Commission Regulation (EC) No 445/98 of 25 February 1998 on the sale, at prices fixed in advance, of beef held by certain intervention agencies, with a view to their processing in the Community
Date: 1998-02-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, beef, intervention agency, meat processing industry, product quality, sale

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 445/98

of 25 February 1998

on the sale, at prices fixed in advance, of beef held by certain intervention
agencies, with a view to their processing in the Community

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of
27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the market
in beef and veal (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 2634/97 (2), and in particular Article 7(3) thereof,

Whereas the introduction of
intervention in beef has
resulted in a build-up of stocks in several Member states;
in order to prevent storage being prolonged
whereas,
excessively, part of these stocks should be sold by ten-
dering procedure for processing in the Community;

Whereas this sale should be subject to the rules laid down
in Commission Regulations (EEC) No 2173/79 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2417/95 (4),
(EEC) No
3002/92 (5), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No
770/96 (6), and (EEC) No 2182/77 (7), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 2417/95, subject to certain special
exceptions on account of the particular use to which the
products in question are to be put;

Whereas, in order to ensure consistent and permanent
sales, Title I of Regulation (EEC) No 2173/79, in par-
ticular, should be applied;

Whereas, to ensure economic management of stocks, the
intervention agencies should give priority to selling the
meat which has been stored the longest;

Whereas provision should be made for derogations from
the second subparagraph of Article 2(2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 2173/79 in view of the administrative diffi-
culties which the application of this rule is creating in
certain Member States;

Whereas, to ensure optimum monitoring of the destina-
tion of beef from intervention stocks, control measures
should be taken, in addition to the measures provided for

(1) OJ L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.
(2) OJ L 356, 31. 12. 1997, p. 13.
(3) OJ L 251, 5. 10. 1979, p. 12.
(4) OJ L 248, 14. 10. 1995, p. 39.
(5) OJ L 301, 17. 10. 1992, p. 17.
(6) OJ L 104, 27. 4. 1996, p. 13.
(7) OJ L 251, 1. 10. 1977, p. 60.

in Regulation (EEC) No 3002/92, which are based on
physical inspection of quantities and qualities;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Beef and Veal,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.

The sale shall take place of approximately:

— 400 tonnes of bone-in forequarters held by the Portu-

guese intervention agency,

— 3 000 tonnes of bone-in forequarters held by the

German intervention agency,

— 1 000 tonnes of bone-in forequarters held by the

Austrian intervention agency,

— 450 tonnes of bone-in forequarters held by the Danish

intervention agency,

— 2 000 tonnes of bone-in forequarters held by the

French intervention agency,

— 3 000 tonnes of bone-in forequarters held by the

Italian intervention agency,

— 2 000 tonnes of bone-in forequarters held by the

Spanish intervention agency,

— 400 tonnes of bone-in forequarters held by the Irish

intervention agency,

— 3 000 tonnes of boneless beef held by the Irish inter-

vention agency,

— 850 tonnes of boneless beef held by the Danish inter-

vention agency,

— 3 000 tonnes of boneless beef held by the French

intervention agency,

— 3 000 tonnes of boneless beef held by the United

Kingdom intervention agency.

Detailed information concerning the products and their
selling prices is given in Annex I.

Subject

to the provisions of

2.
this Regulation the
products referred to in paragraph 1 shall be sold in ac-
cordance with Regulations (EEC) No 2173/79, in parti-
cular Titles I and III, (EEC) No 2182/77 and (EEC) No
3002/92.

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3.
Particulars of the quantities and the place where the
products are stored may be obtained by interested parties
at the addresses given in Annex II.

4.
For each product mentioned in Annex I, the inter-
vention agencies shall sell first the meat which has been
stored the longest.

5. Notwithstanding the second subparagraph of Article
2(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2173/79, purchase applica-
tions shall not indicate in which store or stores the meat
is held.

Article 2

1.
Purchase applications shall be valid only if presented
by or on behalf of a person or legal entity who, for the 12
months prior to the entry into force of this Regulation,
has been engaged in the processing of products con-
taining beef and who is entered in a national VAT
register. In addition, applications must be presented by or
on behalf of a processing establishment approved in ac-
cordance with Article 8 of Council Directive 77/99/
EEC (1).

