31987R4041

31 . 12. 87 No L 378/82 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 4041/87 of 30 December 1987 fixing the import levies on milk and milk products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, plying the basic amount by the quantity of milk compo­ nents contained in the product ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79 provides that for certain products originating in or coming from certain third countries a specific levy is to Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and be applied ; whereas the levy applicable to those products Portugal, is fixed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1767/82 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3048/87 Q ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market Whereas, for as long as it is found that on importation in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­ into the Community the price of an assimilated product tion (EEC) No 3904/87 (2), and in particular Article 14(8) for which the levy is not equal to the levy on its pilot thereof, product is considerably lower than the price which would obtain if the ratio to the price of the pilot product were normal, the levy must be equal to the sum of two compo­ Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, nents :

— one component equal to the amount resulting from Whereas Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 the provisions of Articles 2 to 7 of Regulation (EEC) provides for charging a levy on imports of the products No 2915/79 applicable to the assimilated product in listed in Article 1 of that Regulation ; whereas these question, products may be divided into groups ; whereas the product groups and the pilot groups and the pilot product — an additional component fixed at a level which, the for each of these groups are set out in Annex I to Council composition and quality of the assimilated product Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79 of 18 December 1979 being taken into account, makes it possible to determining the groups of products and the special provi­ re-establish normal price ratios for imports into the sions for calculating levies on milk and milk products (3), Community ; as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2346/87 (4) ;

Whereas Article 14(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 Whereas the levy on the products in any one group must provides that the levy on products in respect of which the be equal to the threshold price for the pilot product less customs duty has been bound within GATT must be the free-at-frontier price ; whereas these threshold prices limited to the amount resulting from that binding ; were fixed for the 1987/88 milk year by Council Regula­ tion (EEC) No 1895/87 0 ; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1073/68 provides that a free-at-frontier price must be established for each of the Whereas, however, Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79 lays pilot products defined in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) down special provisions for calculating the levy on certain No 2915/79 ; whereas these prices must be determined assimilated products ; whereas these products are listed for products of good marketable quality ; and the method of calculating the levy on them described in Annex II and in Articles 2 to 12 of that Regulation Whereas the free-at-frontier prices must be established on respectively ; the basis of the most favourable purchasing opportunities in international trade for the products listed in Article Whereas, as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 other than assimilated 2915/79, the component of the levy established using a products for which the levy is not equal to the levy on the factor expressing the weight ratio existing between the related pilot products ; whereas, when recording these milk components contained in the product on the one purchasing opportunities, the Commission must take hand and the product itself on the other is, for products account of all information obtained direct or through the containing sugar or other sweeteners, calculated by multi­ Member States concerning prices for delivery of third­ country products free-at-Community-frontier and prices on third-country markets ; (') OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13. (2) OJ No L 370, 30. 12. 1987. 0 OJ No L 329, 24. 12. 1979, p. 1 . («) OJ No L 196, 5. 7. 1982, p. 1 . o OJ No L 213, 4. 8 . 1987, p. 1 . P) OJ No L 289, 13. 10. 1987, p. 18 . (*) OJ No L 182, 3. 7. 1987, p. 33.

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Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 788/86 ('), as last amended Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (3) intro­ by Regulation (EEC) No 1927/86 (2), specifies the free-at­ duces from 1 January 1988 a new combined nomencla­ Spanish-frontier values of certain cheeses imported from ture meeting the requirements of both the Common and originating in Switzerland. Customs Tariff and the Community's statistics of foreign trade and replacing the present nomenclature ;

