Commission Regulation (EC) No 1655/2002 of 17 September 2002 on the sale by tender of beef held by certain intervention agencies and intended for processing within the Community
Date: 2002-09-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, beef, food processing, intervention agency, sale

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1655/2002

of 17 September 2002

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,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef
and veal (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC)
No 2345/2001 (2), and in particular Article 28(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The application of intervention measures in respect of
beef has created stocks in several Member States.
In
order to prevent an excessive prolongation of storage,
part of these stocks should be sold by tender for proces-
sing in the Community.

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.

(3) With a view to ensuring a regular and uniform tendering
procedure, measures should be taken in addition to those
laid down in Article 8(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2173/
79.

Article 1

The sale shall take place of the following quantities of

1.
meat, for processing within the Community:

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

the German intervention agency,

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

the Austrian intervention agency,

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

intervention agency,

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

the French intervention agency,

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

the Italian intervention agency,

— 67 tonnes of bone-in forequarters held by the Dutch inter-

vention agency,

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

the Spanish intervention agency.

Detailed information concerning quantities is given in Annex I.

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.

2.
Subject to the provisions of this Regulation the products
referred to in paragraph 1 shall be sold in accordance with
Regulations (EEC) No 2173/79, in particular Titles II and III
thereof, (EEC) No 2182/77 and (EEC) No 3002/92.

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

In order to ensure a proper functioning of the tender
arrangements it is necessary to provide for a higher
amount of security than the one fixed in Article 15(1) of
Regulation (EEC) No 2173/79.

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

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

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 315, 1.12.2001, p. 29.
(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.

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

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For each product mentioned in Annex I the intervention
3.
agencies concerned shall sell first the meat which has been
stored the longest. However, Member States may in exceptional
cases and after having obtained authorisation from the
Commission derogate from that obligation.

in writing to take delivery, on their behalf, of

The tenderers referred to in paragraph 1 may instruct an
3.
the
agent
products which they purchase.
In this case the agent shall
submit the bids of the tenderers represented together with the
written instruction referred to above.

4.
Only tenders which reach the intervention agencies
concerned by 12 noon on 24 September 2002 shall be consid-
ered.

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

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

Article 3

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

the

After

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

tenders

Article 4

A tender shall be valid only if presented by or on behalf
1.
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 addition, tenders must be presented
by or on behalf of a processing establishment approved in
accordance with Article 8 of 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.

Notwithstanding Article 3(1) and (2) of Regulation (EEC)

2.
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.

(1) OJ L 26, 31.1.1977, p. 85.

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 notifi-
cation referred to in Article 11 of the same Regulation.

5.
The purchasers and agents referred to in the preceding
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.

Article 5

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 paragraphs 2 and 3
below.

2.
An A product means a processed product falling 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 % (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 sufficient to
ensure the coagulation of meat proteins in the whole of the
product, which may not therefore 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 beef,

3.
other than:

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

1254/1999 or

— one referred to in paragraph 2.

a processed product

However,
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 disappeared 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 docu-
mentary supervision to ensure that all meat is processed in
accordance with Article 5.

(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 accor-
dance with the procedure described in the Annex to Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 2429/86 (OJ L 210, 1. 8. 1986, p. 39).

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

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

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

In order to verify the quality of the finished product and estab-
lish 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.

the request of

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

Article 8

Notwithstanding Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 2182/77, in
addition to the entries provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
3002/92: Section 104 of T 5 control copies must be completed
with one or more of the following:

— Para transformación [Reglamentos (CEE) no 2182/77 y (CE)

no 1655/2002]

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

1655/2002)

— Zur Verarbeitung bestimmt

(Verordnungen (EWG) Nr.

2182/77 und (EG) Nr. 1655/2002)

— Για µεταποίηση [κανονισµοί

αριθ. 1655/2002]

(ΕOΚ) αριθ. 2182/77 και

(EK)

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

1655/2002)

— Destinés à la transformation [règlements (CEE) no 2182/77

et (CE) no 1655/2002]

— Destinate alla trasformazione [regolamenti (CEE) n. 2182/

3.

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

77 e (CE) n. 1655/2002]

Article 7

Notwithstanding Article 15(1) of Regulation (EEC) No

1.
2173/79, the security shall be EUR 12 per 100 kilograms.

