CELEX: 31994R2869
Language: en
Date: 1994-11-25 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2869/94 of 25 November 1994 fixing the export refunds on beef

No L 303/34                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 26. 11 . 94
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2869/94
                                                     of 25 November 1994
                                              fixing the export refunds on beef
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       granted, on the one hand, on bovine animals intended for
                                                                   slaughter of a live weight greater than 220 kilograms and
                                                                   less than 300 kilograms, and, on the other on adult
                                                                   bovine animals of a live weight of at least 300 kilograms ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             whereas experience gained in recent years has shown that
 Community,                                                        live pure-bred breeding animals weighing at least 250
                                                                   kilograms in the case of females and 300 kilograms in
                                                                   that of males should be treated in the same way as other
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of            bovine animals, subject to certain special administrative
                                                                   formalities :
 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market
 in beef and veal ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
 No 1 884/94 (2), and in particular Article 18 thereof,
                                                                   Whereas export refunds should be granted for certain
                                                                   destinations on some fresh or chilled meat listed in the
 Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68
 provides that the difference between prices on the world          Annex under CN code 0201 , on some frozen meat listed
 market for the products listed in Article 1 of that Regula­       in the Annex under CN code 0202, on some meat or offal
                                                                   listed in the Annex under CN code 0206 and on some
 tion and prices for those products within the
 Community may be covered by an export refund ;                    other prepared or preserved meat or offal listed in the
                                                                   Annex under CN code 1602 50 10 :
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 (3), as last
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 427/77 (4), lays down
general rules for granting export refunds and criteria for         Whereas, in view of the wide differences in products
 fixing the amount of such refunds ;                               covered by CN codes 0201 20 90 700 and 0202 20 90 100
                                                                   used for refund purposes, refunds should only be granted
                                                                   on cuts in which the weight of bone does not exceed one
                                                                   third :
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 32/82 0, as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 3169/87 (*), Regulation (EEC)
 No 1964/82 f7), as amended by Regulation (EEC)
 No 3169/87, and Regulation (EEC) No 2388/84 (8), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3661 /92 (9), lay down              Whereas, in the case of meat of bovine animals, boned or
the conditions for granting special export refunds on              boneless, salted and dried, there are traditional trade flows
certain cuts of beef and veal and certain preserved beef           to Switzerland ; whereas, to allow this trade to continue,
                                                                   the refund should be set to cover the difference between
and veal products ;
                                                                   prices on the Swiss market and export prices in the
                                                                   Member States ; whereas there are possibilities for export­
                                                                   ing such meat and also salted, smoked and dried meat to
Whereas it follows from applying those rules and criteria          certain African, Near and Middle Eastern countries ;
to the foreseeable situation on the market in beef and veal        whereas a refund should accordingly be set ;
that the refund should be as set out below ;
Whereas, given the current market situation in the                 Whereas, in the case of certain other cuts and preserves of
Community and the possibilities of disposal in certain             meat or offal shown in the Annex under CN codes
third countries in particular, export refunds should be            1602 50 31 to 1602 50 80, the Community share of inter­
                                                                   national trade may be maintained by granting a refund
0)  OJ  No L  148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.                             corresponding to that at present available ;
(2) OJ  No L  197, 30. 7. 1994, p. 27.
0   OJ  No L  156, 4. 7. 1968, p. 2.
0   OJ  No L 61 , 5. 3. 1977, p. 16.
0   OJ  No L 4, 8 . 1 . 1982, p. 11 .
(«) OJ  No L 301 , 24. 10. 1987, p. 21 .
