31988R1601

10 . 6. 88 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 143/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1601 /88

of 9 June 1988

fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye Hour, groats and meal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, — for other currencies, an "exchange rate based on the

arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­ Economic Community, tion to the Community currencies referred to in the

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;

Portugal, Whereas these exchange rates being those recorded on 8 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 June 1988 ;

of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the

market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) Whereas the aforesaid corrective factor affects the entire

1097/88 (2), and in particular Article 13 (5) thereof, calculation basis for the levies, including the equivalence

coefficients ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85

of 11 June 1985 on the value of the unit of account and Whereas it follows from applying the detailed rules the exchange rates to be applied for the purposes of the contained in Regulation (EEC) No 4047/87 to today's common agricultural policy (3), as last amended by Regu­ offer prices and quotations known to the Commission lation (EEC) No 1636/87 (4), and in particular Article 3 that the levies at present in force should be altered to the thereof, amounts set out in the Annex hereto,

Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,

Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye flour, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Commission

Regulation (EEC) No 4047/87 (*) and subsequent amen­

ding Regulations ; Article 1

Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies should be calculated on the following basis : The import levies to be charged on products listed in

Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. tion to each other at any given moment within a band

of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central

rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in Article 2

the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)

No 1676/85, This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 June 1988 .

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

States .

Done at Brussels, 9 June 1988 .

For the Commission

Frans ANDRIESSEN

Vice-President

(') OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 110, 29 . 4. 1988 , p. 7. (3) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 153, 13 . 6. 1987, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 378, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 99 .

10 . 6 . 88 No L 143/4 Official Journal of the European Communities

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 9 June 1988 fixing the import levies on cereals and on

wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

(ECU/tonne)

Levies

CN code Portugal Third country

16,55 169,69 0709 90 60 16,55 169,69 0712 90 19 73,91 248,37 (')O 1001 10 10 73,91 248,37 0 0 1001 10 90 11,45 187,24 1001 90 91 11,45 187,24 1001 90 99 51,75 164,18 0 1002 00 00 45,43 166,83 1003 00 10 45,43 166,83 1003 00 90 101,89 139,07 1004 00 10 101,89 139,07 1004 00 90 16,55 169,69 00 1005 10 90 16,55 169,69 0 0 1005 90 00 40,05 175,92 (4) 1007 00 90 45,43 99,90 1008 10 00 45,43 149,42 0 1008 20 00 45,43 61,90 0 1008 30 00 0 0 1008 90 10 45,43 61,90 1008 90 90 31,23 277,55 1101 00 00 87,65 245,06 1102 10 00 128,41 398,82 1103 11 10 31,32 297,34 1103 11 90

(') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the Community, t

levy is reduced by 0,60 ECU/tonne. <■> In accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 the levies are not applied to imports into the French

overseas departments of products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pac.f.c Sates or ,n the overseas

countries and territories'. (') Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the levy is reduced by 1,81

ECU/tonne. (.) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the levy is reduced

by 50 % . (0 Where durum wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly from that country to the

Community, the levy is reduced by 0,60 ECU/tonne.

(<) The import levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly from nity is laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1180/77 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .

0 The levy applicable to rye shall be charged on imports of the product falling within subheading 1008 90 10 (triti­

cale).