CELEX: 31976R3097
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3097/76 of 17 December 1976 fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 1 January 1977

18 . 12. 76                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 348/27
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3097/76
                                                       of 17 December 1976
               fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 1 January
                                                                1977
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       there are traditional trade flows to Switzerland ;
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         whereas, to the extent necessary to allow this trade to
                                                                      continue, the refund must be fixed at an amount
                                                                     which will cover the difference between prices on the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                Swiss market and export prices in the Member States ;
 Economic Community,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         Whereas, in the case of some other cuts and preserves
 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                    of meat or offals, Community participation in interna­
 of the market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by               tional trade may be ensured by granting a refund
 Regulation (EEC) No 568/76 (2), and in particular the               which takes account of the refund hitherto granted to
 first sentence of Article 1 8 (5) thereof,                           exporters ;
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
 Committee,
                                                                     Whereas, in the case of other beef and veal products, a
                                                                      refund need not be fixed since Community participa­
 Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                     tion in world trade in these products is not signifi­
                                                                     cant :
 provides that the difference between prices on the
world market and prices within the Community for
 the products listed in Article 1 of that Regulation may
 be covered by an export refund ;
                                                                     Whereas Article 92 of the Act of Accession (5)
                                                                      provides that the refund on exports from the new
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 of 28                     Member States for the products specified in Article 1
June 1 968 (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be
 1 504/76 (4), lays down general rules for granting                  corrected by the amount of the difference between the
export refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of                 customs duties on the products from which these
such refunds ;                                                       products are produced ;
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
criteria to the foreseeable situation on the market in               Whereas if the refund system is to operate normally,
beef and veal that the refund should be fixed as indi­               refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
cated below ;
                                                                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas the present market situation in the Commu­                        relation to each other, at any given moment,
nity and the selling possibilities, particularly in certain               within a band of 2*25 % , a rate of exchange based
third countries, lead to granting export refunds for the                  on their effective parity ;
export of adult bovine animals with a live weight
equal or superior to 300 kg, for the export of certain               — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
fresh or chilled meats shown in the Annex under
                                                                          arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
subheading ex 02.01 A II a) 1 and for the export to                       of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
certain destinations, of certain frozen meats shown in                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
the Annex under subheading ex 02.01 A II a) 2 ;                           in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas, in the case of edible meat of domestic
bovine animals, boned or boneless, salted and dried,
                                                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                     are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
(') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 24 .                           ment Committee for Beef and Veal .
I2) OJ No L 67, 15. 3. 1976, p. 28.
(3) OJ No L 156, 4. 7. 1968 , p. 2.
(4) OJ No L 168 , 28 . 6. 1976, p. 7.                                (5) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
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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            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
referred to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No           1977.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 17 December 1976.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                Member of the Commission
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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 :
                         — adult bovine animals with a live weight equal or
                             superior to 300 kg                                           40-00 i1 )
                                                                                          Net weight
ex 02.01 A II a) 1       Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, fresh or chilled :
               aa)       Of veal :
                    11 . Carcases and half-carcases                                       70-00 (*)
         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                                                           56-00 i1 )
                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                                                84-00 (*)
               bb)       Of adult animals :
                    11 . Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quarters                70-00 i1 )
        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                                                           56-00 {*)
                 ex 33 . Hindquarters,   excluding the forequarter with more than
                         ten whole or cut ribs
                                                                                           84-00 (*)
                cc)       Other cuts of beef and veal :
                    11 .  Unboned (bone-in)                                               56-00 i1)
                 ex 22 . Boned or boneless, excluding the thin flanks and the
                          shin :
                          — each piece individually wrapped
                                                                                           82-00 (»)
 ex 02.01 A II a) 2       Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, frozen :
                aa)       Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quarters :
                          — for export to European third countries (2), to Jordan,
                              to third countries on the Mediterranean or on the
                              Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian
                              Peninsula and Africa                                         70-00 (*)
         KM and ex cc)    Forequarters, with a minimum of four and a maximum
                          of thirteen whole or cut ribs, with or without the thin
                          flanks :
                          — 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                                         56-00 W
             ex cc)       Hindquarters,   excluding the forequarter with more than
                          ten wnole 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                                         84-00 (»)
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                                                                                                           Refund in u.a./100 kg
     CCT heading No                                 Description of goods
                                                                                                                (Net weight)
                  dd)       Others :
                       11 . Unboned (bone-in) :
                            — 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                                                            56-00 n
                   ex 22 .  Boned or boneless excluding the thin flanks and the
                            shin :
                            — for export to the United States of America                                         56-00 (*)
                            — each piece individually wrapped for export to Euro­
                                 pean third countries (*), to Jordan, to third countries
                                 on the Mediterranean or on the Persian Gulf, to third
                                 countries of the Arabian Peninsula and Africa                                   82-00 (»)
ex 02.06 C I a) 2           Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, boned or
                            boneless, salted and dried :
                            — for export to Switzerland                                                          36-50 Π
                                                                                                            United
                                                                                                 Ireland  Kingdom       Other Member Stat··
ex 16.02 B III b) 1         Other preparations and preserves of meat or offals ex­
                            cept those finely homogenized (3) containing by weight
                            the following percentages of bovine meat :
                            1 . 80 % or more of meat, excluding offal and fat                    33-27     32-30               35-00
                            2. 60% or more but less than 80% of meat, excluding
                                offal and fat                                                    19-96      19-38              21-00
                            3. 40% or more but less than 60% of meat, excluding
                                offal and fat                                                    13-31      12-92              14-00
                            4. 20% or more but less than 40% of meat, excluding
                                offal and fat                                                      665       6-46                7-00
(*) 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).
(*) within the meaning of this Regulation those destinations mentioned in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 (OJ No L 25, 31. 1. 1975,
    p. 1) are also to be understood as European third countries.
(*) The products which contain a small quantity of visible pieces of meat are also excluded.
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.