31987R1166

No L 112/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 4. 87

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1166/87 of 28 April 1987 fishing the sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas the value of the quantity of feed grain varies by less than 3 % from that used for the preceding quarter ; whereas the sluice-gate prices should therefore be main­ tained unchanged until 31 July 1987 ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1 November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed, trends in world Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and market prices for feed grain should be taken into account Portugal, only if at the same time a new sluice-gate price is being fixed ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 Whereas, since no new sluice-gate price is to be fixed, the of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the levies should accordingly be maintained, unchanged until market in pigmeat ('), as last amended by Regulation 31 July 1987 ; (EEC) No 1475/86 (2), and in particular Articles 8 and 12 ( 1 ) thereof, Whereas, in the case of products falling within any of subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7, 15.01 A I, 16.01 A or 16.02 A II of the Common Customs Tariff, in respect of Whereas sluice-gate prices for pig carcases and for the which the rate of duty has been bound within GATT, the other products specified in Article 1 of Council Regula­ levies should be limited to the amounts resulting from tion (EEC) No 2766/75 of 29 October 1975 establishing that binding ; the list of products for which sluice-gate prices are to be fixed and laying down the rules for fixing the sluice-gate prices for pig carcases (3), as last amended by Regulation Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 616/86 of 28 (EEC) No 1905/ 83 (4), and levies for the products specified February 1986 on the application of import levies on in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75, must be pigmeat products from Portugal Q suspended the applica­ fixed in advance for each quarter in accordance with the tion of import levies on pigmeat products from Portugal methods of calculation laid down in Commission Regula­ owing to the minimal difference between the prices obtai­ tion (EEC) No 2132/85 of 29 July 1985 fixing the levies ning in the Cojmmunity onthe one hand and in Portugal and sluice-gate prices on pigmeat (*) ; on the other hand ; whereas the situation still pertains ;

Whereas tahe measures provided for in this Regulation Whereas, since sluice-gate prices and levies for pigmeat are in accordance with the opinion of the Management where last fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 82/87 of 13 Committee for Pigmeat, January 1987 (^ for the period 1 February to 30 April 1987, they must be fixed anew for the period 1 May to 31 July 1987 ; whereas such prices and levies should in prin­ ciple be fixed by reference to feed grain prices for the period 1 November 1986 to 31 March 1987 ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas, when the sluice-gate price applicable from 1 November, 1 February and 1 May is being fixed, trends in world market prices for feed grain are to be taken into Article 1 account only if the value of the quantity of feed grain required varies by at least a specified minimum in rela­ tion to that used in calculating the sluice-gate price for 1 . For the period 1 May to 31 July 1987, the sluice­ the preceding quarter ; whereas 'this minimum was fixed gate prices provided for in Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) by Regulation (EEC) No 2766/75 at 3 % ; No 2759/75 for the products specified in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2766/75 and the levies provided for in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 for the (') OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . products specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation shall (2) OJ No L 133 , 21 . 5. 1986, p. 39. (3) OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 25. be as shown by Regulation (EEC) No 82/87. (4) OJ No L 190, 14. 7 . 1983 , p. 1 . (*) OJ No L 198 , 30 . 7 . 1985, p. 54. («) OJ No L 12, 14. 1 . 1987, p. 7. n OJ No L 58, 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 45.

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2. Provided that, in the case of products falling within application of the levies specified in paragraphs 1 and 2 any of subheadings 02.01 B II c) 1 to 7, 15.01 A I, 16.01 shall be suspended. A or 16.02 A II of the Common Customs Tariff, in respect of which the rate of duty has been bound within GATT, the levy shall not exceed the amount resulting from that binding. Article 2

3 . For imports from Portugal of products specified in paragraph I and in free circulation in that Member State, This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1987.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 April 1987.

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President