CELEX: 31988R0889
Language: en
Date: 1988-04-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 889/88 of 29 March 1988 fixing the import levies on milk and milk products

1 . 4. 88                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 88/ 15
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 889/88
                                                         of 29 March 1988
                                     fixing the import levies on milk and milk products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          containing sugar or other sweeteners, calculated by multi­
              , *
                                                                     plying the basic amount by the quantity of milk compo­
                                                                     nents contained in the product ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                     Whereas Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79
                                                                     provides that for certain products originating in or
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  coming from certain third countries a specific levy is to
 Portugal,                                                           be applied ; whereas the levy applicable to those products
                                                                     is fixed in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of
                                                                     1767/82 0, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     611 /88 (8);
 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market
 in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 744/88 (2), and in particular Article 14 (8)          Whereas, for as long as it is found that on importation
 thereof,                                                            into the Community the price of an assimilated product
                                                                     for which the levy is not equal to the levy on its pilot
                                                                     product is considerably lower than the price which would
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,             obtain if the ratio to the price of the pilot product were
                                                                     normal, the levy must be equal to the sum of two compo­
                                                                     nents :
Whereas Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68
 provides for charging a levy on imports of the products             — one component equal to the amount resulting from
 listed in Article 1 of that Regulation ; whereas these
 products may be divided into groups ; whereas the
                                                                          the provisions of Articles 2 to 7 of Regulation (EEC)
 product groups and the pilot groups and the pilot product
                                                                          No 2915/79 applicable to the assimilated product in
                                                                          question,
 for each of these groups are set out in Annex I to Council
 Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79 of 18 December 1 979                    — an additional component fixed at a level which, the
 determining the groups of products and the special provi­                composition and quality of the assimilated product
sions for calculating levies on milk and milk products (3),               being taken into account, makes it possible to
 as last amended by Regulation , (EEC) No 222/88 (4) ;                    re-establish normal price ratios for imports into the
                                                                          Community ;
Whereas the levy on the products in any one group must
 be equal to the threshold price for the pilot product less          Whereas Article 14(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68
 the free-at-frontier price ; whereas these threshold prices         provides that the levy on products in respect of which the
were fixed for the 1987/88 milk year by Council Regula­              customs duty has been bound within GATT must be
 tion (EEC) No 1 895/87 (*), extended by Council Regula­             limited to the amount resulting from that binding ;
 tion (EEC) No 887/88 of 30 March 1988 (*) ;
                                                                     Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1073/68 provides that a
Whereas, however, Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79 lays                   free-at-frontier price must be established for each of the
 down special provisions for calculating the levy on certain         pilot products defined in Annex I to Regulation (EEC)
 assimilated products ; whereas these products are listed            No 2915/79 ; whereas these prices must be determined
 and the method of calculating the levy on them described            for products of good marketable quality ;
 in Annex II and in Articles 2 to 12 of that Regulation
 respectively ;                                                      Whereas the free-at-frontier prices must be established on
                                                                     the basis of the most favourable purchasing opportunities
                                                                     in international trade for the products listed in Article
Whereas, as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No                      1 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 other than assimilated
 2915/79, the component of the levy established using a              products for which the levy is not equal to the levy on the
 factor expressing the weight ratio existing between the             related pilot products ; whereas, when recording these
 milk components contained in the product on the one                 purchasing opportunities, the Commission must take
 hand and the product itself on the other is, for products           account of all information obtained direct or through the
                                                                     Member States concerning prices for delivery of third­
(')  OJ  No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13.                              country products free-at-Community-frontier and prices
0    OJ  No L 78, 23. 3. 1988, p. 1 .                                on third-country markets ;
(3)  OJ  No L 329, 24. 12. 1979, p. 1 .
0    OJ  No L 28, 1 . 2. 1988 , p. 1 .
0    OJ  No L 182, 3. 7. 1987, p. 33.                                0 OJ No L 196, 5. 7. 1982, p. 1 .
(®)  See page 6 of this Official Journal.                            («) OJ No L 60, 5. 3. 1988, p. 19.
