18. 11. 87 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 327/13 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3436/87 of 17 November 1987 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2529/87 laying down detailed rules for applying the co-responsability levy in the cereals sector for 1987/88 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) ‘No 1900/87 (3, and in particular Article 4 (5) and (7) thereof, i Whereas, under Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2529/87 (%), France and Italy are, from 1 September 1987, authorized to collect the co-responsibility levy when the cereals are put on the market ; whereas one of the conse- quences of the introduction of those new arrangements is the fact that the co-responsability levy applies in full to cereal seeds whereas under the previous arrangements those products were in practice granted partial exemp- tion ; Whereas cereals seeds are produced under contracts which are concluded before sowing take place and whereas, in the case of the 1987/88 marketing year, the contracts were concluded before 1 September, the date . when the new arrangement to Regulation (EEC) No 2529/87 should be introduced whereby the co-responsibility levy arrangements applicable to cereal seeds would be those in force prior to 1 September ; Whereas, moreover, Article 4 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2529/87 specifies the time-limit for the payment of the co-responsibility levy; whereas the period concerned begins ‘when the products in question are put on the market ; whereas, because of difficulties in determining that date in certain cases, in particular where there is no- written sales contract, a provision should be introduced whereby the period in question should begin when the products are -delivered or consigned ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals, () OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1. () O] No L 182, 3. 7. 1987, p. 40. () OJ No L 240, 22. 8. 1987, p. 13. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 2529/87 is hereby amended as follows : 1. The following subparagraph is added to Article 2 (1): ‘However, in the case of cereal seeds, the co-responsibility levy shall not be payable in respect of the quantity which is to be the subject of certifica- tion within the meaning of Council Directive 66/402/EEC (7) () OJ No 125, 11. 7. 1966, p. 2309/66.. 2. The following indent is added to the second subpara- graph of Article 2 (2): ‘— the export of certified and basic seeds to third countries or Portugal.. 3. Article 3 (1) is replaced by the following: ‘1. Cereals introduced into one of the Member States specified in Article 1 from the other Member States, with the exception of Portugal during the first stage, shall be deemed to be put on the market when- they are released for consumption, except in the case of certified and basic seeds’ 4. The introductory phrase of Article 3 (2) is replaced by the following : ‘When cereals other than certified seeds are consigned from one of the Member States specified in Article 1 to anonther Member State, and when they are subse- quently reconsigned, the document attesting the Community nature of the cereals shall bear one of the following entries, authenticated by the stamp of the customs office which issued the document . 5. The first subparagraph of Article 4 (1) is replaced by the following : ‘The levy shall be collected by the purchasers, by the processing undertakings referred to in Article 2 (2) or, in the case referred to in Article 3 (1), by the consig- nees. However, in the cases referred to in the second and third indents of the second subparagraph of Article 2 (2) the levy shall be paid by the producer and, in the case referred to in the fourth indent of that. subparagraph, by the exporter.’.