CELEX: 31988R1892
Language: en
Date: 1988-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1892/88 of 30 June 1988 fixing the import levies on milk and milk products

No L 168/60                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 1 . 7. 88
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1892/88
                                                        of 30 June 1988
                                   fixing the import levies on milk and milk products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        plying-the basic amount by the quantity of milk compo­
                                                                   nents contained in the product ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Commuijity,                                               Whereas Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79
                                                                   provides that for certain products originating in or
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 coming from certain third countries a specific levy is to
Portugal,                                                          be applied ; whereas the levy applicable to those products
                                                                   is fixed in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of             1767/82 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market              611 /88 0 ;
in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1 109/88 (2), and in particular Article 14(8)
thereof,                                                           Whereas, for as long as it is found that on importation
                                                                   into the Community the price of an assimilated product
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,            for which the levy is not equal to the levy on its pilot
                                                                   product is considerably lower than the price which would
                                                                   obtain if the ratio to the price of the pilot product were
Whereas Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68                   normal, the levy must be equal to the sum of two compo­
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products            nents :
listed in Article 1 of that Regulation ; whereas these
products may be divided into groups ; whereas the                  — one component equal to the amount resulting from
product groups and the pilot groups and the pilot product               the provisions of Articles 2 to 7 of Regulation (EEC)
for each of these groups are set out in Annex I to Council              No 2915/79 applicable to the assimilated product in
Regulation (EEC) No 2915179 of 18 December 1979                         question,
determining the groups of products and the special provi­
sions for calculating levies on milk and milk products (3),        — an additional component fixed at a level which, the
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 222/88 (4) ;                     composition and quality of the assimilated product
                                                                        being taken into account, makes it possible to
Whereas the levy on the products in any one group must                  re-establish normal price ratios for imports into the
be equal to the threshold price for the pilot product less              Community ;
the free-at-frontier price ;
                                                                   Whereas Article 14(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68
Whereas the Council has not to date adopted the prices             provides that the levy on products in respect of which the
for the 1988/89 marketing year, which commences                    customs duty has been bound within GATT must be
on 1 July 1988 ; whereas the price factors determined              limited to the amount resulting from that binding ;
by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1915/88 Q should
accordingly be taken into account for the calculation of           Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1073/68 (8), as amended by
the levies in order to ensure that the import arrangements         Regulation (EEC) No 222/88, provides that a free-at­
continue to operate in the sector concerned ;                       frontier price must be established for each of the pilot
                                                                   products defined in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas, however, Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79 lays                 2915/79 ; whereas these prices must be determined for
down special provisions for calculating the levy on certain         products of good marketable quality ;
assimilated products ; whereas these products are listed
and the method of calculating the levy on them described
in Annex II and in Articles 2 to 12 of that Regulation             Whereas the free-at-frontier prices must be established on
respectively ;                                                     the basis of the most favourable purchasing opportunities
                                                                   in international trade for the products listed in Article
Whereas, as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No                     1 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 other than assimilated
2915/79, the component of the levy established using a             products for which the levy is not equal to the levy on the
factor expressing the weight ratio existing between the            related pilot products ; whereas, when recording these
milk components contained in the product on the one                purchasing opportunities, the Commission must take
hand and the product itself on the other is, for products          account of all information obtained direct or through the
containing sugar or other sweeteners, calculated by multi­         Member States concerning prices for delivery of third­
                                                                   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 110, 29. 4. 1988 , p. 27.
0   OJ  No L 329, 24. 12. 1979, p. 1 .                             («) OJ No L 196, 5. 7. 1982, p. 1 .
(*) OJ  No L 28, 1 . 2. 1988, p. 1 .                               0 OJ No L 60, 5. 3. 1988, p. 19.
(*) See page 122 of this Official Journal.                         (V) OJ" No L 180, 26. 7. 1968, p.' 25.
