Commission Regulation (EC) No 883/98 of 24 April 1998 on the sale by tender of beef held by certain intervention agencies and intended for processing within the Community
Date: 1998-04-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, beef, food processing, intervention agency, sale

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 883/98

of 24 April 1998

on the sale by tender of beef held by certain intervention agencies and intended
for processing within 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,

intervention measures in
Whereas the application of
respect of beef has created stocks in several Member
States; whereas, in order to prevent an excessive prolonga-
tion of storage, part of these stocks should be sold by
tender for processing in the Community; whereas the beef
to be sold should be that which was purchased under
Article 6b of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68;

Whereas the sale should be made subject to the rules laid
down by 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, with a view to ensuring a regular and uniform
tendering procedure, measures should be taken in addi-
tion to those laid down in Article 8(1) of Regulation
(EEC) No 2173/79;

measures should be taken, in addition to the measures
provided for 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

The sale shall take place of intervention products
in under Article 6b of Regulation (EEC) No

1.
bought
805/68 of:

— approximately 32 tonnes of bone-in forequarters and
53 tonnes of bone-in hindquarters held by the
German intervention agency,

— approximately 54 tonnes of bone-in forequarters and
88 tonnes of bone-in hinquarters held by the Danish
intervention agency,

— approximately 105 tonnes of bone-in forequarters and
169 tonnes of bone-in hindquarters held by the Italian
intervention agency,

Whereas provision should be made for derogations from
Article 8(2)(b) of Regulation (EEC) No 2173/79, in view of
the administrative difficulties which application of this
point creates in the Member States concerned;

— approximately 2 tonnes of bone-in forequarters and 2
tonnes of bone-in hindquarters held by the Austrian
intervention agency,

Whereas in order to ensure optimum monitoring of the
from intervention stocks, control
destination of beef

(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.

— approximately 89 tonnes of bone-in forequarters and
145 tonnes of bone-in hindquarters held by the Dutch
intervention agency,

— approximately 297 tonnes of bone-in forequarters and
415 tonnes of bone-in hindquarters held by the
Spanish intervention agency,

— approximately 16,5 tonnes of boneless beef held by

the United Kingdom intervention agency.

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Detailed information concerning quantities is given in
Annex I.

Article 3

Subject

to the provisions of

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

Article 2

1. Notwithstanding Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation
(EEC) No 2173/79, the provisions of and Annexes to this
Regulation shall serve as a general notice of invitation to
tender.

The intervention agencies concerned shall draw up a
notice of invitation to tender which shall
include the
following:

(a) the quantities of beef offered for sale; and

(b) the deadline and place for submitting tenders.

2.
the
Interested parties may obtain the details of
quantities available and the places where the products are
stored from the addresses listed in Annex II to this Regu-
lation. The intervention agencies
in addition,
display the notice referred to in paragraph 1 at their head
offices and may publish it in other ways.

shall,

3.
For each product mentioned in Annex I the inter-
vention agencies concerned shall sell first the meat which
has been stored the longest.

4. Only tenders which reach the intervention agencies
concerned by 12 noon on 5 May 1998 shall be con-
sidered.

5. Notwithstanding Article 8(1) of Regulation (EEC)
No 2173/79, a tender must be submitted to the interven-
tion agency concerned in a closed envelope, bearing the
reference to the Regulation concerned. The closed en-
velope must not be opened by the intervention agency
before the expiry of the tender deadline referred to in
paragraph 4.

6. Notwithstanding Article 8(2)(b) of Regulation (EEC)
No 2173/79, tenders shall not indicate in which cold
store or stores the products are held.

7. Notwithstanding Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No
2173/79, in the case of boneless beef, the quantity avail-
able for each cut shall constitute the minimum quantity
to be tendered for.

1. Member States shall provide the Commission with
later
information concerning the tenders received not
than the working day following the deadline set for the
submission of tenders.

After the tenders received have been examined a
2.
minimum selling price shall be set for each product or
the sale will not proceed.

