31976R2989

No L 341 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 10 . 12. 76

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2989/76 of 9 December 1976 fixing additional amounts for live and slaughtered poultry

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No COMMUNITIES, 2474/70 (7), the import levies on slaughtered turkeys originating in and coming from Poland are not Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European increased by an additional amount ; Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­ 2164/72 (8), the import levies on slaughtered fowls and geese originating in and coming from Bulgaria are not tion of the market in poultrymeat (!), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 369/76 (2), and in particular increased by an additional amount ; Article 8 (4) thereof, Whereas the regular review of the information serving Whereas if, for a given product, the free-at-frontier as a basis for the determination of average offer prices offer price (hereinafter called the 'offer price') falls for slaughtered poultry and halves or quarters indi­ below the sluice-gate price, the levy applicable to that cates that additional amounts corresponding to the product must be increased by an additional amount figures shown in the Annex below should be fixed for equal to the difference between the sluice-gate price the imports specified in that Annex ; and the offer price determined in accordance with Article 1 of Commission Regulation No 163/67/EEC Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation on fixing the additional amount for imports of poul­ are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ try-farming products from third countries (3), as ment Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs, amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 527/73 (4) ; Whereas the offer price must be determined for all HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : imports from all third countries ; whereas, however, if exports from one or more third countries are effected at abnormally low prices, lower than prices ruling for Article 1 other third countries, a second offer price must be determined for exports from these other countries ; The additional amounts provided for in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 are hereby fixed as Whereas, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 565/68 (5), shown in the Annex for the products listed in Article the import levies on slaughtered fowls, ducks and 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation which appear in the Annex. geese originating in and coming from Poland are not increased by an additional amount ; Article 2 Whereas, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 2261 /69 (6), the import levies on slaughtered ducks This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day and geese originating in and coming from Romania following its publication in the Official Journal of are not increased by an additional amount ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 December 1976 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(!) OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 77. (2 OJ No L 45, 21 . 2. 1976, p. 3 . (}) OJ No 129 , 28 . 6. 1967 , p . 2577/67 . (4) OJ No L 154, 9 . 6. 1973 , p . 1 . (5) OJ No L 107, 8 . 5 . 1968 , p . 7. (7) OJ No L 265, 8 . 12. 1970, p . 13 . (b) OJ No L 286, 14. 11 . 1969, p. 24. (8) OJ No L 232, 12. 10 . 1972, p. 3 .

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ANNEX

Additional amounts applicable to live and slaughtered poultry and halves or quarters

CCT Additional amount Imports heading Description of goods affected No (u.a./ 1 00 kg)

01.05 Live poultry, that is to say, fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls B. Others : I. Fowls 1000 Origin : Hungary, Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia IV. Turkeys 1000 Origin : Hungary V. Guinea fowls 500 Origin : Hungary or Romania

02.02 Dead poultry (that is to say, fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls) and edible offals thereof (except liver), fresh, chilled or frozen :

A. Whole poultry : I. Fowls : a) Plucked and gutted, with heads and feet, known as ' 83 % chickens' 800 All imports ( ] ) b) Plucked and drawn, without heads and feet but with hearts, livers and gizzards, known as ' 70 % chickens ' 800 All imports (') c) Plucked and drawn, without heads and feet and without hearts, livers and gizzards, known as ' 65 % chickens' 8 00 All imports (') IV. Turkeys 1000 Origin : United States of America V. Guinea fowls 1500 Origin : Hungary B. Poultry cuts (excluding offals) : II . Unboned (bone-in) a) Halves or quarters : 1 . Of fowls 8 00 All imports 4. Of turkeys 4000 Origin : United States of America

(') With the exception of products originating in and coming from Poland and Bulgaria .