CELEX: 31977R0393
Language: en
Date: 1977-02-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 393/77 of 25 February 1977 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

26 . 2. 77                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 54/ 17
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 393/77
                                                    of 25 February 1977
                                fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    amount of the fixed component and, in respect of
COMMUNITIES,                                                      some of these products, by part of the variable compo­
                                                                  nent ; whereas this reduction must be made in accor­
                                                                  dance with Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                                  No 706/76 of 30 March 1976 on the arrangements
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                  applicable to agricultural products and certain goods
                                                                  resulting from the processing of agricultural products
                                                                  originating in the African , Caribbean and Pacific
                                                                  States or in the 'overseas countries and territories' (4) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­
zation of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by           Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Regulation (EEC) No 31 38/76 (2), and in particular               levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Article 14 (4) thereof,
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                        relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                        within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                            on their effective parity ;
Committee ,
                                                                  — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
                                                                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the vari­                of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
able component of the import levy on compound                           relation to the Community currencies referred to
feedingstuffs are laid down in Article 14 ( 1 ) (A) of                  in the previous subparagraph ;
Regulation ( EEC) No 2727/75 ; whereas the incidence
of the levies applicable to the basic products of
                                                                  Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­
compound feedingstuffs on their prime costs should
                                                                  tion ( EEC) No 2727/75 the nomenclature provided for
be determined, in pursuance of Article 4 of Council
                                                                  in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
Regulation ( EEC) No 2743/ 75 of 29 October 1 975 on              Customs Tariff,
the system to be applied to cereal-based compound
feedingstuffs (3 ), on the basis of the average of the
levies applicable during the first 25 days of the month
preceding the month of importation to the quantities
of basic products considered to have been used in the
manufacture of such compound feedingstuffs, this                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
average being adjusted on the basis of the threshold
price for the basic products in question ruling during
the month of importation ;
                                                                                              Article I
Whereas the levy thus determined , increased by the               The import levies to be charged on the compound
fixed component, is valid for one month ; whereas the             feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No
amount of the fixed component of the levy is speci­               1727US and subject to Regulation ( EEC) No 2743/75
fied in Article 6 of Regulation ( EEC) No 2743/75 ;               are fixed hereby as shown in the Annex to this Regula­
                                                                  tion .
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the
interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States
or in the 'overseas countries and territories', the levy                                      Article 2
relating to them in respect of certain products
processed from cereals must be reduced by the
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March
                                                                   1977 .
(') OJ No L 2X1 , I. 11 . 1975 , p. I.
(-) 0 | No L 354, 24 . 12 . 1976, p. I.
(') OJ No L 281 , I. I I. I97S , p. 60 .                          c4 ) OJ No L 8 5, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 2 .
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                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 25 February 1977.
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                      Vice-President
                                                               ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 25 February 1977 fixing the import levies on compound
                                                            feedingstuffs
                                                                                                            Levies in u. a. /tonne
                                                                                                     Third countries
    CCT heading No                             Nomenclature in simplified wording                      (other than            ACP or
                                                                                                         ACP or                OCT
                                                                                                          OCT)
                         Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered bv
                         Regulation (EEC) No 968/68 . containing starch, glucose or glucose
                         syrup falling within subheadings 17.02 B and 17.05 B , or milk
                         products (falling within heading Nos 04.01 , 04.02, 04.03 and C4.04,
                         and subheadings 17.02 A and 17.05 A) containing starch , glucose
                         or glucose syrup :
                         Containing no starch or containing 10 °/o or less by weight of
                         starch :
23.07 B I a ) 1          — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 ®/o by
                             weight of such products                                                       16-92                7-92
23.07 B I a ) 2          — Containing L0 % or more but less than 50 ®/o by weight of
                             milk products                                                               458-28              449-28
                         Containing more than 10 ®/o but not more than 30 ·/# by weight of
                         starch :
23.07 B I b) 1           — Containing no milk products' or containing less than 10 ®/o by
                             weight of such products                                                      33-76                24-76
23.07 B I b ) 2          — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 ®/o by weight of milk
                             products                                                                    475-12              466-12
                         Containing more than 30®/o by weight of starch :
23.07 B I c ) 1          — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 ®/o by
                             weight of such products                                                      58-52                49-52
23.07 B I c ) 2              Containing 10 ®/ o or more but less than 50®/» by weight of milk
                             products                                                                   499-88               490-88