DECISION No 1/2015 OF THE EU-SWITZERLAND JOINT COMMITTEE

of 20 March 2015

amending Tables III and IV(b) of Protocol No 2 to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation of 22 July 1972 as regards the provisions applicable to processed agricultural products [2015/542]

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 of 22 July 1972 as regards the provisions applicable to processed agricultural products(2) signed in Luxembourg on 26 October 2004, and its Protocol No 2, and in particular Article 7 of that Protocol,

Whereas:

(1) For the implementation of Protocol No 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 No 2 accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Protocol No 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 April 2015.

Done at Brussels, 20 March 2015.

For the Joint Committee

The Chairman

Jean-Luc DEMARTY

(1)

OJ L 300, 31.12.1972, p. 189

(2)

OJ L 23, 26.1.2005, p. 19

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
Agricultural Raw material	CHF per 100 kg net	CHF per 100 kg net	CHF per 100 kg net	EUR per 100 kg net
Common wheat	52,35	22,60	29,75	0,00
Durum wheat	—	—	1,20	0,00
Rye	44,30	19,25	25,05	0,00
Barley	—	—	—	—
Maize	—	—	—	—
Common wheat flour	93,05	44,90	48,15	0,00
Whole-milk powder	648,75	393,20	255,55	0,00
Skimmed-milk powder	430,00	350,70	79,30	0,00
Butter	1 101,55	435,85	665,70	0,00
White sugar	—	—	—	—
Eggs	—	—	38,00	0,00
Fresh potatoes	42,05	13,35	28,70	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 basic amount on the Swiss side Art 3(2)	Applied basic amount on the EU side Art 4(2)
	CHF per 100 kg net	EUR per 100 kg net
Common wheat	25,00	0,00
Durum wheat	1,00	0,00
Rye	20,90	0,00
Barley	—	—
Maize	—	—
Common wheat flour	41,00	0,00
Whole-milk powder	215,95	0,00
Skimmed-milk powder	67,00	0,00
Butter	560,60	0,00
White sugar	—	—
Eggs	32,00	0,00
Fresh potatoes	22,35	0,00
Vegetable fat	145,00	0,00’