CELEX: 31988R1474
Language: en
Date: 1988-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1474/88 of 30 May 1988 fixing the import levies on milk and milk products

No L 134/8                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                  31 . 5. 88
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1474/88
                                                            of 30 May 1988
                                       fixing the import levies on milk and milk products
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           Whereas Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79
                                                                         provides that for certain products originating in or
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 coming from certain third countries a specific levy is to
   Economic Community,                                                   be applied ; whereas the levy applicable to those products
                                                                         is fixed in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
   Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                    1767/82 0, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                         611 /88 (8) ;
   Portugal,
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of                Whereas, for as long as it is found that on importation
  27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market                  into the Community the price of an assimilated product
  in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­              for which the levy is not equal to the levy on its pilot
  tion (EEC) No 1 1 09/88 (2), and in particular Article 14(8)           product is considerably lower than the price which would
  thereof,                                                               obtain if the ratio to the price of the pilot product were
                                                                         normal, the levy must be equal to the sum of two compo­
                                                                         nents :
  Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
  Whereas Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68                      — one 'component equal to the amount resulting from
  provides for charging a levy on imports of the products                    the provisions of Articles 2 to 7 of Regulation (EEC)
  listed in Article 1 of that Regulation ; whereas these                     No 2915/79 applicable to the assimilated product in
  products may be divided into groups ; whereas the                          question,
  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
  Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79 of 18 December 1979                            composition and quality of the assimilated product
  determining the groups of products and the special provi­                  being taken into account, makes it possible to
                                                                             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 222/88 (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 1987/88 milk year by Council Regula­                limited to the amount resulting from that binding ;
 tion (EEC) No 1895/87 (5), extended by Council Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 1412/88 of 17 May 1988 («) ;
                                                                       Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1 073/68 (9), as amended by
 Whereas, however, Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79 lays                    Regulation (EEC) No 222/88, provides that a free-at-­
 down special provisions for calculating the levy on certain           frontier price must be established for each of the pilot
 assimilated products ; whereas these products are listed              products defined in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No
 and the method of calculating the levy on them described              2915/79 ; whereas these prices must be determined for
 in Annex II and in Articles 2 to 12 of that Regulation                products of good marketable quality ;
 respectively ;
 Whereas, as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No                       Whereas the free-at-frontier prices must be established on
 2915/79, the component of the levy established using a                the basis of the most favourable purchasing opportunities
 factor expressing the weight ratio existing between the             . in international trade for the products listed in Article
                                                                       1 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 other than assimilated
 milk components contained in the product on the one
 hand and the product itself on the other is, for products             products for which the levy is not equal to the levy on the
 containing sugar or other sweeteners, calculated by multi­            related pilot products ; whereas,- when recording these
                                                                       purchasing opportunities, the Commission must take
 plying the basic amount by the quantity of milk compo­                account of all information obtained direct or through the
nents contained in the product ;
                                                                       Member States concerning prices for delivery of third-­
                                                                       country products free-at-Community-frontier and prices
(')  OJ No.  L  148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13.                              on third-country markets ;
O    OJ No   L  110, 29. 4. 1988, p. 27.
0    OJ No   L 329, 24. 12. 1979, p. 1 .
(4)  OJ- No  L 28, 1 . 2. 1988, p. 1 .                                 0 OJ No L 196, 5. 7. 1982, p. 1 .
O    OJ No   L 182, 3. 7. 1987, p. 33.                                (8) OJ No L 60, 5. 3. 1988, p. 19.
(Ó OJ No L 130, 26. 5. 1988, p. 1 .                                   0 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
                                                                  Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
that the price in question is unrepresentative of the real        refunds should.be calculated on the following basis :
trend of the market ;
                                                                  — 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 Qr 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      — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 product must be effected in such a way as to allow, in                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
 particular, for differences in composition, maturity,                 these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
 quality and presentation between the assimilated product              tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
 and the related pilot product ; whereas adjustments rela­             previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
 ting to composition must be calculated by multiplying
 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, be
  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 changeis in
  the free-at-frontier price because they are not sufficiently      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1988 .
  representative of real market trends ;
                                                                    H OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
   (') OJ No L 74, 19. 3. 1986, p. 20.                               3 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 May 1988 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                        Vice-President
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31 . 5 . 88
                                                        ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 30 May 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                                                                  18,41
                     0401 10 90                       1
                                                                                                 17,20
                     0401 20 11                                                                  25,62
                     0401 20 19                                                                  24,41
                      0401 20 91                                                                 31,65
                      0401 20 99                                                                 30,44
                      0401 30 11                                                                 82,04
                      0401 30 19                                                                 80,83
                      0401 30 31                                                               158,40
                      0401 30 39                                                               157,19
                      0401 30 91             \                                                 266,28
                      0401 30 99                                                               265,07
                      0402 10 11                                                                129,93
                      0402 10 19                                                                122,68
                      0402 10 91                            0                            1,2268 / kg + 31,93
                      0402 10 99                            (')                          1,2268 / kg + 24,68
                      0402 21 1 1            \                                                  197,05
                      0402 21 17             \                                                  189,80
                       0402 21 19            1                                                  189,80
                       0402 21 91                                                               236,41
                       0402 21 99                                                               229,16    .