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Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 788/86 ('), as last amended          Whereas, in accordance with Article 19(1 ) of Regulation
by Regulation (EEC) No 222/88, specifies the free-at­            (EEC) No 804/68, the nomenclature provided for in this
Spanish-frontier values of certain cheeses imported from         Regulation is incorporated in the combined nomencla­
and originating in Switzerland.                                  ture ;
                                                                 Whereas Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 1073/68
                                                                 provides that the levies are fixed every fortnight ; whereas
Whereas, however, no account should be taken of infor­           they may be altered in the intervening period if neces­
mation relating to small quantities which are not repre­         sary ; whereas the levy remains valid until another
sentative of trade in the products in question and quanti­       becomes applicable ;
ties in respect of which price trends in general or other
information available to it lead the Commission to believe
that the price in question is unrepresentative of the real       Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
trend of the market ;                                             refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                       tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                      of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
Whereas the prices used must be adjusted where they are                rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in the
not quoted free-at-Community-frontier or where they do                 last subparagraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
not apply to products of good marketable quality ;                     tion (EEC) No 1 676/85 (2), as amended by Regulation
whereas the adjustment in respect of an assimilated                   (EEC) No 1636/87 (3),
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            — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
particular, for differences in composition, maturity,                  arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
quality and presentation between the assimilated product               these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
and the related pilot product ; whereas adjustments rela­              tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
ting to composition must be calculated by multiplying                  previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
the difference between the milk component content of
the pilot product and that of the assimilated product in          Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
question by the value attributed in international trade to        the levies on milk and milk products should be as set out
one unit of weight of the milk component in question ;            in the Annex hereto,
whereas, when the other adjustments are being effected,
the difference between       the value    attributed on   the
Community market to each of the relevant characteristics
of the pilot product and the value attributed on that
market to the corresponding characteristics of the assimi­
lated product in question must be taken into account ;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, if no information on prices is available, the free­                                 Article 1
at-frontier . price may, by way of exception, Jae
established on the basis of the value of the raw materials
contained in the pilot product in question (calculated on          1 . The import levies referred to in Article 14 of Regu­
the basis of the prices of milk products for which prices         lation (EEC) No 804/68 shall be as set out in the Annex
are available), average processing costs and. average yields ;    hereto.
                                                                  2. There shall be no levy for imports from Portugal,
                                                                  including the Azores and Madeira, for milk and milk
Whereas, in exceptional circumstances, a free-at-frontier         products listed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
price may remain unchanged for a limited period where             804/68 .
 the new level of the price for a given quality or a specific
origin, used as a basis for establishing the previous free­
at-frontier price, has not reached the Commission to
 enable it to establish the next free-at-frontier price and if                               Article 2
the Commission considers that the prices which are avai­
 lable could lead to sudden and considerable changes in
 the free-at-frontier price because they are not sufficiently     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1988 .
 representative of real market trends ;
                                                                  O OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(') OJ No L 74, 19. 3. 1986, p. 20.                               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, 30 June 1988.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                       Vice-President
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                                                    ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1988 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                                                           18,34
                    0401 10 90                                                           17,13
                    0401 20 1 1                                                          25,35
                    0401 20 19                                                           24,14
                    0401 20 91            Il                                             31,06
                    0401 20 99                                                           29,85
                    0401 30 11                                                           70,94
                    0401 30 19                                                           78,73
                    0401 30 31            Il                                            153,86
                    0401 30 39                                                          152,65
                    0401 30 91            Il                                            258,18
                    0401 30 99
                                          Il                                            256,97
                    0402 10 11            Il                                            130,28
                    0402 10 19            Il                                            123,03
                    0402 10 91                         C)                       1,2303 / kg + 31,05
                    0402 10 99                         (')                      1,2303 / kg + 23,80
                    0402 21 1 1           Il                                            172,15
                    0402 21 17                                                          164,90
                    0402 21 19                                                          164,90
                    0402 21 91            Il                                            213,67
                    0402 21 99            \                                             206,42
                    0402 29 11                        CM3)                      1,6490 / kg + 31,05
                  . 0402 29 15                         (')                      1,6490 / kg + 31,05
                    0402 29 19                         (')                      1,6490 / kg + 23,80
                    0402 29 91                         0                        2,0642 / kg + 31,05
                    0402 29 99                         o                        2,0642 / kg + 23,80
                    0402 91 11            \                                              30,88
                    0402 91 19            l                                              30,88
                    0402 91 31            \                                              38,60
                    0402 91 39            l                                              38,60
                    0402 91 51            \                                             153,86
                    0402 91 59            l                                             152,65
                    0402 91 91                                                          258,18
                    0402 91 99            l                                             256,97
                    0402 99 1 1           I                                              53,76
                    0402 99 19            \                                              53,76
                    0402 99 31                         (')                      1,5023 / kg + 27,43
                    0402 99 39                         (')                      1,5023 / kg + 26,22
