CELEX: 31985R0857
Language: en
Date: 1985-03-30
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 857/85 of 28 March 1985 fixing the import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat

No L 91 /76                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              30 . 3 . 85
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 857/85
                                                    of 28 March 1985
                          fixing the import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  or chilled meat, the world market price for frozen
COMMUNITIES,                                                    meat of a category which is competitive with fresh or
                                                                chilled meat and of past experience ;
Haying regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                             Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                No 2668/80, the free-at-frontier offer prices are to be
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    based inter alia on the prices shown in the customs
1837/80 of 27 June 1980 on the common organization              documents which accompany products imported from
of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('), as last            non-member      countries     or  on other   information
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 871 /84 (2), and in              concerning the export prices applied by those non­
particular the first paragraph of Article 11 thereof,           member countries ; whereas offer prices which do not
                                                                correspond to actual purchasing possibilities or which
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                    relate to unrepresentative quantities and offer prices
Committee,                                                      which, in view of general price movements or other
                                                                information available, may be considered not to be
Whereas under Article 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No             representative of actual price trends in the country of
1837/80 a levy is applicable to the products falling            origin are to be disregarded ;
within subheading 02.01 A IV b) listed in Annex I to
that Regulation ;                                               Whereas a special levy may be fixed for products origi­
                                                                nating in or coming from one or more non-member
Whereas, pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EEC)             countries if exports of the said products are made at
No 1837/80, the levy on frozen carcases and half­               abnormally low prices ;
carcases is to be equal to the difference between :
                                                                Whereas the levy on the meat falling within subhead­
(a) the basic price multiplied by a coefficient represen­       ings 02.01 A IV b) 2, 3, 4 and 5 listed in Annex I to
     ting the relationship existing in the Community
     between the price of fresh meat of a category              Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is to be equal to the
                                                                levy determined for frozen carcases, multiplied by a
     competitive with the frozen meat in question,
                                                                standard coefficient fixed for each of the products in
     presented in the same form, and the average price          question ; whereas these coefficients are fixed in
     of fresh and chilled sheep carcases, and
                                                                Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 2668/80 ;
(b) the Community free-at-frontier offer price for the
     said frozen meat ;
                                                                Whereas the levies should be so fixed that the obliga­
                                                                tions arising from international agreements concluded
Whereas the basic price for the 1984/85 marketing               by the Community continue to be fulfilled ; whereas,
year is fixed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No               moreover, account should be taken of the voluntary
873/84 (3), extended by Regulation (EEC) No                     restraint arrangements made by the Community with
821 /85 (*); whereas the coefficient referred to in             certain non-member countries ;
Article 13 (1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is
fixed in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
2668/80 0 ;                                                     Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 (*) lays
                                                                down the arrangements applicable on agricultural
Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price is           products and certain goods resulting from the proces­
determined in the light of the most representative              sing of agricultural products originating in the African,
                                                                Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas coun­
purchasing possibilities, as regards quality and quan­          tries and territories ;
tity, recorded over the period from the 21st day of the
preceding month to the 20th day of the month during
which the levies are determined, taking particular              Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of
account of the supply and demand situation for fresh            each month for each week during the following
                                                                 month ; whereas they are applicable from Monday to
(') OJ  No L 183, 16. 7. 1980, p. 1 .                            Sunday ; whereas they can be altered within that
(2) OJ  No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 35.                             period if necessary ;
(3) OJ  No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 42.
(4) See  page 1 of this Official Journal.
0   OJ  No L 276, 20. 10. 1980, p. 39.                           (6) OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3. 1985, p. 4,
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Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,             mation and quotations known to the Commission, the
 levies should be calculated on the following basis :           levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and
— 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 Council Regula­          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     tion (EEC) No 974/71 ('), as last amended by Regu­
     lation (EEC) No 855/84 (2),
— 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 frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat
     relation to the Community currencies referred to           shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
     in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­
     cient ;
                                                                                       Article 2
Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the above­
mentioned Regulations and, in particular, to the infor­         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1985.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
                                 /
               Done at Brussels, 28 March 1984.
                                                                         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 28 March 1985 fixing the import levies on frozen
                                                 sheepmeat and goatmeat
                                                                                                  (ECU/100 kg)
                             CCT
                                                            Week No 1                   Week No 2
                           heading                    from 1 to 7 April 1985 (') from 8 to 14 April 1985 (')
                              No
            02.01 A IV b) 1                                   153,250                     153,250
                           2                                  107,275                     107,275
                           3                                  168,575                     168,575
                           4                                   199,225                    199,225
                           5 aa)                               199,225                    199,225
                             bb)                              278,915                     278,915
            (') 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.