CELEX: 51973PC1222
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-24
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL amending Regulation Nos 134/67/EEC and 137/67/EEC on sluicegate prices and the system of "pilot products and derived products" for pigmeat (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                             COM(73 ) 1222 final
                                                             Brussels , 24 July 1973
                                    PROPOSAL FOR A
                            REGULATION (EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
                amending Regulation Nos 134/67/EEC and 137/67/EEC on
                   sluicegate prices and the system of "pilot
                          products and derived products"
                                     for pigmeat
                   ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
  COM(73 ) 1222 final
 ---pagebreak---                                STATE! 3ENT OP REASONS
At its 225th meeting held on 22-23 January 1973 the Council of Ministers made
the following announcement :
         " The Council invites the Commission to present to it before
         1 August 1973 a proposal for a Regulation providing for a
         special tariff heading for boned frozen pigmeat ."
A request to that effect was submitted by the French authorities who have
advocated the introduction of special import terras for certain pigmeats intended
for processing , including the creation of a new subheading :
         " frozen , boned or boneless meat intended for the manufacture ,
         under customs supervision , of other products"
and the fixing of a specific sluice-gate price and levy for the new subheading.
According to professional circles in the meat-processing industry , the Community
is short of lean meat used for preparing other products , including especially
sausages and the like .
The pigmeat , which must come from approved slaughterhouses , shall be boned or
boneless , skinned and freed of fat , wrapped in individual cellophane packs and
frozen . It shall be imported in cardboard boxes of a capacity of about 25 kg
each , and shall be subject to veterinary supervision . The meat shall be used ,
in proportions ranging from 20 to 60 fot together with fresh pigmeat , exclusively
for the manufacture of sausages or similar products .
During the recent years the Community has yearly imported about 20-25.000 metric
tons of this meat out of a total of approximately 200.000 metric tons of pigmeat
products imported from third countries ; the principal importing countries are
Prance ( 15. 000 metric tons in 1971 » and 14.330 metric tons in 1972 ) and Italy
( 5.500 metric tons in 1971 and 10.425 metric tons during the first half of 1972 ).
 ---pagebreak---                          PROPOSAL FOR A.
                 REGULATION (EEC ) OP THE OOISTCIL
        amending Regulation ITos 134/67/EEC and 137/ 67/EEC on sluice-
        gate prices and the system of "pilot products and derived
                             products" for pigmeat
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMUMTIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ;
Having regard to Regulation Ho 121 /67/EEC of the Council of 13 June 1967 on
the common organization of the market in pigmeat , as last amended "by the-
Act of Accession , and in particular Articles 12(4 ) and 13(4 ) thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas in view of the increasing trade in "boned or "boneless pigmeat , a
specific heading should he introduced for "boned or "boneless cm& frozen pigmeat j
whereas it is therefore necessary to amend Article 1 * of Regulation
134/67/EEC^ of the Council of 13 June 1967 establishing the list of products
for which sluice–gate prices are fixed and adopting the rules for fixing the
sluice–gate price for pig carcases , as last amended by Regulation (EEC )
Ho 231/73^, and also the annexes to Regulation Mb 137/67/EEC^ of the Council
of 13 June 1967 laying down general rules for the system of "pilot products
and derived products" allowing additional amounts to be fixed for pigmeat ,
as last amended by Regulation (EEC ) No 231/73 ;
                                                                     « • •/ • « *
 'oj No 117, 19 June 19.67, p ,. 2283/67 .-
^OJ  No L 73, 27 March 1972, p. 14.
¿OJ  No 120, 21 June 1967 , p . 2367/67 .
^0J  No L 28, 1 February 1973, p . 3 .
?0J  No 122, 22 June 1967, p. 2395/67 .
