CELEX: 31987R0469
Language: en
Date: 1987-02-17
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 469/87 of 16 February 1987 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 48 /6                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                 17. 2. 87
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 469/87
                                                        of 16 February 1987
                     fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                         these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
                                                                         tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                       previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
Portugal,
                                                                     Whereas these exchange rates being those recorded on 13
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                 February 1987 ;
of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the
                                                                     Whereas the aforesaid corrective factor affects the entire
market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1 579/86 (2), and in particular Article 13 (5) thereof,           calculation basis for the levies, including the equivalence
                                                                     coefficients ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85
of 11 June 1985 on the value of the unit of account and              Whereas it follows from applying the detailed rules
the exchange rates to be applied for the purposes of the             contained in Regulation (EEC) No 135/87 to today's offer
common agricultural policy (3), and in particular Article 3          prices and quotations known to the Commission that the
thereof,                                                             levies at present in force should be altered to the amounts
                                                                     set out in the Annex hereto,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye flour,
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 135/87 (4) and subsequent amending
Regulations ;                                                                                    Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies           The import levies to be charged on products listed in
should be calculated on the following basis :                         Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­             shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band
     of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central                                       Article 2
     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
     the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)        This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 February
     No 1676/85,                                                      1987.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 16 February 1987.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                 Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                    Vice-President
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                                                                  ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 16 February 1987 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                             on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                                                                                                    (ECU/tonne)
                     CCT                                                                               Levies
                    heading                           Description
                      No
                                                                                          Portugal            Third country
           10.01 B 1                  Common wheat, and meslin                               9,23              197,59
           10.01 B II                 Durum wheat                                          43,91               264,63(')0
           10.02                      Rye                                                  38,30               179,94 0
           10.03                      Barley                                               36,57               190,23
           10.04                      Oats                                                 94,86               158,94
           10.05 B                    Maize, other than hybrid maize for
                                      sowing                                                                   185,01 (2) (3) (8)
           10.07 A                    Buckwheat                                            36,57               129,03
           10.07 B                    Millet                                               36,57               155,47 (4)
           10.07 C II                 Grain sorghum, other than hybrid
                                      sorghum for sowing                                   22,48               183,58 0 0
           10.07 D I                  Triticale                                              0                   0
           10.07 D II                 Canary seed ; other cereals                          36,57                63,97 0
           11.01 A                    Wheat or meslin flour                                27,81              290,69
           11.01 B                    Rye flour                                            68,51              265,92
           11.02 A I a)               Durum wheat groats and meal                          81,64              423,76
           11.02 A lb)                Common wheat groats and meal                         27,96              311,87
          (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the Community, the
              levy is reduced by 0,60 ECU/tonne.
          (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas
              departments of products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and
              territories'.
          (3) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the levy is reduced by 1,81
              ECU/tonne.
          (4) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the levy is reduced
              by 50 % .
          (*) Where durum wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly from that country to the
              Community, the levy is reduced by 0,60 ECU/tonne.
          (®) The import levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly from that country to the Commu­
              nity is laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1180/77 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .
          f7) The levy applicable to rye shall be charged on imports of the product falling within subheading 10.07 D I (triti­
              cale).
          (*) The levy referred to in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/86 shall be fixed on the basis of an invita­
              tion to tender in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3140/86.