CELEX: 31979R2254
Language: en
Date: 1979-10-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2254/79 of 15 October 1979 fixing the special levy applicable to New Zealand butter imported into the United Kingdom

16. 10 . 79                          Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 260/5
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2254/79
                                                   of 15 October 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 only be used for
cular Protocol 18 thereto,
                                                                direct consumption ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1655/76 of 29 June 1976 extending the transitional              Whereas, under Article 2 of Commission Regulation
arrangements for the import of New Zealand butter               (EEC) No 28 56/77 of 21 December 1977 fixing the
into the United Kingdom (*), and in particular Article          special levy applicable to New Zealand butter
8 thereof,                                                      imported into the United Kingdom (4), Commission
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­          Regulation (EEC) No 465/73 of 31 January 1973
tion (EEC) No 1655/76, a special levy is applied to             laying down detailed rules for the application of the
New Zealand butter imported into the United                     special system for the import of New Zealand butter
Kingdom pursuant to this Regulation ;                           and cheese into the United Kingdom (5) is to be appli­
                                                                cable to butter imported under Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas, under Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No              1655/76 ;
1655/76, the special levy is fixed on the basis of the
difference between :                                            Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and
— the market price of New Zealand butter in the                 Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within the
    United Kingdom, and                                         time limit set by its chairman,
— the cif price fixed under Article 2 of Council Regu­
    lation (EEC) No 2157/77 of 27 September 1977                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    fixing the price to be observed at the cif stage for
    imports of New Zealand butter and cheese into                                        Article 1
    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
Whereas Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1655/76            (EEC) No 1655/76 shall be 70-30 ECU per 100 kilo­
lays down that in order to ensure an effective turnover         grams of butter.
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     The United Kingdom shall take the measures neces­
aid granted in the United Kingdom to Community                  sary to ensure that New Zealand butter imported
butter under Regulation (EEC) No 1 269/79 (3), and               under the levy fixed in Article 1 is not used for
which affects the selling prices of this butter in that          processing but only for direct consumption within the
Member State ;                                                   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 British market results in the special levy being                                  Article 3
fixed at the level given below ;
Whereas, in order to prevent New Zealand butter                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 October
qualifying for the said special levy from being used for         1979 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 15 October 1979 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                               Vice-President
(1) OJ No L 185, 9. 7. 1976, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 250, 30. 9. 1977, p. 12.                               (4) OJ No L 329, 22. 12. 1977, p. 34.
(A OJ No L 161 , 29. 6. 1979, p. 8.                              (5) OJ No L 53, 26. 2. 1973, p. 36.