First, the premium paid for the collection of traditional own resources, i.e. customs duty and agricultural levies, was increased to 25%.

Agricultural levies arose from the adoption of the CAP.

After discussions between France and Germany, a compromise was at first reached, postponing implementation of the agricultural levies until 1970.

It is unknown how much time these agricultural levies lasted for and through Ptolemy's taxation reforms he was honored with a decree.

When you claim a quota, you can reduce your customs duty, agricultural levies and/or Common Agricultural Policies charges.

Free Zones: Enclosed areas into which non-community goods may be moved and remain without payment of customs duties, agricultural levies and VAT charges at importation.

Relief can be granted from VAT, excise duty, Customs duty, agricultural levies, landfill tax, climate change levy and air passenger duty.

In the case of customs duties and agricultural levies, however, no assurance can be given as to whether all taxable imports have actually been declared and have generated the corresponding revenue.

The ways in which the European Community's expenditure is financed are laid down in the Treaty. These are firstly import duties, secondly agricultural levies and thirdly VAT.

We should adhere to the principle of own resources, even if only traditional own resources - duties and agricultural levies - are genuine own resources, which in addition have been regressive for years.

Madam President, Mr Bardong's report now under discussion focuses on how the recovery of claims, agricultural levies, customs duties and taxes relating to the EAGGF can be made more effective.

In April 1970, to pay for the CAP, it was agreed to provide the Community with its own financial resources from payments of agricultural levies, external customs duties and one per cent of the Value Added Tax raised by members.

By placing imported goods under PCC arrangements for further processing in the Community, you may be able to obtain relief from Customs duty, agricultural levies, and other CAP charges when you declare the processed goods to free circulation.

These delays sit ill alongside the explosion in trade that the world will see in coming years, with a risk that the Union's resources will be badly hit because they have been robbed of a significant part of their most important own resources: customs duties and agricultural levies.

However as intra-EC trade in manufactures expanded relative to extra-trade, and as tariff rates were reduced under the auspices of GATT, and also as the EC moved towards self-sufficiency in agricultural products, this revenue from customs duties and agricultural levies was hardly buoyant.

Firstly because, by giving the EEC its own resources from agricultural levies and customs duties, it would give the Commission greater independence; and secondly because it proposed to widen the budgetary powers of the European Parliament, again strengthening the supranational element in the EEC to which the General was opposed.