Article 4

A tender shall be valid only if presented by or on
1.
behalf of a natural or legal person who, for the 12 months
prior to the entry into force of this Regulation, has been
engaged in the processing of products containing beef
and who is entered in a national VAT register. In addi-
tion, tenders must be presented by or on behalf of a
processing establishment approved in accordance with
Article 8 of Council Directive 77/99/EEC (1).

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

— a written undertaking by the tenderer to process the
meat into the products specified in Article 5 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 which has been purchased is to be
processed.

The tenderers

referred to in paragraph 1 may
3.
instruct an agent in writing to take delivery, on their
behalf, of the products which they purchase. In this case
the agent shall submit the bids of the tenderers whom he
represents together with the written instruction referred to
above.

4. Notwithstanding Article 18(1) of Regulation (EEC)
No 2173/79 the time limit for taking over meat sold
pursuant to this Regulation shall be two months from the
day of the notification referred to in Article 11 of the
same Regulation.

5.
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
manufactured tally.

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

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Article 5

strate the identity and use of the meat through appro-
priate production records.

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.

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

An ‘A’ product means a processed product falling
2.
within CN code 1602 10, 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 % (1) and containing by weight
at least 20 % (2) of lean meat excluding offal (3) 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 6

1. Member States shall set up a system of physical and
documentary supervision to ensure that all meat
is
processed in accordance with Article 5.

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-

(1) 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.

(2) 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,

(3) 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,

In order to verify the quality of the finished product and
recipe
establish its conformity with the processor’s
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,
authorize the boning of forequarters and hindquarters in
an establishment 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 7

The security provided for in Article 15(1) of Regula-
1.
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:

— the difference in ecus between the tender price per
tonne and ECU 1 800 for bone-in forequarters,

— the difference in ecus between the tender price per
tonne and ECU 2 700 for bone-in hindquarters,

— the difference in ecus between the tender price per

tonne and ECU 3 500 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 5 shall consti-
tute a principal requirement.

Article 8

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

— Section 104 of T 5 control copies must be completed

with one or more of the following:

— Para

transformaci(cid:155)n [Reglamentos

(CEE) No

2182/77 y (CE) No 883/98]

— Til forarbejdning (forordning (EØF) No 2182/77

og (EF) No 883/98)

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— Zur Verarbeitung bestimmt (Verordnungen (EWG)

— Para

transforma(cid:135)˜ao [Regulamentos

(CEE) No

No 2182/77 und (EG) No 883/98)

2182/77 e (CE) No 883/98]

— Cia letapo˜igsg

[jamomislo˜i

2182/77 jai (EJ) No 883/98]

(EOJ) No

— Jalostettavaksi

(Asetukset

(ETY) No 2182/77 ja

(EY) No 883/98)
bearbetning

— F(cid:148)r

(F(cid:148)rordningarna

(EEG) No

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

2182/77 och (EG) No 883/98),

and (EC) No 883/98)

— Destin(cid:130)s (cid:133) la transformation [r(cid:138)glements (CEE) No

2182/77 et (CE) No 883/98]

— Destinate alla trasformazione [Regolamenti (CEE)

No 2182/77 e (CE) No 883/98]

— Bestemd om te worden verwerkt (Verordeningen

(EEG) No 2182/77 en (EG) No 883/98)

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

Article 9

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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, 24 April 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

(cid:144)tat membre

Stato membro

Lidstaat

Estado-membro

J(cid:132)senvaltio

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)
Ungef(cid:132)hre Mengen
(Tonnen)
Jat ˜a pqos ˜eccisg
pos ˜otgta (t ˜omoi)
Approximate quantity
(tonnes)
Quantit(cid:130) approximative
(tonnes)
Quantit(cid:133) approssimativa
(tonnellate)
Hoeveelheid bij
benadering (ton)
Quantidade aproximada
(toneladas)
Arvioitu m(cid:132)(cid:132)r(cid:132)
(tonneina)
Ungef(cid:132)rlig kvantitet
(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 — K(cid:148)tt med ben

