CELEX: 31987R1499
Language: en
Date: 1987-05-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1499/87 of 27 May 1987 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 141 /4                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 30. 5. 87
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1499/87
                                                          of 27 May 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
                                                                         these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
 Economic Community,
                                                                         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 26
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                May 1987 ;
 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the \
 market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)          Whereas the aforesaid corrective factor affects the entire
 No 1579/86 (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), as amended by Regulation            prices and quotations known to the Commission that the
 (EEC) No 910/87 (4), and in particular Article 3 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,
 and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Commission                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Regulation (EEC) No 135/87 (*) and subsequent amending
 Regulations ;
                                                                                                Article 1
 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
 should be calculated op the following basis :                       The import levies to be charged on products listed in
 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­           Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75
                                                                     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
     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in                                  Article 2
     the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
     No 1676/85,                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1987.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                    Done at Brussels, 27 May 1987.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                    Vice-President
o   OJ  No  L  281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L  139, 24. 5. 1986, p. 29.
(3) OJ  No  L  164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No  L  88, 31 . 3. 1987, p. 42.
0   OJ  No  L  17, 20. 1 . 1987, p. 1 .
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                                                                   ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 27 May 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 I                  Common wheat, and meslin                              19,24              202,05
             10.01 B II                 Durum wheat                                           55,79              257,96 00
             10.02                      Rye                                                   47,79              177,01 O
             10.03                      Barley                                               46,08               196,60
             10.04                      Oats                                                103,68               155,97
             10.05 B                    Maize, other than hybrid maize for
           I                            sowing                                                 7,41              179,62000
             10.07 A                    Buckwheat                                            46,08               138,55
             10.07 B                    Millet                                               46,08               148,47 0
             10.07 C II                 Grain sorghum, other than hybrid            I
                                        sorghum for sowing                                    32,13              188,51 O O
             10.07 D I                  Triticale                                              O                   0
             10.07 D II                 Canary seed ; other cereals                          46,08                63,28 O
             11.01 A                    Wheat or meslin flour                                42,63              297,59
             11.01 B                    Rye flour                                             82,60             262,95
             11.02 A I a)               Durum wheat groats and meal                         100,31              413,67
             11.02 A lb)                Common wheat groats and meal                         43,08              318,44
            (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the Community, the
                levy is reduced by 0,60 ECU/tonne.
            0 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.
            0 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 .
            O 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.