CELEX: 31975R0487
Language: en
Date: 1975-02-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 487/75 of the Commission of 27 February 1975 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

28 . 2. 75                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 53 / 21
                                REGULATION ( EEC) No 487/ 75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 27 February 1975
                                        fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        nities among those which are most representative as
COMMUNITIES,                                                          regards quality and quantity as mentioned in Article
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  13 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 should be
Economic Community ;                                                  determined in the first place with reference to free-at­
                                                                      Community-frontier offers or, where such offers are
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          not sufficiently representative of the market situation ,
805/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                    world market offers delivered free-at-Community­
tion of the . market in beef and veal , as last amended               frontier for each of the products listed in Section (c) of
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 855/74 (2), and in particular                the Annex to Regulation ( EEC) No 805/68 ; whereas,
Article 1 3 (6) thereof ;                                             for products other than those covered by the first
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                          subparagraph of Article 13 (2) of that Regulation , the
Committee ;                                                           offer price is converted into a price relating to the
                                                                       products covered by that subparagraph by means of
Whereas Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No 805/68               the coefficients referred to in Article 13 (3) of that
provides for charging a levy on imports of the frozen                  Regulation ; whereas those coefficients were fixed in
meat listed in Section (c) of the Annex to that Regula­               Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2260/73 ;
tion ; whereas the levy on products falling within
subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) is equ^l to the differ­
ence between :                                                        Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2260/73
— the guide        price for the corresponding product                 provides that the Commission , when determining the
      multiplied   by a coefficient expressing the ratio               world market price referred to in Article 13 ( 2) (b) of
      existing in  the Community between the price for                 Regulation ( EEC) No 805/ 68 must disregard offer
      fresh meat  of a quality competitive with the frozen             prices which do not correspond to real purchasing
      meat in question , presented in the same form , and              opportunities or which relate to small unrepresenta­
      the average price for adult bovine animals, and                  tive quantities or to qualities which differ appreciably
— the price on the world market for frozen meat,                       from those of the majority of the products entering
      based on the most favourable purchasing opportu­                 world trade ; whereas offer prices which the Commis­
      nities among those which are most representative,                sion believes, in view of general price movements or
      as regards quality and quantity, of the develop­                 information available to it, not to be representative of
      ment of this market, plus customs duty and a                     real prici? trends in the country of origin must also be
      standard amount representing the specific costs                  disregarded ;
      incurred in importing frozen meat ;
Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Whereas offers on the world market are converted
990/ 68 (3 ) of 15 July 1968 on general rules for fixing               into free-at-Community-frontier offers by taking into
the levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and veal                      account the normal transport and insurance costs of
provides that the guide price for the corresponding                    which the Commission has knowledge ;
product is the guide price for adult bovine animals ;
whereas this guide price was fixed by Council Regula­
tion ( EEC) No 463/75 (■») of 27 February 1975 .                       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 (5 ) of
                                                                       Whereas, as long as the world market price for frozen
 17 August 1973 determining the bases for calculating
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 (6) ;                        from the world market price previously used , the latter
                                                                       price is maintained ;
Whereas Article 4 of Regulation ( EEC) No 990/ 68
provides that the most favourable purchasing opportu­
                                                                       Whereas Article 13 (3) of Regulation ( EEC) No 805/
 ')  OJ  No  L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 24.                           68 provides that, for the frozen meat listed in Section
 -') OJ  No  L 195, 18 . 7 . 1974, p. 14 .                             (c) of the Annex to that Regulation under subheadings
 3)  OJ  No  L 169 , 18 . 7 . 1968 , p . 12.                           02.01 A II a) 2 bb), 02.01 A II a) 2 cc) and 02.01 A II
 4)  OJ  No  L 52, 28 . 2 . 1975, p . 3 .
 s)  OJ  No  L 233 , 21 . 8 . 1973 , p . 10 .                          a) 2 dd), the levy is equal to the levy on the product in
 6)  OJ  No  L  127, 9 . 5 . 1974, p . 32 .                            the same Section under subheading 02.01 A II a ) 2 aa)
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multiplied by the fixed coefficient for each of the           — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
products in question ; whereas this coefficient was                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
fixed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2260/73 ;                  of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
whereas that Regulation also defines the requirements              relation to the Community currencies referred to
to be met by certain products for which the levy is                in the previous subparagraph ;
fixed by means of these coefficients ;
                                                              Whereas it follows from applying the provisions of
Whereas Article 13 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68          the abovementioned Regulations to the quotations
provides that, where free quotations on the world             and other information known to the Commission that
market are not a determining factor for the offer price       the levies on frozen meat should be fixed as shown in
and where that price is lower than these quotations, a         the Annex to this Regulation,
special price calculated on the basis of the offer price
is substituted, solely in respect of the imports in ques­      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tion, for the world market price for frozen meat
referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article ;                                          Article 1
Whereas, subject to the foregoing, the levy referred to       The levies referred to in Article 13 of Regulation
in Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 is           ( EEC) No 805/68 are fixed as shown in the Annex to
fixed before the 25th day of each month and is appli­          this Regulation .
cable from the first Monday of the following month ;
whereas, however, the levy is altered in the inter­                                    Article 2
vening period if there is considerable fluctuation in
the world market price for frozen meat ;                      To   be classified as products falling within :
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­        —   subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 aa),
tion (EEC) No 805/68 , the nomenclature provided for           —   subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 bb) and cc),
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common               —   subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 dd) and 22 bbb).
Customs Tariff ;
                                                               Products must correspond to the definition for the
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,            product in question contained in Regulation ( EEC)
levies should be calculated on the following basis :            No 2260 / 73 .
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                                       Article J
    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 3 March
    on their effective parity ;                                 1975 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 27 February 1975 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                       Member of the Commission
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                                                                  ANNEX
                           Levies applicable from 3 March 1975 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 :
                               II. Of bovine animals :
                                   a) Of domestic bovine animals :
                                      2 . Frozen :
                                          aa) Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quarters                   87.299
                                          bb) Forequarters                                                        69.839 ( a)
                                          cc) Hindquarters                                                      109.124
                                          dd) Other :
                                               11 . Unboned (bone-in)                                           130.949
                                               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                                             109.124 ( a )
                                                      bbb) Crop, chuck and blade and brisket cuts (b)           109.124 ( a)
                                                      ccc) Other                                                150.154 (a)
          (>) Regulation (EEC) No 521/70, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 241/75, provides that the levies are not
               applied to imports into the French overseas departments of products originating in the AASM and CCT.
           (a) Subject to the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 1063/74 (OJ No L 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 June 1968 and 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 .