CELEX: 31987R3225
Language: en
Date: 1987-10-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3225/87 of 28 October 1987 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat

29 . 10 . 87                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 307/27
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3225/87
                                                            of 28 October 1987
                                        fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             cases the amounts for January 1988 cannot, therefore, be
                                                                         determined at this stage ; whereas, accordingly, this fixing
                                                                         should, exceptionally, apply until 31 December 1987
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   only, the amounts for January 1988 being set at a later
 Economic Community,                                                     stage ;
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                      Whereas, when the sluice-gate price applicable from 1
 Portugal,                                                               November, 1 February and 1 May is being fixed, trends in
                                                                         world market prices for feed grain are to be taken into
                                                                         account only if the value of the quantity of feed grain
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75                    required varies by at least a specified minimum in rela­
 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the                    tion to that used in calculating the sluice-gate price for
 market in pigmeat ('), as last amended by Regulation                    the preceding quarter ; whereas this minimum was fixed
 (EEC) No 1475/86 (2), and in particular Articles 8 and 12               by Regulation (EEC) No 2766/75 at 3 % ;
 ( 1 ) thereof,
                                                                         Whereas the value of the quantity of feed grain varies by
 Whereas sluice-gate prices for pig carcases and for the                 less than 3 % from that used for the preceding quarter ;
 other products specified in Article 1 of Council Regula­                whereas the sluice-gate prices should therefore be main­
  tion (EEC) No 2766/75 of 29 October 1975 establishing                  tained unchanged until 31 December 1987 ;
  the list of products for which sluice-gate prices are to be
  fixed and laying down the rules for fixing the sluice-gate
  prices for pig carcases (3), as last amended by Regulation             Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1 November, 1
 (EEC) No 1905/83 (4),' and levies for the products specified             February and 1 May are being fixed, trends in world
  in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75, must be              market prices for feed grain should be taken into account
  fixed in advance for each quarter in accordance with the                only if at the same time a new sluice-gate price is being
  methods of calculation laid down in Commission Regula­                  fixed :
  tion (EEC) No 2083/87 of 15 July 1987 fixing the levies
  and sluice-gate prices on pigmeat (*) ;
                                                                          Whereas, since no new sluice-gate price is to be fixed, the
                                                                          levies should accordingly be maintained, unchanged until
  Whereas, since sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat                31 December 1987 ;
  where last fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 2083/87 for the
  period 1 August to 31 October 1987, they must be fixed
  anew ; whereas such prices and levies should in principle               Whereas, in the case of products falling within any of
  be fixed by reference to feed grain prices for the period 1             subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7, 15.01 A I, 16.01 A or
  May to 30 September 1987 ;                                              16.02 A II of the Common Customs Tariff, in respect of
                                                                          which the rate of duty has been bound within GATT, the
                                                                          levies should be limited to the amounts resulting from
  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23                       that binding ;
  July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and
  on the Common Customs Tariff (*) introduces, with effect
  from 1 January 1988 , a new 'combined nomenclature'                     Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 616/86 of 28
  which meets the requirements of both the Common                         February 1986 on the application of import levies on
   Customs Tariff and the Community's statistics on foreign               pigmeat products from Portugal Q suspended the applica­
   trade and which replaces the existing nomenclature ;                   tion of import levies on pigmeat products from Portugal
  whereas the entry into force of the combined nomencla­                  owing to the minimal difference between the prices obtai­
   ture will entail an amendment to Regulation (EEC) No                   ning in the Community on the one hand and in Portugal
   2766/75 and, therefore, to the list of products for which              on the other hand ; whereas the situation still pertains ;
   sluice-gate prices and levies are set ; whereas in some
• (')  OJ  No   L 282,  1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
   (2) OJ  No   L 133, 21 . 5. 1986, p. 39 .                               in accordance with the opinion of the Management
   (3) OJ  No   L 282,  1 . 11 . 1975, p. 25.                              Committee for Pigmeat,
   0   OJ  No   L 190,  14. 7. 1983, p. 1 .
   0   OJ  No   L 195,  16. 7. 1987, p. 15.
   («) OJ  No   L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .                                  P) OJ No L 58 , 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 45.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                 respect of which the rate of duty has been bound within
                                                              GATT, the levy shall not exceed the amount resulting
                          Article 1                           from that binding.
1 . For the period 1 November 1987 to 31 December
1987, the sluice-gate prices provided for in Article 12 of     3 . For imports from Portugal of products specified in
Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 for the products specified         paragraph 1 and in free circulation in that Member State,
in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2766/75 and the            application of the levies specified in paragraphs 1 and 2
levies provided for in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No        shall be suspended.
2759/75 for the products specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that
Regulation shall be as shown by Regulation (EEC) No
2083/87 .                                                                               Article 2
2. Provided that, in the case of products falling within
any of subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7, 15.01 A I, 16.01      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
A or 16.02 A II of the Common Customs Tariff, in               1987 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 28 October 1987.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                             Vice-President