For the purposes of the preceding subparagraph, a retail
or catering establishment or an establishment attached to
a retail sales outlet where meat is processed and put up
for sale to the final consumer shall not be taken into
consideration.

2. Notwithstanding Article 3(1) and (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 2182/77, applications shall be accompanied by:

— a written undertaking by the purchaser to process the
meat into the products specified in Article 3 within
the period referred to in Article 5(1) of Regulation
(EEC) No 2182/77,

— precise details of the establishment or establishments

where the meat purchased is to be processed.

3.
The purchasers referred to in paragraph 1 may
instruct an agent in writing to take delivery, on their
behalf, of the products which they purchase. In this case
agents shall submit
the
purchaser whom they represent together with the written
instruction referred to above.

the purchase applications of

4.
The purchasers and agents referred to in the pre-
ceding paragraphs shall maintain and keep up-to-date an
accounting system which permits the destination and use
of the products to be ascertained with a view in particular
to ensuring that the quantities of products purchased and
processed tally.

(1) OJ L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 85.

Article 3

1. Meat purchased in accordance with this Regulation
shall be processed into products which comply with the
definitions for A products and B products set out in para-
graphs 2 and 3 below.

2.
An ‘A’ product means a processed product falling
within CN code 1602 10 00, 1602 50 31, 1602 50 39 or
1602 50 80, not containing meat other than that of
animals of the bovine species, with a collagen/protein
ratio of no more than 0,45 % (2) and containing by weight
at least 20 % (3) of lean meat excluding offal (4) and fat
with meat and jelly accounting for at least 85 % of the
total net weight.

The product must be subjected to a heat treatment suffi-
cient to ensure the coagulation of meat proteins in the
whole of the product which may not show any traces of a
pinkish liquid on the cut surface when the product is cut
along a line passing through its thickest part.

A ‘B’ product means a processed product containing

3.
beef, other than:

— one specified in Article 1(1)(a) of Regulation (EEC) No

805/68, or

— one referred to in paragraph 2.

However, a processed product falling within CN code
0210 20 90 which has been dried or smoked so that the
colour and consistency of the fresh meat has totally disap-
peared and with a water/protein ratio not exceeding 3,2
shall be considered to be a B product.

Article 4

1. Member States shall set up a system of physical and
documentary supervision to ensure that all meat
is
processed in accordance with Article 3.

The system must include physical checks of quantity and
quality at the start of the processing, during the proces-
sing and after the processing operation is completed. To
this end, processors shall at any time be able to demon-
strate the identity and use of the meat through appro-
priate production records.

(2) Determination of collagen content: the collagen content shall
be taken to mean the hydroxyproline content multiplied by
the factor 8. The hydroxyproline content must be determined
according to ISO method 3496-1978.

(3) The lean bovine meat content excluding fat is determined in
accordance with the procedure described in the Annex to
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2429/86 (OJ L 210, 1. 8.
1986, p. 39).

feet,

tails, hearts, udders,

(4) Offal includes the following: heads and cuts thereof (including
livers, kidneys, sweetbreads
ears),
(thymus gland with pancreas), brains,
thick
skirts, spleens, tongues, caul, spinal cords, edible skin, repro-
ductive organs (i.e. uteri, ovaries and testes), thyroid glands,
pituitary glands.

throats,

lungs,

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Technical verification of the production method by the
competent authority may, to the extent necessary, make
allowance for drip losses and trimmings.

In order to verify the quality of the finished product and
establish its conformity with the processor’s
recipe
Member States shall undertake representative sampling
and analysis of the product. The costs of such operations
shall be borne by the processor concerned.

2. Member States may, at the request of the processor,
authorise the deboning of bone-in forequarters in an es-
tablishment other than that provided for in respect of
processing provided the relevant operations take place in
the same Member State under appropriate supervision.

Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2182/77 shall not

3.
apply.