                    0402 99 91                                                  2,5455 / kg + 27,43
                    0402 99 99                         0                        2,5455 / kg + 26,22
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                                                       (ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated)
                 CN code                          Note                           Import levy
                0403 10 11                                                           27,76
                0403 10 13                                                           33,47
                0403 10 19            \                                              82,35
                0403 10 31                         (')                      0,21 72 / kg + 29,84
                0403 10 33                         (')                      0,2743 / kg + 29,84
                0403 10 39                         (')                      0,7631 / kg + 29,84
                0403 90 1 1                                                         130,28
                b403 90 13                                                          172,15
                0403 90 19                                                          213,67
                0403 90 31                         (')                      1,2303 / kg + 31,05
                0403 90 33                         (')                      1,6490 / kg + 31,05
                0403 90 39                      >  (')                      2,0642/ kg + 31,05
                0403 90 51            II                                             27,76
                0403 90 53                                                           33,47
                0403 90 59                                                           82,35
                0403 90 61                         0                        0,21 72 / kg + 29,84
                0403 90 63                         (')                      0,2743 / kg + 29,84
                0403 90 69                         (')                      0,7631 / kg + 29,84
                0404 10 11            Il                                               8,02
                0404 10 19                         (')                      0,0802 / kg + 23,80
                0404 10 91                         0                        0,0802 / kg
                0404 10 99                         0                        0,0802 / kg + 23,80
                0404 90 1 1           Il                                            130,28
                0404 90 13            II                                            172,15
                0404 90 19            II                                            213,67
              ' 0404 90 31            II                                            130,28
                0404 90 33                                                          172,15
                0404 90 39            II                                            213,67
                0404 90 51                         (')                      1,2303 / kg + 31,05
                0404 90 53                         (')                      1,6490 / kg + 31,05
                0404 90 59                         0                        2,0642 / kg + 31,05
                0404 90 91                         (')                      1,2303 / kg + 31,05
                0404 90 93                         (')                      1,6490 / kg + 31,05
                0404 90 99                         (')                      2,0642 / kg + 31,05
                0405 00 10                                                          266,43
                0405 00 90
                                      Il                                            325,04
                0406 10 10            Il                                            261,75
                0406 10 90            Il                                            310,51
                0406 20 10                         0                                385,57
                0406 20 90                                                          385,57
                0406 30 10                         (3)                              204,31
                0406 30 31                         0                                196,44
                0406 30 39                         (3)                              204,31
                0406 30 90                         (3)                              301,03
                0406 40 00                         0                                157,44
                0406 90 1 1                        0                                245,84
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                                                 (ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated)
           CN code                          Note                            Import levy
          0406 90 13                         (3)                          •   250,05
          0406 90 15                         (3)                              250,05
          0406 90 17                         (3)                              250,05
          0406 90 1 9                        0                                385,57
          0406 90 21                         (3)                              245,84
          0406 90 23                         0                                213,79
          0406 90 25                         (3)                              213,79
          0406 90 27                         0                                213,79
          0406 90 29                         0                                213,79
          0406 90 31                         (3)                              213,79
          0406 90 33            Il                                            213,79
          0406 90 35                         (3)                              213,79
          0406 90 37                         (3)                              213,79
          0406 90 39                         (3)                              213,79
          0406 90 50                         (3)                              213,79
          0406 90 61            Il                                            385,57
          0406 90 63                                                          385,57
          0406 90 69            Il                                            385,57
          0406 90 71            Il                                            261,75
          0406 90 73            l                                             213,79
          0406 90 75            Il                                            213,79
          0406 90 77                                                          213,79
          0406 90 79            l                                             213,79
          0406 90 81            Il                                            213,79
          0406 90 83                                                          213,79
          0406 90 85                                                          213,79
          0406 90 89                         (3)                              213,79
          0406 90 91            Il                                            261,75
          0406 90 93            l                                             261,75
          0406 90 97                                                          310,51
          0406 90 99
                                l                                             310,51
          1702 10 90                         0                                 36,85
          2106 90 51
                                I                                              36,85
          2309 10 15            l                                              94,69
          2309 10 19            l                                             122,99
          2309 10 39            l                                             115,67
          2309 10 59            l                                              96,42
          2309 10 70            \                                             122,99
          2309 90 35            l                                              94,69
          2309 90 39            \                                             122,99
          2309 90 49            \                                             115,67
          2309 90 59            I                                              96,42
          2309 90 70
                                \                                             122,99
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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.
             (j) 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.
              (4) Lactose and lactose syrup falling within subheading 1702 10 10 are subject, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No
                  2730/75, to the same levy as that applicable to lactose falling within subheading 1702 10 90.