CELEX: 31988R2696
Language: en
Date: 1988-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2696/88 of 31 August 1988 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

1 . 9 . 88                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 241 / 13
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2696/88
                                                           of 31 August 1988
                                        fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            tion (EEC) No 486/85 of 26 February 1985 on the arran­
                                                                        gements applicable to agricultural products and certain
                                                                        goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
 Economic Community,                                                    States or in the overseas countries and territories (*), as last
                                                                        amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 821 /87 (^
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
 Portugal,
                                                                        Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) (No 2727/75
                                                                        the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985
 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the
 market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)             must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and in Article 1 of Council
 No 2221 /88 (2), and in particular Article 14 (4) thereof,
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 Q, as last amended by
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 2229/88 (8), which are imported
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,                from Portugal, apply the arrangements which were appli­
                                                                        cable in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas,
                                                                        under Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85
 Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the variable            of 20 December 1985 laying down the arrangements
 component of the import levy on compound feedingstuffs                 applying to trade in agricultural products between Spain
 are laid down in Article 14 (1 ) (A) of Regulation (EEC) No            and Portugal (9), the same arrangements are to be applied
 2727/75 ; whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC)                in the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied
                                                                        pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy
 No 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be                      should , be calculated in accordance with the rules laid
 applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (3), as                 down in Commission Regulation 156/67/EEC (10), as last
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 944/87 (4), provides
 that the incidence on the prime costs of these feeding­                amended by Regulation (EEC) No 31 /76 ("), and taking
                                                                        into account the situation with regard to market prices in
 stuffs of the levies applicable to their basic products                Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain
 should be calculated on the basis of the average of the                the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade
 levies applicable during the first 25 days of the month                between Spain and the Community as constitued at 31
 preceding that month of importation to the quantities of               December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ;
basic products considered to have been used in the manu­
facture of such compound feedingstuffs, this average
being adjusted on the basis of the threshold price for the
basic products in question ruling during the month of
importation ;
                                                                       Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
                                                                       should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the fixed
component, is valid for one month ; whereas the amount
of the fixed component of the levy is laid down in Article
6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 ;                                          in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                            tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                            of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the inte­                    rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
rests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and of                   the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­
the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating to                tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (12), as last amended by Regu­
them in respect of certain products processed from cereals                  lation (EEC) No 1636/87 (13),
must be reduced by the amount of the fixed component
and, in respect of some of these products, by part of the              0 OJ     No L 61 , 26. 2. 1986, p. 4.
variable component ; whereas this reduction must be                    0 OJ     No L 172, 30. 6. 1987, p. 102.
made in accordance with Article 12 of Council Regula­                  0 OJ     No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
                                                                       (8) OJ   No L 197, 26. 7. 1988, p. 30.
                                                                       0 OJ     No L 367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7.
(')  OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                             (">) OJ  No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2533/67.
(2)  OJ   No L 197, 26. 7. 1988,    p. 16.                             (") OJ   No L 5, 10. 1 . 1976, p. 18 .
(3)  OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60.                             H OJ     No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
0    OJ   No L 90, 2. 4. 1987, p.    2.                               (,3) OJ   No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
    these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­                             Article 1
    tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
    previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;           The import levies to be charged on the compound
                                                               feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75
                                                               and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 shall be as
                                                               set out in the Annex.
whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regulation                             Article 2
(EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided for in this
Regulation is incorporated in the combined nomencla­           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
ture,                                                           1988 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                 Done at Brussels, 31 August 1988 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                         Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                            Vice-President
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                                                     ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1988 fixing the import levies on compound
                                                  feedingstuffs
                                                                                      (ECU7 tonne)
                                                                     Levies
                      CN code                                   Third countries
                                                  Portugal        (other than    ACP and OCT
                                                                ACP and OCT)
                     2309 10 11                    10,88              33,00          22,12
                     2309 10 13                    10,88            634,15          623,27
                     2309 10 31                    10,88              80,01          69,13
                     2309 10 33                    10,88            681,16          670,28
                     2309 10 51                    10,88            149,14          138,26
                     2309 10 53                    10,88            750,29          739,41
                     2309 90 31                    10,88              33,00          22,12
                     2309 90 33                    10,88            634,15          623,27 '
                     2309 90 41                    10,88              80,01          69,13
                     2309 90 43                    10,88            681,16          670,28
                     2309 90 51                    10,88            149,14          138,26
                     2309 90 53                    10,88            750,29          739,41