CELEX: 31974R2514
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2514/74 of the Commission of 3 October 1974 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

4 . 10 . 74                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 269/ 19
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 2514/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 3 October 1974
                                        fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 990/68
 COMMUNITIES,                                                           provides that the most favourable purchasing opportu­
                                                                        nities among those which are most representative as
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                        regards quality and quantity as mentioned in Article
 Economic Community ;
                                                                        13 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 should be
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           determined in the first place with reference to free-at­
 805/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                     Community-frontier offers or, where such offers are
 tion of the market in beef and veal , as last amended                  not sufficiently representative of the market situation ,
 by Regulation (EEC) No 1 855/74 (2), and in particular                world market offers delivered free-at-Community­
 Article 13 (6) thereof ;                                               frontier for each of the products listed in Section (c) of
                                                                        the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 ; whereas,
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                          for products other than those covered by the first
 Committee ;
                                                                       subparagraph of Article 13 (2) of that Regulation , the
 Whereas Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                offer price is converted into a price relating to the
 provides for charging a levy on imports of the frozen                 products covered by that subparagraph by means of
 meat listed in Section (c) of the Annex to that Regula­               the coefficients referred to in Article 13 (3) of that
 tion ; whereas the levy on products falling within                    Regulation ; whereas those coefficients were fixed in
 subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) is equal to the                     Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2260/73 ;
 difference between :
 — the guide price for the corresponding product                       Whereas Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC) No 2260/73
     multiplied by a coefficient expressing the ratio                  provides that the Commission , when determining the
     existing in the Community between the price for                   world market price referred to in Article 13 (2) (b) of
     fresh meat of a quality competitive with the frozen               Regulation ( EEC) No 805/68 must disregard offer
     meat in question , presented in the same form , and               prices which do not correspond to real purchasing
     the average price for adult bovine animals, and                   opportunities or which relate to small unrepresenta­
— the price on the world market for frozen meat,                       tive quantities or to qualities which differ appreciably
     based on the most favourable purchasing opportu­                  from those of the majority of the products entering
     nities among those which are most representative,                world trade ; whereas offer prices which the Commis­
     as regards quality and quantity, of the develop­                 sion believes, in view of general price movements or
     ment of this market, plus customs duty and a                      information available to it, not to be representative of
     standard amount representing the specific costs                   real price trends in the country of origin must also be
     incurred in importing frozen meat ;                              disregarded ;
Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
990/68 (3 ) of 15 July 1968 on general rules for fixing               Whereas offers on the world market are converted
the levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and veal
provides that the guide price for the corresponding                   into free-at-Community-frontier offers bv taking into
product is the -guide price for adult bovine animals ;                account the normal transport and insurance costs of
whereas this guide price was fixed by Council Regula­                 which the Commission has knowledge ;
tion (EEC) No 667/74 (4 ) of 28 March 1974 and
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2496/74 (5 ) ;                         Whereas the standard amount referred to in Article 13
Whereas the abovementioned coefficient , calculated                   (2) (b) of Regulation ( EEC) No 805/ 68 is fixed at 5*5
in accordance with the rules contained in Article 13                  units of account per 100 kg ;
(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/ 68 was fixed at 1-53
by Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 2260 /73 (b) of
 17 August 1973 determining the bases for calculating                 Whereas, as long as the world market price for frozen
the levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and veal , as                meat differs by less that 1 unit of account per 100 kg
amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 1 60 /74 (7) ;                      from the world market price previously used , the latter
                                                                      price is maintained ;
(') OJ   No  L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24.
(2) OJ   No  L 195, 18 . 7 . 1974, p. 14.
(3) OJ   No  L 169, 18 . 7. 1968 , p. 12.                             Whereas Article 13 ( 3 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No 805/
(«) OJ   No  L 8.5 , 29 . 3 . 1974, p. 59 .                           68 provides that, for the frozen meat listed in Section
(5) OJ   No  L 268 , 3 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 .
