31977R0627

No L 78/ 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 26 . 3 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 627/77 of 25 March 1977 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 1 8 (2) to the Act annexed of the annual quantities specified in Article 1 (2) of the Protocol ; thereto, 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 last amended by Regula­ be sold ; tion (EEC) No 3067/75 (4 ), and in particular Article 8 thereof, Whereas it follows from appling these rules to the situ­ ation 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 : — the market price at which the annual quantities Article 1 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) — 110 u.a./ 100 kg for butter, No 226/73, plus costs incurred between the cif and first sale stages ; — 100 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 26 March be sold at a consistent rate and should as far as 1977 .

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

Done at Brussels, 25 March 1977 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

(») OJ No L 73, 27 . 3 . 1972, p. .5 . (2 ) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 173 . (J) OJ No L 27, 1 . 2 . 1 973, p. 1 7. (4) OJ No L 307, 27 . 11 . 1975 , p. 4 .