Whereas, in accordance with Article 19 (1 ) of Regulation Whereas, however, no account should be taken of infor­ (EEC) No 804/68, the nomenclature provided for in this mation relating to small quantities which are not repre­ Regulation is incorporated in the combined nomencla­ sentative of trade in the products in question and quanti­ ture ; ties in respect of which price trends in general or other information available to it lead the Commission to believe that the price in question is unrepresentative of the real Whereas Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 1073/68 trend of the market ; provides that the levies are fixed every fortnight ; whereas they may be altered in the intervening period if neces­ sary ; whereas the levy remains valid until another becomes applicable ; Whereas the prices used must be adjusted where they are not quoted free-at-Community-frontier or where they do Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, refunds should be calculated on the following basis : not apply to products of good marketable quality ; whereas the adjustment in respect of an assimilated — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ product the levy on which is equal to the levy on its pilot product must be effected in such a way as to allow, in tion to each other at any given moment within a band particular, for differences in composition, maturity, of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central quality and presentation between the assimilated product rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in the and the related pilot product ; whereas adjustments rela­ last subparagraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­ ting to composition must be calculated by multiplying tion (EEC) No 1 676/85 (4), as amended by Regulation the difference between the milk component content of (EEC) No 1636/87 (*), the pilot product and that of the assimilated product in — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the question by the value attributed in international trade to arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of one unit of weight of the milk component in question ; these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­ whereas, when the other adjustments are being effected, tion to the Community currencies referred to in the the difference between the value attributed on the previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ; Community market to each of the relevant characteristics of the pilot product and the value attributed on that market to the corresponding characteristics of the assimi­ Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that lated product in question must be taken into account ; the levies on milk and milk products should be as set out in the Annex hereto,

Whereas, if no information on prices is available, the free­ at-frontier price may, by way of exception, be established on the basis of the value of the. raw materials HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : contained in the pilot product in question (calculated on the basis of the prices of milk products for which prices are available), average processing costs and average yields ; Article 1

The import levies referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regula­ Whereas, in exceptional circumstances, a free-at-frontier tion (EEC) No 804/68 shall be as set out in the Annex price may remain unchanged for a limited period where hereto. the new level of the price for a given quality or a specific origin, used as a basis for establishing the previous free­ at-frontier price, has not reached the Commission to enable it to establish the next free-at-frontier price and if Article 2 the Commission considers that the prices which are avai­ lable could lead to sudden and considerable changes in the free-at-frontier price because they are not sufficiently This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988 . representative of real market trends ; 0 OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 . (') OJ No L 74, 19. 3. 1986, p. 20. (4) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 188,| 8 . 7. 1987, p. 34. 0 OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .

31 . 12. 87 No L 378/84 Official Journal of the European Communities

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

Done at Brussels, 30 December 1987 . For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

31 . 12 . 87 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 378 /85

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 December 1987 fixing the import levies on milk and milk products

(ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated) CN code Note Import levy

0401 10 10 18,75 0401 10 90 17,54 \ 0401 20 11 26,13 \ 0401 20 19 24,92 II 0401 20 91 32,28 Il 0401 20 99 31,07 Il 0401 30 11 83,79 II 0401 30 19 82,58 II 0401 30 31 161,83 I 0401 30 39 160,62 II 0401 30 91 272,09 II 0401 30 99 270,88 \

0402 10 11 132,87 I 0402 10 19 125,62 II 0402 10 91 (') 1,2562 / kg + 33,12 0402 10 99 0 1,2562 / kg + 25,87 0402 21 1 1 206,10 II 0402 21 17 198,85 |-I 0402 21 19 198,85 II 0402 21 91 243,91 II 0402 21 99 236,66 II 0402 29' 1 1 CM3) 1,9885 / kg + 33,12 0402 29 15 (') 1,9885 / kg + 33,12 0402 29 19 (') 1,9885/ kg + 25,87 0402 29 91 (') 2,3666 / kg + 33,12 0402 29 99 (') 2,3666 / kg + 25,87 0402 91 11 30,88 \ 0402 91 19 30,88 \ 0402 91 31 38,60 0402 91 39 38,60 \ 0402 91 51 161,83 \ 0402 91 59 160,62 0402 91 91 272,09 0402 91 99 270,88 I 0402 99 11 53,76 \ 0402 99 19 53,76 \ 0402 99 31 0) 1,5820 / kg + 29,50 0402 99 39 C) 1,5820 / kg + 28,29 0402 99 91 (') 2,6846 / kg + 29,50 0402 99 99 (') 2,6846 / kg + 28,29 0403 10 11 28,54 I 0403 10 13 34,69 I 0403 10 19 86,20 \ 0403 10 31 C) 0,2250 / kg + 31,91

31 . 12 . 87 No L 378 /86 Official Journal of the European Communities

(ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated) CN code Note Import levy

