31979R2987

No L 337/ 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 12 . 79

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2987/79 of 27 December 1979 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 Economic Community, applicable to agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories' (5) ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 98 /78 (6) ; 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common' organi­ zation of the market in cereals ( 1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 547/79 (2), and in particular Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, Article 14 (4) thereof, levies should be calculated on the following basis :

— in the case of currencies which are maintained in Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary relation to each other at any given moment within Committee , . a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on their effective parity ;

Whereas the rules to be applied in calculating the vari­ — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the able component of the import levy on compound arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period in feedingstuffs are laid down in Article 14 ( 1 ) (A) of relation to the Community currencies referred to Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 ; whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 of 29 October in the previous indent ; 1975 on the system to be applied to cereal-based compound feedingstuffs (3), as amended by Regulation Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­ (EEC) No 2560/77 (4), provides that the incidence on tion (EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided the prime costs of these feedingstuffs of the levies for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common applicable to their basic products should be calculated Customs Tariff, on the basis of the average of the levies applicable during the first 25 days of the month preceding that month of importation to the quantities of basic products considered to have been used in the manufac­ ture of such compound feedingstuffs, this average HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 fixed component, is valid for one month ; whereas the The import levies to be charged on the compound amount of the fixed component of the levy is laid feedingstuffs covered by Regulation (EEC) No down in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 ; 2727/75 and subject to Regulation (EEC) No 2743/75 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto .

Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States and of 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 1980 . (1 ) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 188 , 26. 7. 1979, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 60 . (5) OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 2. (<) OJ No L 303, 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 . (6) OJ No L 147, 3 . 6. 1978 , p. 1 .

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

Done at Brussels, 27 December 1979 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 27 December 1979 fixing the import levies on compound feedingstuffs

(ECU/tonne)

Levies

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

Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, covered by Regulation (EEC) No 968 /68 , containing starch, glucose or glucose syrup falling within subheadings 17.02 B and 21.07 F II, or milk products (falling within heading Nos 04.01 , 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04, and subheadings 17.02 A and 21.07 F I) containing starch , glucose or glucose syrup : Containing no starch or containing 10 % or less by weight of starch : 23.07 B I a) 1 — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by weight of such products 25-26 14-38 23.07 B 1 a) 2 — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk products 486.86 475-98 Containing more than 1 0 % but not more than 30 % by weight of starch : 23.07 B I b) 1 — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by weight of such products 55.83 44-95 23.07 B I b) 2 — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by wight of milk products 517.43 506-55 ' Containing more than 30 % by weight of starch : 23.07 B I c) 1 — Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by weight of such products 100-77 89.89 23.07 B I c) 2 — Containing 10 % or more but less than 50 % by weight of milk products 562.37 551-49