CELEX: 31990R0497
Language: en
Date: 1990-03-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 497/90 of 28 February 1990 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

No L 53/ 18                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                    1 . 3 . 90
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 497/90
                                                        of 28 February 1990
                                    fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          States or in the overseas countries and territories (*), as last
                                                                     amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3530/89 (6) ; Whereas
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                the Council has not yet been able formally to adopt the
Economic Community,                                                  Regulation intended to replace Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     486/85 ; whereas, in order to avoid discontinuity in the
                                                                     arrangements applying, the application of the arrange­
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                   ments laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 should
Portugal,                                                            be contained as a precaution and without prejudice to the
                                                                     definitive arrangements to be adopted subsequently by
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                  the Council ;
of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the
market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 201 /90 (2), and in particular Article 14 (4) thereof,            Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession,
                                                                      the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,               must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of
                                                                      Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 and in Article 1 of Council
                                                                      Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 f), as last amended by
Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the variable           Regulation (EEC) No 1806/89 (8), which are imported
component of the import levy on compound feedingstuffs                from Portugal, apply the arrangements which were appli­
are laid down in Article 14 ( 1 ) (A) of Regulation (EEC) No          cable in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas,
2727/75 ; whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC)               under Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85
No 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be                     of 20 December 1985 laying down the arrangements
applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (3), as                applying to trade in agricultural products between Spain
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 944/87 (4), provides                   and Portugal (9), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
that the incidence on the prime costs of these feeding­               3296/88 (10), the same arrangements are to be applied in
stuffs of the levies applicable to their basic products               the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied
should be calculated on the basis of the average of the               pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy
levies applicable during the first 25 days of the month               should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid
preceding that month of importation to the quantities of              down in Commission Regulation 156/67/EEC (n), as last
basic products considered to have been used in the manu­              amended by Regulation (EEC) No 31 /76 (l2), and taking
facture of such compound feedingstuffs, this average                  into account the situation with regard to market prices in
being adjusted on the basis of the threshold price for the            Portugal ; whereas, in the case of imports into Spain, the
basic products in question ruling during the month of                 accession compensatory amount applicable to trade
importation ;                                                         between Spain and the Community as constitued at 31
                                                                      December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ;
Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the fixed
component, is valid for one month ; whereas the amount
of the fixed component of the levy is laid down in Article            Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 ;                                    should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the inte­              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
rests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and of                  tion to each other at any given moment within a band
the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating to               of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
them in respect of certain products processed from cereals                 rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
must be reduced by the amount of the fixed component                       the last paragraph of Article 3(1 ) of Council Regula­
and, in respect of some of these products, by part of the                  tion (EEC) No 1 676/85 (13), as last amended by Regu­
variable component ; whereas this reduction must be                        lation (EEC) No 1636/87 (14),
made in accordance with Article 12 of Council Regula­
tion (EEC) No 486/85 of 26 February 1985 on the arran­
                                                                      0 OJ No L 61 , 26. 2. 1985, p. 4.
gements applicable to agricultural products and certain               (j OJ No L 347, 28. 11 . 1989, p. 3.
goods resulting from the processing of agricultural                   O OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific            (8) OJ No L 177, 24. 6. 1989, p. 1 .
                                                                      (9) OJ No L 367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7.
                                                                      (10) OJ No L 293, 27. 10 . 1988, p. 7.
(•) OJ  No L  281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                             (") OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2533/67.
(2) OJ  No L  22, 27. 1 . 1990, p. 7.'                                H OJ No L 5, 10 . 1 . 1976, p. 18 .
(3) OJ  No L  281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60 .                            (13) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 4) OJ  No L  90, 2. 4. 1987, p. 2.                                   H OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
     these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­                               Article 1
     tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
     previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;             The import levies to be charged on the compound
                                                                  feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727175
                                                                  and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 shall be as
                                                                  set out in the Annex.
Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 (1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided for in this                                   Article 2
Regulation is incorporated in the combined nomencla­
ture,                                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 1990.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 28 February 1990.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                       Member of the Commission
                                                           ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 28 February 1990 fixing the import levies on compound
                                                         feedingstuffs
                                                                                                    (ECU/ tonne)
                                                                             Levies
                              CN code                                                       Third countries
                                                         Portugal        ACP and OCT           (other than
                                                                                            ACP and OCT)
                             2309 10 11                   10,88               21,87                32,75
                             2309 10 13                   10,88              538,77              549,65
                             2309 10 31                   10,88               68,34                79,22
                             2309 10 33                   10,88              585,24              596,12
                             2309 10 51                   10,88              136,67               147,55
                             2309 10 53                   10,88              653,57              664,45
                             2309 90 31                   10,88               21,87                32,75
                             2309 90 33                   10,88              538,77               549,65
                             2309 90 41                   10,88               68,34                79,22
                             2309 90 43                   10,88              585,24               596,12
                             2309 90 51                   10,88              136,67               147,55
                             2309 90 53                   10,88              653,57               664,45