CELEX: 31977R0780
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 780/77 of 18 April 1977 fixing additional amounts for live and slaughtered poultry

19 . 4. 77                                Official Journal jof the European Communities                           No L 95/ 9
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 780/77
                                                         of 18 April 1977
                               fixing additional amounts for live and slaughtered poultry
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas, pursuant to Regulation ( EEC) No
COMMUNITIES,                                                         2474/70 ( 7), the import levies on slaughtered turkeys
                                                                     originating in and coming from Poland are not
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                     increased by an additional amount ;
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         Whereas pursuant to Regulation ( EEC) No
2777/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                   2164/72 (8), the import levies on slaughtered fowls and
tion of the market in poultrymeat ('), as amended by                 geese originating in and coming from Bulgaria are not
Regulation ( EEC) No 369/76 (2), and in particular                    increased by an additional amount ;
Article 8 (4) thereof,
                                                                     Whereas the regular review of the information serving
Whereas if, for a given product, the free-at-frontier                as a basis for the determination of average offer prices
offer price (hereinafter called the 'offer price') falls              for slaughtered poultry and halves or quarters indi­
below the sluice-gate price, the levy applicable to that             cates that additional amounts corresponding to the
product must be increased by an additional amount                    figures shown in the Annex hereto should be fixed for
equal to the difference between the sluice-gate price                the imports specified in that Annex ;
and the offer price determined in accordance with
Article 1 of Commission Regulation No 163/67/ EEC                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
of 26 June 1967 on fixing the additional amount for                  are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
imports of poultry farming products from third coun­                  ment Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs,
tries (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 1527/73 (4)-,
Whereas the offer price must be determined for all                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
imports from all third countries ; whereas, however, if
exports from one or more third countries are effected                                              Article 1
at abnormally low prices, lower than prices ruling for
other third countries, a second offer price must be                  The additional amounts provided for in Article 8 of
determined for exports from these other countries ;
                                                                      Regulation ( EEC) No 2777/ 75 are hereby fixed as
Whereas, pursuant to Regulation ( EEC) No 565/68 (5),                 shown in the Annex for the products listed in Article
the import levies on slaughtered fowls, ducks and                     1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation which appear in the Annex .
geese originating in and coming from Poland are not
increased by an additional amount ;                                                                Article 2
Whereas, pursuant to Regulation ( EEC) No
2261 /69 (6), the import levies on slaughtered ducks                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
and geese originating in and coming from Romania                      following its publication in the Official Journal of
are not increased by an additional amount ;                           the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 18 April 1977 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                      Vice-President
(')  OJ  No L 282, 1.11 . 1975 , p. 77 .
(2)  OJ  No L 45 , 21 . 2. 1976, p. 3 .
(3 ) OJ  No 129 , 28 . 6 . 1967 , p . 2577/ 67 .
(4 ) OJ  No L 154, 9 . 6 . 1973 , p. 1 .
(5 ) OJ  No L 107, 8 . 5 . 1968 , p. 7 .                             ( 7 ) OJ No L 26 S , 8 . 12 . 1970 , p. 13 .
(6)  OJ  No L 286, 14 . 11 . 1969, p . 24 .                          ( 8) OJ No L 232 , 12 . 10 . 1972 , p. 3 .
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                                                                          ANNEX
                    Additional amounts applicable to live and slaughtered poultry and halves or quarters
                                                                                                                           (u.a. /100 ke)
       CCT
                                                                                        Additional              Imports
     heading                                    Description of goods                     amount                 affected
        No
02.02                Dead poultry (that is to say, fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys
                     and guinea fowls) and edible offals thereof (except liver),
                     fresh , chilled or frozen :
                     A. Whole poultry :
                           1 . Fowls :
                               a) Plucked and gutted , with heads and feet,
                                   known as ' 83 % chickens'                                500    All imports (')
                                b) Plucked and drawn , without heads and feet
                                    but with hearts, livers and gizzards, known as
                                    '70 % chickens'                                         5.00   All imports (')
                                c) Plucked and drawn , without heads and feet
                                    and without hearts, livers and gizzards, known
                                    as ' 65 % chickens'                                     5.00   All imports (')
                           V. Guinea fowls                                                  700    Origin : Hungary
                     B. Poultry cuts (excluding offals) :
                          II . Unboned (bone-in ) :
                               a) Halves or quarters :
                                  1 . Of fowls                                              5.00   All imports
                                  4 . Of turkeys                                          1 5.00   Origin : United States of America
(') With the exception of products originating in and coming from Poland and Bulgaria .