CELEX: 31975R0185
Language: en
Date: 1975-01-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 185/75 of the Commission of 24 January 1975 fixing the export levies on olive oil

No L 20/24                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            25 . 1 . 75
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 185/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 24 January 1975
                                              fixing the export levies on olive oil
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the Commission determines the cif price for
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       a Community frontier crossing point ; whereas this
                                                                    point was fixed by Council Regulation No 165/
                                                                    66/ EEC (8) of 27 October 1966 on price measures to
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              be applied to olive oil for the 1966/67 marketing
 Economic Community ;                                              year ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/                       Whereas this price must be established on the basis of
 66/EEC (') of 22 September 1966 on the establish­                  the most favourable actual purchasing opportunities ;
 ment of a common organization of the market in oils               whereas the Commission must, theoretically, take into
and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   account all known offers for olive oil of the types
 1707/73(2);                                                       listed in 1 and 4 of the Annex to Regulation No 136/
                                                                    66/ EEC made on the world market ; whereas, if there
                                                                   are no such offers or if such offers are not representa­
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/                       tive, the Commission must take account of all offers
 66/EEC (3) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and                 made on the wholesale markets in the Community
fats between the Community and Greece ;                            which are representative for the importation of these
                                                                   oils ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 171 /
67/EEC (4) of 27 June 1967 on export refunds and                   Whereas Article 2 (2) of Commission Regulation
levies on olive oil, as last amended by Regulation                 (EEC) No 1004/71 (9) of 14 May 1971 on the fixing of
(EEC) No 2429 /72 (5), and in particular Article 10 (3)            levies on unrefined olive oil provides, however, that
thereof :
                                                                   the Commission must disregard offers for products of
                                                                   mediocre quality, long-dated offers, and offers for
                                                                   small lots and lots presented in small containers ;
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                      whereas offers which are considered not to be repre­
Committee :                                                        sentative of the real trend of the market and those to
                                                                   which Article 13 (3) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC
                                                                   applies must also be disregarded ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 18 of Regulation No
 136/66/ EEC, a levy equal at most to the difference
between prices on the world market and prices within               Whereas, if no offers of the type mentioned above
the Community may be charged on exports of olive                    have been made or if the offers made cannot be
oil where the former are higher than the latter ;                  considered, the prices ruling on the domestic markets
whereas the levy on unrefined olive oil may not                    of the main oil-producing and oil-exporting third
exceed the difference between the cif price and the                countries and on the Greek market should be taken
market target price ;                                               into account for the purpose of determining the cif
                                                                   price ; whereas in such cases those prices should be
                                                                   increased by marketing, loading, transport and insur­
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1121 /74 (6) of                ance costs ;
29 April 1974, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
2496/74 (7), fixed the market target price and the inter­
vention price for olive oil for the 1974/75 marketing
year ;                                                             Whereas, of the offers taken into consideration, C and
                                                                   F offers should , pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation
(')  OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66.                         (EEC) No 1775/69, be increased by 1 % ; whereas cif
(2)  OJ No L 175, 29 . 6 . 1973 , p. 5 .                           offers for frontier crossing points other than the one
(3 ) OJ No 197, 29 . 10 . 1966, p. 3393/ 66 .
(4 ) OJ No 130 , 28 . 6 . 1967, p. 2600/67.                        referred to above should be adjusted for transport and
(*) OJ No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .
(6) OJ No L 128 , .5 . 10 . 1974, p. 7.                            (8 ) OJ No 197, 29 . 10 . 1966, p. 3399/66 .
( 7) OJ No L 268 , 3 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 .                           O OJ No L 109 , 15 . 5 . 1971 , p. 17.
