CELEX: 31985R3692
Language: en
Date: 1985-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3692/85 of 27 December 1985 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

28 . 12. 85                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 351 /33
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3692/85
                                                       of 27 December 1985
                                    fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          of the fixed component of the levy is laid down in Article
                                                                     6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                  Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the inte­
                                                                     rests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and of
                                                                     the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating to
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) (No 2727/75                them in respect of certain products processed from cereals
of 29 October 1975 on the comrrton organization of the               must be reduced by the amount of the fixed component
market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)           and, in respect of some of these products, by part of the
No 1018/84 (2), and in particular Article 14 (4) thereof,            variable component ; whereas this reduction must be
                                                                     made in accordance with Article 12 of Council Regula­
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,              tion (EEC) No 486/85 of 26 February 1985 on the arran­
                                                                     gements
Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the variable          applicable to agricultural products and certain goods
component of the import levy on compound feedingstuffs               resulting from the processing of agricultural products
are laid down in Article 14 ( 1 ) (A) of Regulation (EEC) No         originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or
2727/75 ; whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC)              in the 'overseas countries and territories' (*), as amended
No 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be                    by Regulation (EEC) No 2903/85 (J) ;
applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (3), as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (4), provides                 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
that the incidence on the prime costs of these feeding­              should be calculated on the following basis :
stuffs of the levies applicable to their basic products              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
should be calculated on the basis of the average of the                    tion to each other at any given moment within a band
levies applicable during the first 25 days of the month                    of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
preceding that month of importation to the quantities of                   rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
basic products considered to have been used in the manu­                   the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
facture of such compound feedingstuffs, this average                       No 1676/85 (8),
being adjusted on the basis of the threshold price for the
basic products in question ruling during the month of                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                           arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
importation ;
                                                                           these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
                                                                           tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
                                                                           previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
Whereas the 1985/86 marketing year for cereals other
than durum wheat begins on 1 August 1985 ; whereas the                Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regulation
Council has not, to date, adopted prices for these products           (EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided for in this
for the 1985/86 marketing year ; whereas the Commis­                  Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs
sion, in compliance with the tasks entrusted to it by the             Tariff,
Treaty, is obliged to adopt the precautionary measures
essential to ensure continuity of operation of the common
agricultural policy in the cereals sector ;                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in order to ensure continuity of operation of the
 import arrangements for cereals, the prices set in Article 2                                     Article 1
 of Regulation (EEC) No 2124/85 0, should be used for
 calculation of the levies on processed products ; whereas            The import levies to be charged on the compound
 these prices will be adjusted, beginning on 1 September              feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75
 1985, by amounts equal to the monthly increases fixed by             and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 shall be as
 Regulation (EEC) No 1020/84 ;                                        set out in the Annex hereto .
 Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the fixed                                          Article 2
 component, is valid for one month ; whereas the amount
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1986.
(') OJ  No L  281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  N<\ L 107,  19 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .
 0  OJ  Nqr L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60.                              («) OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3 . 1985, p. 4.
(4) OJ  No L  303,  28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .                             0 OJ No L 279, 19 . 10 . 1985, p. 5.
 0  OJ  No L  198,  30. 7. 1985, p. 31 .                               (8) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
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                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 27 December 1985.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                    Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                       Vice-President
                                                                ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 27 December 1985 fixing the import levies on compound
                                                             feedingstuffs
                                                                                                                            (ECU / tonne)
I                                                                                                                    Levies
                                                                                                        Third countries
   CCT heading No                               Nomenclature in simplified wording                       (other than        ACP and
                                                                                                          ACP and              OCT
                                                                                                             OCT)
                         Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by Regulation (EEC) No
                         968/68, containing starch, glucose or glucose syrup falling within subheadings
                         17.02 B and 21.07 F II, or milk products (falling within heading Nos 04.01 ,
                         04.02, 04.03 and 04.04, and subheadings 17.02 A and 21.07 F I) containing
                         starch, glucose or glucose syrup :
                         Containing no starch or containing 10 % or less by weight of starch :          l
23.07 B I a) 1           — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by weight of
                             such products                                                                   28,19             17,31
23.07 B I a) 2           — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk products            782,45           771,57
                         Containing more than 1 0 % but not more than 30 % by weight of starch :
23.07 B I b) 1           — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by weight of
                             such products                                                                   64,96             54,08
23.07 B I b) 2           — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk products            819,22           808,34
                         Containing more than 30 % by weight of starch :
23.07 B I c) 1           — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by weight of
                             such products                                                                  119,04            108,16
23.07 B I c) 2           — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk products            873,30           862,42