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas the tariff nomenclature resulting from the application of
 Regulation No 121/ 67/EEC is reproduced in the Common Customs Tariff ;
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                           Article 1
 The list of products under heading No 02.01 of the Common Customs Tariff,
 which appears in Annex 11(b ) to Regulation No 137/67/EEC, is replaced by
 the following list :
   1 CCT
  heading                                 Description of goods
     No
I 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 :
j
             A. Meat :           ,          - ■
                III . Of swine :
\
                       ( a) Of domestic swine :
i                            1 . Carcases or half-caroases, with or without heads,
                                   feet or flare fat
5
                             2 . Hams and cuts of ham, unboned (bone~i.n)
|                            3 . Shoulders ( fores ) and cuts of shoulder, unboned
                                   (bone-in)
                             4 . Loins and cuts of loins, unboned (bone-in)
i                            5 . Bellies ( strealqy ) and cuts of bellies
<
i                            6 . Other :
S                                  ( aa) Boned or boneless and frozen
j                                  (bb) Other
           ; B. Offals :
i
c
                 II . Other :
                       ( c ) Of domestic swine :
                             1 . Heads and cuts of heads ; necks
                             2 . Feet and tails
                             3 . Kidneys
                             4 . Livers
                             5 . Hearts , tongues and lungs
                             6 . Liver, hearts , tongues and lungs attached to the
                                   trachea and gullet
                             7 . Other
 ---pagebreak---                                        Article 2
The list of products tinder heading No 02.01 of the Common Customs Tariff,
referred to in Article 1 of Regulation ITo 1 34/67/ESC, for which sluice–gate
prices are fixed , is replaced by the following lists
   CCT
 heading ;                             Description of goods
   No
  02.01   | Meat and edible offals of the animals falling within heading
          : ITo 01.01 , 01.02 , 01.03 or 01 . 04 , fresh, chilled or frozen :
          i A. Meat :
                III . Of swine :
                      ( a) Of domestic swine :
                           1 . Carcases or half–carcases , with cr without heads ,
                               feet or flare fat
                           2 . Hams and cuts of ham, unboned (bone–in)
                           3 . Shoulders ( fores ) and cuts of shoulders , unboned
                               (bone-in)
                           4 * Loins and cuts of loins , unboned (bone-in )
                           5 « Bellies ( streaiy ) and cuts of bellies
                           6 . Other :
                               ( aa) Unboned (bone-in) and frozen
                                       Article 3
                                       ktfWOMMNMM
In Annex I to Regulation ITo 137/ 67/ ^EC, the entry against item 6 of
heading No 02.01 A Ill ( a) is, wherever it occurs , replaced by the following
entry J
                          "6 . Other :
                               (bb ) Other"
                                       Articxe 4
The Common Customs Tariff is amended as shown in the Annex to this
Regulation .
 ---pagebreak---                                     - 4 -
                                  Article 5
This Regulation shall enter into force on the thirtieth day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall he "binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States .
Done at Brussels ,                 19–.                For the Council
 ---pagebreak---                                              Annex
  Subheading No 02,01 A III of the Common Customs Tariff is amended as
  follows :
;    CCT                                                                Rate of duty
! heading                    Description of goods                i Autonomous : Convene
I    No                                                          !      &)        tional i
                                                                    or levy( L) i &) ;
      1                                  2                              '3      !   4
    02,01     Meat and edible offals of the animals
              falling 'wi-hin heading No 01,01 , 01 . 02f
              01 , 03 or 01 , 04, fresh, chilled or frozen :
              A , Meat :
            I      III , Of swine :
                         ( a) Of domestic swine :
                              1 . CarcE^ses or half–carcases ,
                                  with or without heads , feet j
                                  or flare fat                        20 ( L)
                              2 . Hams and cuts of ham, unboned
                                  ("bone–in)                      j   20 ( L)
                              3 . Shoulders (fores ) aral cuts   |
                                  of shoulders , unboned         j
                                  (bone-in)                           20(L)
                                                                      20 ( L)
                              4 * Loins and outs of loins ,
                                  unboned (bone-in)              I    20 ( L)
                              5 , Bellies (streaJky) and cuts    ;
                                  of bellies                     j    20(L)
                                                                      20 ( L)
                              6 , Other :                        I
                                  ( aa) Boned or boneless and frO- 20(L)
                                  ( bb ) Other                 zef 20( L)
 ---pagebreak--- In "the light of the facts stated, above , it is proposed :
- the insertion of a new subheading :
       02.01 A III ( a) Meat of domestic swine
       6 aa ) boned or boneless , frozen meat ,
- the fixing , for this new subheading , of a sluice-gate price and levy-
  calculated on the basis of a coefficient expressing the value ratio
  between the frozen pigmeat and the meat of slaughtered pigs .