31985R1026

No L 110/ 18 23 . 4. 85 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1026/85 of 22 April 1985 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for poultrymeat

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN trends in world market prices for feed grain are to be COMMUNITIES, taken into account only if the price of the quantity of feed grain required varies by at least a specified Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European minimum in relation to that used to calculate the Economic Community, sluice-gate price for the preceding quarter ; whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 2778/75, this minimum was Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No set at 3 % ; 2777/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­ zation of the market in poultrymeat (1), as last Whereas the price of the quantity of feed grain amended by the Act of Accession of Greece, and in required does not vary by 3 % or more from that used particular Articles 3 and 7 ( 1 ) thereof, for the preceding quarter ; whereas the sluice-gate prices fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 171 /85 should Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 855/84 accordingly be maintained unchanged until 31 July of 31 March 1984 on the calculation and the dis­ 1985 for these products ; mantlement of the monetary compensatory amounts applying to certain agricultural products (2), as last Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 004/84 (3), and in November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed, particular Article 1 thereof, changes in world market prices for feed grain should be taken into account only if at the same time a new Whereas the sluice-gate prices and levies for the sluice-gate price is fixed ; products specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 must be fixed quarterly in advance in Whereas, since no new sluice-gate price has been accordance with methods of calculation laid down in fixed, the levies fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 171 /85 Council Regulation (EEC) No 2778/75 (4), as last should accordingly be maintained unchanged until 31 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 750/81 (*) ; July 1985 ;

Whereas, since sluice-gate prices and levies for Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation poultrymeat were, by Regulation (EEC) No 171 /85 (*), are in accordance with the opinion of the Management last fixed for the period 1 February to 30 April 1985 Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs, they must be fixed anew for the period 1 May to 31 July 1985 ; whereas such prices and levies should in principle be calculated by reference to feed grain prices for the period 1 November 1984 to 31 March HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 1985 ;

Whereas, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No Article 1 855/84, the central rate used under the common agri­ cultural policy has been subjected to a corrective factor 1 . The levies provided for in Article 3 of Regulation of 1,033651 with effect from the 1984/85 marketing (EEC) No 2777US in respect of the products specified year ; whereas the corrected central rate has led to a in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation and the sluice-gate change in the relationship between the Community prices provided for in Article 7 of that Regulation in price and the world market price ; whereas account respect of the like products shall, for the period 1 May should therefore be taken of this fact by subjecting to 31 July 1985, be as fixed by Regulation (EEC) No world market prices to a corrective factor of 0,967445 171 / 85. used for the calculation of levies and sluice-gate prices ; 2. In the case of products falling within heading No 02.03 and within subheading 15.01 B or 16.02 B I of Whereas, when the sluice-gate prices applicable from the Common Customs Tariff, in respect of which the 1 November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed, rate of duty has been bound within GATT, the levy shall not exceed the amount resulting from that. (') OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 77. (2) OJ No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 101 , 13 . 4. 1984, p. 2. Article 2 (4) OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 84. 0 OJ No L 80, 26. 3 . 1981 , p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1985 (4 OJ No L 20, 24. 1 . 1985, p. 18 .

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

Done at Brussels, 22 April 1985. For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President