31973R1523
No L 152/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 8 . 6 . 73
REGULATION (EEC) No 1523/73 OF THE COMMISSION
of 7 June 1973
fixing the import levies on olive oil
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the threshold price and the standard COMMUNITIES , amount are fixed by the Council every year ; whereas they have been fixed for the 1972/73 marketing Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro year by Council Regulation (EEC ) No 2322/72 (9) pean Economic Community ; of 31 October 1972 fixing the threshold price for olive oil for the 1972/73 marketing year and by Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/ Council Regulation (EEC) No 2319/72 ( 10) of EEC (*) of 22 September 1966 on the establishment 31 October 1972 on the standard amount for unre of a common organization of the market in oils and fined olive oil produced entirely in Greece and trans fats, as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the ported directly from that country into the Commu Treaty ( 3) on the Accession of new Member States nity ; to the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Whereas the Commission determines the cif price Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular and the free-at-frontier price in relation to a Com Article 13 (4 ) thereof ; munity frontier crossing point ; whereas this cross ing point was fixed by Council Regulation No 165/ Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/66/ 66/EEC ( n ) of 27 October 1966 on price measures to EEC (4 ) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and fats be applied to olive oil for the 1966/67 marketing between the Community and Greece, and in particu year ; lar Articles 3 (4) and 9 thereof ;
Whereas those prices must be established on the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 443 / basis of the most favourable actual purchasing oppor 72 (5) of 29 February 1972 on the levies on refined tunities ; whereas the Commission must, theoreti olive oil and on certain products containing olive cally, take into account all offers for olive oil of the oil, and in particular Article 9 thereof ; types listed in 1 and 4 of the Annex to Regulation Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No No 136/66/EEC made on the world market and on 2165/70 (6) of 27 October 1970 on imports of olive the Greek market ; whereas, if there are no such of oil from Tunisia, as amended by Regulation (EEC ) fers or if such offers are not representative, the Com No 2277/71 (7), and in particular Article 5 thereof ; mission must take account of all offers made on the wholesale markets in the Community which are Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 463 / representative for the importation ( from the world 71 (8) of 1 March 1971 on imports of olive oil from market and the Greek market) of these oils ; Morocco, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2277/ 71 , and in particular Article 5 thereof ; Whereas Article 2 (2 ) of Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 1004/71 ( 12) of 14 May 1971 , amended by Whereas Article 13 of Regulation No 136 / 66/ EEC Regulation ( EEC) No 486/73 ( 13), on the fixing and Article 3 of Regulation No 162/66/EEC requires of levies on unrefined olive oil provides, however, the Commission to fix a levy on unrefined olive oil that the Commission must disregard offers for pro imported into the Community ; ducts of mediocre quality, long-dated offers, and of Whereas, in the case of imports subject to Article 13 fers for small lots and lots presented in small con of Regulation No 136/ 66/EEC and to Article 9 of tainers ; whereas offers which are considered not to Regulation No 162/66/EEC, the levy is equal to the be representative of the real trend of the market and difference between the threshold price and the cif those to which Article 13 (3 ) of Regulation No 136/ price ; whereas, in the case of imports subject to 66/EEC applies must also be disregarded ; Article 3 of Regulation No 162/66/EEC, the levy is equal to the difference between the threshold price Whereas, if no offers of the type mentioned above and the free-at-frontier price, less a standard have been made or if the offers made cannot be amount : considered, the prices ruling on the domestic mar kets of the main oil-producing and oil-exporting third countries and on the Greek market should be (!) OJ No 172, 30. 9 . 1966 , p . 3025/66 . (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14 . (3) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 . (4) OJ No 197, 29 . 10. 1966, p . 3393 /66 . (») OJ No L 249, 4 . 11 . 1972, p . 3 . (5) OJ No L 54, 3 . 3 . 1972 , p . 3 . ( 10) OJ No L 248 , 1 . 11 . 1972, p . 69 . {•) OJ No L 238 , 29 . 10. 1970, p . 4 . (") OJ No 197, 29 . 10. 1966, p . 3399/66 . (7) OJ No L 241 , 27 . 10 . 1971 , p . 2 . ( 12) OJ No L 109 , 15 . 5 . 1971 , p . 17. (8) OJ No L 53 , 5 . 3 . 1971 , p . 9 . ( 13) OJ No L 48 , 21 . 2 . 1973 , p . 10.
