CELEX: 31988R1872
Language: en
Date: 1988-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1872/88 of 30 June 1988 fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on cereals, flour and malt

1 . 7. 88                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 168/ 11
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1872/88
                                                           of 30 June 1988
                     fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on cereals, flour and malt
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           the cif price for shipment during the month preceding
                                                                      the month in which importation is expected to take
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 place ;
Economic Community,
                                                                      Whereas this price must be the cif price for shipment
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                    during the month preceding the month in which impor­
Portugal,                                                             tation is expected to take place in the case of imports to
                                                                      be effected during the last two months for which the
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of 29                    import licence is valid ;
October 1975 on the common organization of the market
in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                Whereas the premium shall be 0 ECU if the cif price
 1097/88 (2), and in particular Article 15(6) thereof,                determined on the day on which the premiums are fixed
                                                                       is equal to the cif forward delivery price or exceeds that
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85                   price by not more than 0,151 ECU per tonne ;
of 11 June 1985 on the value of the unit of account and
the exchange rates to be applied for the purposes of the              Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a higher
common agricultural policy (3), as last amended by Regu­               level in exceptional circumstances and within certain
lation (EEC) No 1 636/87 (4), and in particular Article 3              specific limits ;
thereof,
                                                                      Whereas Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
                                                                       1579/74 of 24 June 1974 on the procedure for calculating
Whereas the scale of premiums to be added to the import                the import levy on products processed from cereals and
levies   fixed  in     advance     for cereals   must  include  a      rice and for the advance fixing of this levy for these
premium for the current month and a premium for each                   products and for compound feedingstuffs manufactured
of the three following months ; whereas the amount of                  from cereals (*), as . last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
each premium must be the same throughout the Commu­                    1740/78 0, provides for the addition of a premium to the
nity ;                                                                 levy fixed in advance for products falling within heading
                                                                       No 1107 of the combined nomenclature ; whereas this
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2745/75 of 29                      premium is, per 100 kilograms of processed product,
October 1975 (*) laid down rules for the advance fixing of             equal to the premium applicable on the day of applica­
levies on cereals ;                                                    tion for an import licence to the quantity of basic product
                                                                       taken as a basis for the calculation of the variable compo­
Whereas, under the terms of that Regulation, where the                 nent of the levy ;
cif price for a cereal determined on the day on which the
scale of premiums is fixed is higher than the cif forward              Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
delivery price for that cereal, the scale of the premium               971 /73 of 9 April 1973 on the advance fixing of the levy
should as a general rule be equal to the difference                    on wheat and meslin flour (g), a premium is added to the
between these two prices ; whereas the cif price is that               levy fixed in advance for the products falling under
determined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation                 subheading 1101 00 00 of the combined nomenclature
(EEC) No 2727/75 on the day on which the scale of                      referred to in Article 1 (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
premiums is fixed ; whereas the cif forward delivery price             2727/75 ; whereas this premium is, per tonne of processed
is also determined in accordance with Article 13 of Regu­              product, equal to the premium applicable on the date of
lation (EEC) No 2727/75 but on the basis of offers at                  application for an import licence for the basic product,
North Sea ports ; whereas this price must be the cif price             account being taken of the quantity of the basic cereal
for shipment during the month in which the import                      required for the production of one tonne of flour ;
licence is issued in the case of imports to be effected
during that month ; whereas, in the case of imports to be              Whereas the Council has not to date adopted the prices
effected during the month following the month in which                 for the 1988/89 marketing year, which commences
the import licence is issued, this price must be the cif               on 1 July 1 988 ; whereas the price factors determined
price for shipment during that month ; whereas, in the                 by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1914/88 (9) should
case of imports to be effected during the last two months              accordingly be taken into account for the calculation in
for which the import licence is valid, this price must be              order to ensure that the import arrangements continue to
                                                                       operate in the sector concerned ;
(') OJ  No   L 281 ,  1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1.
0   OJ  No   L 110,   29 . 4.  1988, p. 7.                             (6) OJ  No L 168 , 25. 6. 1974, p. 7.
(3) OJ  No   L 164,   24. 6.   1985, p. 1.                             O   OJ  No L 202, 26. 7. 1978 , p. 8.
(<) OJ  No   L 153,   13. 6.   1987, p. 1.                             (8) OJ  No L 95, 11 . 4. 1973, p. 10.
0   OJ  No   L 281 ,  1 . 11 . 1975, p. 76.                            (9) See page 119 of this Official Journal.
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Whereas, in accordance with Article 18(1 ) of Regulation        whereas the amount of the premiums should be altered
(EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided for in this         only if application of the abovementioned provisions
Regulation is incorporated in the combined nomencla­            entails a change of more than 0,151 ECU,
ture ;
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
should be calculated on the following basis :                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
    tion to each other at any given moment within a band                                Article 1
    of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
    rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in         1 . The premiums referred to in Article 15 of Regula­
    Article 2b (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No               tion (EEC) No 2727/75 to be added to the import levies
    1676/85,                                                    fixed in advance in respect of cereals and malt originating
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the           in Portugal shall be zero.
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
    these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­       2. Les premiums referred to in Article 1 5 of Regulation
    tion to the Community currencies referred to in the         (EEC) No 2727/75 to be added to the import levies fixed
    previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;             in advance in respect of cereals and malt shall be as set
                                                                out in the Annex hereto.
Whereas these exchange rates being those recorded on 29
June 1988 ;
                                                                                        Article 2
Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions that
the premiums should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1988.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 30 June 1988 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                             Vice-President
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                                                  ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1988 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                      import levies on cereals, flour and malt from third countries
                                             A. Cereals and flour
                                                                                                (ECU/tonne)
                                       Current           1st period         2nd period       3rd period
                  CN code
                                           7                  8                 9                10
                 0709 90 60                0                  0                 0                 0
                 0712 90 19 x              0                  0                 0                 0
                 1001 10 10                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1001 10 90                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1001 90 91                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1001 90 99                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1002 00 00                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1003 00 10                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1003 00 90                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1004 00 10                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1004 00 90                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1005 10 90                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1005 90 00                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1007 00 90                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1008 10 00            .   0                  0                 0                 0
                 1008 20 00                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1008 30 00                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1008 90 90                0                  0                 0                 0
                 1101 00 00                0                  0                 0                 0
                                                   B. Malt
                                                                                                (ECU/tonne)
                                     Current       1st period      2nd period     3rd period   4th period
                  CN code
                                         7             8            •  9              10            11
                 1107 10 11              0             0               0               0            0
                 1107 10 19              0             0               0               0            0
                 1107 10 91              0             0               0               0            0
                 1107 10 99              0             0               0               0            0
                 1107 20 00              0             0               0               0            0