(«) OJ   No  L 233, 21 . 8 . 1973 , p. 10.                            (c) of the Annex to that Regulation under subheading
 7  OJ   No  L 127, 9 . 5 . 1974, p. 32 .                             Nos 02.01 A II a ) 2 lib), 02.01 A 11 a ) 2 cc) and 02.01
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A II a) 2 dd), the levy is equal to the levy on the           — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
product in the same Section under subheading No                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
02.01 A II a) 2 aa) multiplied by the fixed coefficient            of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
for each of the products in question ; whereas this                relation to the Community currencies referred to
coefficient was fixed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC)               in the previous subparagraph ;
No 2260/73 ; whereas that Regulation also defines the
requirements to be met by certain products for which          Whereas it follows from applying the provisions of
the levy is fixed by means of these coefficients ;            the abovementioned Regulations to the quotations
                                                              and other information known to the Commission that
Whereas Article 13 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68           the levies on frozen meat should be fixed as shown in
provides that, where free quotations on the world              the Annex to this Regulation ,
market are not a determining factor for the offer price
and where that price is lower than these quotations, a
special price calculated on the basis of the offer price       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
is substituted, solely in respect of the imports in ques­
tion , for the world market price for frozen meat                                     Article 1
referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article ;
                                                              The levies referred to in Article 13 of Regulation
Whereas, subject to the foregoing, the levy referred to       (EEC) No 805/68 are fixed as shown in the Annex to
in Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 is          this Regulation .
fixed before the 25th day of each month and is appli­
cable from the first Monday of the following month ;
                                                                                      Article 2
whereas, however, the levy is altered in the inter­
vening period if there is considerable fluctuation in         To be classified as products falling within :
the world market price for frozen meat ;
                                                              — subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa),
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­       — subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 bb) and cc),
tion (EEC) No 805/68 , the nomenclature provided for          — subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 dd) and 22 bbb).
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
Customs Tariff ;                                               Products must correspond to the definition for the
                                                              product in question contained in Regulation ( EEC)
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,            No 2260 / 73 .
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                                   Article 3
    relation to each other, at any given moment,
    within a band of 2 25 % , a rate of exchange based        This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 October
    on their effective parity ;                                1974 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 3 October 1974 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                     Member of the Commission
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                                                                      ANNEX
                              Levies applicable from 7 October 1974 to imports from third countries (1)
                    CCT                                                                                                  Levy in
                 heading                                        Description of goods                                   u. a. / 100 kg
                     No                                                                                                net weight
            02.01             Meat and edible offals of the animals falling within heading No
                              01.01 , 01.02 , 01.03 or 01.04 , fresh, chilled or frozen :
                              A. Meat :
                                  11 . Of bovine animals :
                                       a ) Of domestic bovine animals :
                                           2 . Frozen :
                                               aa)  Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quarters                 60-748
                                               bb ) Forequarters                                                      48-598 ( a )
                                               cc)   Hindquarters                                                     75-935
                                               dd ) Other :
                                                    11 . Unboned ( bone-in )                                          91-122
                                                    22 . Boned or boneless :
                                                         aaa ) Forequarters, whole or cut into a maxi­
                                                               mum of five pieces, each quarter being in
                                                               a single block ; 'compensated ' quarters in
                                                               two blocks, one of which contains the
                                                               forequarter, whole or cut into a maxi­
                                                               mum of five pieces , and the other, the
                                                               hindquarter, excluding the tenderloin , in
                                                               one piece                                              75-935 ( a )
                                                         bbb ) Crop , chuck and blade and brisket cuts ( b )          75-935 ( a )
                                                         ccc) Other                                                  104-487 ( a )
            (') Regulation ( EEC) No 521 /70 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the t rench overseas
                  departments of products originating in the AASM and (XT .
            (a ) Subject to the provisions of Regulation (FIX") No 1063/74 ( OJ No 1. 119, 1 . .5 . 1974, p. 70) where these
                   products are imported under the conditions set out in Article 14 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No 805/68
                   of 27 | une 1968 anil in the provisions adopted for its application , the levy is totally or partially suspended
                   in accordance with these provisions .
            ( b ) Entry under this subheading is subject to the production of a certificate issued on conditions laid down by
                   the competent authorities of the European Communities .