DECISION No 1/2021 OF THE EU-SWITZERLAND JOINT COMMITTEE

of 12 February 2021

amending Tables III and IV of Protocol 2 to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation of 22 July 1972, as amended (2021/274)

THE JOINT COMMITTEE,

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

Whereas:

(1)

In accordance with Article 5(2) of Protocol 2 to the Agreement, the Union and the Swiss Confederation, as Contracting Parties, provided to the Joint Committee the 2019 domestic reference prices of all raw materials for which price compensation measures are applied. It follows from those prices that the actual price situation regarding those raw materials in the territory of the Contracting Parties has changed.

(2)

It is therefore necessary to update the domestic reference prices and the price differences for agricultural raw materials listed in Table III of Protocol 2 to the Agreement, as well as to adapt the basic amounts of the agricultural raw materials listed in Table IV of that Protocol,

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 shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on 1 March 2021.

Done at Brussels, 12 February 2021.

For the Joint Committee

The Chairman

Marco DUEERKOP

( 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 CHF per 100 kg net	EU domestic reference price CHF per 100 kg net	Article 4(1) Applied on Swiss side Difference Swiss / EU reference price CHF per 100 kg net	Article 3(3) Applied on EU side Difference Swiss / EU reference price EUR per 100 kg net
Common wheat	50,60	20,46	30,15	0,00
Durum wheat	-	-	1,20	0,00
Rye	40,45	18,74	21,70	0,00
Barley	-	-	-	-
Maize	-	-	-	-
Common wheat flour	91,10	42,42	48,70	0,00
Whole-milk powder	601,45	321,47	280,00	0,00
Skimmed-milk powder	402,60	200,98	201,60	0,00
Butter	1 041,90	487,22	554,70	0,00
White sugar	-	-	-	-
Eggs	-	-	38,00	0,00
Fresh potatoes	40,95	27,61	13,35	0,00
Vegetable fat	-	-	170,00	0,00’.

ANNEX II

‘(b)

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)
Agricultural raw material	CHF per 100 kg net	EUR per 100 kg net
Common wheat	24,55	0,00
Durum wheat	1,00	0,00
Rye	17,70	0,00
Barley	-	-
Maize	-	-
Common wheat flour	39,70	0,00
Whole-milk powder	227,80	0,00
Skimmed-milk powder	164,30	0,00
Butter	452,10	0,00
White sugar	-	-
Eggs	30,95	0,00
Fresh potatoes	10,90	0,00
Vegetable fat	138,55	0,00’.