 ---pagebreak--- 25 . 1 . 75                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 20/25
insurance costs ; whereas offers for delivery fas, fob or           Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 of Commission Regula­
otherwise should be increased by transport and insur­               tion (EEC) No 616/72 (4) of 27 March 1972 on
ance costs from the point of shipment or loading to                 detailed rules for the application of export refunds
the abovementioned frontier crossing point and , in                 and levies on olive oil, as last amended by Regulation
the case of fas offers, by loading costs ;                          (EEC) No 142/75 (5), the export levy on olive oil shall
                                                                    be fixed when the difference between the cif price
                                                                    and the price recorded on the Community market is
Whereas, if the offers taken into consideration are
                                                                    such as to encourage exportation on a scale likely to
offers on the Community market, they should be                      disturb the Community or the world market ;
reduced by unloading or disembarkation costs, import
duties and levies and, where appropriate, by
forwarding or other costs incurred from the cif or free­
at-frontier stage to the marketing stage for which the
offers were made ;
                                                                    Whereas, for the purposes of determining the price on
                                                                    the Community market, account shall be taken of
Whereas, for the purpose of adjusting the offers taken              quotations and prices on the most representative
into    consideration ,   the   Commission        should  take
                                                                    markets for production and export ; whereas the
account only of the costs which to its knowledge are                export levy shall be adjusted in accordance with any
the lowest ;
                                                                    changes in the situation ;
Whereas the cif price should be determined for the
product presented in bulk.; whereas, if oil is presented
otherwise than in bulk, the consequent increase in
value should be deducted from the offers and the addi­
                                                                    Whereas exports of olive oil falling within subheading
tional cost to the importer added to them ; whereas                  1 5.07 A, in immediate packings of a net capacity not
offers for unfiltered oil , whether virgin , extra, fine or         exceeding 5 kg, are not likely to cause disturbances on
ordinary, should be increased by an amount which                    the Community market or the world market ; whereas
allows for filtering costs ;                                        there is therefore no need to fix export levies on such
                                                                    products ;
Whereas, in order to obtain comparable information
on oil of the type and quality for which the threshold
price was fixed, it is necessary to deduct from or add
to the offers considered , according to the type and
quality in question , the values resulting from the provi­          Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
sions of Commission Regulation No 1 72/66/ EEC (')                  levies should be calculated on the following basis :
fixing coefficients of equivalence for the different
types and qualities of unrefined olive oil , as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 992/ 72 (2 ) ;
whereas, in exceptional circumstances, different or                       in the case of currencies which are maintained in
derived coefficients of equivalence may be applied for
                                                                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
a limited period ;
                                                                          within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                          on their effective parity ;
Whereas a comparison of the information thus
obtained makes it possible to determine the most
 favourable offers on the world market ; whereas , if no                  for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
offer can be considered for the purpose of deter­                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 mining the cif price, the price previously taken into                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 account should be maintained ;                                           relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                          in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas the export levy on refined olive oil may not
 exceed the difference between the cif price and the
 market target price, this difference being adjusted as
 provided for in Article 2 or 3 , as the case may be, of
 Council Regulation ( EEC) No 443 / 72 (3 ) of 29                   Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
 February 1972 on the levies on refined olive oil and                to the offer prices known to the Commission that the
 on certain products containing olive oil ;                          levies should be fixed as shown in the Table annexed
                                                                     to this Regulation ,
(') OJ No 202, 7. 11 . 1966, p. 3482/ 66 .
 (2) OJ No L 115 , 17 . 5 . 1972, p. 7 .                            (4 ) OJ No L 78 , 31 . 3 . 1972, p. 1 .
 (>) OJ No L 54, 3 . 3 . 1972, p. 3 .                               (5 ) OJ No L 17, 22 . 1 . 1975 , p. 8 .
 ---pagebreak--- No L 20/26                       Official Journal of the European Communities                            25 . 1 . 75
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                 The levies shall apply to products falling within
                                                              subheading 15.07 A in immediate packings of a net
                       Article 1                              capacity exceeding 5 kg.
                                                                                           Article 2
The export levies referred to in Article 18 of Regula­
tion No 136/66/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the          This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 January
Table annexed to this Regulation .                             1975 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 24 January 1975 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                      /Member of the Commission
                                                        ANNEX
                                  Levies on olive oil to third countries and Greece
                              CCT heading No                               Amounts in u.a. / 100 kg
            ex 15.07 A la)                                                        1 1-100
            ex 15.07 A lb)                                                        14-900
            ex 15.07 A II                                                         10-000