31976R0576

15 . 3 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 69 / 13

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 576/76 of 15 March 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 possible be kept at a uniform level to ensure the COMMUNITIES, stability of the market ; whereas, these levies may nevertheless be altered, and are in particular to be Having regard to the Treaty of Accession (*) and to adjusted where this is necessary to permit steady sales Protocol 1 8 (2) (hereinafter called the 'Protocol') to the of the annual quantities specified in Article 1 (2) of Act annexed thereto, the Protocol ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas, in order not to endanger the sale of Commu­ 226/73 of 31 January 1973 laying down general rules nity butter and cheese, the special levies must not be for imports of New Zealand butter and cheese into lower than the level necessary to permit the annual the United Kingdom (3), as amended by Regulation quantities specified in Article 1 (2) of the Protocol to (EEC) No 3145/74 of 9 December 1974 (4), and in be sold ; particular Article 8 thereof, Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the Whereas pursuant to Article 2 ( 1 ) of the Protocol situation on the British market that the special levies special levies are applied to New Zealand butter and should be fixed at the levels indicated below ; cheese imported into the United Kingdom under that Protocol ; Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products, has not delivered an opinion within Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of the Protocol and the time limit set by its Chairman, to Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 226/73 these special levies are fixed on the basis of the difference between : HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

— the market price at which the annual quantities Article 1 specified in Article 1 (2) of the Protocol can actu­ ally be sold, and The special levies referred to in Article 2 of Protocol 1 8 are hereby fixed at : — the cif price fixed in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 226/73, plus costs incurred between the cif — 54-72 u.a./ 100 kg for butter, and first sale stages ; — 66-61 u.a./ 100 kg for cheese.

Whereas Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 226/73 Article 2 provides that the special levies should be fixed at a level such that the butter and cheese in question can This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 March be sold at a consistent rate and should as far as 1976 .

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

Done at Brussels, 15 March 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.