CELEX: 31979R2987
Language: en
Date: 1979-12-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2987/79 of 27 December 1979 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

No L 337/ 16                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             29 . 12 . 79
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2987/79
                                                      of 27 December 1979
                                 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     amount of the fixed component and, in respect of
COMMUNITIES,                                                       some of these products, by part of the variable compo­
                                                                   nent ; whereas this reduction must be made in accor­
                                                                   dance with Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC)
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              No 706/76 of 30 March 1976 on the arrangements
Economic Community,                                                applicable to agricultural products and certain goods
                                                                   resulting from the processing of agricultural products
                                                                   originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
                                                                   States or in the 'overseas countries and territories' (5) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common' organi­
                                                                   as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 98 /78 (6) ;
zation of the market in cereals ( 1), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1 547/79 (2), and in particular                Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Article 14 (4) thereof,                                             levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                              relation to each other at any given moment within
Committee ,                                                             . a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                          their effective parity ;
Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the vari­           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
able component of the import levy on compound                             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
feedingstuffs are laid down in Article 14 (1 ) (A) of                     of these currencies recorded for a given period in
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 ; whereas Article 4 of                        relation to the Community currencies referred to
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 of 29 October                         in the previous indent ;
 1975 on the system to be applied to cereal-based
compound feedingstuffs (3), as amended by Regulation                Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­
(EEC) No 2560/77 (4), provides that the incidence on                tion (EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided
the prime costs of these feedingstuffs of the levies                for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
applicable to their basic products should be calculated             Customs Tariff,
on the basis of the average of the 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 manufac­
ture of such compound feedingstuffs, this average
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
being adjusted on the basis of the threshold price for
the basic products in question ruling during the
month of importation ;
                                                                                               Article 1
Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the
fixed component, is valid for one month ; whereas the               The import levies to be charged on the compound
amount of the fixed component of the levy is laid                   feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No
down in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 ;                  2727/75 and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75
                                                                    shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the
interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States
and of the overseas countries and territories, the levy                                        Article 2
relating to them in respect of certain products
processed from cereals must be reduced by the
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
                                                                     1980 .
(1 ) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2)  OJ No L 188 , 26. 7. 1979, p. 1 .
(3)  OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60.                            (5) OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 2.
(<)  OJ No L 303,  28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .                           (6) OJ No L 147, 3 . 6. 1978 , p. 1 .
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               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 27 December 1979 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                     Vice-President
                                                             ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 27 December 1979 fixing the import levies on
                                                 compound feedingstuffs
                                                                                                                          (ECU/tonne)
                                                                                                                  Levies
                                                                                                    Third countries
    CCT heading No                            Nomenclature in simplified wording                      (other than        ACP and
                                                                                                       ACP and            OCT
                                                                                                         OCT)
                        Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by Regulation
                        (EEC) No 968/68, containing starch, glucose or glucose syrup falling
                        within subheadings 17.02 B and 21.07 F II, or milk products (falling
                        within heading Nos 04.01 , 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04, and subheadings
                        17.02 A and 21.07 F I) containing starch, glucose or glucose syrup :
                        Containing no starch or containing 10 % or less by weight of starch :
23.07 B I a) 1          — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by
                            weight of such products                                                      25-26            14-38
23.07 B 1 a) 2          — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk
                            products                                                                   486.86            475-98
                        Containing more than 1 0 % but not more than 30 % by weight of
                        starch :
23.07 B I b) 1          — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by
                            weight of such products                                                      55.83            44-95
23.07 B I b) 2          — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by wight of milk
                            products                                                                    517.43           506-55 '
                        Containing more than 30 % by weight of starch :
23.07 B I c) 1          — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by
                            weight of such products                                                     100-77            89.89
23.07 B I c) 2          — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk
                            products                                                                    562.37           551-49