DEUTSCHLAND

— Vorderviertel

DANMARK

ITALIA

— Hinterviertel

— Forfjerdinger

— Bagfjerdinger

— Quarti anteriori

— Quarti posteriori

(cid:153)STERREICH

— Vorderviertel

— Hinterviertel

NEDERLAND

— Voorvoeten

— Achtervoeten

ESPA (cid:5)NA

— Cuartos delanteros

— Cuartos traseros

32

53

54

88

105

169

2

2

89

145

297

415

b) Carne deshuesada — Udbenet kød — Fleisch ohne Knochen — Jq ˜eata wyq˜ir j ˜ojaka —
Boneless beef — Viande d(cid:130)soss(cid:130)e — Carni senza osso — Vlees zonder been — Carne desossada
— Luuton naudanliha — Benfritt k(cid:148)tt

UNITED
KINGDOM

Intervention shank (INT 11)

Intervention thick flank (INT 12)

Intervention topside (INT 13)

Intervention silverside (INT 14)

Intervention rump (INT 16)

Intervention flank (INT 18)

Intervention forerib (INT 19)

Intervention shin (INT 21)

Intervention shoulder (INT 22)

Intervention brisket (INT 23)

Intervention forequarter (INT 24)

1

1,2

1,8

1,6

1

2,5

0,8

0,5

2,5

1,1

2,5

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(1) V(cid:130)anse los Anexos V y VII del Reglamento (CEE) no 2456/93 (DO L 225 de 4. 9. 1993, p. 4), cuya ´ultima modificaci(cid:155)n la

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

(1) Se bilag V og VII til 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. Anh(cid:132)nge V und VII der Verordnung (EWG) Nr. 2456/93 (ABl. L 225 vom 4. 9. 1993, S. 4), zuletzt ge(cid:132)ndert 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 (EE L 225 tgr 4. 9. 1993, s. 4),
tqopopoi ˜ghgje tekeuta˜ia ap ˜o tom jamomisl ˜o (EJ) aqih. 2602/97 (EE L 351 tgr 23. 12. 1997, s. 20).
(1) See Annexes V and VII to Regulation (EEC) No 2456/93 (OJ L 225, 4. 9. 1993, p. 4), as last amended by Regulation (EC)

˜opyr

No 2602/97 (OJ L 351, 23. 12. 1997, p. 20).

(1) Voir annexes V et VII du r(cid:138)glement (CEE) no 2456/93 (JO L 225 du 4. 9. 1993, p. 4). R(cid:138)glement modifi(cid:130) en dernier lieu

par le r(cid:138)glement (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 (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 de bijlagen V en VII van Verordening (EEG) nr. 2456/93 (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 (JO L 225 de 4. 9. 1993, p. 4). Regulamento com a ´ultima

redac(cid:135)˜ao que lhe foi dada pelo Regulamento (CE) nº 2602/97 (JO L 351 de 23. 12. 1997, p. 20).

(1) Katso 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). Liitteit(cid:132) V ja VII.

(1) Se bilaga V och VII i f(cid:148)rordning (EEG) nr 2456/93 (EGT L 225, 4.9.1993, s. 4), senast (cid:132)ndrad genom f(cid:148)rordning (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 intervenci(cid:155)n — 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 — Endere(cid:135)os dos organismos de
interven(cid:135)˜ao — Interventioelinten osoitteet — Interventionsorganens adresser

BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND

Bundesanstalt f(cid:129)r Landwirtschaft und Ern(cid:132)hrung (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 Garant(cid:146)a Agraria)
Beneficencia, 8
E-28005 Madrid
Tel.:
915 22 43 87

(34) 913 47 65 00/913 47 63 10;

t(cid:130)lex: FEGA 23427 E/FEGA 41818 E;

fax:

(34) 915 21 98 32/

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

NEDERLAND

Ministerie van Landbouw, Natuurbeheer en Visserij, Voedselvoorzieningsin- en verkoopbureau
p/a LASER, Zuidoost
Slachthuisstraat 71
Postbus 965
6040 AZ Roermond
Tel.

(31-475) 35 54 44; telex 56396 VIBNL; fax (31-475) 31 89 39

(cid:153)STERREICH

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

(431) 33 15 12 20; Telefax:

(431) 33 15 1297

UNITED KINGDOM

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