CELEX: 31993R2669
Language: en
Date: 1993-10-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2669/93 of 30 September 1993 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

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                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2669/93
                                                         of 30 September 1993
                                         fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            (c) 25 % where the market price is more than 104 % and
                                                                            less than or equal to 106% of the guide price ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 (d) 0 % where the market price is more than 106 % of
 Economic Community,                                                        the guide price ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of
 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market                 Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine
 in beef and veal ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)             animals on representative Community markets is equal to
 No 125/93 (2), and in particular Article 12 (8) thereof,              or less than the guide price, the levy applicable equals the
                                                                       following percentage of the basic levy :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No                  (a) 100 % where the market price is more than or equal
 805/68, a levy is applicable to the products specified in                  to 98 % of the guide price ;
Article 1 (1 ) (a) of that Regulation ; whereas Article 12
fixes the amount of the levy applicable by reference to a              (b) 105 % where the market price is less than 98 % and
percentage of the basic levy ;                                              more than or equal to 96 % of the guide price ;
                                                                       (c) 110 % where the market price is less than 96 % and
Whereas, in respect of the types of frozen meat listed in                   more than or equal to 90 % of the guide price ;
 section (b) of the Annex to the said Regulation under CN
codes 0202 10 00 and 0202 20 10, the basic levy is deter­              (d) 114% where the market price is less than 90 % of
mined on the basis of the difference between :                              the guide price ;
— the guide price multiplied by a coefficient represent­
      ing the ratio existing in the Community between the              Whereas the guide prices for adult bovine animals for the
      price of fresh meat of a category competitive with the            1993/94 marketing year have been fixed by Council
      frozen meat in question, presented in the same form,             Regulation (EEC) No 1 563/93 0 ;
      and the average price of adult bovine animals, and
— the Community free-at-frontier offer price for frozen                Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1753/93 (6)
      meat, plus the amount of the customs duty and a stan­            determines certain prices fixed in ecus in the beef and
      dard amount representing the specific costs of the               veal sector as a result of the monetary realignments in the
      import operations ;                                               1992/93 marketing year ;
Whereas, by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 of                   Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price for
 18 March 1977 laying down rules for the application of                frozen meat is determined by reference to the world
the levies on beef and veal and amending Regulation                    market price based on the most representative purchasing
(EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff (3), as                   possibilities, as regards quality and quantity, recorded over
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3661 /92 (4), the                  a certain period preceding the fixing of the basic levy,
abovementioned coefficient, calculated in accordance with              taking into account in particular :
the rules laid down in Article 11 (2) (a) of Regulation
(EEC) No 805/68, has been fixed at 1,69 units of account               — foreseeable developments on the market in frozen
and the standard amount referred to in Article 1 1 (2) (b)                  meat,
of the said Regulation has been fixed at ECU 6,65 ;
                                                                       — the most representative prices on third country
Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine                      markets for fresh and chilled meat of a category which
animals on representative Community markets is higher                       is competitive with frozen meat,
than the guide price, the levy applicable equals the fol­              — past experience ;
lowing percentage of the basic levy :
(a) 75 % where the market price is less than or equal to               Whereas the basic levy on the types of frozen meat listed
      102% of the guide price ;                                        in section (b) of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                       805/68     under     CN    codes    0202 20 50,   0202 20 90,
(b) 50 % where the market price is more than 102 % and                 0202 30 10, 0202 30 50 and 0202 30 90 is equal to the
      less than or equal to 1 04 % of the guide price ;
                                                                       basic levy fixed for the products falling within CN codes
                                                                       0202 10 00 and 0202 20 10, multiplied by a standard
(')  OJ  No  L  148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.
O    OJ  No  L  18, 27. 1 . 1993, p. 1 .
(3)  OJ  No  L  75, 23. 3. 1977, p. 10.                                (*) OJ No L 154, 25. 6. 1993, p. 35.
(4)  OJ  No  L  370, 19. 12. 1992, p. 16.                              M OJ No L 161 , 2. 7. 1993, p. 44.
