31968R1602

470 Official Journal of the European Communities

16.10.68 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 253 /3

REGULATION (EEC) No 1602/68 OF THE COUNCIL of 15 October 1968

making additional provision for the financing of the common agricultural policy in respect of certain cereal products and certain of their derivatives

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ when calculating the first part of the contributions by MUNITIES , Member States laid down in Article 11 of Regulation No 130/66/EEC ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Whereas it appears from Article 30 of Council Regu­ European Economic Community, and in particular lation No 359/67/EEC4 of 25 July 1967 on the Articles 43 and 200 (3 ) thereof; common organisation of the market in rice that the Council intends to apply to the common market in Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; rice the Community rules on the financing of the common agricultural policy; whereas provisions should be laid down for that purpose; Having regard to the Opinion of the European Par­ liament1 ;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas, under the terms of Article 11 (4) of Council Regulation No 130/66/EEC2 of 26 July 1966 on the financing of the common agricultural policy it rests Article 1 with the Council to establish that charges other than customs duties are identical with the levies within Charges other than customs duties listed in the the meaning of that Article ; Annex to this Regulation shall be considered to be identical with levies within the meaning of Article 11 of Regulation No 130/66/EEC which are imposed on Whereas since the adoption of Regulation No 130/66/EEC, several Regulations on the common trade with third countries. Such equivalence shall apply from : organisation of markets have been adopted which make provision for charges other than customs du­ ties, without it having been established in every case — 1 July 1967, with regard to charges listed under the first indent of (a) and under (b); that they are identical with the afore-mentioned levies ; whereas this situation should therefore be — 1 September 1967, with regard to charges listed remedied ; under the second indent of ( a).

Whereas Article 23 (2) of Council Regulation No 120/67/EEC3 of 13 June 1967 on the common organis­ Article 2 ation of the market in cereals made it possible , for the Italian Republic to reduce the import levies on The first part of the contributions from Member certain products ; whereas such a reduction entails States referred to in Article 11 ( 1 ) and (2) of Regu­ the imposition of countervailing and other charges lation No 130/66/EEC shall be equal to 90% of the by the Italian Republic on deliveries to other Mem­ total amount of the countervailing and other charges ber States ; whereas, therefore, such charges have collected by the Italian Republic as from 1 July 1967, the same aim and purpose as the levies ; whereas the during the relevant accounting period, as a result of amount of such charges should therefore be included use of the option provided for in Article 23 (2) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC.

1 OJ No C 66 , 2.7.1968 , p. 7. 2 OJ No 165 , 21.9.1966, p. 2965/66. 8 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2269/67 . OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p . 1 .

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Article 3 The former sole paragraph of Article 30 of Regu­ lation No 359/67/EEC shall become the second para­ Article 30 of Regulation No 359 /67/EEC shall be graph of that Article. supplemented by the following paragraph : 'Regulation No 25 1 on the financing of the com­ mon agricultural policy and the provisions adop­ Article 4 ted for the application of that Regulation shall apply to markets in the products listed in Article This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 1 ( 1 ) with effect from the implementation of this day following its publication in the Official Journal Regulation.' of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Luxembourg, 15 October 1968 .

For the Council

The President

G. SEDATI

1 OJ No 30 , 20.4.1962, p. 991/62 .

'ANNEX

List referred to in Article 1

(a) Premiums which are fixed at the time of the advance fixing of the levies, and which are added to the levies on : — products processed from cereals (Article 15 (3 ) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC); — products processed from rice ( Article 13 (3) of Regulation No 359/67/EEC) ;

(b) Additional amounts collected for a compound feedingstuff containing substantial amounts of products not coming under common organisation of the markets in cereals, rice or milk products : — milk-based compound feedingstuffs (Article 7 (1 ) of Regulation No 215/66/EEC1, amended by Regulation No 186/67/EEC) 2 ; — cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (Article 6 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 194/67/EEC) 3.

1 OJ No 235 , 22.12.1966, p. 3963/66. 2 OJ No 133 , 29.6.1967, p. 2789/67. 3 OJ No 133 , 29.6.1967, p. 2813/67.