CELEX: 31979R2700
Language: en
Date: 1979-12-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2700/79 of 30 November 1979 fixing the special levy applicable to New Zealand butter imported into the United Kingdom

No L 305/70                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            1 . 12. 79
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2700/79
                                                    of 30 November 1979
               fixing the special levy applicable to New Zealand butter imported into the
                                                      United Kingdom
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   industrial purposes at a lower price level than that of
COMMUNITIES,                                                     butter of Community origin intended for the same
                                                                 purposes, it should be laid down that the New
Having regard to the Treaty of Accession, and in parti­          Zealand butter in question may be used only for
cular Protocol 18 thereto,                                       direct consumption ;
                                                                 Whereas, under Article 2 of Commission Regulation
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     (EEC) No 2856/77 of 21 December 1977 fixing the
 1655/76 of 29 June 1976 extending the transitional              special levy applicable to New Zealand butter
arrangements for the import of New Zealand butter                imported into the United Kingdom (4), Commission
into the United Kingdom ('), and in particular Article           Regulation (EEC) No 465/73 of 31 January 1973
8 thereof,
                                                                 laying down detailed rules for the application of the
                                                                 special system for the import of New Zealand butter
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­           and cheese into the United Kingdom (5) is to be appli­
tion (EEC) No 1655/76, a special levy is applied to              cable to butter imported under Regulation (EEC) No
New Zealand butter imported into the United                       1655/76 ;
Kingdom pursuant to this Regulation ;
                                                                  whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas, under Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No              are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 1655/76, the special levy is fixed on the basis of the          ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
difference between :
— the market price of New Zealand butter in the
     United Kingdom , and
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
— the cif price fixed under Article 2 of Council Regu­
     lation (EEC) No 2157/77 of 27 September 1977
     fixing the price to be observed at the cif stage for
                                                                                         Article 1
     imports of New Zealand butter and cheese into
     the United Kingdom (2), plus the total costs
     between the cif stage and the stage of initial sale ;       The special levy referred to in Article 3 of Regulation
                                                                 (EEC) No 1655/76 shall be 83-68 ECU per 100 kg of
                                                                 butter.
Whereas Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1655/76
provides that, in order to ensure an effective turnover
of yearly quantities, the special levy must be fixed at a
level permitting the sale of butter at a consistent rate                                 Article 2
without disrupting the market in Community butter ;
to this effect, it is necessary to take account also of the
aid granted in the United Kingdom to Community                   The United Kingdom shall take the measures neces­
butter under Regulation (EEC) No 1 269/79 (3), which             sary to ensure that New Zealand butter imported
affects the selling prices of this butter in that Member         under the levy fixed in Article 1 is not used for
State ;                                                           processing but only for direct consumption, within
                                                                 the meaning of Article 1 (a) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                  1269/79, on the territory of the United Kingdom.
Whereas the application of these rules to the situation
on the United Kingdom market results in the special
levy being fixed at the level given below ;
                                                                                         Article 3
Whereas, in order to prevent New Zealand butter qual­
ifying for the said special levy from being used for             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December
                                                                  1979 .
(») OJ No L 185, 9 . 7. 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 250, 30 . 9 . 1977, p. 12.                           (4) OJ No L 329, 22. 12. 1977, p. 34.
(3) OJ No L 161 , 29 . 6. 1979, p. 8 .                           (5) OJ No L 53, 26. 2. 1973, p. 36.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 30 November 1979 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President