CELEX: 31973R3371
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-14 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3371/73 of the Commission of 13 December 1973 fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 1 January 1974

14. 12 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 344/27
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 3371 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 13 December 1973
                 fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 1 January 1974
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, in the case of other beef and veal prod­
COMMUNITIES,                                                      ucts, a refund need not be fixed since Community
                                                                  participation in world trade in these products is not
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                significant ;
pean Economic Community ;
                                                                   Whereas Article 92 of the Act (•) annexed to the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No 805 /               Treaty (7) concerning the Accession of new Member
68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                 States to the European Economic Community and
of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by                the European Atomic Energy Community, signed
Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2), and in particular the              at Brussels on 22 January 1972, provides that the
first sentence of Article 18 (5 ) thereof ;                        refund on exports from the new Member States for
                                                                   the products specified in Article 1 (b) and (c) of
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                       Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be corrected by
Committee ;                                                        the amount of the difference between the customs
                                                                   duties on the products from which these products
Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                   are produced ;
provides that the difference between prices on the
world market and prices within the Community for
                                                                  Whereas if the refund system is to operate nor­
the products listed in Article 1 of that Regulation
may be covered by an export refund ;                              mally, refunds should be calculated on the fol­
                                                                  lowing basis :
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC ) No 885 /68 (3 ) of              — in the case of currencies which are maintained
28 June 1968 lays down general rules for granting                        in relation to each other, at any given moment,
export refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of                     within a band of 2-25 °/'o, a rate of exchange
such refunds ;                                                           based on their effective parity ;
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and cri­             — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
teria to the foreseeable situation on the market in                      the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
beef and veal that the refund should be fixed as indi­                   each of these currencies recorded for a given
cated below ;                                                            period, in relation to the Community currencies
                                                                         referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas, in the case of edible meat of domestic bo­
vine animals, boned or boneless, salted and dried ,                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
there are traditional trade flows to Switzerland ;                  are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
whereas, to the extent necessary to allow this trade               ment Committee for Beef and Veal,
to continue, the refund must be fixed at an amount
which will cover the difference between prices on
the Swiss market and export prices in the Member                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
States ;
Whereas, in the case of the preserved meats set out                                           Article 1
in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC ) No
 1082/68 (4) of 26 July 1968 fixing coefficients ex­
pressing the meat content of preserved meats manu­                 The list of products on which the export refund re­
factured from frozen meat, as amended by Regula­                   ferred to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   805/68 is granted and the amount of that refund is
 tion (EEC) No 207/70 (s ), which contain 40 % or
                                                                   hereby fixed as shown in the Annex.
more of meat, Community participation in interna­
tional trade may be ensured by granting a refund
which takes account of the refund hitherto granted                                            Article 2
to exporters ;
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 Januarv
 (') OJ  No  L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968, p. 24 .                        1974 .
 (») OJ  No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 23 .
 (») OJ  No  L 156, 4. 7. 1968, p. 2.
 (4) OJ  No  L 181 , 27. 7. 1968, p. 9.                            ( 8) OJ No L 73 , 27.3 . 1972, p. 14.
 C) OJ No L 28 , 5 . 2 . 1970, p. 10 .                             ( 7 ) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 .
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                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 13 December 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                        ANNEX
                                                                                                      Refund in u.a. / 100 kg
   CCT heading No                                    Description of goods                                  Net weight
ex 02.06 C I a ) 2     Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, boned or
                       boneless, salted and dried :
                       — for exports to Switzerland                                                         14.00 (»)
                                                                                                       United
                                                                                           Ireland                 Other Member States
                                                                                                      Kingdom
ex 16.02 B III b ) 1    Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal, other,
                        containing bovine meat or offal but excluding those
                        containing meat or offals of domestic swine :
                        — preserves, other than homogenized , containing the
                           following percentages of bovine meat :
                           1 . 80% or more of meat, excluding offal and fat                    0         0                   12.50
                           2 . 60 «/• or more but less than 80 °/o of meat,
                               excluding offal and fat                                         0         0                    7.50
                           3 . 40 %> or more but less than 60 °/o of meat,
                               excluding offal and fat                                         0         0                    5.00
(') For Ireland and the United Kingdom the refund fixed above must be reduced by the compensatory amount pursuant to Article 12 (I) o<
    Regulation (EEC) No 181 /73 ( OJ L 25, 30. 1 . 1973 , p. 9).