31994R0166

No L 24/9 29 . 1 . 94 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 166/94

of 28 January 1994 fixing the export levies in the cereals sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, that account should be taken of the economic aspects of the exports contemplated and the advantage of avoiding Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European disturbance on the Community market ; Community, Whereas the export levy may be varied where the world Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 market situation or the specific requirements of certain of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of the markets make this necessary ; market in cereals ('), as amended by Commission Regula­ Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article tion (EEC) No 2193/93 (2), and in particular Article 16 (2) 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (*), as thereof, amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3528/93 (6), are to be used to convert the amount expressed in third-country Whereas, pursuant to Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92, appropriate measures may be taken when the currencies and are the basis for determining the agricul­ tural conversion rates of the currencies of the Member quotations or prices on the world market for one or more products reach the level of Community prices and when States ; whereas the detailed rules for determining and applying these conversion rates are laid down in Commis­ that situation is likely to continue and to deteriorate, thereby disturbing or threatening to disturb the Commu­ sion Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 0 ; nity market ; Whereas the application of the aforementioned rules to the current market situation in the cereals sector, and in Whereas the high level of prices in international trade is particular to the quotations or prices of these products in such as to hinder imports into the Community of durum the Community and on the world market, leads to the wheat or lead to it being exported from the Community ; export levy being fixed at the amount set out in the Whereas the situation referred to above currently obtains ; Annex to this Regulation ; whereas, in order to safeguard supplies in the Commu­ Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are nity, an export levy should be introduced for durum in accordance with the opinion of the Management wheat ; Committee for Cereals,

Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 1766/92 fixes the threshold price for cereals for the 1993/94 to 1995/96 marketing years ; Article 1 Whereas Article 15 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No The export levy referred to in Article 15 of amended 1533/93 (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 120/94 (4), Regulation (EEC) No 1533/93 for the products falling provides for the application of an export levy ; whereas, within CN code 1001 10 00 shall be as set out in the pursuant to Article 2 of the same Regulation, export levies Annex. are to be fixed in particular in the light of the prices charged on the representative Community markets and Article 2 their trends and the quotations recorded on the markets of third countries ; whereas that Regulation also provides This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February 1 994.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 January 1994.

For the Commission

Rene STEICHEN

Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 . (2) OJ No L 196, 5. 8 . 1993, p. 22. 0 OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 151 , 23. 6. 1993, p. 15. (6) OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32. (4) OJ No L 21 , 26. 1 . 1994, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.

No L 24/ 10 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 1 . 94

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 28 January 1994 fixing the export levies in the cereals sector

Amount CN code Destination of levy in ecu/tonne

1001 10 00 Algeria 0 (') Other third countries 35,00

(') For exports carried out within the framework of Regulation (EC) No 151 /94 (OJ No L 23, 28. 1 . 1994, p. 5).