CELEX: 31984R2916
Language: en
Date: 1984-10-18
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2916/84 of 17 October 1984 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat

No L 275/28                           Official Journal of the European Communities                            18 . 10 . 84
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2916/84
                                                    of 17 October 1984
                                fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  world market prices to a corrective factor of 0,967445
COMMUNITIES,                                                    used for the calculation of levies and sluice-gate
                                                                prices ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           Whereas, since sluice-gate prices and levies for
Economic Community,                                             pigmeat were last fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                2092/84 of 19 July 1984 (8) for the period 1 August to
                                                                31 October 1984, they must be fixed anew for the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    period 1 November 1984 to 31 January 1985 ; whereas
2759/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­                such prices and levies should in principle be fixed by
zation of the market in pigmeat ('), as last amended by         reference to feed grain prices for the period 1 May to
Regulation (EEC) No 2966/80 (2), and in particular              30 September 1984 ;
Articles 8 and 12 ( 1 ) thereof,
                                                                Whereas, when the sluice-gate price applicable from 1
                                                                November, 1 February and 1 May is being fixed,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 855/84             trends in world market prices for feed grain are to be
of 31 March 1984 on the calculation and the dis­                taken into account only if the value of the quantity of
mantlement of the monetary compensatory amounts                 feed grain required varies by at least a specified
applying to certain agricultural products (3), as last          minimum in relation to that used in calculating the
amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1004/84 (4),             sluice-gate price for the preceding quarter ; whereas
and in particular Article 1 thereof,                            this minimum was fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                2766/75 at 3 % ;
Whereas sluice-gate prices for pig carcases and for the         Whereas the value of the quantity of feed grain varies
other products specified in Article 1 of Council Regu­          by less than 3 % from that used for the preceding
lation (EEC) No 2766/75 of 29 October 1975 esta­                 quarter ; whereas the sluice-gate prices should there­
blishing the list of products for which sluice-gate              fore be maintained unchanged until 31 January 1985 ;
prices are to be fixed and laying down the rules for
fixing the sluice-gate prices for pig carcases (*), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1905/83 (6), and                 Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1
levies for the products specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of          November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed,
Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75, must be fixed in                    trends in world market prices for feed grain should be
advance for each quarter in accordance with the                  taken into account only if at the same time a new
methods of calculation laid down in Commission                   sluice-gate price is being fixed ;
Regulation (EEC) No 2028 /83 of 20 July 1983 fixing
the levies and sluice-gate prices on pigmeat (^ ;
                                                                 Whereas, since no new sluice-gate price is to be fixed,
                                                                 the levies should accordingly be maintained
                                                                 unchanged until 31 January 1985 ;
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        Whereas, in the case of products falling within any of
of 1,033651 with effect from the 1984/85 marketing               subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7, 15.01 A I, 16.01 A or
year ; whereas the corrected central rate has led to a            16.02 A II of the Common Customs Tariff, in respect
change in the relationship between the Community                 of which the rate of duty has been bound within
 price and the world market price ; whereas account              GATT, the levies should be limited to the amounts
should therefore be taken of this fact by subjecting             resulting from that binding ;
(') OJ  No  L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
(2) OJ  No  L 307, 18 . 11 . 1980, p. 5 .
(') OJ  No  L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .                            are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
H   OJ No   L 101 , 13. 4. 1984, p. 2.                           Committee for Pigmeat,
o   OJ  No  L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 25 .
(6) OJ  No  L 190, 14. 7. 1983, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No  L 199 , 22 . 7. 1983 , p. 16 .                       (") OJ No L 193, 21 . 7. 1984, p. 10 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                               1 (1 ) of that Regulation shall be as shown in the
                                                            Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2092/84.
                                                            2. Provided that, in the case of products falling
                                                            within any of subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7, 15.01
                        Article 1                           A I , 16.01 A or 16.02 A II of the Common Customs
                                                            Tariff, in respect of which the rate of duty has been
                                                            bound within GATT, the levy shall not exceed the
1 . For the period 1 November 1984 to 31 January            amount resulting from that binding.
1985, the sluice-gate prices provided for in Article 12
of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 for the products                                    Article 2
specified in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2766/75
and the levies provided for in Article 8 of Regulation      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
(EEC) No 2759/75 for the products specified in Article       1984 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 17 October 1984.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                        Poul DALSAGER
                                                                  Member of the Commission