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REGULATION ( EEC) No 185/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 24 January 1975 fixing the export levies on olive oil

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the Commission determines the cif price for COMMUNITIES , a Community frontier crossing point ; whereas this point was fixed by Council Regulation No 165/ 66/ EEC (8) of 27 October 1966 on price measures to be applied to olive oil for the 1966/67 marketing Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European year ; Economic Community ;

Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/ Whereas this price must be established on the basis of 66/EEC (') of 22 September 1966 on the establish­ the most favourable actual purchasing opportunities ; ment of a common organization of the market in oils whereas the Commission must, theoretically, take into and fats, as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No account all known offers for olive oil of the types 1707/73(2); listed in 1 and 4 of the Annex to Regulation No 136/ 66/ EEC made on the world market ; whereas, if there are no such offers or if such offers are not representa­ tive, the Commission must take account of all offers Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/ made on the wholesale markets in the Community 66/EEC (3) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and which are representative for the importation of these fats between the Community and Greece ; oils ;

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 applies must also be disregarded ; Whereas, pursuant to Article 18 of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC, a levy equal at most to the difference between prices on the world market and prices within Whereas, if no offers of the type mentioned above the Community may be charged on exports of olive have been made or if the offers made cannot be oil where the former are higher than the latter ; considered, the prices ruling on the domestic markets whereas the levy on unrefined olive oil may not of the main oil-producing and oil-exporting third exceed the difference between the cif price and the countries and on the Greek market should be taken market target price ; into account for the purpose of determining the cif price ; whereas in such cases those prices should be increased by marketing, loading, transport and insur­ Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1121 /74 (6) of ance costs ; 29 April 1974, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2496/74 (7), fixed the market target price and the inter­ vention price for olive oil for the 1974/75 marketing year ; Whereas , of the offers taken into consideration , C and F offers should , pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (') OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66 . ( EEC) No 1775/69 , be increased by 1 % ; whereas cif (2) OJ No L 175, 29 . 6 . 1973 , p. 5 . offers for frontier crossing points other than the one (3 ) OJ No 197, 29 . 10 . 1966, p. 3393/ 66 . referred to above should be adjusted for transport and (4 ) OJ No 130 , 28 . 6 . 1967, p. 2600/67. (*) OJ No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 . (6) OJ No L 128 , .5 . 10 . 1974, p. 7. (8 ) OJ No 197, 29 . 10 . 1966, p. 3399/66 . ( 7) OJ No L 268 , 3 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 . O OJ No L 109 , 15 . 5 . 1971 , p. 17.

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insurance costs ; whereas offers for delivery fas, fob or Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 of Commission Regula­ otherwise should be increased by transport and insur­ tion (EEC) No 616/72 (4) of 27 March 1972 on ance costs from the point of shipment or loading to detailed rules for the application of export refunds the abovementioned frontier crossing point and , in and levies on olive oil, as last amended by Regulation the case of fas offers, by loading costs ; (EEC) No 142/75 (5), the export levy on olive oil shall be fixed when the difference between the cif price and the price recorded on the Community market is Whereas, if the offers taken into consideration are such as to encourage exportation on a scale likely to offers on the Community market, they should be disturb the Community or the world market ; reduced by unloading or disembarkation costs, import duties and levies and, where appropriate, by forwarding or other costs incurred from the cif or free­ at-frontier stage to the marketing stage for which the offers were made ; Whereas, for the purposes of determining the price on the Community market, account shall be taken of Whereas, for the purpose of adjusting the offers taken quotations and prices on the most representative into consideration , the Commission should take markets for production and export ; whereas the account only of the costs which to its knowledge are export levy shall be adjusted in accordance with any the lowest ; changes in the situation ;

Whereas the cif price should be determined for the product presented in bulk.; whereas, if oil is presented otherwise than in bulk , the consequent increase in value should be deducted from the offers and the addi­ Whereas exports of olive oil falling within subheading tional cost to the importer added to them ; whereas 1 5.07 A, in immediate packings of a net capacity not offers for unfiltered oil , whether virgin , extra, fine or exceeding 5 kg, are not likely to cause disturbances on ordinary, should be increased by an amount which the Community market or the world market ; whereas allows for filtering costs ; there is therefore no need to fix export levies on such products ; Whereas, in order to obtain comparable information on oil of the type and quality for which the threshold 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, if the levy system is to operate normally, sions of Commission Regulation No 1 72/66/ EEC (') levies should be calculated on the following basis : fixing coefficients of equivalence for the different types and qualities of unrefined olive oil , as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 992/ 72 (2 ) ; whereas, in exceptional circumstances, different or in the case of currencies which are maintained in derived coefficients of equivalence may be applied for relation to each other, at any given moment, a limited period ; within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on their effective parity ; Whereas a comparison of the information thus obtained makes it possible to determine the most favourable offers on the world market ; whereas , if no for other currencies an exchange rate based on the offer can be considered for the purpose of deter­ arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each mining the cif price, the price previously taken into of these currencies recorded for a given period, in account should be maintained ; relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous subparagraph ;

Whereas the export levy on refined olive oil may not exceed the difference between the cif price and the market target price, this difference being adjusted as provided for in Article 2 or 3 , as the case may be, of Council Regulation ( EEC) No 443 / 72 (3 ) of 29 Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions February 1972 on the levies on refined olive oil and to the offer prices known to the Commission that the levies should be fixed as shown in the Table annexed on certain 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 . (>) OJ No L 54, 3 . 3 . 1972, p. 3 . (5 ) OJ No L 17, 22 . 1 . 1975 , p. 8 .

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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 27 January Table annexed to this Regulation . 1975 .

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

Done at Brussels , 24 January 1975 .

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.a. / 100 kg

1 1-100 ex 15.07 A la) ex 15.07 A lb) 14-900 ex 15.07 A II 10-000