CELEX: 31988R0848
Language: en
Date: 1988-03-31
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 848/88 of 30 March 1988 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

No L 87/ 18                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                  31 . 3 . 88
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 848/88
                                                      of 30 March 1988
                                   fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
                                                                  States or in the overseas countries and territories (*), as last,
                                                                  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1821 /87 (*) ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession,
Haying regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985
Portugal,                                                         must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of
                                                                  Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and in Article 1 of Council
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) (No 2727/75             Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 Q, as last amended by
of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the              Regulation (EEC) No 3990/87 (8), which are imported
market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)        from Portugal, apply the arrangements which were appli­
No 3989/87 (2), and in particular Article 14 (4) thereof,         cable in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas,
                                                                  under Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85
                                                                  of 20 December 1985 laying down the arrangements
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,           applying to trade in agricultural products between Spain
                                                                  and Portugal (9), the same arrangements are to be applied
Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the variable       in the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied
component of the import levy on compound feedingstuffs            pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy
                                                                  should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid
are laid down in Article 14 (1 ) (A) of Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 ; whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC)           down in Commission Regulation 156/67/EEC (10), as last
No 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be                 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 31 /76 ("), and taking
applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (3), as            into account the situation with regard to market prices in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 944/87 (4), provides               Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain
that the incidence on the prime costs of these feeding­           the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade
stuffs of the levies applicable to their basic products           between Spain and the Community as constitued at 31
should be calculated on the basis of the average of the           December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ;
levies applicable during the first 25 days of the month
preceding that month of importation to the quantities of
basic products considered to have been used in the manu­          Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (12) intro­
facture of such compound feedingstuffs, this average              duces from 1 January 1988 a new combined nomencla­
being adjusted on the basis of the threshold price for the        ture meeting the requirements of both the Common
basic products in question ruling during the month of             Customs Tariff and the Community's statistics of foreign
importation ;                                                     trade and replacing the previous nomenclature ;
Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the fixed
component, is valid for one month ; whereas the amount            Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
of the fixed component of the levy is laid down in Article        should be calculated on the following basis :
6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 ;
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the inte­               tion to each other at any given moment within a band
rests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and of              of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating to           rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
them in respect of certain products processed from cereals             the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­
must be reduced by the amount of the fixed component                 » tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (13), as last amended by Regu­
and, in respect of some of these products, by part of the              lation (EEC) No 1 636/87 (14),
variable component ; whereas this reduction must be
made in accordance with Article 12 of Council Regula­
tion (EEC) No 486/85 of 26 February 1985 on the arran­            O OJ No L 61 , 26. 2. 1986, p. 4.
                                                                  («) OJ No L 172, 30. 6. 1987, p. 102.
gements applicable to agricultural products and certain           o OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
goods resulting from the processing of agricultural               (8) OJ No L 377, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 15.
                                                                  O OJ No L 367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7.
                                                                  H OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2533/67.
(■) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                           (") OJ No L 5, 10. 1 . 1976, p. 18 .
0 OJ No L 377, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 1 .                              (I2) OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60.                           (,3) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(4 OJ No L 90, 2. 4. 1987, p. 2.                                  H OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
     these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­                             Article 1
     tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
     previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;           The import levies to be charged on the compound
                                                                feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75
                                                                and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 shall be as
                                                                set out in the Annex.
Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided for in this                                 Article 2
Regulation is incorporated in the combined nomencla­
ture,                                                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1988.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 30 March 1988 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                             Vice-President
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                                                     ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 30 March 1988 fixing the import levies on compound
                                                  feedingstuffs
                                                                                      (ECU / tonne)
                                                                     Levies
                      CN code                                   Third countries
                                                  Portugal        (other than   ACP and OCT
                                                                ACP and OCT)
                     2309 10 11                    10,88              38,53          27,65
                     2309 10 13                    10,88            652,63         641,75
                     2309 10 31                    10,88              97,28          86,40
                     2309 10 33                    10,88            711,38         700,50
                     2309 10 51                    10,88             183,68         172,80
                     2309 10 53                    10,88            797,78         786,90
                     2309 90 31                    10,88              38,53          27,65
                     2309 90 33                    10,88            652,63         641,75
                     2309 90 41                    10,88              97,28          86,40
                     2309 90 43                    10,88            711,38         700,50
                     2309 90 51                    10,88             183,68         172,80
                     2309 90 53                    10,88            797,78         786,90