2011/46/EU: Decision No 1/2011 of the EU-Switzerland Joint Committee of 14 January 2011 amending Tables III and IV(b) of Protocol 2 to the Agreement with Switzerland concerning certain processed agricultural products

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Legislative text

22.1.2011   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 19/40

 

DECISION No 1/2011 OF THE EU-SWITZERLAND JOINT COMMITTEE

of 14 January 2011

amending Tables III and IV(b) of Protocol 2 to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation concerning certain processed agricultural products

(2011/46/EU)

THE JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation signed in Brussels on 22 July 1972 (1) hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’, as amended by the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation amending the Agreement as regards the provisions applicable to processed agricultural products (2) signed in Luxembourg on 26 October 2004, and its Protocol 2, and in particular Article 7 of that Protocol,

Whereas:

 

(1)

For the implementation of Protocol 2 to the Agreement, domestic reference prices have been fixed for the Contracting Parties.

 

(2)

Actual prices have changed on the domestic markets of the Contracting Parties as regards raw materials for which price compensation measures are applied.

 

(3)

It is therefore necessary to update the reference prices and amounts listed in Tables III and IV(b) of Protocol 2 accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Protocol 2 to the Agreement is amended as follows:

 

(a)

Table III is replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Decision;

 

(b)

in Table IV, point (b) is replaced by the text set out in Annex II to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision enters into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 February 2011.

Done at Brussels, 14 January 2011.

For the Joint Committee

The Chairman

  • M. 
    O'SULLIVAN
 

 

ANNEX I

‘TABLE III

EU and Swiss domestic reference prices

 

Agricultural raw material

Swiss domestic reference price

EU domestic reference price

Article 4(1)

Applied on Swiss side

Difference Swiss/EU reference price

Article 3(3)

Applied on EU side

Difference Swiss/EU reference price

CHF per 100 kg net

CHF per 100 kg net

CHF per 100 kg net

EUR per 100 kg net

Common wheat

48,05

28,20

19,85

0,00

Durum wheat

1,20

0,00

Rye

41,45

27,40

14,05

0,00

Barley

Maize

Common wheat flour

97,00

54,50

42,50

0,00

Whole-milk powder

611,55

362,40

249,15

0,00

Skimmed-milk powder

428,95

297,60

131,35

0,00

Butter

1 055,15

480,10

575,05

0,00

White sugar

Eggs

38,00

0,00

Fresh potatoes

43,20

28,60

14,60

0,00

Vegetable fat

170,00

0,00’

 

ANNEX II

‘TABLE IV

 

(b)

The basic amounts for agricultural raw materials taken into account for the calculation of the agricultural components:

 

Agricultural raw material

Applied on the Swiss side

Article 3(2)

Applied basic amount

Applied on the EU side

Article 4(2)

Applied basic amount

CHF per 100 kg net

EUR per 100 kg net

Common wheat

17,00

0,00

Durum wheat

1,00

0,00

Rye

12,00

0,00

Barley

Maize

Common wheat flour

36,00

0,00

Whole-milk powder

212,00

0,00

Skimmed-milk powder

112,00

0,00

Butter

489,00

0,00

White sugar

Eggs

32,00

0,00

Fresh potatoes

12,00

0,00

Vegetable fat

145,00

0,00’

 

This summary has been adopted from EUR-Lex.