CELEX: 31978R1146
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1146/78 of 30 May 1978 fixing the quantity of young male bovine animals which may be imported on special terms in the third quarter of 1978

No L 143/20                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              31 . 5. 78
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1146/78
                                                      of 30 May 1978
               fixing the quantity of young male bovine animals which may be imported on
                                       special terms in the third quarter of 1978
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   giving agricultural producers and their organizations
COMMUNITIES,                                                     priority when issuing the licences conferring entitle­
                                                               - ment to benefit from the arrangements ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                             Whereas Article 11 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 571 /78
                                                                 provides that licence applications must be lodged
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    during the first 1 0 days of each quarter ; whereas the
 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization               list of applications lodged shall be communicated to
 of the market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by          the Commission on the 18th day of each quarter ;
 Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (2), and in particular Arti­         whereas the period between the lodging of certain
 cles 13 (4), 15 (2) and 25 thereof,                             licence applications and their communication to the
                                                                 Commission should be lengthened in order to permit
Whereas the Council has established, under the new               the national authorities to check the acceptability of
                                                                 such applications ;
 import arrangements for young male bovine animals
 for fattening, an estimate of 200 000 head for the
 period 1 January to 31 December 1978 ; whereas,                 Whereas according to Article 11 (9) of Regulation
 under Article 13 (4) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No                 (EEC) No 571 /78 the applicant shall undertake either
 805/68 , the quantity which may be imported each                to carry out himself or to have carried out under his
quarter and the rate of reduction of the import levy             responsibility the task of fattening ; whereas, in the
 on these animals must be determined ;                           case of agricultural producers or their professional
                                                                 organizations, it appears that the opportunity given to
Whereas detailed rules for the practical application of          the applicant not to carry out himself the task of
 the special arrangements were laid down in Commis­              fattening could give rise to abuses in certain cases ;
 sion Regulation (EEC) No 571 /78 of 21 March 1978               whereas it seems appropriate consequently to abolish
 on the system of import and export licences for beef            that opportunity for the quarter in question ;
and veal and repealing Regulation (EEC) No
 585/77 P) ;                                                     Whereas in the case of import licence applications
                                                                 made by agricultural producers or their professional
Whereas the supply requirements of certain regions of            organizations it is necessary, in order to permit a more
 the Community which have a serious deficit in bovine            equitable distribution of the quantities available, to
animals for fattening must be taken into account ;               limit the maximum quantity which each application
whereas these requirements are particularly apparent             may cover ;
 in Italy and may be estimated, for the third quarter of
 1978, at a minimum of 31 500 head for that Member               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
State ;                                                          are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                 ment Committee for Beef and Veal,
Whereas the supply requirements in young bovine
animals for fattening justify, for the third quarter of
 1978, a higher rate of reduction of the levy for
animals weighing from 220 to 300 kilograms per
 head, originating in and coming from Yugoslavia ;               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the partial reduction of the levy is intended
to help improve cattle rearing and beef and veal                                         ■ Article 1
 production structures in Italy ; whereas appropriate
 measures    must therefore      be taken   to ensure that
producers can, as far as possible, benefit directly from         1 . For the period 1 July to 30 September 1978, the
the arrangements without traditional trade being                 maximum quantity referred to in Article 13 (4) (a) of
excluded ; whereas this objective can be achieved by             Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be 35 000 head of
                                                                 young male bovine animals for fattening, of a live
(■) OJ No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24.                           weight of 300 kilograms or less, of which at least
(2) OJ No L 61 , 5. 3 . 19 77, p. 1 .                            31 500 head must be imported into and fattened in
(3) OJ No L 78, 22. 3. 1978, p. 10.                              Italy.
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2. The levy charged on imports of the young                   producers or their organizations in respect of a
bovine animals referred to in paragraph 1 shall be           maximum of 21 000 head .
equal to the levy applicable on the day of import less
50 % .                                                        Italy shall, for this purpose, specify the categories of
                                                             applicants in the communication referred to in Article
However, the levy applicable on the day of import             11 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 571 /78 .
shall be reduced by 70 % in respect of a maximum of
8 400 young bovine animals weighing from 220 to                                        Article 2
300 kilograms per head, originating in and coming
from Yugoslavia.                                              In the case of the quantity referred to in Article 1 (5) :
3 . The application for a licence and the licence            (a) by way of derogation from Article 11 ( 1 ) of Regula­
shall be in accordance with Article 8 (b) of Regulation           tion (EEC) No 571 /78, applications may only be
(EEC) No 571 /78 and shall relate to :                            lodged during the period 1 to 10 June 1978 ;
— either young bovine animals of a weight per head           (b) by way of derogation from Article 1 1 (9) of Regula­
     not exceeding 300 kilograms,                                 tion (EEC) No 571 /78, the applications for import
     or                                                           licences lodged by agricultural producers or their
— young bovine animals of a weight per head of                    professional organizations shall be acceptable only
     from 220 to 300 kilograms, originating in and                if the agricultural producers, directly or through
     coming from Yugoslavia.                                      their professional organizations, undertake in
                                                                  writing to fatten on their farms the young bovine
In the latter case Sections 13 and 14 of the applica­             animals imported under this Regulation ;
tion for a licence and the licence shall include one of
the following entries :                                       (c) applications for import licences may not cover
— Yugoslavia,                                                      more than 100 head when made by individual
— Jugoslavien,                                                    applicants nor more than 100 head per member
— Jugoslawien,                                                    when made by professional organizations. The
— Yougoslavie,                                                     total quantity applied for by a professional organi­
— Iugoslavia,                                                      zation may not however exceed 2 500 head.
— Joegoslavië.
                                                                                       Article 3
The licence shall make it compulsory to import from
the country indicated.                                        For the purpose of Article 1 1 (5) of Regulation (EEC)
4. Member States shall specify in the communica­
                                                              No 571 /78, all applications from one applicant which
                                                              relate to the same category of weight and the same
tion referred to in Article 1 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                              rate of reduction of the levy shall be treated as one
No 571 /78 the category of live weight, and the origin
                                                              application.
of the products in the case referred to in the second
indent of the first subparagraph of paragraph 3.
                                                                                       Article 4
5. Within the quantity reserved for Italy, import
licences may be issued directly to agricultural               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 30 May 1978 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                             Vice-President