0   OJ  No L 212, 21 . 7. 1982, p. 48.                             Whereas, in the case of other beef and veal products, a
0   OJ  No L 221 , 18. 8. 1984, p. 28.                             refund need not be fixed since the Community's share of
O   OJ  No L 370, 19. 12. 1992, p. 16.                             world trade is not significant ;
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Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article         Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 990/93 (9) prohi­
 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (x), as                  bits trade between the European Community and the
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (2), are used to             Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia und Montenegro) ;
convert amounts expressed in third country currencies              whereas this prohibition does not apply in certain situa­
and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural         tions as comprehensively listed in Articles 2, 4, 5 and 7
conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;                thereof ; whereas account should be taken of this fact
whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­           when fixing the refunds ;
tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (3), as amended by Regulation              Whereas, notwithstanding the subdivision of the
(EC) No 547/94 (4);                                                combined nomenclature for prepared and preserved meat,
                                                                   other than uncooked, falling within CN code 1602 50,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (*),                experience has shown that it is possible to delete from the
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2079/94 (*),                 refund nomenclature several products falling within CN
establishes the agricultural product nomenclature for the          code 1602 50 31 and to amend the list of products falling
purposes of export refunds ;                                       within CN code 1 602 50 80 ;
Whereas, in order to simplify customs export formalities
for operators, the refunds on all frozen cuts should be            Whereas the Management Committee for Beef and Veal
brought in line with those on fresh or chilled cuts other          has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by
than those from adult male bovine animals ;                        its chairman,
Whereas experience has shown that in certain cases it is
often difficult to determine the relevant quantities of beef,
veal and other meat contained in prepared or preserved             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
meat falling within CN code 1 602 50 ; whereas exclusi­
vely beef and veal products should accordingly be set
apart and a new heading should be created for mixtures of                                  Article 1
meats or offals ; whereas checks on products other than
mixtures of meat or offal should be stepped up by making
                                                                   The list of products on which export refunds as referred
the granting of refunds on these products conditional on           to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 are
manufacture under the arrangements provided for in                 granted and the amount thereof shall be as set out in the
Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 565/80 of                 Annex.
4 March 1980 on the advance payment of export refunds
in respect of agricultural products f), as amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 2026/83 (8) ;                                                          Article 2
Whereas refunds on female animals should vary depend­
ing on their age in order to prevent abuses in the export          This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 November
of certain pure-bred breeding animals ;                            1994.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 25 November 1994.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               Rene STEICHEN
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(') OJ No  L  387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No  L  320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
(3) OJ No  L  108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(4) OJ No  L  69, 12. 3. 1994, p. 1 .
0   OJ No  L  366, 24. 12. 1987, p. 1 .
(0  OJ No  L  215, 20. 8. 1994, p. 2.
O   OJ No  L  62, 7. 3. 1980, p. 5.
(8) OJ No  L  199, 22. 7. 1983, p. 12.                             0 OJ No L 102, 28. 4. 1993, p. 14.
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                                                         ANNEX
                                             (ECU/100 kg)                                           (ECU/100 kg)
     Product code  Destination f)        Refund (8) (10)          Product code  Destination Q  Refund (8) (10)
                                      — Live weight —                                         — Net weight —
0102 10 10 120          01                  78,50
                                                             0201 20 20 120          02          103,00
0102 10 10 130          02                  57,50
                                                                                     03            71,50
                        03                  40,50
                                                                                     04            35,50
                        04                  20,50
0102 10 30 120          01                  78,50            0201 20 30 110 0        02          102,00
0102 10 30 130          02                  57,50                                    03            69,50
                        03                  40,50                                    04            34,50
                        04                  20,50            0201 20 30 120          02            75,00
0102 10 90 120          01                  78,50                                    03            52,50
0102 90 41 100          02                  78,50                                    04            26,00
0102 90 51 000          02                  57,50
                                                             0201 20 50 110 (')      02          177,50
                        03                  40,50
                                                                                     03          118,50
                        04                  20,50
                                                                                     04            59,00
0102 90 59 000          02                  57,50
                        03                  40,50            0201 20 50 120          02          131,00
