CELEX: 31992R0227
Language: en
Date: 1992-02-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 227/92 of 31 January 1992 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

1 . 2. 92                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 24/25
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 227/92
                                                        of 31 January 1992
                                     fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         States or in the overseas countries and territories (6), as last
                                                                    amended by Regulation (EEC) No 523/91 f) ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                 Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (1 ) of Council Decision
                                                                    91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the
                                                                    overseas countries and territories with the European
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  Economic Community (8), no levies shall apply on
Portugal,                                                           imports of products originating in the overseas countries
                                                                    and territories ; whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (4) of the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                abovementioned Decision, a special amount shall be
of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the                charged on imports of certain products originating in the
market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)          overseas countries and territories in order to prevent
No 3577/90 (2), and in particular Article 14 (4) thereof,           products originating from these countries and territories
                                                                    from receiving more favourable treatment than similar
Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the variable         products imported from Spain or Portugal into the
component of the import levy on compound feedingstuffs              Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 ;
are laid down in Article 14 (1 ) (A) of Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 ; whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC)             Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
No 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on the system to be                   should be calculated on the following basis :
applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (3), as last         — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 944/87 (4), provides                      tion to each other at any given moment within a band
that the incidence on the prime costs of these feeding­                  of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
stuffs of the levies applicable to their basic products                  rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
should be calculated on the basis of the average of the                  the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
levies applicable during the first 25 days of the month                  tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (9), as last amended by Regula­
preceding that month of importation to the quantities of                 tion (EEC) No 2205/90 (10),
basic products considered to have been used in the manu­
facture of such compound feedingstuffs, this average                — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
being adjusted on the basis of the threshold price for the               average of the ecu rates published in the Official
basic products in question ruling during the month of                    Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
importation ;                                                            a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
                                                                         cient referred to in the preceding indent ;
Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the fixed
component, is valid for one month ; whereas the amount              Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 (1 ) of Regulation
of the fixed component of the levy is laid down in Article          (EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided for in this
6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 ; whereas on importa­              Regulation is incorporated in the combined nomencla­
                                                                    ture,
tion into Portugal of products listed in Annex XXIV to
the Act of Accession an additional amount is added to the
levy ; whereas these amounts were set by Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 3808/90 (*) ;                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the inte­                                       Article 1
rests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States, the levy
relating to them in respect of certain products processed           The import levies to be charged on the compound
from cereals must be reduced by the amount of the fixed              feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75
component and, in respect of some of these products, by             and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 shall be as
part of the variable component ; whereas this reduction             set out in the Annex.
must be made in accordance with Article 14 of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of 5 March 1990 on the
arrangements applicable to agricultural products and                                           Article 2
certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February 1992.
(') OJ  No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                           («) OJ No L 84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.
0   OJ  No  L 353, 17. 12. 1990, p. 23.                             f) OJ No L 58, 5. 3. 1991 , p. 1 .
O   OJ  No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60.                           o OJ No L 263, 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .
(<) OJ  No  L 90, 2. 4. 1987, p. 2.                                 O OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
ft  OJ  No L  3 66, 29. 12. 1990, p. 1 .                            (,0) OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 31 January 1992.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                     Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                              Member of the Commission
                                                                ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 31 January 1992 fixing the import levies on compound
                                                             feedingstuffs
                                                                                                                   (ECU / tonne)
                                                                                   Levies; (J)
                         CN code                                                                    Third countries
                                                                   ACP                                 (other than
                                                                                                         ACP) (')
                       2309 10 11                                  21,60                                   32,48
                       2309 10 13                                628,55                                  639,43
                       2309 10 31                                  67,52                                   78,40
                       2309 10 33                                674,47                                  685,35
                       2309 10 51                                 135,03                                  145,91
                       2309 10 53                                741,98                                  752,86
                       2309 90 31                                  21,60                                   32,48
                       2309 90 33                                628,55                                  639,43
                       2309 90 41                                  67,52                                   78,40
                       2309 90 43                                674,47                                  685,35
                       2309 90 51                                 135,03                                  145,91
                       2309 90 53                                741,98                                  752,86
           (') On importation into Portugal the levy is increased by the amount specified in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
               No 3808/90 .
           (2) No import levy applies to OCT originating products according to Article 101 (1 ) of Decision 91 /482/EEC.