CELEX: 31976R3175
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3175/76 of 28 December 1976 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

29 . 12. 76                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 357/33
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3175/76
                                                     of 28 December 1976
                                 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)
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                  No 706/76 . of 30 March 1976 on the arrangements
 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 1975 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 1
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               2727/75 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 January
                                                                  1977 .
(') OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 354, 24. 12. 1976, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60 .                          (4) OJ No L 85, 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, 28 December 1976.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                                                                                                       Levies in u. a. /metric ton
                                                                                                  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, covcred by
                        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 04.04,
                        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                18-46                9-46
                            weight of such products
23.07 B La) 2           — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 */o by weight of                  457-68              448-68
                            milk products
                        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 e/o by                38-58              29-58
                            weight of such products
23.07 B I b) 2          — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 e/o by weight of milk             477-80              468-80
                            products
                        Containing more than 30 ®/o by weight of starch :
23.07 B I c) 1          — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 ü/o by                68-15              59-15
                            weight of such products
23.07 B I c) 2          — Containing 10 */o or more but less than 50 e/· by weight of milk           507-37              498-37
                            products