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Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 788/86 ('), as last amended          Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (2) intro­
by Regulation (EEC) No 222/88, specifies the free-at­            duces from 1 January 1988 a new combined nomencla­
Spanish-frontier values of certain cheeses imported from         ture meeting the requirements of both the Common
and originating in Switzerland.                                  Customs Tariff and the Community's statistics of foreign
                                                                 trade and replacing the previous nomenclature ;
                                                                 Whereas, in accordance with Article 19(1 ) of Regulation
Whereas, however, no account should be taken of infor­           (EEC) No 804/68, the nomenclature provided for in this
mation relating to small quantities which are not repre­         Regulation is incorporated in the combined nomencla­
sentative of trade in the products in question and quanti­       ture ;
ties in respect of which price trends in general or other
information available to it lead the Commission to believe
                                                                 Whereas Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 1073/68
that the price in question is unrepresentative of the real       provides that the levies are fixed every fortnight ; whereas
trend of the market :
                                                                 they may be altered in the intervening period if neces­
                                                                 sary ; whereas the levy remains valid until another
                                                                 becomes applicable ;
Whereas the prices used must be adjusted where they are          Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
not quoted free-at-Community-frontier or where they do           refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
not apply to products of good marketable quality ;
whereas the adjustment in respect of an assimilated              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
product the levy on which is equal to the levy on its pilot           tion to each other at any given moment within a band
product must be effected in such a way as to allow, in                of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
particular, for differences in composition, maturity,                 rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in the
quality and presentation between the assimilated product              last subparagraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
and the related pilot product ; whereas adjustments rela­             tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (3), as amended by Regulation
ting to composition must be calculated by multiplying                 (EEC) No 1636/87 (4),
the difference between the milk component content of
the pilot product and that of the assimilated product in         — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
question by the value attributed in international trade to            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
one unit of weight of the milk component in question ;                these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
whereas, when the other adjustments are being effected,               tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
the difference between the value attributed on the                    previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
 Community market to each of the relevant characteristics
 of the pilot product and the value attributed on that            Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
 market to the corresponding characteristics of the assimi­
                                                                  the levies on milk and milk products should be as set out
 lated product in question must be taken into account ;           in the Annex hereto,
 Whereas, if no information on prices is available, the free­
 at-frontier price may, by way of exception, be                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 established on the basis of the value of the raw materials
 contained in the pilot product in question (calculated on
 the basis of the prices of milk products for which prices
 are available), average processing costs and average yields ;
                                                                                            Article 1
                                                                  The import levies referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regula­
 Whereas, in exceptional circumstances, a free-at-frontier        tion (EEC) No 804/68 shall be as set out in the Annex
                                                                  hereto.
 price may remain unchanged for a limited period where
 the new level of the price for a given quality or a specific
 origin, used as a basis for establishing the previous free­
 at-frontier price, has not reached the Commission to
                                                                                            Article 2
 enable it to establish the next free-at-frontier price and if
 the Commission considers that the prices which are avai­
 lable could lead to sudden and considerable changes in           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1988.
 the free-at-frontier price because they are not sufficiently
  representative of real market trends ;
                                                                  0 OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .
                                                                  f) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 (') OJ No L 74, 19 . 3. 1986, p. 20.                             (4) OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 29 March 1988.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                     Vice-President
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                                                      ANNEX ..
            to the Commission Regulation of 29 March 1988 fixing the import levies on milk and milk
                                                      products
                                                             (ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated)
                       CN code                          Note                           Import levy
                     0401 10 10                                                             18,47
                     0401 10 .90                                                            17,26
                     0401 20 11             l                                               25,69
                     0401 20 19             l                                               24,48
                     0401 20 91                                                             31,73
                     0401 20 99             l                                               30,52
                     0401 30 11                                                             82,22
                     0401 30 19             l                                               81,01
                     0401 30 31             \                                             158,74
                     0401 30 39             \                                             157,53
                     0401 30 91                                                           266,83
                      0401 30 99                                                          265,62
                      0402 10 11            I                                             130,48
                      0402 10 19                                                          123,23
                      0402 10 91                         0                         1,2323 / kg + 32,29
                      0402 10 99                         0                         1,2323 / kg + 25,04
                      0402 21 1 1                                                         197,71
                      0402 21 17            \                                             190,46
                      0402 21 19            ||                                            190,46
                      0402 21 91            II                                            236,77
                      0402 21 99            \                                             229,52
                      0402 29 1 1                       00                         1,9046 / kg + 32,29
                      0402 29 15                         0                         1,9046 / kg + 32,29
                      0402 29 19                         0                         1,9046 / kg + 25,04
                      0402 29 91                         0                         2,29 52 / kg + 32,29
                      0402 29 99                         o                         2,2952 / kg + 25,04
                      0402 91 11            Il                                              30,88
                      0402 91 19            li                                              30,88
                      0402 91 31                                                            38,60
                      0402 91 39            \                                               38,60
                      0402 91 51            \                                              158,74
                      0402 91 59                                                           157,53
                      0402 91 91                                                          266,83
                      0402 91 99                                                          265,62
                      0402 99 1 1                                                            53,76