                        04                  20,50                                    03            90,50
0102 90 61 000          02                  57,50                                    04            45,00
                        03                  40,50
                                                             0201 20 50 130 (')      02          102,00
                        04                  20,50
                                                                                     03            69,50
0102 90 69 000          02                  57,50
                                                                                     04            34,50
                        03                  40,50
                        04                  20,50            0201 20 50 140          02            75,00
0102 90 71 000          02                  78,50                                    03            52,50
                        03                  52,50                                    04            26,00
                        04                  26,00
                                                             0201 20 90 700          02            75,00
0102 90 79 000          02                  78,50
                                                                                     03            52,50
                        03                  52,50
                                                                                     04            26,00
                        04                  26,00
                                                             0201 30 00 050 (4)      05            91,00
                                      — Net weight —
                                                             0201 30 00 100 (2)      02          254,00
                                                                                     03          169,50
0201 10 00 110 (')      02                 102,00
                                                                                     04            85,00
                        03                  69,50
                                                                                     06          217,00
                        04                  34,50
0201 10 00 120          02                  75,00            0201 30 00 150 (*)       10         134,50
                        03                  52,50                                     11         113,50
                        04                  26,00                                    03          102,00
0201 10 00 130 (')      02                 140,00                                    04            51,00
                        03                  94,00                                    06          118,00
                        04                  47,00
                                                                                     07            73,00
0201 10 00 140          02                 103,00
                        03                  71,50            0201 30 00 190 (*)      02          104,00
                        04                  35,50                                    03            68,50
                                                                                     04            34,00
0201 20 20 110 (')      02                 140,00
                        03                  94,00                                    06            83,50
                        04                  47,00                                    07            73,00
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                                             (ECU/100 kg)                                           (ECU/100 kg)
     Product code  Destination f)        Refund (8) (10)        Product code   Destination f)  Refund (8) (10)
                                      — Net weight —                                          — Net weight —
0202 10 00 100          02                  75,00           1602 50 10 120          02           1 15,50 (9)
                        03                  52,50                                   03             92,50 0
                        04                  26,00                                   04             92,50 0
020210 00 900           02                 103,00           1602 50 10 140          02           102,00 (9)
                        03                  71,50                                   03             82,00 0
                        04                  35,50                                   04             82,00 (9)
0202 20 10 000          02                 103,00           1602 50 10 160          02             82,00 0
                        03                  71,50                                   03             66,00 (9)
                        04                  35,50                                   04             66,00 O
0202 20 30 000          02                  75,00           1602 50 10 170          02             54,50 (9)
                        03                  52,50                                   03             43,50 0
                        04                  26,00                                   04             43,50 (9)
0202 20 50 100          02                 131,00           1602 50 10 190          02             54,50
                        03                  90,50                                   03             43,50
                        04                  45,00                                   04             43,50
0202 20 50 900          02                  75,00           1602 50 10 240          02             17,00
                        03                  52,50                                   03             17,00
                        04                  26,00                                   04             17,00
0202 20 90 100          02                  75,00           1602 50 10 260          02             13,00
                        03                  52,50                                   03             13,00
                        04                  26,00                                   04             13,00
0202 30 90 100 (4)      05                  91,00           1602 50 10 280          02               7,00
Q202 30 90 400 (6)      10                 134,50                                   03               7,00
                        11                 113,50                                   04               7,00
                        03                 102,00           1602 50 31 125          01            104,50 0
                        04                  51,00
                                                            1602 50 31 135          01             66,00 (9)
                        06                 118,00
                        07                  73,00           1602 50 31 195          01             32,50
