31976R3175

29 . 12. 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 357/33

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3175/76 of 28 December 1976 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN amount of the fixed component and, in respect of COMMUNITIES, some of these products, by part of the variable compo­ nent ; whereas this reduction must be made in accor­ dance with Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 706/76 . of 30 March 1976 on the arrangements Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European applicable to agricultural products and certain goods Economic Community, resulting from the processing of agricultural products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories' (4) ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­ Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, zation of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by levies should be calculated on the following basis : Regulation (EEC) No 31 38/76 (2), and in particular Article 14 (4) thereof, — in the case of currencies which are maintained in relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary on their effective parity ; Committee, — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the vari­ of these currencies recorded for a given period, in able component of the import levy on compound relation to the Community currencies referred to feedingstuffs are laid down in Article 14 ( 1 ) (A) of in the previous subparagraph ; Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 ; whereas the incidence of the levies applicable to the basic products of Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­ compound feedingstuffs on their prime costs should tion (EEC) No 2727/75 the nomenclature provided for be determined, in pursuance of Article 4 of Council in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 of 29 October 1975 on Customs Tariff, the system to be applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (3), on the basis of the average of the levies applicable during the first 25 days of the month preceding the month of importation to the quantities of basic products considered to have been used in the manufacture of such compound feedingstuffs, this HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : average being adjusted on the basis of the threshold price for the basic products in question ruling during the month of importation ; Article 1

Whereas the levy thus determined, increased by the The import levies to be charged on the compound fixed component, is valid for one month ; whereas the feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No amount of the fixed component of the levy is speci­ 2727/75 and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 fied in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 ; are fixed hereby as shown in the Annex to this Regula­ tion .

Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories', the levy Article 2 relating to them in respect of certain products processed from cereals must be reduced by the This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1977 . (') OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 354, 24. 12. 1976, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60 . (4) OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 2.

No L 357/34 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 12. 76

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

Done at Brussels, 28 December 1976. For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Levies in u. a. /metric ton

Third countries CCT heading No Nomenclature in simplified wording (other than ACP and ACP and OCT OCT)

Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covcred by Regulation ( EEC) No 968/68 , containing starch, glucose or glucose syrup falling within subheadings 17.02 B and 17.05 B , or milk products (falling within heading Nos 04.01 , 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04, and subheadings 17.02 A and 17.05 A) containing starch , glucose or glucose syrup :

Containing no starch or containing 10*/o or less by weight of starch : 23.07 B I a) 1 18-46 9-46 — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 */o by weight of such products 23.07 B La) 2 457-68 448-68 — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 */o by weight of milk products Containing more than 10 */o but not more than 30 ·/# by weight of starch : 23.07 B I b) 1 — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 e/o by 38-58 29-58 weight of such products 23.07 B I b) 2 — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 e/o by weight of milk 477-80 468-80 products

Containing more than 30 ®/o by weight of starch : 23.07 B I c) 1 — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 ü/o by 68-15 59-15 weight of such products 23.07 B I c) 2 — Containing 10 */o or more but less than 50 e/· by weight of milk 507-37 498-37 products