31975R0207

No L 22/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 1 . 75

REGULATION ( EEC) No 207 / 75 OF THE COMMISSION of 28 January 1975 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the price of the relevant quantity of feed COMMUNITIES, grain does not vary by 3 % or more from that used for the preceding quarter ; whereas the sluice-gate prices should therefore be maintained unchanged until 30 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European April 1975 ; Economic Community ; Whereas when the levies applicable from 1 November, 1 February and 1 May respectively are Having regard to Council Regulation No 121 / being fixed changes in world market prices for feed 67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ grain should be taken into account only if at the same tion of the market in pigmeat, as last amended by time a new sluice-gate price is fixed ; Regulation ( EEC) No 1861 /74 (2), and in particular Articles 8 and 12 ( 1 ) thereof ; Whereas, since no new sluice-gate price is to be fixed , the levies should accordingly be maintained unchanged until 30 April 1975 ; Whereas sluice-gate prices for pig carcases and for the other products specified in Article 1 of Council Regu­ Whereas in the case of products falling within any of lation No 134/67/ EEC (3 ) of 13 June 1967 esta­ subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7, 15.01 A I , 16.01 A or 16.02 A II of the Common Customs Tariff and in blishing the list of products for which sluice-gate prices are fixed and adopting the rules for fixing the respect of which the rate of duty has been bound within GATT the levies should be limited to the sluice-gate prices for pig carcases , as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 31 58 / 73 (4 ), and levies for the amounts resulting from that binding ; products specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 121 / 67/ EEC, must be fixed in advance for each Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation quarter in accordance with the methods of calculation are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Pigmeat, laid down in Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 1961 /74 ( 5 ) of 25 July 1974 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies on pigmeat, as amended by Regula­ tion (EEC) No 2518 /74 (b); HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas, since sluice-gate prices and levies for Article 1 pigmeat were by Regulation (EEC) No 2740/74 ( 7) last fixed for the period 1 November 1974 to 31 January 1 . The sluice-gate prices provided for in Article 12 1975, they must be fixed anew for the period 1 of Regulation No 121 / 67/ EEC for the products speci­ February to 30 April 1975 ; whereas such prices and fied in Article 1 of Regulation No 134/ 67/ EEC and levies should in principle be fixed by reference to feed the levies provided for in Article 8 of Regulation No grain prices for the period 1 May to 31 October 1975 ; 121 / 67/ EEC for the products specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation shall for the period I February to 30 April 1975 be as shown in the Annexes to Regula­ Whereas when the sluice-gate prices applicable from tion ( EEC) No 1961 / 74, as amended by Regulation 1 November, 1 February and 1 May respectively are ( EEC) No 2518 / 74 . being fixed changes in world market prices for feed grain should be taken into account only if the price of 2. Provided that in the case of products falling the quantity of feed grain required varies by at least a within any of subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7 of the specified minimum in relation to that used in calcu­ Common Customs Tariff, or within subheading 15.01 lating the sluice-gate price for the preceding quarter ; A I , 16.01 A or 16.02 A II thereof, in respect of which whereas this minimum was fixed by Regulation No the rate of duty has been bound within GATT the 134/ 67/ EEC at 3 % ; levy shall not exceed the amount resulting from that binding . (') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2283 / 67. (2 ) OJ No L 197, 19 . 7 . 1974, p. 3 . (3 ) OJ No 120, 21 . 6. 1967, p. 2367/ 67 . Article 2 (4) OJ No L 322, 23 . 11 . 1973 , p. 1 . (5 ) OJ No L 204, 26 . 7 . 1974, p. 44 . (6) OJ No L 270 , 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February ( 7) OJ No L 292, 31 . 10 . 1974, p. 28 . 1 975 .

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

Done at Brussels, 28 January 1975 . For the Com mission P. J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission