CELEX: 31986R1608
Language: en
Date: 1986-05-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1608/86 of 27 May 1986 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

28 . 5. 86                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 142/5
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1608/86
                                                           of 27 May 1986
                     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 1986 ;
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 1 355/86 (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 720/86 to today's offer
common agricultural policy (3), and in particular Article 3          prices and quotations known to the Commission that the
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 720/86 (4) and subsequent amending
Regulations ;
                                                                                                Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
should be calculated on 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 28 May 1986.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 27 May 1986.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                    Vice-President
 (') OJ  No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ  No  L 118, 7. 5. 1986, p. 1 .
 (3) OJ  No  L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 (4) OJ  No  L 65, 7. 3. 1986, p. 31 .
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                                                                ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 27 May 1986 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                   8,11           169,63
           10.01 B II                  Durum wheat                               31,61           217,55(')0
           10.02                       Rye                                       46,32           158,78 0
           10.03                       Barley                                    41,18           162,12
           10.04                       Oats                                      80,34           160,54
           10.05 B                     Maize, other than hybrid maize for  II
                                       sowing                                     —
                                                                                                 149,74 0 0
           10.07 A                     Buckwheat                                  —                 0
           10.07 B                     Millet                                    41,18            45,23 0
           10.07 C                     Grain sorghum                              —
                                                                                                 159,62 (4)
           10.07 D I                   Triticale                                   0               0
           10.07 D II                  Canary seed ; other cereals         I-I                      o    o
           11.01 A                     Wheat or meslin flour                     26,89           253,02
           11.01 B                     Rye flour                                 80,38           237,83
           1 1 .02 A I a)              Durum wheat groats and meal               62,83           351,04
           11.02 A lb)                 Common wheat groats and meal              26,24           270,46
           (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the
                Community, the levy is reduced by 0,60 ECU/tonne.
           (2) 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.
           0 Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the
                levy is reduced by 50 % .
           0 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 Community is laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 80/77 and Commission Regula­
                tion (EEC) No 2622/71 .
           0 The levy applicable to rye shall be charged on imports of the product falling within subheading
                10.07 D I (triticale).