31974R0262

No 1 28/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 2 . 74

REGULATION (EEC) No 262/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 29 January 1974 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN relating to them in respect of cereal-based compound COMMUNITIES, feedingstuffs must be reduced by the amount of the fixed component, in accordance with Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 522/70 (5) of 17 March 1970 on the treatment to be accorded to pro­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ ducts processed from cereals and rice originating in pean Economic Community ; the Associated African States and Madagascar or in the Overseas Countries and Territories, and with Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/ Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 653/71 (®) EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ of 30 March 1971 on the treatment to be ac­ tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by corded to products processed from cereals and rice Regulation (EEC ) No 1346/73 (2 ), and in particular originating in the United Republic of Tanzania, the Article 14 (4) thereof ; Republic of Uganda and the Republic of Kenya, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1036/72 (7) ;

Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, Committee ; levies should be calculated on the following basis :

— in the case of currencies which are maintained in Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the relation to each other, at any given moment, variable component of the import levy on com­ within a band of 2-25 %>, a rate of exchange pound feedingstuffs are laid down in Article 14 ( 1 ) based on their effective parity ; (A) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC ; whereas the inci­ dence of the levies applicable to the basic products — for other currencies an exchange rate based on of compound feedingstuffs on their prime costs the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates should be determined, in pursuance of Article 4 of of each of these currencies recorded for a given Council Regulation (EEC ) No 968/68 (3 ) of 15 July period, in relation to the Community currencies 1968 on the system to be applied to cereal-based referred to in the previous subparagraph ; compound feedingstuffs, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2196/69 (4), on the basis of the average of Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­ the levies applicable during the first 25 days of the tion No 120/67/EEC, the nomenclature provided for month preceding the month of importation to the in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common quantities of basic products considered to have been Customs Tariff ; 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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : ing during the month of importation ;

Article 1 Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the fixed component, is valid for one month ; whereas The import levies to be charged on the compound the amount of the fixed component of the levy is feedingstuffs covered by Regulation No 120/67/EEC specified in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 968/ and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 968/68 are 68 ; fixed hereby as shown in the Annex to this Regu­ lation . Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the interests of the Associated African States and Mada­ Article 2 gascar, of the Overseas Countries and Territories and of the United Republic of Tanzania, the Repub­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February lic of Uganda and the Republic of Kenya, the levy 1974 .

(*) OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p . 2269/67. (*) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p. 8 . (5) OJ No L 65, 21 . 3 . 1970, p. 10. (*) OJ No L 166, 17. 7. 1968 , p. 2. ( 6) OJ No L 76, 31 . 3 . 1971 , p. 2 . («) OJ No L 279, 6. 11 . 1969, p. 1 . (7 ) OJ No L 118 , 20. 5 . 1972, p. 18.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 January 1974.

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 °/o or less by weight of starch : 23.07 B I a) 1 — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10°/o by 0-900 0 weight of such products 23.07 B I a) 2 — Containing 10% or more but less than 50% by weight of 10-150 9-250 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 0-900 0 23.07 B I b) 1 weight of such products — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk 10-150 9-250 23.07 B I b ) 2 products

Containing more than 30 % by weight of starch : 23.07 B I c) 1 — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10% by 0-900 0 weight of such products 23.07 B I c) 2 — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk 10-150 9-250 products