CELEX: 31985R0171
Language: en
Date: 1985-01-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 171/85 of 23 January 1985 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for poultrymeat

No L 20/ 18                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              24. 1 . 85
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 171 /85
                                                       of 23 January 1985
                              fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for poultrymeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     trends in world market prices for feed grain are to be
COMMUNITIES,                                                       taken into account only if the price of the quantity of
                                                                   feed grain required varies by at least a specified
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              minimum in relation to that used to calculate the
Economic Community,                                                sluice-gate price for the preceding quarter ; whereas,
                                                                   by Regulation (EEC) No 2778/75, this minimum was
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       set at 3 % ;
2777/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­
zation of the market in poultrymeat ('), as last                   Whereas the price of the quantity of feed grain
amended by the Act of Accession of Greece, and in                  required does not vary by 3 % or more from that used
particular Articles 3 and 7 ( 1 ) thereof,                         for the preceding quarter ; whereas the sluice-gate
                                                                   prices fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 2929/84 should
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 855/84                accordingly be maintained unchanged until 30 April
of 31 March 1984 on the calculation and the dis­                    1?85 for these products ;
mantlement of the monetary compensatory amounts
applying to certain agricultural products (2), as last             Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1004/84 (3), and in                 November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed,
particular Article 1 thereof,                                      changes in world market prices for feed grain should
                                                                   be taken into account only if at the same time a new
Whereas the sluice-gate prices and levies for the                  sluice-gate price is fixed ;
products specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
No 2777/75 must be fixed quarterly in advance in                   Whereas, since no new sluice-gate price has been
accordance with methods of calculation laid down in                fixed, the levies fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 2929/84
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2778/75 (4), as last                   should accordingly be maintained unchanged until 30
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 750/81 (s);                         April 1985 ;
Whereas, since sluice-gate prices and levies for                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
poultrymeat were, by Regulation (EEC) No 2929/84 (6),              are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
last fixed for the period 1 November 1984 to 31                     Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs,
January 1985 they must be fixed anew for the period 1
February to 30 April 1985 ; whereas such prices and
levies should in principle be calculated by reference to
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
feed grain prices for the period 1 August to 31
December 1984 ;
                                                                                              Article 1
Whereas, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No
855/84, the central rate used under the common agri­
cultural policy has been subjected to a corrective factor           1 . The levies provided for in Article 3 of Regulation
of 1,033651 with effect from the 1984/ 85 marketing                (EEC) No 2777/75 in respect of the products specified
year ; Whereas the corrected central rate has led to a              in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation and the sluice-gate
change in the relationship between the Community                    prices provided for in Article 7 of that Regulation in
price and the world market price ; whereas account                  respect of the like products shall, for the period 1
should therefore be taken of this fact by subjecting                February to 30 April 1985, be as fixed by Regulation
world market prices to a corrective factor of 0,967445             (EEC) No 2929/84.
used for the calculation of levies and sluice-gate
                                                                    2. In the case of products falling within heading No
prices ;
                                                                    02.03 and within subheading 15.01 B or 16.02 B I of
Whereas, when the sluice-gate prices applicable from
                                                                    the Common Customs Tariff, in respect of which the
                                                                    rate of duty has been bound within GATT, the levy
 1 November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed,
                                                                    shall not exceed the amount resulting from that.
0 OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 77.
 4 OJ No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .                                                            Article 2
(3). OJ No L  101 , 13 . 4. 1984, p. 2.
(4) OJ  No L  282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 84.
0 OJ    No L  80, 26. 3 . 1981 , p . 1 .                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
0 OJ    No L  276, 19 . 10 . 1984, p. 17.                           1985 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 23 January 1985.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                              Member of the Commission