CELEX: 31987R1166
Language: en
Date: 1987-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1166/87 of 28 April 1987 fishing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat

No L 112/30                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                  29 . 4. 87
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1166/87
                                                          of 28 April 1987
                                     fishing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Whereas the value of the quantity of feed grain varies by
                                                                      less than 3 % from that used for the preceding quarter ;
                                                                     whereas the sluice-gate prices should therefore be main­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               tained unchanged until 31 July 1987 ;
 Economic Community,
                                                                     Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1 November, 1
                                                                     February and 1 May are being fixed, trends in world
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  market prices for feed grain should be taken into account
 Portugal,                                                           only if at the same time a new sluice-gate price is being
                                                                     fixed ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75                Whereas, since no new sluice-gate price is to be fixed, the
 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the                levies should accordingly be maintained, unchanged until
 market in pigmeat ('), as last amended by Regulation                31 July 1987 ;
(EEC) No 1475/86 (2), and in particular Articles 8 and 12
( 1 ) thereof,
                                                                     Whereas, in the case of products falling within any of
                                                                     subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7, 15.01 A I, 16.01 A or
                                                                     16.02 A II of the Common Customs Tariff, in respect of
Whereas sluice-gate prices for pig carcases and for the              which the rate of duty has been bound within GATT, the
other products specified in Article 1 of Council Regula­             levies should be limited to the amounts resulting from
 tion (EEC) No 2766/75 of 29 October 1975 establishing               that binding ;
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 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 616/86 of 28
(EEC) No 1905/ 83 (4), and levies for the products specified         February 1986 on the application of import levies on
in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75, must be           pigmeat products from Portugal Q suspended the applica­
fixed in advance for each quarter in accordance with the             tion of import levies on pigmeat products from Portugal
methods of calculation laid down in Commission Regula­               owing to the minimal difference between the prices obtai­
tion (EEC) No 2132/85 of 29 July 1985 fixing the levies              ning in the Cojmmunity onthe one hand and in Portugal
and sluice-gate prices on pigmeat (*) ;                              on the other hand ; whereas the situation still pertains ;
                                                                     Whereas tahe measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas, since sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat             are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
where last fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 82/87 of 13                  Committee for Pigmeat,
January 1987 (^ for the period 1 February to 30 April
 1987, they must be fixed anew for the period 1 May to 31
July 1987 ; whereas such prices and levies should in prin­
ciple be fixed by reference to feed grain prices for the
period 1 November 1986 to 31 March 1987 ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, when the sluice-gate price applicable from 1
November, 1 February and 1 May is being fixed, trends in
world market prices for feed grain are to be taken into                                       Article 1
account only if the value of the quantity of feed grain
required varies by at least a specified minimum in rela­
tion to that used in calculating the sluice-gate price for           1 . For the period 1 May to 31 July 1987, the sluice­
the preceding quarter ; whereas 'this minimum was fixed              gate prices provided for in Article 12 of Regulation (EEC)
by Regulation (EEC) No 2766/75 at 3 % ;                              No 2759/75 for the products specified in Article 1 of
                                                                     Regulation (EEC) No 2766/75 and the levies provided for
(')  OJ  No  L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
                                                                     in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 for the
(2)  OJ  No  L 133, 21 . 5. 1986, p. 39.                             products specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation shall
(3)  OJ  No  L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 25.                            be as shown by Regulation (EEC) No 82/87.
(4)  OJ  No  L 190, 14. 7. 1983, p. 1 .
(*)  OJ  No  L 198 , 30. 7. 1985, p. 54.
(«)  OJ  No  L 12, 14. 1 . 1987, p. 7.                               n OJ No L 58, 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 45.
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2. Provided that, in the case of products falling within       application of the levies specified in paragraphs 1 and 2
any of subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7, 15.01 A I, 16.01      shall be suspended.
A or 16.02 A II of the Common Customs Tariff, in
respect of which the rate of duty has been bound within
GATT, the levy shall not exceed the amount resulting
from that binding.                                                                      Article 2
3 . For imports from Portugal of products specified in
paragraph I and in free circulation in that Member State,      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1987.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 28 April 1987.
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                         Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                            Vice-President