CELEX: 31985R2983
Language: en
Date: 1985-10-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2983/85 of 25 October 1985 fixing the import levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and goatmeat other than frozen meat

No L 286/ 18                          Official Journal of the European Communities                             26. 10 . 85
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2983/85
                                                   of 25 October 1985
             fixing the import levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and goatmeat
                                                 other than frozen meat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  documents which accompany products imported from
COMMUNITIES,                                                    non-member      countries   or  on    other  information
                                                                concerning the export prices applied by those non­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           member countries ; whereas offer prices which do not
Economic Community,                                             correspond to actual purchasing possibilities or which
                                                                relate to unrepresentative quantities and offer prices
                                                                which, in view of general price movements or other
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                information available, may be considered not to be
1837/80 of 27 June 1980 on the common organization              representative of actual price trends in the country of
of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('), as last            origin are to be disregarded ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1312/85 (2), and in
particular the first paragraph of Article 1 1 thereof,
                                                                Whereas a special levy may be fixed for products origi­
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                    nating in or coming from one or more non-member
Committee,                                                      countries if exports of the said products are made at
                                                                abnormally low prices ;
Whereas, under Article 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
1837/80, a levy is applicable to the products specified         Whereas the levy on live animals within subheading
in Article 1 (a) of that Regulation ;                           01.04 B and on the meat falling within subheadings
                                                                02.01 A IV a) 2, 3, 4 and 5 and 02.06 C II a) listed in
Whereas the levy on products falling within subhead­            Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is to be
ing 02.01 A IV a) 1 listed in Annex I to Regulation             equal to the levy determined for carcases, multiplied
(EEC) No 1837/80 is to be equal to the difference               by a standard coefficient fixed for each of the products
between the seasonally-adjusted basic price and the             in question ; whereas these coefficients are fixed in
Community free-at-frontier offer price ;                        Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2668/80 ;
Whereas the seasonally-adjusted basic price is fixed in         Whereas the levies should be so fixed that the obliga­
Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1313 /85 (3) for the           tions arising from international agreements concluded
1985/86 marketing year ;                                        by the Community continue to be fulfilled ; whereas,
                                                                moreover, account should be taken of the voluntary
                                                                restraint arrangements made by the Community with
Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price is           certain non-member countries ;
determined in the light of the most representative
purchasing possibilities, as regard quality and quantity,
recorded over the period from the 21st day of the               Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 (*),
preceding month to the 20th day of the month during             amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2903/85 (6), lays
which the levies are determined, taking particular              down the arrangements applicable on agricultural
account of the supply and demand situation for fresh            products and certain goods resulting from the proces­
or chilled meat, the world market price for frozen              sing of agricultural products originating in the African,
meat of a category which is competitive with fresh or           Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas coun­
chilled meat and of past experience ;                           tries and territories ;
Whereas the free-at-frontier offer price is to be deter­        Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of
mined, if necessary, on the basis of the most represent­        each month for each week during the following
ative purchasing possibilities recorded for live sheep ;        month ; whereas they are applicable from Monday to
                                                                Sunday ; whereas they can be altered within that
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)               period if necessary ;
 No 2668/80 (4) the free-at-frontier offer prices are to be
based inter alia on the prices shown in the customs             Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                 levies should be calculated on the following basis :
(<) OJ No L 183, 16. 7. 1980, p. 1­
(2) OJ No L 137, 27. 5. 1985, p. 22.
0 OJ No L 137, 27. 5. 1985, p. 23 .                              0 OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3. 1985, p. 4.
(4) OI No L 276. 20 . 10 . 1980 , D . 3 !                        (6) OJ No L 279, 19. 10. 1985, p. 5.
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— in the case of currencies which are maintained in            goatmeat other than frozen meat should be as set out
     relation to each other at any given moment within         in the Annex to this Regulation,
     a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
     their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient
     provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC)        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     No 974/71 (') as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
     No 855/84 0,
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the                                 Article 1
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
     these currencies recorded over a given period in          The import levies on live sheep and goats and on
     relation to the Community currencies referred to          sheepmeat and goatmeat other than frozen meat shall
     in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­          be as set out in the Annex hereto .
     cient ;
Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the above­                                Article 2
mentioned Regulations and, in particular, to the infor­
mation and quotations known to the Commission, the             This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 November
levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and             1985 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 25 October 1985 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                         Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                            Vice-President
 (') OJ No L 106, 12. 5. 1971 , p. 1 .
  2) OJ No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 25 October 1985 fixing the import levies on live sheep
                            and goats and on sheepmeat and goatmeat other than frozen meat
                                                                                                                       (ECU/100 kg)
             CCT                      Week No 32               Week No 33              Week No 34              Week No 35
            heading                     from 4 to               from 1 1 to             from 18 to        from 25 November to
              No                   10 November 1985         17 November 1985        24 November 1985         1 December 1985
01.04 B                                  59,911 (>)               61,072 (»)              63,286 (')              65,936 (')
02.01 A IV a) 1                        1 27,470 (2)             129,940 (2)             134,650 (2)             140,290 (2)
                2                        89,229 (2)               90,958 (2)              94,255 (2)              98,203 (2)
               3                       140,217 (2)              142,934 (2)             1 48,11 5 (2)           1 54,31 9 (2)
               4                       165,711 (2)              168,922 (2)             175,045 (2)             182,377 (2)
                5 aa)                  165,711 (2)              168,922 (2)             175,045 (2)             182,377 (2)
                  bb)                  231,995 (2)              236,491 (2)             245,063 (2)             255,328 (2)
02.06 C II a) 1                        165,711 (3)              168,922 (3)             1 75,045 (3)            182,377 (3)
               2                       231,995 (3)              236,491 (3)             245,063 (3)             255,328 (3)
(') The levy applicable is limited in the conditions laid down in Council Regulations (EEC) No 3658/84 and (EEC) No 486/85 and
    Commission Regulation (EEC) No 19/82.
(2) The levy applicable is limited to the amount bound under GATT or in the conditions laid down in Council Regulations (EEC)
    No 1985/82, (EEC) No 3658/84 and (EEC) No 486/85 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 19/82.
(3) The levy applicable is limited in the conditions laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 and Commission Regula­
    tion (EEC) No 19/82.