31976R0359

20 . 2 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 44/ 17

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 359/ 76 of 19 February 1976 fixing the special levies applicable to New Zealand butter and cheese imported into the United Kingdom under Protocol 18

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN be sold at a consistent rate and should as far as COMMUNITIES, possible be kept at a uniform level to ensure the stability of the market ; whereas, these levies may Having regard to the Treaty (') concerning the acces­ nevertheless be altered, and are in particular to be sion of new Member States to the European Economic adjusted where this is necessary to permit steady sales Community and to the European Atomic Energy of the annual quantities specified in Article 1 (2) of Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, the Protocol ; and to Protocol 1 8 (2) (hereinafter called the 'Protocol') to the Act annexed thereto ; Whereas, in order not to endanger the sale of Commu­ nity butter and cheese, the special levies must not be Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No lower than the level necessary to permit the annual 226/73 of 31 January 1973 laying down general rules quantities specified in Article t (2) of the Protocol to for imports of New Zealand butter and cheese into be sold ; the United Kingdom (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3145/74 of 9 December 1974 (4), and in Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the particular Article 8 thereof ; situation on the British market that the special levies should be fixed at the levels indicated below ; Whereas pursuant to Article 2 ( 1 ) of the Protocol special levies are applied to New Zealand butter and Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation cheese imported into the United Kingdom under that are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ Protocol ; ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of the Protocol and to Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 226/73 these HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : special levies are fixed on the basis of the difference between : Article 1 — the market price at which the annual quantities The special levies referred to in Article 2 of Protocol specified in Article 1 (2) of the Protocol can actu­ 1 8 are hereby fixed at : ally be sold , and — 32-95 u.a./ 100 kg for butter, — the cif price fixed in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 226/73 , plus costs incurred between the cif — 92-87 u.a./ 100 kg for cheese. and first sale stages ; Article 2 Whereas Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 226/73 provides that the special levies should be fixed at a This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 February level such that the butter and cheese in question can 1976 .

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

Done at Brussels, 19 February 1976 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5. (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 173 . (3 ) OJ No L 27, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 17 . (4) OJ No L 334, 14. 12 . 1974, p. 7.