2.
The security provided for in Article 4(1) of Regulation
(EEC) No 2182/77 shall be the difference in EUR between the
tender price per tonne and EUR 1 600.

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

— Bestemd om te worden verwerkt (Verordeningen (EEG) nr.

2182/77 en (EG) nr. 1655/2002)

— Para transformação [Regulamentos (CEE) n.o 2182/77 e (CE)

n.o 1655/2002]

— Jalostettavaksi (Asetukset (ETY) N:o 2182/77 ja (EY) N:o

1655/2002)

— För bearbetning (förordningarna (EEG) nr 2182/77 och (EG)

nr 1655/2002).

Article 9

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Community.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 September 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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

Estado miembro

Medlemsstat

Mitgliedstaat

Κράτος µέλος

Member State

État membre

Stato membro

Lidstaat

Estado-Membro

Jäsenvaltio

Medlemsstat

Productos

Produkter

Erzeugnisse

Προϊόντα

Products

Produits

Prodotti

Producten

Produtos

Tuotteet

Produkter

Cantidad aproximada
(toneladas)
Tilnærmet mængde
(tons)
Ungefähre Mengen
(Tonnen)
Κατά προσέγγιση ποσότητα
(τόνοι)
Approximate quantity
(tonnes)
Quantité approximative
(tonnes)
Quantità approssimativa
(tonnellate)
Hoeveelheid bĳ benadering
(ton)
Quantidade aproximada
(toneladas)
Arvioitu määrä
(tonneina)
Ungefärlig kvantitet
(ton)

Carne con hueso — Kød, ikke udbenet — Fleisch mit Knochen — Κρέατα µε κόκαλα — Bone-in beef — Viande
avec os — Carni non disossate — Vlees met been — Carne com osso — Luullinen naudanliha — Kött med ben

DEUTSCHLAND

DANMARK

ITALIA

FRANCE

ÖSTERREICH

NEDERLAND

ESPAÑA

— Vorderviertel

— Forfjerdinger

— Quarti anteriori

— Quartiers avant

— Vorderviertel

— Voorvoeten

— Cuartos delanteros

1 000

400

1 000

1 000

1 000

67

1 000

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ANEXO II — BILAG II — ANHANG II — ΠΑΡΑΡΤΗΜΑ 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 Inter-
ventionsstellen — ∆ιευθύνσεις των οργανισµών παρεµβάσεως — Addresses of the intervention agencies —
Adresses des organismes d'intervention — Indirizzi degli organismi d'intervento — Adressen van de interven-
tiebureaus — Endereços dos organismos de intervenção — Interventioelinten osoitteet — Interventionsorga-
nens adresser

BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND

ESPAÑA

Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE)
Postfach 180203
D-60322 Frankfurt am Main
Adickesallee 40
D-60322 Frankfurt am Main
Tel. (49) 69 15 64-704/772
Telex 411727
Fax (49) 69 15 64-790/985

ITALIA

AGEA (Agenzia Erogazioni in Agricoltura)
Via Palestro 81
I-00185 Roma
Tel. (39) 06 449 49 91;
telex 61 30 03;
fax (39) 06 445 39 40/444 19 58

ÖSTERREICH

AMA-Agrarmarkt Austria
Dresdner Straße 70
A-1021 Wien
Tel. (431) 33 15 12/20
Fax (431) 33 15/1297

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

FEGA (Fondo Español de Garantía Agraria)
Beneficencia, 8
E-28005 Madrid
Tel.: (34) 916 47 65 00, 913 47 63 10
Télex: FEGA 23427 E, FEGA 41818 E
Fax: (34) 915 21 98 32, 915 22 43 87

NEDERLAND

Ministerie van Landbouw, Natuurbeheer en Visserij, Voedselvoorzie-
ningsin- en verkoopbureau
p/a LASER, Zuidoost
Slachthuisstraat 71
Postbus 965
6040 AZ Roermond
Nederland
Tel. (31) 475 35 54 44
Telex 56396 VIBNL
Fax (31) 475 31 89 39

DANMARK

Ministeriet for Fødevarer, Landbrug og Fiskeri
Direktoratet for Fødevareerhverv
Kampmannsgade 3
DK-1780 København V
Tlf. (45) 33 95 80 00
telex 151317 DK
fax (45) 33 95 80 34