31976R2285

No L 258 /6 Official Journal of the European Communities 22 . 9 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2285 /76

of 21 September 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 (*), adjusted where this is necessary to permit steady sales Having regard to Protocol 18 (2) to the Act annexed of the annual quantities specified in Article 1 (2) of thereto, the Protocol ;

Whereas, in order not to endanger the sale of Commu­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No nity butter and cheese, the special levies must not be 226/73 of 31 January 1973 laying down general rules lower than the level necessary to permit the annual for imports of New Zealand butter and cheese into quantities specified in Article 1 (2) of the Protocol to the United Kingdom (3), as amended by Regulation be sold ; ( EEC) No 3145/74 of 9 December 1974 (4), and in particular Article 8 thereof, Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the situation on the British market that the special levies Whereas pursuant to Article 2 ( 1 ) of the Protocol should be fixed at the levels indicated below ; special levies are applied to New Zealand butter and cheese imported into the United Kingdom under that Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Protocol ; are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ 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 special levies are fixed on the basis of the difference HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : between :

Article 1 — the market price at which the annual quantities specified in Article 1 (2) of the Protocol can actu­ The special levies referred to in Article 2 of Protocol ally be sold, and 1 8 are hereby fixed at : — the cif price fixed in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) — 58-79 u.a./ lOO kg for butter, No 226/73, plus costs incurred between the cif and first sale stages ; — 55-48 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 22 be sold at a consistent rate and should as far as September 1976.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 September 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.