Commission Regulation (EC) No 604/2003 of 2 April 2003 on periodical sales by tender of beef held by certain intervention agencies and intended for processing within the Community
Date: 2003-04-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Germany, Spain, award of contract, beef, food processing, intervention agency, sale

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 604/2003

of 2 April 2003

on periodical sales 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 (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 27(4), Article 28(2)
and Article 41 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.

as

The sale should be made subject to the rules laid down
by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2173/79 of 4
October 1979 on detailed rules of application for the
disposal of beef bought in by intervention agencies and
repealing Regulation (EEC) No 216/69 (3),
last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2417/95 (4), Commis-
sion Regulation (EEC) No 3002/92 of 16 October 1992
laying down common detailed rules for verifying the use
and/or destination of products from intervention (5), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 770/96 (6), and
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2182/77 of 30
September 1977 laying down detailed rules for the sale
of frozen beef from intervention stocks for processing in
the Community and amending Regulation (EEC) No
1687/76 (7), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
2417/95,
exceptions on
account of the particular use to which the products in
question are to be put.

to certain special

subject

(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.

(4)

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.

(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.

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

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.

On the basis of experience gained with regard to the
disposal of bone-in intervention beef, it is necessary to
reinforce the quality controls of the products before their
delivery to the purchasers, in particular to ensure that
the products comply with the provisions in Annex III of
Regulation (EC) No 562/2000 of 15 March 2000 laying
down detailed rules for the application of Council Regu-
lation (EC) No 1254/1999 as regards the buying-in of
beef (8), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1564/
2001 (9).

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,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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 French intervention agency,

— approximately 1 000 tonnes of bone-in forequarters held

by the Spanish intervention agency,

— approximately 1 500 tonnes of boneless beef held by the

French intervention agency.

Detailed information concerning quantities is given in Annex I.

Subject to the provisions of this Regulation the products
2.
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.

(8) OJ L 68, 16.3.2000, p. 22.
(9) OJ L 208, 1.8.2001, p. 14.

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Article 2

Article 4

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 notices of
invitation to tender for each sale 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
in addition, display the notices referred to in
agencies shall,
paragraph 1 at their head offices and may publish it in other
ways.

3.
For each product mentioned in Annex I the intervention
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.

Tenders shall be submitted for the following closing

4.
dates:

(a) 8 April 2003;

(b) 22 April 2003;

(c) 13 May 2003;

(d) 10 June 2003;

until the quantities put up for sale are used up.

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.

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.

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

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

tenders

1.
A tender shall be valid only if presented by or on 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 addition, 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).

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 6 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.

in writing to take delivery, on their behalf, of

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

Notwithstanding Article 18(1) of Regulation (EEC) No
4.
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.
The Member States shall take all necessary measures to
ensure that bone-in intervention products delivered to the
purchasers are presented in a state which fully complies with
Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 562/2000 and in particular
the sixth indent of point 2(a) of that Annex.

2.
The costs related to the measures referred to in paragraph
1 shall be borne by the Member States and shall, in particular,
not be imposed on the purchaser or any other third party.

3. Member States shall notify the Commission (2) of all cases
where a bone-in intervention quarter has been identified as not
complying with Annex III as referred to in paragraph 1, speci-
fying the quality and quantity of the quarter as well as the
slaughterhouse where it was produced.

(1) OJ L 26, 31.1.1977, p. 85.
(2) DG Agriculture, D2: fax (32-2) 295 36 13.

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Article 6

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

3.
apply.

Article 8

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

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

The security provided for in Article 4(1) of Regulation

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

— for forequarters the difference in EUR between the tender

price per tonne and EUR 1 600,

— for boneless beef of intervention codes INT 22 and INT 24
the difference in EUR between the tender price per tonne
and EUR 1 800,

— for boneless beef of intervention code INT 18 the difference
and

tender price per

tonne

in EUR between the
EUR 1 400.

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 6 shall constitute a principal
requirement.

Article 7

Article 9

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 6.

The system must
include physical checks of quantity and
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

the processor,
2. Member States may, at
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.

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

(3) 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.

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 604/2003]

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

nr. 604/2003)

— Zur Verarbeitung bestimmt (Verordnungen (EWG) Nr.

2182/77 und (EG) Nr. 604/2003)

— Για µεταποίηση [κανονισµoί (ΕOΚ) αριθ. 2182/77 και (EK)

αριθ. 604/2003]

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

No 604/2003)

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

77 et (CE) no 604/2003]

— Destinate alla trasformazione [Regolamenti

(CEE) n.

2182/77 e (CE) n. 604/2003]

— Bestemd om te worden verwerkt (Verordeningen (EEG)

nr. 2182/77 en (EG) nr. 604/2003)

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

(CE) n.o 604/2003]

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

604/2003)

— För bearbetning (Förordningarna (EEG) nr 2182/77 och

(EG) nr 604/2003).

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This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 April 2003.

Article 10

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

Done at Brussels, 2 April 2003.

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 (1)

Produkter (1)

Erzeugnisse (1)

Προϊόντα (1)

Products (1)

Produits (1)

Prodotti (1)

Producten (1)

Produtos (1)

Tuoteet (1)

Produkter (1)

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

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

DEUTSCHLAND

— Vorderviertel

FRANCE

ESPAÑA

— Quartiers avant

— Cuartos delanteros

1 000

1 000

1 000

b) Carne deshuesada — Udbenet kød — Fleisch ohne Knochen — Kρέατα χωρίς κόκαλα — Boneless beef —
Viande désossée — Carni senza osso — Vlees zonder been — Carne desossada — Luuton naudanliha —
Benfritt kött

FRANCE

— Flanchet d'intervention (INT 18)

— Épaule d'intervention (INT 22)

— Avant d'intervention (INT 24)

(1) Véanse los anexos III y V del Reglamento (CE) no 562/2000.
(1) Se bilag III og V til Kommissionens forordning (EF) nr. 562/2000.
(1) Vgl. Anhänge III und V der Verordnung (EG) Nr. 562/2000.
(1) Βλέπε παραρτήµατα III και V του κανονισµού (ΕΚ) αριθ 562/2000.
(1) See Annexes III and V to Regulation (EC) No 562/2000.
(1) Voir annexes III et V du règlement (CE) no 562/2000.
(1) Cfr. allegati III e V del regolamento (CE) n. 562/2000.
(1) Zie de bijlagen III en V van Verordening (EG) nr. 562/2000.
(1) Ver anexos III e V do Regulamento (CE) n.o 562/2000.
(1) Katso asetuksen (EY) N:o 562/2000 liitteet III ja V.
(1) Se bilagorna III och V i kommissionens förordning (EG) nr 562/2000.

200

800

500

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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

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