CELEX: 31974R1631
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1631/74 of the Commission of 27 June 1974 fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 1 July 1974

28 . 6 . 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 173/33
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1631 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 27 June 1974
                fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 1 July 1974
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     whereas, to the extent necessary to allow this trade to
COMMUNITIES,                                                       continue, the refund must be fixed at an amount
                                                                   which will cover the difference between prices on the
                                                                   Swiss market and export prices in the Member States ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;
                                                                   Whereas, in the case of the\ preserved meats set out in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
805/68 (^ of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                   1082/68 (5) of 26 July * 1968 fixing coefficients
tion of the market in beef and veal, as last amended               expressing the meat content of preserved meats manu­
by Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2), and in particular               factured from frozen meat, as amended by Regulation
the first sentence of Article 18(5) thereof ;                      (EEC) No 207/70 (6), which contain 40 % or more of
                                                                    meat, Community participation in international trade
                                                                    may be ensured by granting a refund which takes
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                       account of the refund hitherto granted to exporters ;
Committee ;
                                                                   Whereas, in the case of other beef and veal products, a
Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                   refund need not be fixed since Community participa­
provides that the difference between prices on the                 tion in world trade in these products is not signifi­
world market and prices within the Community for                   cant ;
the products listed in Article 1 of that Regulation may
be covered by an export refund ;
                                                                   Whereas Article 92 of the Act (7) annexed to the
                                                                   Treaty (8) concerning the Accession of new Member
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 (3) of                  States to the European Economic Community and the
28 June 1968 lays down general rules for granting                   European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brus­
export refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of               sels on 22 January 1972, provides that the refund on
such refunds ;
                                                                   exports from the new Member States for the products
                                                                   specified in Article 1 (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC)
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and                    No 805/68 shall be corrected by the amount of the
criteria to the foreseeable situation on the market in             difference between the customs duties on the products
beef and veal that the refund should be fixed as indi­             from which these products are produced ;
cated below ;
                                                                   Whereas if the refund system is to operate normally,
Whereas the present market situation in the Commu­                 refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
nity and the setting possibilities, particularly in certain
third countries, leads to granting an export refund for            — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
live domestic animals of the bovine species for the                     relation to each other, at any given moment,
export of certain fresh or chilled meats shown in the                   within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Annex under heading No ex 02.01 A II a) 1 and for                       on their effective parity ;
the export to certain destinations, of certain frozen
meats shown in the Annex under heading No ex                       — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
02.01 As II a) 2 ; whereas for products the subject                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
matter of the tender referred to in Regulation (EEC)                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
No 873/74 (4) the special conditions of sale do not                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
render necessary the granting of a refund ;                             in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas, in the case of edible meat of domestic                    Whereas the Management Committee for Beef and
bovine animals, boned or boneless, salted and dried,               Veal has not delivered an opinion within the time
there are traditional trade flows to Switzerland ;                 limit set by its Chairman,
(») OJ   No L 148, 28. 6. 1968 , p. 24.                            (5) OJ  No   L 181 , 27 . 7. 1968 , p. 9 .
(2) OJ   No L 25, 30 . 1 . 1973, p. 23 .                           (6) OJ  No  L  28, 5. 2. 1970, p. 10 .
(3) OJ   No L 156, 4. 7. 1968, p. 2.                               (7) OJ  No  L  73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14 .
(4) OJ   No L 101 , 11 . 4. 1974, p. 50 .                          (8) OJ  No  L  73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5.'
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                              805/68 is granted and the amount of that refund is
                                                           fixed as shown in the Annex.
                      Article 1
                                                                                   Article 2
The list of products on which the export refund
referred to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1974.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
             Done at Brussels, 27 June 1974.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                        The President
                                                                   Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
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                                                                   ANNEX
     CCT heading No                                 Description of goods    .            Refund in u .a./100 kg
                                                                                             Live weight
     01.02 A II             Live domestic animals of the bovine species, other than
                           pure-bred breeding animals                                          31-25 (!)
