CELEX: 31986R3310
Language: en
Date: 1986-10-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3310/86 of 30 October 1986 on the Community recording of market prices on the basis of the scale for the classification of carcases of adult bovine animals

No L 305/28                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                  31 . 10 . 86
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3310/86
                                                      of 30 October 1986
                  on the Community recording of market prices on the basis of the scale for the
                                     classification of carcases of adult bovine animals
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         carcases of adult bovine animals shall be carried out each
                                                                   week and shall relate to the following conformation and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               fat cover classes for the five categories specified in Article
Economic Community,                                                 3 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1208/81 :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1202/82               (a) carcases of uncastrated male animals of less than two
of 18 May 1982 on the implementation of the Commu­                      years of age : U 2, U 3, R 2, R 3, O 2, O 3 ;
nity scale for the classification of carcases of adult bovine
animals for recording market prices in the beef and veal            (b) carcases of other uncastrated male animals : R 3 ;
sector ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                 (c) carcases of castrated male animals : U 2, U 3, U 4, R 3,
869/84 (2), and in particular Article 2 thereof,                        R 4, O 3, O 4 ;
Whereas, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1202/82,                  (d) carcases of female animals that have calved : R 3, R 4,
prices have been recorded since 28 June 1982 using the                  O 2, O 3, O 4, P 2, P 3 ;
Community scale for the classification of carcases of adult         (e) carcases of other female animals : U 2, U 3, R 2, R 3,
bovine animals introduced by Council Regulation (EEC)                   R 4, O 2, O 3, O 4.
No 1208/81 (3) ; whereas Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 563/82 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
3402/85 (*), lays down detailed rules for the application of        2. For the purposes of this Regulation, the territory of
the said Regulation for the recording of market prices ;            the United Kingdom shall comprise two regions, Great
whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1557/82 of 17                Britain and Northern Ireland.
June 1982 on the Community recording of market prices
on the basis of the scale for the classification of adult
bovine animals (®) lays down detailed rules on the record­
ing and communication of market prices ;
                                                                                              Article 2
Whereas, in view of progress made in the application of
the scale and in the light of experience, these rules should
be revised ; whereas, in particular, changes should be              1 . Recording of market prices at the national level or,
made in the method used for calculating average                     in the case of the United Kingdom, at regional level, shall
Community prices ; whereas, in particular, Spanish prices           be undertaken in accordance with the following rules :
should be made comparable with prices in the Member
States of the Community as constituted on 31 December               (a) prices shall be recorded in quotation centres deter­
1985 ; whereas, for this purpose, the Spanish prices should              mined by each Member State ; these prices shall be
be increased by the accession compensatory amount ;                      representative of production in the Member State as a
                                                                        whole and shall relate to a significant number of
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are                carcases ;
in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Beef and Veal,
                                                                    (b) the weekly recording of prices shall relate to prices on
                                                                         a deadweight basis noted during the previous week ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                    (c) prices shall be communicated by class and expressed
                                                                         in national currency, corrections required under
                                                                         Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 563/82 having
                                                                         already been made ;
                            Article 1
                                                                    (d) prices communicated pursuant to (c) in respect of the
 1.    National and Community recording of market                        United Kingdom shall be corrected, as necessary, by
 prices on the basis of the scale for the classification of              the amount of the slaughter premium granted in that
                                                                         Member State for certain beef cattle .
 (') OJ No L 140, 20. 5. 1982, p. 35.
 0 OJ No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 32.
 (3) OJ No  L  123, 7. 5. 1981 , p. 3.                               2.    Member States shall communicate the prices
 (<) OJ No  L  67, 11 . 3. 1982, p. 23.                              recorded in accordance with this Article to the Commis­
 0   OJ No  L  322, 3. V2. 1985, p. 14.
 («) OJ No   L 172, 18 . 6. 1982, p. 19.                             sion each week by Thursday noon at the latest.
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3. Where, in exceptional circumstances or for reasons                 fatness class to total slaughterings of that conforma­
of seasonality of supply, prices relating to a significant            tion class in the Community ;
number of carcases of one or more qualities cannot be
recorded in a Member State or region, the Commission             (c). the average Community price shall be the weighted
may use the last prices recorded for the said quality of              average of the average Community prices referred to
qualities before this occurrence ; where such a situation             in (a) ; weighting shall be based on the proportion of
continues for more than two consecutive weeks, the                    the quantities slaughtered in each class referred to in
Commission may decide on the temporary elimination of                 (a) to total Community slaughterings in the category.
the quality of qualities in question for price reporting         2. The average Community price for all categories
purposes and on the temporary redistribution of the              together shall be the weighted average of the average
weighting or weightings allocated to those qualities.            prices referred to in paragraph 1 (c) ; that weighting shall
                                                                 be based on the proportion of each category to total
                          Article 3
                                                                 slaughterings of adult bovine animals in the Community.
1.     For a given category ;
                                                                 3.     The weighting factors shall be revised periodically to
(a) the average Community price for each of the confor­          take    into    account  trends   recorded at  national  and
     mation and fatness classes listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) shall  Community levels.
    be the weighted average of the national market prices
     recorded for that class ; however, for the purposes of                                  Article 4
     calculating that weighted average, Spanish market
     prices shall be increased by the accession compensa­        Regulation (EEC) No 1557/82 is hereby repealed.
    tory amount. Weighting shall be based on the propor­
     tion of quantities of that class slaughtered in each                                    Article 5
    Member State to total Community slaughterings of
     that class ;
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
(b) the average Community price for each conformation            publication in the Official Journal of the European
    class shall be the weighted average of the average           Communities.
     Community prices for the fatness classes which
    constitute that conformation class ; weighting shall be      It shall apply to prices recorded from the week beginning
    based on the proportion of slaughterings of each             3 November 1986.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 30 October 1986.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                 Vice-President