31976R1017

No L 115/58 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 5. 76

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1017/76 of 30 April 1976 on a special detailed rule for the application, for the United Kingdom , of acces­ sion compensatory amounts to prevent deflections of trade in the pigmeat sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas this amount must be levied in accordance COMMUNITIES, with certain provisions of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 645/75 of 13 March 1975 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the Having regard to the Treaty of Accession (1 ), export levies and charges on agricultural products (5) ;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ 2770/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general ment Committee for Pigmeat, rules for the system of accession compensatory amounts for pigmeat (2), and in particular Article 8 ( 1 ),

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Article 6 of the said Regulation provided that, in trade between the new Member States and third countries in products covered by Council Regula­ Article 1 tion (EEC) No 2759/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the market in pigmeat (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 367/76 (4), the This Regulation shall apply to the products referred to accession compensatory amounts are to be deducted in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75, from the levies or refunds ; whereas, however, when except for those products listed in the Annex hereto. the refund is lower than the compensatory amount or has not been fixed, then, when the product in ques­ tion is exported to a third country provision may be Article 2 made for the new Member State in question to levy an amount which may be equal to the accession compen­ satory amount applicable to the said product ; 1 . If an accession compensatory amount is fixed for a given product and if the refund has not been fixed or is lower than such compensatory amount, an Whereas Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2770/75 amount equal to the accession compensatory amount provides that the detailed rules for the granting levy or, as the case may be, the difference between the and recovery of the accession compensatory amounts accession compensatory amount and the refund shall shall be such as to prevent in particular deflection of be levied in the United Kingdom when the said trade ; product is exported to a third country.

2. The levying of the amounts referred to in para­ Whereas no refund has been fixed for a number of graph 1 shall be subject to the provisions of Articles 2, products in the pigmeat sector ; whereas for certain 3 (2) and (3), 4 and 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 645/75. other products the refund is lower than the accession compensatory amount ; whereas, however, when these products are imported into the United Kingdom from Article 3 other Member States, they benefit from the granting of an accession compensatory amount ; whereas this state of affairs can cause deflection of trade, whereas This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its an amount equal to the accession compensatory publication in the Official Journal of the European amount applicable to such products should therefore Communities. be levied when they are exported from the United Kingdom to third countries ; It shall apply to transactions for which customs export formalities are carried out from 1 May to 31 July ( 1 ) OJ No L 73, 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5. 1976 . (2) OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 46 . (3) OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . 4) OJ No L 45, 21 . 2. 1976, p. 1 . (5) OJ No L 67, 14. 3 . 1975, p. 16.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 April 1976.

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

ANNEX

CCT heading Description of goods No

16.01 Sausages and the like, of meat, offal or animal blood

16.02 Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal : A. Liver : II . Other B. Other : III . Other : a) containing meat or offals of domestic swine