        (3)                              238,89
           0406 90 19                        (3)                              378,42
           0406 90 21                        (3)                              241,53
           0406 90 23                        (3)                              209,91
           0406 90 25                        (3)                              209,91
           0406 90 27                        (3)                              209,91
           0406 90 29                        (3)                              209,91
           0406 90 31                        (3)                              209,91
           0406 90 33                                                         209,91
           0406 90 35                        (3)                              209,91
           0406 90 37                        (3)                              209,91
           0406 90 39                        (3)                              209,91
           0406 90 50                        (3)                              209,91
           0406 90 61                                                         378,42
           0406 90 63                                                         378,42
           0406 90 69                                                         378,42
           0406 90 71                                                         248,19
           0406 90 73                                                         209,91
           0406 90 75                                                         209,91
           0406 90 77                                                         209,91
           0406 90 79                                                         209,91
           0406 90 81                                                         209,91
           0406 90 83                                                         209,91
           0406 90 85                                                         209,91
           0406 90 89                        (3)                              209,91
           0406 90 91                                                         248,19
           0406 90 93                                                         248,19
           0406 90 97                                                         306,63
           0406 9099                                                          306,63
           1702 10 10                                                          33,60
           1702 10 90                                                          33,60
           2106 90 51                                                          33,60
           2309 10 15                                                          66,46
           230910 19                                                           86,10
           2309 10 39                                                          81,37
           2309 10 59                                                          68,75
           2309 10 70                                                          86,10
           2309 90 35                                                          66,46
           2309 90 39                                                          86,10
           2309 90 49                                                          81,37
           2309 90 59                                                          68,75
           2309 90 70                                                          86,10
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             (') The levy on 100 kg of product falling within this subheading is equal to the sum of the following :
                 (a) the amount per kilogram shown, multiplied by the weight of milk and milk cream contained in 100 kg of
                      product ; and
                 (b) the other amount indicated.
             (2) The levy on 100 kg of product falling within this subheading is equal to :
                 (a) the amount per kilogram shown, multiplied by the weight of the dried milk contained in 100 kg of product
                     plus, where appropriate,
                 (b) the other amount indicated.
              3
                 Products falling within this subheading imported from a third country under special arrangements concluded
                 between that country and the Community for which an IMA 1 certificate issued under the conditions provided
                 for in Regulation (EEC) No 1767/82 is issued are subject to the levies in Annex I to that Regulation.