                       0402 29 1 1                         C)(3)                         1,8980 / kg + 31,93
                       0402 29 15                           (*)                          1,8980 / kg 4- 31,93
                       0402 29 19                            (■)                         1,8980 / kg + 24,68
                       0402 29 91                            (')                         2,291 6 / kg + 31,93
                       0402 29 99                            (')                         2,291 6 / kg + 24,68
                       0402 91 11 •                                                               30,88
                       0402 91 19            \                                                    30,88
                       0402 91 31            l                                                     38,60
                       0402 91 39
                                                    '
                                                                                                   38,60
                       0402 91 51                                                                158,40
                       0402 91 59                                                                157,19
                        0402 91 91                                                               266,28
                        0402 91 99                                                               265,07
                        0402 99 1 1                                                                53,76
                        0402 99 19                                                                 53,76
                        0402 99 31                            (')                         1,5477 / kg + 28,31
                        0402 99 39                            (■)        '                1,5477 / kg + 27,10
                        0402 99 91                            (')                         2,6265 / kg + 28,31
                        0402 99 99                            (')                         2,6265 / kg + 27,10
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                                                        (ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated)
                 CN code                          Note                             Impprt levy
               0403 10 11           l                                                   28,03
               0403 10 13                                                               34,06
               0403 10 19                                                               84,45
               0403 10 31                           (')                      0,2 199 / kg + 30,72
               0403 10 33                           (')                   . 0,2802 / kg + 30,72
               0403 10 39                           (')                      0,7841 / kg + 30,72
               0403 90 1 1
                                    l                                                 129,93
               0403 90 13                                                             197,05
               0403 90 19                                                             236,41
               0403 90 31                           (')                      1,2268 / kg + 31,93
               0403 90 33                           (')                      1,8980 / kg + 31,93
               0403 90 39                           (')                      2,29 1 6 / kg + 31,93
               0403 90 51                                                              28,03
               0403 90 53                                                              34,06
               0403 90 59                                                              84,45
               0403 90 61                          (')                      0,21 99 / kg + 30,72
              0403 90 63                           (')                      0,2802 / kg + 30,72
              0403 90 69                           (')                      0,7841 / kg + 30,72
              0404 10 11                                                               25,01
              0404 10 19                           (')                      0,2501 / kg + 24,68
              0404 10 91                           (2)                      0,2501 / kg
              0404 10 99                           0                        0,2501 / kg + 24,68
              0404 90 1 1           ||                                               129,93
              0404 90 13            \                                                197,05
              0404 90 19                                                             236,41
              0404 90 31                                                             129,93
              0404 90 33                                                             197,05
              0404 90 39                                                             236,41
              0404 90 51                          0)                        1,2268 / kg + 31,93
              0404 90 53                          (')                       1,8980 / kg + 31,93
              0404 90 59                          (')                   '  2,29 1 6 / kg + 31,93
              0404 90 91                          (')                       1,2268 / kg + 31,93
             0404 90 93                           (')                       1,8980 / kg + 31,93
             0404 90 99                           (')                      2,29 1 6 / kg + 31,93
             0405 00 10                                                             274,91
             0405 00 90                                                             335,39
             0406 10 10                                                             286,20
             0406 10 90                                                             333,44
             0406 20 10                          (3)                                397,14
             0406 20 90             \                                               397,14
             0406 30 10                          (3)                                220,10
             0406 30 31                          0                                  215,21
             0406 30 39                          (3)                                220,10
             0406 30 90                         0                                   316,82
             0406 40 00                         (3)                                 157,44
             0406 90 1 1                        (3)                                253,56
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31 . 5. 88
                                                     (ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated)
             CN code                         Note                              Import levy
           0406 90 13                         0                                   250,05
           0406 90 15                         (3).                                250,05
           0406 90 17                         0                                   250,05
           0406 90 19                         (3)                                 397,14
           0406 90 21                         (3)                                 253,56
           0406 90 23                         (3)                                 236,72
           0406 90 25                         (3)                                 236,72 ' .
           0406 90 27                         (3)                                 236,72
           0406 90 29                          (3)                                236,72
           0406 90 31                          (3)                                236,72
           0406 90 33             \                                               236,72
           0406 90 35                          (3)                                236,72
           0406 90 37                          (3)                                236,72
            0406 90 39                         (3)                                 236,72
            0406 90 50                         (3)                                 236,72
            0406 90 61                                                             397,14
            0406 90 63            I                                                397,14
            0406 90 69                                                             397,14
            0406 90 71            I                                                286,20
            0406 90 73            \                                                236,72
            0406 90 75            l                                                236,72
            0406 90 77            l                                                236,72
            0406 90 79            l                                                236,72
            0406 90 81                                                             236,72
            0406 90 83            \\                                               236,72
            0406 90 85                                                             236,72
            0406 90 89                          (3)                                236,72
             0406 90 91           Il                                                286,20
             0406 90 93                                                             286,20
             0406 90 97                                                             333,44
             0406 90 99                                                             333,44
             1702 10 90                          (4)                                  42,54
             2106 90 51           \\                                                  42,54
             2309 10 15
                                                  •
                                                                                      94,43
             2309 10 19                                                             122,65
             2309 10 39                                                              115,67
             2309 10 59           \\                                                  97,18
             2309 10 70                                                              122,65
              2309 90 35                                                              94,43
              2309 90 39          Il                                                 122,65
              2309 90 49          Il                                                 115,67
              2309 90 59                                                              97,18
              2309 90 70
                                  l                                                  122,65
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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. '
             0) 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.