0202 30 90 500 (6)      02                 104,00           1602 50 31 325          01             93,00 0
                        03                  68,50           1602 50 31 335          01             59,00 0
                        04                  34,00           1602 50 31 395          01             32,50
                        06                  83,50
                                                            1602 50 39 125          01            104,50 0
                        07                  73,00
                                                            1602 50 39 135          01             66,00 0
0202 30 90 900          07                  73,00
                                                            1602 50 39 195          01             32,50
0206 10 95 000          02                 104,00
                        03                  68,50           1602 50 39 325           01            93,00 0
                        04                  34,00           1602 50 39 335          01             59,00 0
                        06                  83,50           1602 50 39 395           01            32,50
3206 29 91 000          02                 104,00           1602 50 39 425          01             69,50 0
                        03                  68,50
                                                            1602 50 39 435          01             43,50 0
                        04                  34,00
                        06                  83,50           1602 50 39 495          01             32,50
0210 20 90 100          08                  83,50           1602 50 39 505          01             32,50
                        09                  49,50           1602 50 39 525           01            69,50 0
0210 20 90 300          02                 104,00           1602 50 39 535           01            43,50 0
0210 20 90 500 (3)      02                 104,00           1602 50 39 595           01            32,50
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                                                               (ECU/100 kg)                                                                     (ECU/100 kg)
        Product code             Destination f)           Refund (®) (10)                 Product code             Destination f)          Refund (s) (l0)
                                                       — Net weight —                                                                   — Net weight —
 1602 50 39 615                       01                      32,50                 1602 50 80 495                       01                   32,50
 1602 50 39 625                       01                      14,50                 1602 50 80 505                       01                   32,50
 1602 50 39 705                       01                      17,00                 1602 50 80 515                       01                    14,50
 1602 50 39 805                       01                      13,00                 1602 50 80 535                       01                   43,50 (9)
 1602 50 39 905                       01                        7,00                1602 50 80 595                       01                   32,50
 1602 50 80 135                       01                      66,00 (9)             1602 50 80 615                       01                   32,50
 1602 50 80 195                       01                     32,50                  1602 50 80 625                       01                    14,50
 1602 50 80 335                       01                      59,00 (9)             1602 50 80 705                       01                    17,00
 1602 50 80 395                       01                     32,50                  1602 50 80 805                       01                    13,00
 1602 50 80 435                       01                     43,50 (9)              1602 50 80 905                       01                      7,00
 (') Entry under this subheading is subject to the submission of the certificate appearing in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 32/82.
 (2) Entry under this subheading is subject to compliance with the condition laid down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1964/82.
 (5) The refund on beef in brine is granted on the net weight of the meat, after deduction of the weight of the brine.
 (4) OJ No L 336, 29. 12. 1979, p. 44.
 0   OJ No L 221 , 19. 8. 1984, p. 28 .
 (*) 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.
 0 The destinations are as follows :
     01 Third countries.
     02 North African, Near and Middle East third countries, west, Central, Eastern and Southern African third countries, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Russia,
         Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirghistan, except Cyprus, Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland,
         Zimbabwe and Namibia.
     03 Iceland, Norway, Finland, Faeroe Islands, Andorra, Gibraltar, Vatican City, Malta, Turkey, Estonia, lesotho, Lithuania, Poland Czech Republic, Slovak
         Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Territory of the Former of Macedonia,
         Ceuta, Melilla, Cyprus, Greenland, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Viet Nam, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, North Korea and Hong kong
         and the destinations referred to in Article 34 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87.
     04 Austria, Sweden and Switzerland.
     05 The United States of America, carried out in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2973/79.
     06 French Polynesia and New Caledonia.
     07 Canada.
     08 North, West, Central, East and Southern African third countries, except Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
     09 Switzerland,
     10 North African third countries, Near and Middle East, Central, Eastern and Southern African third countries, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Russia,
         Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirghistan, except Cyprus, Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland,
         Zimbabwe and Namibia.
     11 West African third countries.
 (8) 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.
 C) The refund is granted only on products manufactured under the arrangement provided for in Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 565/80.
(10) Refunds on exports to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) may be granted only where the conditions laid down in Regulation
     (EEC) No 990/93 are observed.
NB : The countries are as defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 3478/93 (OJ No L 317 of 18. 12. 1993, p. 32).
        The descriptions corresponding to the product codes and the footnotes are set out in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 as
        amended.