Article 5

1.
The security provided for in Article 15(1) of Regula-
tion (EEC) No 2173/79 shall be ECU 12 per 100 kilo-
grams.

The security provided for in Article 4(1) of Regula-

2.
tion (EEC) No 2182/77 shall be:

— ECU 1 000 for bone-in forequarters,

— ECU 1 500 for boneless beef.

3. Notwithstanding Article 5(3) of Regulation (EEC)
No 2182/77, the processing of all beef purchased into
finished products as referred to in Article 3 shall consitute
a principal requirement.

— Section 104 of T5 control copies must be completed

with one or more of the following:

— Para

transformación [Reglamentos

(CEE) no

2182/77 y (CE) no 445/98]

— Til forarbejdning (forordning (EØF) nr. 2182/77 og

(EF) nr. 445/98)

— Zur Verarbeitung bestimmt (Verordnungen (EWG)

Nr. 2182/77 und (EG) Nr. 445/98)

— Cia letapo˜igsg [jamomislo˜i
2182/77 jai (EJ) aqih. 445/98]

(EOJ) aqih.

— For processing (Regulations (EEC) No 2182/77

and (EC) No 445/98)

— Destinés à la transformation [règlements (CEE) no

2182/77 et (CE) no 445/98]

— Destinate alla trasformazione [regolamenti (CEE)

n. 2182/77 e (CE) n. 445/98]

— Bestemd om te worden verwerkt (Verordeningen

(EEG) nr. 2182/77 en (EG) nr. 445/98)

— Para

transformaç˜ao
2182/77 e (CE) nº 445/98]

[Regulamentos

(CEE) nº

— Jalostettavaksi

(Asetukset

(ETY) N:o 2182/77 ja

(EY) N:o 445/98)

— För

bearbetning

(Förordningarna

(EEG)

nr

2182/77 och (EG) nr 445/98),

— Section 106 of T 5 control copies must be completed
with the date of conclusion of the contract of sale.

Article 6

Article 7

Notwithstanding Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No
2182/77, in addition to the entries provided for in Regula-
tion (EEC) No 3002/92:

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 25 February 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANEXO I — BILAG I — ANHANG I — PAQAQTGLA I — ANNEX I — ANNEXE I — ALLEGATO I — BIJLAGE I —
ANEXO I — LIITE I — BILAGA I

Estado miembro

Medlemsstat

Mitgliedstaat

Jq ˜ator l ˜ekor

Member State

État membre

Stato membro

Lidstaat

Estado-membro

Jäsenvaltio

Medlemsstat

Productos (1)

Produkter (1)

Erzeugnisse (1)

Pqoˇi ˜omta (1)

Products (1)

Produits (1)

Prodotti (1)

Producten (1)

Produtos (1)

Tuotteet (1)

Produkter (1)

Cantidad aproximada
(toneladas)
Tilnærmet mængde
(tons)
Ungefähre Mengen
(Tonnen)
Jat ˜a pqos ˜eccisg
pos ˜otgta (t ˜omoi)
Approximate quantity
(tonnes)
Quantité approximative
(tonnes)
Quantità approssimativa
(tonnellate)
Hoeveelheid bij
benadering (ton)
Quantidade aproximada
(toneladas)
Arvioitu määrä
(tonneina)
Ungefärlig kvantitet
(ton)

Precio de venta expresado en ecus por tonelada

Salgspriser i ECU/ton

Verkaufspreise, ausgedrückt in ECU/Tonne

Til ˜er pyk ˜gseyr ejvqaf ˜olemer se Ecu am ˜a t ˜omo

Selling prices expressed in ecus per tonne

Prix de vente exprimés en écus par tonne

Prezzi di vendita espressi in ecu per tonnellata

Verkoopprijzen uitgedrukt in ECU per ton

Preço de venda expresso em ecus por tonelada

Myyntihinta ecuina tonnilta

Försäljningspris i ecu per ton

a) Carne con hueso — Kød, ikke udbenet — Fleisch mit Knochen — Jq ˜eata le j ˜ojaka — Bone-in-beef — Viande avec os —

Carni non disossate — Vlees met been — Carne com osso — Luullinen naudanliha — Kött med ben

