CELEX: 31980R0448
Language: en
Date: 1980-02-27
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 448/80 of 26 February 1980 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

27. 2. 80                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 53/9
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 448/80
                                                      of 26 February 1980
                                 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
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        States or in the 'overseas countries and territories' (5) ;
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­                    as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 198/78 (6) ;
zation of the market in cereals (^ 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
being adjusted on the basis of the threshold price for              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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 March
                                                                     1980.
(«) OJ No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
O   OJ No  L 188,  26. 7. 1979, p. 1 .
(J) OJ No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60.                            (s) OJ No L 85, 31 . 3. 1976, p. 2.
(♦) OJ No  L 303,  28. 11 . 1977, p. 1 .                            (') 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, 26 February 1980.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                     Vice-President
                                                             ANNEX
               to die Commission Regulation of 26 February 1980 fixing the import levies on compound
                                                          feedingstuffs
                                                                                                                          (ECU/tonne)
\I                                                                                                                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                                                      26-76            15-88
23.07 B I a) 2          — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk
                            products                                                                    459-39           448-51
                        Containing more than 10 % 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                                                      60-50            49-62
23.07 Bib) 2            — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by wight of milk
                            products                                                                    493-13           482-25
                        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                                                     110-11            99-23
23.07 B I c) 2          — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk
                            products                                                                    542-74           531-86