0403 10 33 (') 0,2865 / kg + 31,91 0403 10 39 0) 0,801 6 / kg + 31,91 0403 90 11 132,87 0403 90 13 206,10 0403 90 19 243,91 0403 90 31 (') 1,2562 / kg + 33,12 0403 90 33 C) 1,9885 / kg + 33,12 0403 90 39 0 2,3666 / kg + 33,12 0403 90 51 28,54 0403 90 53 34,69 0403 90 59 86,20 0403 90 61 C) 0,2250 / kg + 31,91 0403 90 63 0) 0,2865 / kg + 31,91 0403 90 69 0 0,801 6 / kg + 31,91

0404 10 11 34,77 0404 10 19 (') 0,3477 / kg + 25,87 0404 10 91 (2) 0,3477 / kg 0404 10 99 0 0,3477 / kg + 25,87 0404 90 1 1 132,87 0404 90 13 206,10 0404 90 19 243,91 0404 90 31 132,87 0404 90 33 206,10 0404 90 39 243,91 0404 90 51 C) 1,2562 / kg + 33,12 040490 53 (') 1,9885 / kg + 33,12 0404 90 59 0 2,3666 / kg + 33,12 0404 90 91 0) 1,2562 / kg + 33,12 0404 90 93 (') 1,9885 / kg + 33,12 0404 90 99 (') 2,3666 / kg + 33,12

0405 00 10 280,99 0405 00 90 342,81 0406 10 10 290,85 0406 10 90 336,99 0406 20 10 0 405,47 0406 20 90 405,47 0406 30 10 (3) 223,69 0406 30 31 0 218,36 0406 30 39 (3) 223,69 0406 30 90 0 320,41 0406 40 00 (3) 157,44 0406 90 11 (3) 257,89 0406 90 13 (3) 260,63 0406 90 15 (3) 260,63 0406 90 17 (3) 260,63 0406 90 19 (3) 405,47 0406 90 21 (3) 257,89 0406 90 23 (3) 240,27 0406 90 25 (3) 240,27

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(ECU/100 kg net weight, unless otherwise indicated) CN code Note Import levy

0406 90 27 (3) 240,27 0406 90 29 0 240,27 0406 90 31 240,27 0406 90 33 240,27 I 0406 90 35 0 240,27 0406 90 37 0 240,27 0406 90 39 0 240,27 0406 90 50 0 240,27 0406 90 61 405,47 \ 0406 90 63 405,47 II 0406 90 69 405,47 || 0406 90 71 290,85 0406 90 73 240,27 II 0406 90 75 240,27 II 0406 90 77 240,27 Il 0406 90 79 240,27 II 0406 90 81 240,27 II 0406 90 83 240,27 II 0406 90 85 240,27 ll 0406 90 89 (3) 240,27 0406 90 91 290,85 II 0406 90 93 290,85 Il 0406 90 97 336,99 Il 0406 90 99 336,99 II

1702 10 90 0 42,54 2106 90 51 42,54 \

2309 10 15 96,64 \ 2309 10 19 125,53 II 2309 10 39 118,23 II 2309 10 59 98,95 Il 2309 10 70 125,53 II 2309 90 35 96,64 II 2309 90 39 125,53 || 2309 90 49 118,23 || 2309 90 59 98,95 || 2309 90 70 125,53

(') The levy on 100 kg of product falling within this subheading is equal to the sum of the following : (a) the amount per kilogram shown, multiplied by the weight of milk and milk cream contained in 100 kg of product ; and (b) the other amount indicated. (2) The levy on 100 kg of product falling within this subheading is equal to : (a) the amount per kilogram shown, multiplied by the weight of the dried milk contained in 100 kg of product plus, where appropriate, (b) the other amount indicated. (3) Products falling within this subheading imported from a third country under special arrangements concluded between that country and the Community for which an IMA 1 certificate issued under the conditions provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1767/82 is issued are subject to the levies in Annex I to that Regulation. (4) Lactose and lactose syrup falling within subheading 1702 10 10 are subject, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 2730/75, to the same levy as that applicable to lactose falling within subheading 1702 10 90.