DEUTSCHLAND — Vorderviertel
DANMARK
ITALIA
IRELAND
FRANCE
ÖSTERREICH
PORTUGAL
ESPA (cid:5)NA

— Forfjerdinger (A)
— Quarti anteriori
— Forequarters
— Quartiers avant
— Vorderviertel
— Quartos dianteiros
— Cuartos delanteros

3 000
450
3 000
400
2 000
1 000
400
2 000

1 000
1 000
1 000
1 000
1 000
1 000
1 000
1 000

b) Carne deshuesada — Udbenet kød — Fleisch ohne Knochen — Jq ˜eata wyq˜ir j ˜ojaka — Boneless beef — Viande désossée —

Carni senza osso — Vlees zonder been — Carne desossada — Luuton naudanliha — Benfritt kött

DANMARK

Interventionsslag (INT 18)
Interventionsbryst (INT 23)

FRANCE

UNITED
KINGDOM

IRELAND

Jarret arrière d’intervention (INT 11)
Flanchet d’intervention (INT 18)
Jarret avant d’intervention (INT 21)
Épaule d’intervention (INT 22)
Poitrine d’intervention (INT 23)
Avant d’intervention (INT 24)

Intervention shank (INT 11)
Intervention flank (INT 18)
Intervention shin (INT 21)
Intervention shoulder (INT 22)
Intervention brisket (INT 23)
Intervention forequarter (INT 24)

Intervention shank (INT 11)
Intervention flank (INT 18)
Intervention shin (INT 21)
Intervention shoulder (INT 22)
Intervention brisket (INT 23)
Intervention forequarter (INT 24)

50
800

500
500
500
500
500
500

500
500
500
500
500
500

500
500
500
500
500
500

1 300
1 300

1 450
1 300
1 450
1 700
1 400
1 550

1 200
1 000
1 200
1 800
1 100
1 600

1 300
1 100
1 300
1 500
1 200
1 450

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(1) Véanse los anexos V y VII del Reglamento (CEE) no 2456/93 de la Comisión (DO L 225 de 4. 9. 1993, p. 4), cuya ´ultima modificación la constituye el Reglamento

(CE) no 2602/97 (DO L 351 de 23. 12. 1997, p. 20).

(1) Se bilag V og VII til Kommissionens forordning (EØF) nr. 2456/93 (EFT L 225 af 4. 9. 1993, s. 4), senest ændret ved forordning (EF) nr. 2602/97 (EFT L 351 af 23.

12. 1997, s. 20).

(1) Vgl. Anhänge V und VII der Verordnung (EWG) Nr. 2456/93 der Kommission (ABl. L 225 vom 4. 9. 1993, S. 4), zuletzt geändert durch die Verordnung (EG) Nr.

2602/97 (ABl. L 351 vom 23. 12. 1997, S. 20).

(1) Bk ˜epe paqaqt ˜glata V jai VII tou jamomislo ˜u (EOJ) aqih. 2456/93 tgr Epitqop ˜gr (EE L 225 tgr 4. 9. 1993, s. 4),

tom jamomisl ˜o (EJ) aqih. 2602/97 (EE L 351 tgr 23. 12. 1997, s. 20).

˜opyr tqopopoi ˜ghgje tekeuta˜ia ap ˜o

(1) See Annexes V and VII to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2456/93 (OJ L 225, 4. 9. 1993, p. 4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2602/97 (OJ L 351, 23.

12. 1997, p. 20).

(1) Voir annexes V et VII du règlement (CEE) no 2456/93 de la Commission (JO L 225 du 4. 9. 1993, p. 4). Règlement modifié en dernier lieu par le règlement (CE)

no 2602/97 (JO L 351 du 23. 12. 1997, p. 20).

(1) Cfr. allegati V e VII del regolamento (CEE) n. 2456/93 della Commissione (GU L 225 del 4. 9. 1993, pag. 4), modificato da ultimo dal regolamento (CE) n.

2602/97 (GU L 351 del 23. 12. 1997, pag. 20).

