CELEX: 31987R2558
Language: en
Date: 1987-08-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2558/87 of 26 August 1987 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 243 /28                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 27. 8 . 87
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2558/87
                                                         of 26 August 1987
                      fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                          arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                          these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
Economic Community,
                                                                          tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                        previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
Portugal,
                                                                     Whereas these exchange rates being those recorded on 25
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                 August 1987 ;
of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the
market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)           Whereas the aforesaid corrective factor affects the entire
No 1900/87 (2), and in particular Article 13 (5) thereof,             calculation basis for the levies, including the equivalence
                                                                      coefficients ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85
of 11 June 1985 on the value of the unit of account and              Whereas it follows from applying the detailed rules
the exchange rates to be applied for the purposes of the              contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1944/87 to today's
common agricultural policy (3), as last amended by Regu­              offer prices and quotations known to the Commission
lation (EEC) No 1636/87 (4), and in particular Article 3              that the levies at present in force should be altered to the
thereof,
                                                                      amounts set out in the Annex hereto,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye flour,
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 1944/87 (^ and subsequent amen­
ding Regulations ;                                                                               Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
should be calculated on the following basis :                        The import levies to be charged on products listed in
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                      Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75
                                                                      shall be as set out in the Annex hereto .
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band
     of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in                                   Article 2
     the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
     No 1676/85,                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 August 1987.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                    Done at Brussels, 26 August 1987.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                 Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                     Vice-President
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0   OJ  No  L  182,  3 . 7. 1987, p. 40 .
(3) OJ  No  L  164,  24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
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                                                                   ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 26 August 1987 fixing the import levies on cereals and on
                                                 wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                                                                                                      (ECU/tonne)
                        CCT                                                                             Levies
                     heading                            Description
                         No                                                                Portugal           . Third country
             10.01 B I                   Common wheat, and meslin                             _
                                                                                                                 178,98
             10.01 B II                  Durum wheat                                        34,54               241,88 OH5)
             10.02                       Rye                                                24,81                154,36 0
             10.03                       Barley                                             12,27                177,30
             10.04                       Oats                                               77,28                129,62
             10.05 B                     Maize, other than hybrid maize for         \
           l                             sowing                                               5,29               182,55 (2) (3) (8)
             10.07 A                     Buckwheat                                          12,27                116,00
             10.07 B                     Millet                                             12,27                109,36 (4)
             10.07 C II                  Grain sorghum, other than hybrid
                                         sorghum for sowing                                 29,71                184,57 0 0
             10.07   D I                 Triticale                                            0                    0
             10.07   D II                Canary seed ; other cereals                        12,27                 32,1 1 0
             11.01   A                   Wheat or meslin flour                                —
                                                                                                                 263,80
             11.01   B                   Rye flour                                          47,96                229,33
             11.02 A I a)                Durum wheat groats and meal                        66,62                387,70
             11.02 A lb)                 Common wheat groats and meal                         —
                                                                                                                 284,67
             (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the Community, the
                 levy is reduced by 0,60 ECU/tonne.
             (2) In accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 the levies are not applied to imports into the French
                 overseas departments of products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the .'overseas
                 countries and territories'.
             (3) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the levy is reduced by 1,81
                 ECU/tonne .
             (4) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the levy is reduced
                 by 50 % .
             (*) Where durum wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly from that country to the
                 Community, the levy is reduced by 0,60 ECU/tonne.
             (*) The import levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly from that country to the Commu­
                 nity is laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 180/77 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .
             f) The levy applicable to rye shall be charged on imports of the product falling within subheading 10.07 D I (triti­
                 cale).
             (8) The levy referred to in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/86 shall be fixed on the basis of an invita­
                 tion to tender in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3140/86.