31973R0852

No L 85/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 3 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 852/73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 28 March 1973 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the COMMUNITIES, interests of the Associated African States and Mada­ gascar, of the Overseas Countries and Territories and of the United Republic of Tanzania, the Repub­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ lic of Uganda and the Republic of Kenya, the levy pean Economic Community ; relating to them in respect of cereal-based compound feedingstuffs must be reduced by the amount of the fixed component, in accordance with Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 522/70 (fl) of 17 Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/ March 1970 on the treatment to be accorded to pro­ EEC ( l) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ ducts processed from cereals and rice originating in tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the Associated African States and Madagascar or in the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession the Overseas Countries and Territories, and with of new Member States to the European Economic Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 653/71 (7) Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­ of 30 March 1971 on the treatment to be ac­ munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and corded to products processed from cereals and rice in particular Article 14 (4) thereof ; originating in the United Republic of Tanzania, the Republic of Uganda and the Republic of Kenya, as Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1036/72 (8) ; Committee ; Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies should be calculated on the basis of an exchange rate which is based, in the oase of currencies Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the which are floating or whose central rate differs from variable component of the import levy on com­ the official parity, on the effective rate or the pound feedingstuffs are laid down in Article 14 ( 1 ) central rate of these currencies and, in the case of (A) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC ; whereas the inci­ the US dollar, on the change in parity announced dence of the levies applicable to the basic products on 13 February 1973 ; of compound feedingstuffs on their prime costs should be determined, in pursuance of Article 4 of Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­ Council Regulation (EEC) No 968/68 (4) of 15 July tion No 120/67/EEC, the nomenclature provided for 1968 on the system to be applied to cereal-based in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common compound feedingstuffs, as amended by Regulation Customs Tariff ; (EEC) No 2196/69 (5), on the basis of the average of the levies applicable during the fitst 25 days of the month preceding the month of importation to the quantities of basic products considered to have been HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : used in the manufacture of such compound feeding­ stuffs, this average being adjusted on the basis of the threshold price for the basic products in question rul­ Article 1 ing during the month of importation ; The import levies to be charged on the compound feedingstuffs covered by Regulation No 120/67/EEC Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 968/68 are fixed component, is valid for one month ; whereas fixed hereby as shown in the Annex to this Regu­ the amount of the fixed component of the levy is lation . specified in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 968/ 68 : Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1973 .

(*) OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67. (2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (8) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 . (6) OJ No L 65, 21 . 3 . 1970, p. 10. (4) OJ No L 166, 17. 7. 1968 , p. 2 . ( 7) OJ No L 76, 31.3 . 1971 , p. 2 . (s) OJ No L 279, 6. 11 . 1969, p. 1 . (8) OJ No L 118 , 20. 5 . 1972, p. 18 .

31 . 3 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 85/21

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

Done at Brussels, 28 March 1973 .

For the Commission

P. J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Levies in u.a. /100 kg

Third countries (other than AASM , OCT, CCT heading No Nomenclature in simplified wording AASM , OCT, Tanzania , Tanzania , Uganda and Uganda and Kenya Kenya)

Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by Regulation (EEC) No 968/68 , containing starch, glucose or glucose „, syrup falling within subheadings Nos 17.02 B and 17.05 B, or milk products (falling within headings Nos 04.01 , 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04, and subheadings 17.02 A and 17.05 A) containing starch, glucose or glucose syrup :

Containing no starch or containing 10% or less by weight of starch : — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10% by 1-538 0-638 23.07 B I a) 1 weight of such products — Containing 10% or more but less than 50% by weight of 14-313 13-413 23.07 B L a) 2 milk products

Containing more than 10% but not more than 30% by weight of starch : — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10% by 2-894 1-994 23.07 B lb ) 1 weight of such products — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk 15-669 14-769 23.07 B I b) 2 · products

Containing more than 30 % by weight of starch : 4-887 3-987 23.07 B I c) 1 — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10% by weight of such products 23.07 B I c) 2 — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk 17-662 16-762 products