(1) Zie bijlagen V en VII van Verordening (EEG) nr. 2456/93 van de Commissie (PB L 225 van 4. 9. 1993, blz. 4); laatstelijk gewijzigd bij Verordening (EG) nr.

2602/97 (PB L 351 van 23. 12. 1997, blz. 20).

(1) Ver anexos V e VII do Regulamento (CEE) nº 2456/93 da Comiss˜ao (JO L 225 de 4. 9. 1993, p. 4). Regulamento com a ´ultima redacç˜ao que lhe foi dada pelo

Regulamento (CE) nº 2602/97 (JO L 351 de 23. 12. 1997, p. 20).

(1) Katso komission asetuksen (ETY) N:o 2456/93 (EYVL L 225, 4. 9. 1993, s. 4), sellaisena kuin se on viimeksi muutettuna asetuksella (EY) N:o 2602/97 (EYVL L

351, 23.12.1997, s. 20) liite V ja VII.

(1) Se bilaga V och VII i kommissionens förordning (EEG) nr 2456/93 (EGT L 225, 4.9.1993, s. 4), senast ändrad genom förordning (EG) nr 2602/97 (EGT L 351,

23.12.1997, s. 20).

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ANEXO II — BILAG II — ANHANG II — PAQAQTGLA II — ANNEX II — ANNEXE II —
ALLEGATO II — BIJLAGE II — ANEXO II — LIITE II — BILAGA II

Direcciones de los organismos de intervención — Interventionsorganernes adresser —
Anschriften der Interventionsstellen — Dieuh ˜umseir tym oqcamisl ˜ym paqelb ˜aseyr — Addresses
of the intervention agencies — Adresses des organismes d’intervention — Indirizzi degli
organismi d’intervento — Adressen van de interventiebureaus — Endereços dos organismos de
intervenç˜ao — Interventioelinten osoitteet — Interventionsorganens adresser

BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND

Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE)
Postfach 180203, D-60083 Frankfurt am Main
Adickesallee 40
D-60322 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.:

(49) 69 1564-704/772; Telex: 411727; Telefax:

(49) 69 15 64-790/791

DANMARK

Ministeriet for Fødevarer, Landbrug og Fiskeri
EU-direktoratet
Kampmannsgade 3
DK-1780 København V
Tlf.

(45) 33 92 70 00; telex 151317 DK; fax (45) 33 92 69 48,

(45) 33 92 69 23

ESPA (cid:5)NA

FEGA (Fondo Espa ˜nol de Garantía Agraria)
Beneficencia, 8
E-28005 Madrid
Tel.: (34 1) 347 65 00, 347 63 10; télex: FEGA 23427 E, FEGA 41818 E; fax: (34 1) 521 98 32, 522 43 87

FRANCE

OFIVAL
80, avenue des Terroirs-de-France
F-75607 Paris Cedex 12
Téléphone:

(33 1) 44 68 50 00; télex: 215330; télécopieur:

(33 1) 44 68 52 33

ITALIA

AIMA (Azienda di Stato per gli interventi nel mercato agricolo)
Via Palestro 81
I-00185 Roma
Tel. 49 49 91; telex: 61 30 03; telefax: 445 39 40/445 19 58

IRELAND

Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
Agriculture House
Kildare Street
IRL-Dublin 2
Tel.
Telex 93292 and 93607, telefax (01) 661 62 63,

(01) 678 90 11, ext. 2278 and 3806

(01) 678 52 14 and (01) 662 01 98

ÖSTERREICH

AMA-Agrarmarkt Austria
Dresdner Straße 70
A-1201 Wien
Tel.:

(431) 33 15 12 20; Telefax:

(431) 33 15 12 97

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PORTUGAL

Instituto Nacional de Intervenç˜ao e Garantia Agrícola
Rua Fernando Curado Ribeiro, nº 4-G
P-1600 Lisboa
Tel.:

(351-1) 751 85 00; telefax:

(351-1) 751 86 15

UNITED KINGDOM

Intervention Board Executive Agency
Kings House
33 Kings Road
Reading RG1 3BU
Berkshire
Tel.
(01189) 58 36 26
Fax (01189) 56 67 50