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taken into account for the purpose of determining equivalence for the different types and qualities of the cif price and the free-at-frontier price ; whereas unrefined olive oil, as last amended by Regulation in such cases those prices should be increased by ( EEC) No 992/72 (2 ) ; whereas, in exceptional cir marketing, loading, transport and insurance costs ; cumstances, different or derived coefficients of equi valence may be applied for a limited period ;
Whereas , of the offers taken into consideration, c and f offers should, pursuant to Article 4 of Regu Whereas a comparison of the information thus ob lation ( EEC ) No 1004/71 , be increased by 1 °/o ; tained makes it possible to determine the most fa vourable offers on both the world market and on whereas cif offers for frontier crossing points other the Greek market ; than the one referred to above should be adjusted for transport and insurance costs ; whereas offers for delivery fas, fob or otherwise should be increased by transport and insurance costs from the point of ship Whereas, if no offer can be considered for the pur ment or loading to the abovementioned frontier pose of determining the cif price and the free-at crossing point and, in the case of fas offers, by load frontier price, the price previously taken into ac ing costs ; count should be maintained ;
Whereas, if the offers taken into consideration are Whereas, when the levies on refinded (olive) oil, on offers on the Community market, they should be re olives falling within subheadings Nos 07.01 N II and duced by unloading or disembarkation costs, import 07.03 A II and on the products listed in Article 1 (2) duties and levies and, where appropriate, by for ( e) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC are being calcu warding or other costs incurred from the cif or free lated, the adjustment provided for in Articles 2, 3 , 5 at-frontier stage to the marketing stage for which ( 1 ) and Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 443/72 the offers were made ; should be applied to the levies previously defined and, in the case of those same products produced entirely in Greece and transported directly from that country into the Community, the adjustments pro Whereas, for the purpose of adjusting the offers vided for in Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 162/66/ taken into consideration, the Commission should EEC and Articles 4, 5 ( 2 ) and 7 of Regulation (EEC) take account only of the costs which to its know No 443/72 ; ledge are the lowest ;
Whereas the fixed component of the levy determined pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation No 136/66/ Whereas the cif price and the free-at-frontier price EEC is not charged on imports of refined olive oil should be determined for the product presented in produced entirely in Tunisia or Morocco and trans bulk ; whereas, if oil is presented otherwise than i < ported directly from those countries into the Com bulk, the consequent increase in value should be de ducted from the offers for unfiltered oil , whether vir munity ; gin, extra fine or ordinary, and should be increased by an amount which allows for filtering costs ;
Whereas Article 5 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 443/72 provides that the levy on olives falling within subheadings Nos 07.01 N II and 07.03 A II should Whereas, in order to obtain comparable information be reduced by the amount resulting from the applica on oil of the type and quality for which the threshold tion of the customs duty to the value of the im price was fixed, it is necessary to deduct or ported product ; whereas that amount was fixed at a add to the offers considered, according to the type standard rate by Commission Regulation (EEC) No and quality in question, the values resulting from 617/72 ( 3 ) on determining the incidence of customs the provisions of Commission Regulation No 172/66/ duty on imports of certains olives : EEC i 1 ) of 5 November 1966 fixing coefficients of
(*) OJ No L 115 , 17. 5 . 1972, p. 7. (*) OJ No 202 , 7. 11 . 1966, p . 3482/66. (s) OJ No L 78 , 31 . 3 . 1972, p . 3 .