                                                                                              Net weight
 cx 02.01 A II a) 1        Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, fresh or chilled :     .     .
                aa)        Of veal :
                     11 .  Carcases and half-carcases                                          60-00 (»)·
       22. and ex 33 .     Unseparated or separated forequarters, with a respective
                           minimum of four pairs of ribs or four ribs and a
                           respective maximum of thirteen pairs of ribs or thirteen
                           ribs, with or without the thin flank, the ribs can be whole
                           or cut                                                              47-50 (*)
                ex 33 .    Unseparated or separated hindquarters, excluding unsepa­
                           rated or separated forequarters with respectively more
                           than eight pairs of whole or cut ribs or more than eight
                           whole or cut ribs                                                  71-25 i 1)
                bbO        Of adult animals :
                    11 .   Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quarters                  60-00 (»)
      22. and ex 33.       Forequarters, with a minimum of four and a maximum
                           of thirteen whole or cut ribs, with or without the thin
                           flanks                                                             47-50 (*)
               ex 33 .     Hindquarters, excluding the forequarter with more than
                           ten whole or cut ribs                                              71-25 H
                cc)        Other cuts of beef and veal :
                    11 .  Unboned (bone-in)                                                   47-50 i 1 )
               ex 22 .    Boned or boneless, excluding the chaps, the offals, the
                          thin flanks and the shin, packaged separately                       70-00 (*)
ex 02.01 A II a) 2        Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, frozen :
                aa)        Carcases, half-carcases and 'compensated' quarters :
                          — for export to European third countries, to Jordan,
                               to third countries on the Mediterranean or on the
                               Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian
                               Peninsula and Africa and for the provision of sea­
                            . going vessels or aircraft of armed forces stationed on
                               the territory of a Member State other than that of
                               their flag                                                     60-00 f1)
  bb) and ex cc)          Forequarters, with a minimum of four and a maximum
                          of thirteen whole or cut ribs, with or without the thin
                          flanks, excluding forequarters tendered for under Regu­
                          lation (EEC) No 873/74 :
                          — for export to European third countries, to Jordan,
                               to third countries on the Mediterranean or on the
                               Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian
                               Peninsula and Africa and for the provisiot) of sea­
                              going vessels or aircraft of armed forces stationed on
                              the territory of a Member State other than that of
                              their flag                                                      47-50 i1 )
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                                                                                                      Refund in u.á./lOO kg
      CCT heading No                                Description of goods                                    Net weight
              ex cc)       Hindquarters, excluding the forequarter with more than
                           ten whole or cut ribs
                           — for export to European third countries, to Jordan,
                               to third countries on the Mediterranean or on the
                               Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian
                               Peninsula and Africa and for the provision of sea­
                               going vessels or aircraft of armed forces stationed on
                               the territory of a Member State other than of their
                               flag                                                                         71-25 i 1 )
                  dd)      Others :
                      11 . Unboned (bone-in) :
                           — for export to European third countries, to Jordan, to
                               third countries on the Mediterranean or on the Per­
                               sian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian Peninsula
                               and Africa and for the provision of sea-going vessels
                               or aircraft of armed forces stationed on the territory
                               of a Member State other than that of their flag                              47-50 (»)
                 ex 22.'   Boned or boneless, excluding the chaps and the offals :
                           — for export to the United States of America                                     65-00 i 1 )
                           — excluding the thin flanks and the shin, packaged
                               separately, for export to European third countries, to
                               Jordan, to third countries on the Mediterranean or on
                               the Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian
                               Peninsula and Africa and for the provision of
                               sea-going vessels or aircraft or armed forces stationed
                               on the territory of a Member State other than that of
                               their flag                                                                   70-00 i 1 )
ex 02.06 C I a) 2          Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, boned or
                            boneless, salted and dried :
                           — for export to Switzerland                                                       31-25 (*)
                                                                                                       United
                                                                                            Ireland
                                                                                                      Kingdom      Other Member Statei
ex 16.02 B III b) 1         Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal, other,
                            containing bovine meat or offal but excluding those
                            containing meat or offals of domestic swine :
                           — preserves, other than homogenized, containing the
                               following percentages of bovine meat :
                                1 . 80°/o or more of meat, excluding offal and fat           17-76     14-20              25-00
                               2. 60 % or more but less than 80 % of meat, exclu­
                                    ding offal and fat                                       10-66       8-52             15-00
                                3. 40% or more but less than 60% of meat,
                                    excluding offal and fat                                   7-10       5-68             10-00
 (*) For Ireland and the United Kingdom the refund fixed above must be reduced by the compensatory amount pursuant to Article 12 (1) of
     Regulation (EEC) No 181/73 (OJ No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 9).
N.B. : Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 provides that no export refunds shall be granted on products
          imported from third countries and re-exported to third countries.