CELEX: 31981R0493
Language: en
Date: 1981-02-27
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 493/81 of 26 February 1981 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

No L 52/28                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                             27 . 2 . 81
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 493/81
                                                          of 26 February 1981
                                    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
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                        States or in the 'overseas countries and territories' (5) ;
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­                        as last amended t>y^ Regulation (EEC) No 279/80 (6) ;
zation of the market in cereals ( ! ), as last amended by
the Act of Accession of Greece (2), and in particular                   Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Article 14 (4) thereof,                                                 levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                        — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                                 relation to each other at any given moment within
Committee,                                                                   a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                             their effective parity ;
Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the vari­                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
able component of the import levy on compound                                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
feedingstuffs are laid down in Article 14 ( 1 ) (A) of                       of these currencies recorded for a given period in
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 ; whereas Article 4 of                           relation to the Community currencies referred to
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 of 29 October                            in the previous indent ;
1975 on the system to be applied to cereal-based
compound feedingstuffs (3), as amended by Regulation                    Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­
(EEC) No 2560/77 (4), provides that the incidence on                    tion (EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided
the prime costs of these feedingstuffs of the levies                    for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
applicable to their basic products should be calculated                 Customs Tariff,
on the basis of the average of the levies applicable
during the first 25 days of the month preceding that
month of importation to the quantities of basic
products considered to have been used in the manufac­
ture of such compound feedingstuffs, this average
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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
 fixed component, is valid for one month ; whereas the                  The import levies to be charged on the compound
amount of the fixed component of the levy is laid                       feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No
 down in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 ;                      2727/75 and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75
                                                                         shall be as set out in the Annex hereto .
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the
 interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States
 and of 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
                                                                          1981 .
 (')  OJ No L 281 , 1 . 1 1 . 15 75, p . 1 .
 ( 2) OJ No L 291 , 19 . 11 . 1979 , p. 17 .
 (3)  OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p . 60 .                              (5) OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p . 2.
(4)   OJ No L 303,  28 . 11 . 1977, p . 1 .                              h) OJ No L 31 , 8. 2. 1980, p. 1 .
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                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 26 February 1981 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  Poul DALSAGER
                                                                           Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 26 February 1981 fixing the import levies on compound
                                                          feedingstuffs
                                                                                                                       (ECU/tonne)
                                                                                                                Levies
                                                                                                   Third countries
    CCT heading No                           Nomenclature in simplified wording                                        ACP and
                                                                                                     (other than
                                                                                                      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 :
 23.07 B I a) 1          — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by
                             weight of such products                                                     20-65            9-77
 23.07 B I a) 2          — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk
                             products                                                                   327-96          317-08
                         Containing more than 10 % 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                                                     41-42           30-54
 23.07 B I b) 2          — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by wight of milk
                             products                                                                   348-73          337-85
                          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                                                      71-95          61-07
 23.07 B I c) 2           — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk
                             products                                                                   379-26          368-38