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coefficient fixed for each of the products in question ;        the other are adjusted by the coefficient fixed in the
whereas these coefficients were fixed in Annex II to            abovementioned Annex II ;
Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;
                                                                Whereas prices for the different categories and qualities
                                                                 not obtained from prices which are 'live weight excluding
Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the free-at-frontier         tax', are multiplied by the live weight conversion coeffi­
offer prices, offer prices that do not correspond to real       cients fixed in Annex II to the said Regulation and, in the
purchasing possibilities or that relate to unrepresentative      case of Italy, are first increased or reduced by the correc­
quantities should not be taken into account ; whereas           tive amounts fixed in the said Annex ;
offer prices should also be excluded when the movement
of prices in general or the information available gives
reason to believe that they are unrepresentative of the true    Whereas if one or more Member States, for veterinary or
trend of prices in the country of origin ;                      health reasons for example, adopt measures affecting the
                                                                normal trend of prices recorded on their markets, the
                                                                 Commission may disregard the prices recorded on the
Whereas, where the free-at-frontier offer price for frozen      market or markets in question, or use the latest prices
meat differs by less than one unit of account per 100 kilo­     recorded on the market or markets in question before the
grams from that previously used for the calculation of the      entry into force of such measures ;
levy, the latter price should be retained ;
                                                                Whereas, in the absence of information, prices recorded
                                                                on representative Community markets are determined
Whereas pursuant to Article 12 (6) of Regulation (EEC)          mainly by reference to the most recently recorded prices ;
No 805/68 the price of adult bovine animals on represen­
tative Community markets is the price established on the
basis of prices recorded over a period to be determined on      Whereas, for such period as the price of adult bovine
the representative market or markets of each Member             animals recorded on representative Community markets
State for the various categories of adult bovine animals or     differs by less than ECU 0,24 per 100 kilograms of live
of meat from such animals, taking into account the size of      weight from the price previously used, the latter is
each of these categories and the relative size of the bovine    retained ;
herd of each Member State :
                                                                Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 (3), as
                                                                amended by Regulation (EEC) No 297/91 (4), lays down
Whereas the representative markets, categories and quali­       the arrangements applicable on agricultural products and
ties of products and weighting coefficients are fixed in        certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
Annex II to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 610/77 of             products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
18 March 1977 on the determination of prices of adult            States ;
bovine animals on representative Community markets
and the survey of prices of certain other cattle in the
Community ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No           Whereas Council Regulations (EEC) No 518/92 (*), as
1460/93 (2) ;                                                    amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2233/93 (% (EEC) No
                                                                 519/92 f), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                 2234/93 (8), and (EEC) No 520/92 (9), as amended by
                                                                 Regulation (EEC) No 2235/93 (10), of 27 February 1992 on
Whereas, for Member States with several representative           certain procedures for applying the Interim Agreements
markets, the price of each category and quality is equal to      on trade and trade-related matters between the European
the arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each of            Economic Community and the European Coal and Steel
those markets ; for representative markets held several          Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Poland,
times in one period of seven days, the price of each cat­        the Republic of Hungary and the Czech and Slovak
egory and quality is equal to the arithmetic mean of the         Federal Republic respectively, of the other part, introduce
prices recorded on each market day ; whereas in respect of       arrangements for reducing import levies on certain
Italy the price of each category and quality is equal to the     products ; whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No
average, weighted by the special weighting coefficients          2697/93 (n) lays down detailed rules for applying the
fixed in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 610/77, of the          arrangements provided for in these agreements as regards
prices recorded in the surplus and deficit zones ; whereas       beef and veal ;
the price recorded in the surplus zone is equal to the
arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each of the
markets within that zone ; whereas in respect of the             (3) JJJ No L 84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.
                                                                 (4) OJ No L 36, 8. 2. 1991 , p. 9.
United Kingdom the weighted average prices of adult              0 OJ No L 56, 29. 2. 1992, p. 3.
bovine animals recorded on the representative markets of         (j OJ No L 200, 10. 8. 1993, p. 3.
Great Britain on the one hand and Northern Ireland on            0 OJ No L 56, 29. 2. 1992, p. 6.
                                                                 (») OJ No L 200, 10. 8. 1993, p. 4.
                                                                 0 OJ No L 56, 29. 2. 1992, p. 9.
(l) OJ No L 77, 25. 3. 1977, p. 1 .                              (,0) OJ No L 200, 10. 8. 1993, p. 5.
0 OJ No L 143, 15. 6. 1993, p. 5.                                (") See page 75 of this Official Journal.
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Whereas declarations have been submitted by both the             the period between two fixings where the basic levy is
Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic informing the             altered, or in these case of changes in the prices recorded
Communities that both the Czech Republic and the                 on Community representative markets ;
Slovak Republic continue to assume all the obligations
                                                                 Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
deriving, inter alia, from the Interim Agreement between
the Communities and the Czech and Slovak Federal                 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 0 are used to
Republic upon the dissolution of the latter on 31                convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
December 1992 and in consequence the concessions                 and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                 conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
provided in the Interim Agreement should be accorded
without distinction to products originating in the Czech         whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
Republic or in the Slovak Republic ;                             tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
                                                                 lation (EEC) No 1 068/93 (3);
Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (1) of Council Decision         Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the aforemen­
91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the            tioned Regulations, and in particular to the information
overseas countries and territories with the European             and quotations known to the Commission, the levies on
Economic Community ('), no levies shall apply on                 frozen beef and veal should be as set out in the Annex
imports of products originating in the overseas countries        hereto,
and territories ;
Whereas the various cuts of frozen meat are defined in           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;
                                                                                           Article 1
Whereas, pursuant to Article 33 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
No 805/68, the nomenclature provided for in this Regula­         The import levies on frozen beef and veal shall be as set
tion is incorporated in the combined nomenclature ;              out in the Annex.
Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of each                                   Article 2
month and are applicable from the first Monday of the
following month ; whereas these levies may be altered in         This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 October 1993.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 30 September 1993.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              Ren* STEICHEN
                                                                       Member of the Commission
                                                                 (*) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(') OJ No L 263, 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .                            O OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
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                                                                   ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 30 September 1993 fixing the import levies on frozen
                                                            beef and veal (') (2)
                                                                                                                  (ECU/ 100 kg)
                                                  CN code                                                     Levy
                                                                                                       — Net weight —
                                                0202 10 00                                                 166,201 (3)
                                                0202 20 10                                                 166,201 (3)
                                                0202 20 30                                                 132^60 (3)
                                                0202 20 50                                                 207,751 (3)
                                                0202 20 90                                                 249,301 (3)
                                                0202 30 10                                                 207,751 (3)
                                                0202 30 50                                                 207,751 (3)
                                                0202 30 90                                                 285,865 (3)
                                                0206 29 91                                                 285,865
             (') In accordance with amended Regulation (EEC) No 715/90, levies are not applied to products imported directly
                 into the French overseas departments, originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States.
             (2) No import levy applies to OCT originating products according to Article 101 (1) of Decision 91 /482/EEC.
             (3) Products falling within this code, imported from Poland, the territories of the ex Czech and Slovak Federal
                 Republic or Hungary under the Interim Agreements concluded between those countries and the Community,
                 and in respect of which EUR.l certificates issued in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2697/93
                 have been presented, are subject to the levies set out in the Annex to that Regulation.