31988R0568

No L 54/80 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 3 . 88

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 568/88

of 29 February 1988

altering the import levies on products processed from cereals and rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ tion to each other at any given moment within a band Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central Economic Community, rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and the last paragraph of Article 3 (1) of Regulation (EEC) Portugal, No 1676/85, — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­ market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) N tion to the Community currencies referred to in the No 3989/87 (*), and in particular Article 14 (4) thereof, previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 Whereas these exchange rates being those recorded on of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the 26 February 1988 ; market in rice (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) Whereas the aforesaid corrective factor affects the entire No 3990/87 (4), and in particular Article 12 (4) thereof, calculation basis for the levies, including the equivalence Having regard to Council Regulation No 1676/85 of 11 coefficients ; June 1985 on the value of the unit of account and the Whereas the levy on the basic product as last fixed differs exchange rates to be applied for the purposes of the from the average levy by more than 3,02 ECU per tonne common agricultural policy (% as last amended by Regu­ of basic product ; whereas, pursuant to Article 1 of lation (EEC) No 1636/87 (*), and in particular Article 3 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 579/74 (,0) the levies thereof, at present in force must therefore be altered to the Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, amounts set out in the Annex hereto,

Whereas the import levies on products processed from HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : cereals and rice were fixed by Commission Regulation Article 1 (EEC) No 516/88 0 ; The import levies to be charged on products processed Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1906/87 (*) as from cereals and rice covered by Regulation (EEC) No amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2744/75 (') as 2744/75 as fixed in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No regards products falling within subheadings 2302 10, 516/88 are hereby altered to the amounts set out in the 2302 20, 2302 30 and 2302 40 of the combined nomen­ Annex . clature ; Article 2 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies should be calculated on the following basis : This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 1988 .

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

Done at Brussels, 29 February 1988 .

For the Commission

Frans ANDRIESSEN

, Vice-President

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1 . 3 . 88 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 54/81

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 29 February 1988 altering the import levies on products processed from cereals and rice

(ECU/tonne) Import levies CN code Third countries ACP or OCT (other than ACP or OCI)

1103 21 00 355,98 0 349,94 0 110419 10 355,98 0 349,94 0 1104 29 10*10 261,59 0(0 258,57 0 0 1104 29 30*10 314,08 0 ^ 311,06 00 1104 29 91 201,32 0 19830 0 1104 30 10 151,85 145,81 110710 11 356,93 346,05 110710 19 269,45 258,57 1108 11 00 417,45 396,90 1109 00 00 902,98 721,64

0 For the purpose of distinguishing between products falling within heading Nos 1101 , 1102, 1103 and 1104 and those falling within subheadings 2302 10, 2302 20, 2302 30 and 2302 40, products falling within heading Nos 1101 , 1102, 1103 and 1104 ^hall be those meeting the following specifications : — a starch content (determined by the modified Ewert polarimetric method), referred to dry matter, exceeding 45 % by weight, — an ash content, by weight, referred to dry matter (after deduction of any added minerals), not exceeding 1,6 % for rice, 2,5 % for wheat, 3 % for barley, 4 % for buckwheat, 5 % for oats and 2 % for other cereals. Germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground, falls in all cases within heading Nos 1103 and 1104. 0 Taric code : wheat.