                      0402 99 19                                                             53,76
                      0402 99 31                         0                         1,5511 / kg + 28,67
                      0402 99 39                         0                         1,5511 / kg + 27,46
                      0402 99 91                         0                         2,6320 / kg + 28,67
                      0402 99 99                         0                         2,6320 / kg + 27,46
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                                                  (ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated)
           CN code                          Note                            Import levy
          0403 10 11           \                                                28,10
          0403 10 13           l                                                34,14
          0403 10 19           I                                                84,63
          0403 10 31                         (')                       0,2206 / kg + 31,08
          0403 10 33                         (')                       0,2810 / kg + 31,08
          0403 1039                          (')                       0,7859 / kg + 31,08
          0403 90 11           l                                               130,48
          0403 9013            \                                               197,71
          0403 90 19           \                                              236,77
          0403 90 31                         0                         1,2323 / kg + 32,29
          0403 90 33                         (')                       1,9046 / kg + 32,29
          0403 90 39                         (')                       2,2952 / kg + 32,29
          0403 90 51           \                                                28,10
          0403 90 53           \                                                34,14
          0403 90 59           \                                                84,63
          0403 90 61                         (')                       0,2206 / kg + 31,08
          0403 90 63                         (')                       0,2810 / kg + 31,08
          0403 90 69                         (')                       0,7859 / kg + 31,08
          0404 10 11           l                                                24,53
          0404 10 19                         0)                        0,2453 / kg + 25,04
          0404 10 91                      .  0                         0,2453 / kg
          0404 10 99                         (2)                       0,2453 / kg + 25,04
          0404 90 11           ll                                              130,48
          0404 90 13           Il                                              197,71
          0404 90 19           ll                                              236,77
          0404 90 31           \                                               130,48
          0404 90 33           ll                                              197,71
          0404 90 39           Il                                              236,77
          0404 90 51                         (')                       1,2323 / kg + 32,29
          0404 90 53                          (')                      1,9046 / kg + 32,29
          0404 90 59                          (')                      2,2952 / kg + 32,29
          0404 90 91                          (')                       1,2323 / kg + 32,29
          0404 90 93                          0                         1,9046 / kg + 32,29
          0404 90 99                          (')                      2,2952 / kg + 32,29
          0405 00 10           ll                                              275,49
          0405 00 90           ll                                              336,10
          0406 10 10           ll                                              286,99
          0406 10 90           Il                                              334,12
          0406 20 10                          (3)                              398,74
          0406 20 90           ll                                              398,74
          0406 30 10                          0                                220,65 .
          0406 30 31                          (3>                              215,78
          0406 30 39                          (3>                              220,65
          0406 30 90                          (3)                              317,37
          0406 40 00                          (3)                              157,44
          0406 90 11                          (3)                              254,26
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                                                   (ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated)
             CN code                         Note                            Import levy
           0406 90 13                         0                                 245,48
           0406 90 15                         0                                 245,48
           0406 90 17                         0                                 245,48
           0406 90 19                         0                                 398,74
           0406 90 21                         (3)                               254,26
           0406 90 23                         (3)                               237,40
           0406 90 25                         (3)                               237,40
           0406 90 27                         (3)                               237,40
           0406 90 29                         (3)                               237,40
           0406 90 31                         (3)                               237,40
           0406 90 33                                                           237,40
           0406 90 35                         (3>                               237,40
           0406 90 37                         (3)                               237,40
           0406 90 39                                                           237,40
           0406 90 50                         (3)                               237,40
           0406 90 61                                                           398,74
           0406 90 63                                                           398,74
           0406 90 69            \                                              398,74
           0406 90 71            I                                              286,99
           0406 90 73            I                                              237,40
           0406 90 75            I                                              237,40
           0406 90 77            I                                              237,40
           0406 90 79            \                                              237,40
           0406 90 81            \                                              237,40
           0406 90 83            I                                              237,40
           0406 90 85                                                           237,40
           0406 90 89                          (3)                              237,40
           0406 90 91            \                                              286,99
           0406 90 93                                                           286,99
           0406 90 97                                                           334,12
           0406 90 99
                                 \                                              334,12
            1702 10 90                         0                                  42,54
           2106 90 51                                                             42,54
            2309 10 15           \                                                94,84
            2309 10 19           \                                               123,19
            2309 10 39           I                                               116,12
            2309 10 59                                                            97,42
            2309 10 70           \                                               123,19
            2309 90 35           \                                                94,84
            2309 90 39                                                           123,19
            2309 90 49                                                           116,12
            2309 90 59                                                            97,42
            2309 90 70                                                           123,19
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          (') The levy on 100 kg of product falling within this subheading is equal to the sum of the following :
              (a) the amount per kilogram shown, multiplied by the weight of milk and milk cream contained in 100 kg of
                   product ; and
              (b) the other amount indicated.
          (i) The levy on 100 kg of product falling within this subheading is equal to :
              (a) the amount per kilogram shown, multiplied by the weight of the dried milk contained in 100 kg of product
                   plus, where appropriate,
              (b) the other amount indicated.
          0 Products falling within this subheading imported from a third country under special arrangements concluded
              between that country and the Community for which an IMA 1 certificate issued under the conditions provided
              for in Regulation (EEC) No 1767/82 is issued are subject to the levies in Annex I to that Regulation.
          (4) Lactose and lactose syrup falling within subheading 1702 10 10 are subject, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No
              2730/75, to the same levy as that applicable to lactose falling within subheading 1702 10 90.