31974R2762
No L 294/48 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 11 . 74
REGULATION ( EEC) No 2762/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 31 October 1974 fixing the export levies on olive oil
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN be applied to olive oil for the 1966/67 marketing COMMUNITIES, year ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas this price must be established on the basis of the most favourable actual purchasing opportunities ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/ whereas the Commission must, theoretically, take into 66/EEC (!) of 22 September 1966 on the establish account all known offers for olive oil of the types ment of a common organization of the market in oils listed in 1 and 4 of the Annex to Regulation No 136/ and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 66/EEC made on the world market ; whereas, if there 1707/73 (2); are no such offers or if such offers are not representa tive, the Commission must take account of all offers made on the wholesale markets in the Community Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/ which are representative for the importation of these 66/EEC (3) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and oils ; fats between the Community and Greece ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 171 / 67/EEC (4) of 27 June 1967 on export refunds and Whereas Article 2 (2) of Commission Regulation levies on olive oil, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1004/71 (9) of 14 May 1971 on the fixing of (EEC) No 2429/72 (5), and in particular Article 10 (3) levies on unrefined olive oil provides, however, that thereof ; the Commission must disregard offers for products of mediocre quality, long-dated offers, and offers for small lots and lots presented in small containers ; Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary whereas offers which are considered not to be repre Committee ; sentative of the real trend of the market and those to which Article 13 (3) of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC Whereas, pursuant to Article 18 of Regulation No applies must also be disregarded ; 136/66/EEC, a levy equal at most to the difference between prices on the world market and prices within the Community may be charged on exports of olive Whereas, if no offers of the type mentioned above oil where the former are higher than the latter ; have been made or if the offers made cannot be whereas the levy on unrefined olive oil is equal to the considered, the prices ruling on the domestic markets difference between the cif price and the market target of the main oil-producing and oil-exporting third price ; countries and on the Greek market should be taken into account for the purpose of determining the cif Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 11 21 /74 (6) of price ; whereas in such cases those prices should be 29 April 1974, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No increased by marketing, loading, transport and insur 2496/74 (7), fixed the market target price and the inter ance costs : vention price for olive oil for the 1974/75 marketing year ;
Whereas, of the offers taken into consideration , C and Whereas the Commission determines the cif price for F offers should, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation a Community frontier crossing point ; whereas this (EEC) No 1775/69, be increased by 1 % ; whereas cif point was fixed by Council Regulation No 165/ offers for frontier crossing points other than the one 66/ EEC (8) of 27 October 1966 on price measures to referred to above should be adjusted for transport and insurance costs ; whereas offers for delivery fas , fob or (•) OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66. (2) OJ No L 175, 29 . 6. 1973, p. 5. otherwise should be increased by transport and insur (3) OJ No 197, 29 . 10. 1966, p. 3393 /66. ance costs from the point of shipment or loading to (4) OJ No 130, 28 . 6. 1967, p . 2600/67. the abovementioned frontier crossing point and, in (5) OJ No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 . the case of fas offers, by loading costs ; (6) OJ No L 128 , 5 . 10. 1974, p. 7 . O OJ No L 268 , 3 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 . (8) OJ No 197, 29. 10 . 1966, p . 3399/66. (9) OJ No L 109, 15 . 5 . 1971 , p. 17.
1 . 11 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 294/49
whereas, if the offers taken into consideration are Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Commission Regula offers on the Community market, they should be tion (EEC) No 616/72 (4) of 27 March 1972 on reduced by unloading or disembarkation costs, import detailed rules for the application of export refunds duties and levies and, where appropriate, by and levies on olive oil, as amended by Regulation forwarding or other costs incurred from the cif or free (EEC) No 2563/72 (5), exports of olive oil falling at-frontier stage to the marketing stage for -which the within subheading 1 5.07 A I of the Common offers were made ; Customs Tariff and subheading 15.07 A II a) referred to in the first indent of Article 2 of that Regulation , in immediate packings of a net capacity not exceeding 5 kg, are granted an exemption from the levy Whereas, for the purpose of adjusting the offers taken amounting to seven units of account per 100 kg of oil into consideration , the Commission should take exported ; account only of the costs which to its knowledge are the lowest ; Whereas no export levies are fixed for olive oil falling within subheading 15.07 A of the Common Customs Tariff, in immediate packings of a net capacity of Whereas the cif price should be determined for the more than 5 kg, unless the difference referred to in product presented in bulk ; whereas, if oil is presented the first subparagraph of Article 10 (2) of Regulation otherwise than in bulk, the consequent increase in value should be deducted from the offers and the addi No 171 / 67/ EEC is 2-5 units of account or more ; whereas no export levy is fixed for olive oil falling tional cost to the importer added to them ; whereas within subheadings 15.07 A I and 15.07 A II a), in offers for unfiltered oil, whether virgin, extra, fine or immediate packings of a net capacity not exceeding 5 Ordinary, should be increased by an amount which kg, unless exports of this oil are likely to cause distur allows for filtering costs ; bances on the Community market or the world market ; whereas the levies are fixed as frequently as is necessary to ensure stability of the Community market and in such a way as to ensure that they can Whereas, in order to obtain comparable information on oil of the type and quality for which the threshold be applied at least once a week ; price was fixed, it is necessary to deduct from or add to the offers considered, according to the type and quality in question, the values resulting from the provi Whereas the levies previously fixed should be retained sions of Commission Regulation No 172/66/EEC (^ where variations in the factors used to calculate the fixing coefficients of equivalence for the different levy would lead to an increase or reduction of less types and qualities of unrefined olive oil, as last than 0-50 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes in amended by Regulation (EEC) No 992/72 (2) ; such levies ; whereas, in exceptional circumstances, different or derived coefficients of equivalence may be applied for a limited period ; Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas a comparison of the information thus — in the case of currencies which are maintained in obtained makes it possible to determine the most relation to each other, at any given moment, favourable offers on the world market ; whereas, if no within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based offer can be considered for the purpose of deter on their effective parity ; mining the cif price, the price previously taken into account should be maintained ; — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period, in relation to the Community currencies referred to Whereas the export levy on refined olive oil is equal in the previous subparagraph ; to the difference between the cif price and the market target price, this difference being adjusted as provided for in Articles 2 or 3 , as the case may be, of Council Regulation (EEC) No 443/72 (3) of 29 February 1972 Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions on the levies on refined olive oil and on certain to .the offer prices known to the Commission that the levies should be fixed as shown in the Table annexed products containing olive oil ; to this Regulation , (») OJ No 202, 7. 11 . 1966, p . 3482/ 66. (2) OJ No L 115, 17 . 5 . 1972, p. 7 . (4) OJ No L 78 , 31 . 3 . 1972, p. 1 . P) OJ No L 54, 3 . 3 . 1972, p. 3 . (5 OJ No L 274, 7 . 12 . 1 972, p. 1 1 .
No L 294/50 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 11 . 74
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : The levies shall apply to products falling within subheading 15.07 A in immediate packings of a net Article 1 capacity exceeding 5 kg. Article 2 The export levies referred to in Article 18 of Regula tion No 136/66/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November Table annexed to this Regulation . 1974 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 31 October 1974. For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission
ANNEX Levies on olive oil to third countries and Greece
CCT heading No Amounts in u. «. / 100 kg
ex 15.07 A I a ) 70-023 ex 15.07 A I b ) 93-995
ex 15.07 A II 63-084