31988R0185

No L 19 /20 23 . 1 . 88 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 185/88 of 22 January 1988 fixing the sluice-gate prices and levies for eggs

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, for feed grain are to be taken into account only if at the same time a new sluice-gate price is fixed ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, since no new sluice-gate prices have been fixed, the levies fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 3216/87 should accordingly be maintained unchanged until 30 April Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and 1988 ; Portugal, Whereas, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 630/86 of 28 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2771 /75 February 1986 on the application of import levies on egg of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the products from Portugal (6) suspended the application of market in eggs ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) import levies on egg products from Portugal owing to the No 4000/87 (2), and in particular Articles 3 and 7 ( 1 ) minimal difference between the prices obtaining in the thereof, Community on the one hand and in Portugal on the other hand ; whereas the situation still pertains ; Whereas sluice-gate prices and levies for the products specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2771 /75 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 Q intro­ duced, with effect from 1 January 1988, a new 'combined' must be fixed quarterly in advance in accordance with the nomenclature', which meets the requirements of both the methods of calculation laid down in Council Regulation Common Customs Tariff and the Community's statistics (EEC) No 2773/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down rules on foreign trade and which replaces the previous nomen­ for calculating the levy and the sluice-gate price for clature ; eggs -(3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3232/86 (4) ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Whereas, since sluice-gate prices and levies for eggs were, Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs, by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3216/87 (^ last fixed for the period 1 November 1987 to 31 January 1988, they must be fixed anew for the period 1 February to 30 April 1988 ; whereas such prices and levies should in principle be calculated by reference to feed-grain prices HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : for the period 1 August to 31 December 1987 ;

Whereas, when the sluice-gate prices applicable from 1 Article 1 November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed, changes in world market prices for feed grain are to be taken into account only if the price of the quantity of feed grain required varies by at least a specified minimum in rela­ 1 . The levies provided for in Article 3 of Regulation tion to that used to calculate the sluice-gate price for the (EEC) No 2771 /75 in respect of the products specified in preceding quarter ; whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation and the sluice-gate prices 2773/75, the minimum was set at 3 % ; provided for in Article 7 of that Regulation in respect of the like products shall, for the period 1 February to 30 April 1988 be as fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 3216/87. Whereas the price of the quantity of feed grain required does not vary by 3 % or more from that used for the preceding quarter ; whereas the sluice-gate prices fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 3216/87 should accordingly be 2. For imports from Portugal of products specified in maintained unchanged until 30 April 1988 ; paragraph 1 , application of the levies shall be suspended.

Whereas, when the levies applicable from 1 November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed, world market prices Article 2

(') OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 49 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February 1988 . 0 OJ No L 377, 31 . 12. 1987. (3) OJ No L 282, 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 64. (4) OJ No L 301 , 25. 10 . 1986, p. 1 . i6) OJ No L 60, 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 10 . 0 OJ No L 307, 29 . 10 . 1987, p. 10 . 0 OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .

No L 19/21 23 . 1 . 88 Official Journal of the European Communities

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

Done at Brussels, 22 January 1988 . For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President