CELEX: 31977R0323
Language: en
Date: 1977-02-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 323/77 of 16 February 1977 fixing additional amounts for live and slaughtered poultry

17 . 2. 77                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 45/ 17
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 323/77
                                                    of 16 February 1977
                              fixing additional amounts for live and slaughtered poultry
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    whereas, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No
COMMUNITIES,                                                      2474/70 (7), the import levies on slaughtered turkeys
                                                                  originating in and coming from Poland are not
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             increased by an additional amount ;
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      Whereas pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No
2777/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                21 64/72 (8), the import levies on slaughtered fowls and
tion of the market in poultrymeat (1), as amended by              geese originating in and coming from Bulgaria are not
Regulation (EEC) No 369/76 (2), and in particular                 increased by an additional amount ;
Article 8 (4) thereof,
                                                                  Whereas the regular review of the information serving
Whereas if, for a given product, the free-at-frontier             as a basis for the determination of average offer prices
offer price (hereinafter called the 'offer price') falls          for slaughtered poultry and halves or quarters indi­
below the sluice-gate price, the levy applicable to that          cates that additional amounts corresponding to the
product must be increased by an additional amount                 figures shown in the Annex hereto should be fixed for
equal to the difference between the sluice-gate price             the imports specified in that Annex ;
and the offer price determined in accordance with
Article 1 of Commission Regulation No 163/67/EEC                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
of 26 June 1967 on fixing the additional amount for               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
imports of poultry farming products from third coun­              ment Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs,
tries (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 1 527/73 (4);
Whereas the offer price must be determined for all                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
imports from all third countries ; whereas, however, if
exports from one or more third countries are effected                                       Article 1
at abnormally low prices, lower than prices ruling for
other third countries, a second offer price must be               The additional amounts provided for in Article 8 of
determined for exports from these other countries ;               Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 are hereby fixed as
Whereas, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 565/ 68 (5),             shown in the Annex for the products listed in Article
the import levies on slaughtered fowls, ducks and                  1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation which appear in the Annex.
geese originating in and coming from Poland are not
increased by an additional amount ;
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No
2261 /69 (6), the import levies on slaughtered ducks              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
and geese originating in and coming from Romania                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
are not increased by an additional amount ;                        the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
                Done at Brussels, 16 February 1977.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                   Vice-President
(•)  OJ  No  L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 77.
(2) OJ   No L 45, 21 . 2. 1976, p. 3 .
(3) OJ   No  129, 28 . 6. 1967, p. 2577/67.
(4) OJ   No L 154, 9 . 6. 1973, p. 1 .
(5) OJ No L 107, 8 . 5. 1968, p. 7.                               (?) OJ No L 265, 8 . 12. 1970, p. 13.
(0) OJ No L 286, 14. 11 . 1969, p. 24.                            («) OJ No L 232, 12. 10. 1972, p. 3.
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                                                                          ANNEX
                    Additional amounts applicable to live and slaughtered poultry and halves or quarters
       CCT                                                                              Additional
                                                                                                                   Imports
     heading                                   Description of goods                       amount
                                                                                                                   affected
        No                                                                             (u.a./ 100 kg)
01.05               Live poultry, that is to say, fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys
                    and guinea fowls :
                     B. Others :
                          I. Fowls                                                           500      Origin : Hungary
                         IV. Turkeys                                                         500      Origin : Hungary
02.02                Dead poultry (that is to say, fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys
                     and guinea fowls) and edible offals thereof (except liver),
                     fresh, chilled or frozen :
                     A. Whole poultry :
                          I. Fowls :
                              a) Plucked and gutted, with heads and feet,
                                  known as '83 % chickens'                                   5-00     All imports (')
                               b) Plucked and drawn, without heads and feet
                                    but with hearts, livers and gizzards, known as
                                   '70 % chickens'                                           500      All imports (')
                               c) Plucked and drawn, without heads and feet
                                    and without hearts, livers and gizzards, known
                                    as '65 % chickens'                                       500      All imports (J)
                         IV. Turkeys                                                       1000       Origin : United States of America
                                                                                                      or Israel
                          V. Guinea fowls                                                    7-00     Origin : Hungary
                     B. Poultry cuts (excluding offals) :
                         II. Unboned (bone-in) :
                              a) Halves or quarters :
                                  1 . Of fowls                                                500     All imports
                                  4. Of turkeys                                            4000       Origin : United States of America
(*) With the exception of products originating in and coming from Poland and Bulgaria.