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Whereas the levy on unrefined olive oil falling in respect of these imports -and these imports only, within subheading No 15.07 A II of the Common whereas this situation exists at present for offers of Customs Tariff, produced entirely in Spain, Tunisia virgin olive oil sold in small containers originating or Morocco and transported directly from those in or coming from Spain, whereas it is therefore de countries into the Community is defined in Council sirable to fix a special levy for these imports ; Regulation ( EEC ) No 2164/70 (*) of 27 October Whereas, if the levy sysitem is to operate normally, 1970 on imports of olive oil from Spain, as amended levies should be calculated on the following basis : by Regulation (EEC) No 2277/71 and by Regula tions (EEC ) No 2165 /70 and (EEC ) No 463 /71 ; — in the oase of currencies which are 'maintained in whereas the levy to be charged on products other relation to each other, at any given moment, than those defined in the abovementioned Re within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange gulations is calculated in' accordance with Article 13 based on their effective parity ; of Regulation No 136/66/EEC ; — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates Whereas, in accordance with Article 42 ( a) of Regu of each of these currencies recorded for a given lation No 136/66/EEC, the nomenclature provided period, in relation to the Community currencies for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Com referred to in the previous subparagraph ; mon Customs Tariff ; Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee Whereas the levies should be fixed as frequently r was requested ; is necessary to ensure stability of the Community Whereas it follows from applying all these provi market and in such a way as to ensure that they can sions to the offer prices known to the Commission be applied at least once a week ; whereas the levies that the levies should be fixed as shown in the Table previously fixed should be retained where variations annexed to this Regulation ; in the factors used to calculate the levy would lead to an increase or reduction of less than 0-50 unit of account in such levies ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, however, levies cannot be fixed in accor Article 1 dance with this periodicity in the case of the applica The import levies referred to in Article 13 of Regula tion of the export levies referred to in Article 18 of tion No 136/66/EEC, Article 3 of Regulation No Regulation No 136/66/EEC and during the whole of 162/66/EEC, Artiole 9 of Regulation (EEC) No the period in which these export levies apply ; 443/72, Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 2165/70
and Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 463 /71 are Whereas Article 13 (3 ) of Regulation No 136/66/ hereby fixed as shown in the Table annexed to this EEC provides that where free quotations on the Regulation. world market are not a determining factor for the Article 2 offer price and where this price is lower than world market prices, a price determined on the basis of This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 June the offer price shall be substituted for the cif price 1973 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 7 June 1973 .
For the Commission
P. J. LARDINOIS
Member of the Commission
I1 ) OJ No L 238 , 29 . 10. 1970, p . 3 .
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ANNEX I
Levies on imports effected from 8 June 1973 in u.a./lOO kg
Products entirely obtained in one of these Products not entirely obtained CCT in Greece or not transported Third countries and transported directly from one heading of these countries to the Community from that country to the Com countries No munity Greece Morocco Tunisia
07.01 N II 0 0 0 0 0 07.03 A II 0 0 0 0 0 15.07 A I a) 0 0 0 3-200 3-200 15.07 A I b) 0 0 0 6-000 6-000 15.07 A II 0 o 0 ) o n 0 0 (2)(3) 15.17 A I 0 0 0 0 0 15.17 A II 0 0 0 0 0 23.04 A 0 0 0 0 0
(') The levy to be charged on imports of this product is defined in Council Regulations (EEC) No 2165/70 and (EEC) No 463/71 and in Commission Regulations (EEC) No 2495/71 and (EEC) No 2697/71 . (') The levy to be charged on imports of olive oil other than refined , entirely obtained in Spain or in Turkey and transported directly from one of these countries to the Community, is defined in Council Regulations (EEC) No 2164/70 and (EEC) No 1235/71 . (') Subject to the special levy fixed by Article 13 (3 ) of Regulation 136/ 66/EEC .
ANNEX 11
Special levy applicable to imports effected from 8 June 1973
Amount in CCT heading No Description of goods u. a. / 100 kg
ex 15.07 A II Virgin olive oil in immediate packings of a net capacity of 5 kg or less originating or coming from Spain 14-121