CELEX: 31974R0617
Language: en
Date: 1974-03-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 617/74 of the Commission of 19 March 1974 fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 1 April 1974

20 . 3 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 75/7
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 617/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 19 March 1974
                fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 1 April 1974
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    continue, the refund must be fixed at an amount
COMMUNITIES,                                                      which will cover the difference between prices on the
                                                                  Swiss market and export prices in the Member States ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                              Whereas, in the case of the preserved meats set out in
                                                                  Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   1082/68 (4) of 26 July 1968 fixing coefficients
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      expressing the meat content of preserved meats manu­
805/68 ( ! ) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­              factured from frozen meat, as amended by Regulation
tion of the market in beef and veal, as last amended              (EEC) No 207/70 (5), which contain 40 % or more of
by Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2), and in particular              meat, Community participation in international trade
the second sentence of Article 1 8 (5) thereof ;                  may be ensured by granting a refund which takes
                                                                  account of the refund hitherto granted to exporters ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;
                                                                  Whereas, in the case of other beef and veal products, a
                                                                  refund need not be fixed since Community participa­
Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                  tion in world trade in these products is not signifi­
                                                                  cant ;
provides that the difference between prices on the
world market and prices within the Community for
the products listed in Article 1 of that Regulation may
                                                                  Whereas Article 92 of the Act (6) annexed to the
be covered by an export refund ;                                  Treaty (7) concerning the Accession of new Member
                                                                  States to the European Economic Community and the
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 (3) of                 European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brus­
28 June 1968 lays down general rules for granting                 sels on 22 January 1972, provides that the refund on
export refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of              exports from the new Member States for the products
such refunds ;                                                    specified in Article 1 (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 805/68 shall be corrected by the amount of the
                                                                  difference between the customs duties on the products
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and                  from which these products are produced ;
criteria to the foreseeable situation on the market in
beef and veal that the refund should be fixed as indi­
cated below ;                                                     Whereas if the refund system is to operate normally,
                                                                  refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas the present market situation in the Commu­                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
nity and the setting possibilities, particularly in certain            relation to each other, at any given moment,
third countries, leads to granting an export refund for                within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
adult animals of a weight of more than 300 kilo­                       on their effective parity ;
grammes, for the export of certain fresh or chilled
meats shown in the Annex under heading No ex                      — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
02.01 A II a) 1 bb) and cc) and for the export to                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
certain destinations, of certain frozen meats shown in                 of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
the Annex under heading No ex 02.01 A II a) 2 aa),                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
bb), cc), dd) 1 1 and dd) 22 ;                                         in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas, in the case of edible meat of domestic                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
bovine animals, boned or boneless, salted and dried,              are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
there are traditional trade flows to Switzerland ;                ment Committee for Beef and Veal,
whereas, to the extent necessary to allow this trade to
                                                                  (4) OJ  No  L 181 , 27. 7. 1968, p. 9.
(1 ) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24.                          (5) OJ  No  L 28 , 5. 2. 1970, p. 10 .
(2) OJ No L 25, 30 . 1 . 1973 , p. 23 .                           (6) OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(3) OJ No L 156, 4. 7. 1968 , p. 2.                               (7) OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                         805/68 is granted and the amount of that refund is
                                                                      hereby fixed as shown in the Annex.
                           Article 1                                                         Article 2
The list of products on which the export refund                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
referred to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No                      1974.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 19 March 1974.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                  The President
                                                                             François-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                ANNEX
                                                                                                  Refund in u.a. / 100 kg
    CCT heading No                               Description of goods
                                                                                                       Net weight
                                                                                                      Live weight
ex 01.02 A II            Live domestic animals of the bovine species, other than
                        pure-bred breeding animals :
               b)       Adult animals of a weight of more than 300 kg                                   18-00 H
                                                                                                       Net weight
ex 02.01 A II a ) 1     Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, fresh or chilled :
               bb)      Of adult animals :
                   11 .  Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quarters                             35-00 H
     22 . and ex 33 .   Forequaxters, with a minimum of four and a maximum
                        of thirteen whole or cut ribs, with or without the thin
                        flanks                                                                         29-00 (*)
              ex 33 .   Hindquarters, excluding the forequarter with more than
                        ten whole or cut ribs                                                          42-00 H
               cc)      Other cuts of beef and veal :
                   11 . Unboned ( bone-in )                                                            35-00 (»)
              ex 22 .   Boned or boneless , coming from the hindquarters' cuts,
                        without the thin flanks and the shin, packaged separa­
                        tely                                                                           50-Q0 (*)
ex 02.01 All .a) 2      Edible meat of domestic bovine animals , frozen :
              aa)       Carcases, half-carcases and 'compensated' quarters :
                        — for export to Portugal and to third countries on the
                             Mediterranean and for the provision of sea-going
                             vessels or aircraft or armed forces stationed on the
                             territory of a Member State other than that of\ their
                            flag                                                                       35-00 ( l )
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                                                                                                       Refund in u. a./100 kg
      CCT heading No                                 Description of goods                                   Net weight
   bb) and ex cc)          Forequarters, with a minimum of four and a maximum
                            of thirteen whole or cut ribs, with or without the thin
                            flanks :
                           — for export to Portugal and third countries on the
                                Mediterranean, and for the provision of seagoing
                                vessels or aircraft or armed forces stationed in the
                                territory of a Member State other than that of their
                                flag                                                                        29-00 H
              ex cc)       Hindquarters, excluding the forequarter with more than
                           ten whole or cut ribs
                           — for export to Portugal and third countries on the
                                Mediterranean, and for the provision of sea-going
                                vessels or aircraft or armed forces stationed in the
                                territory of a Member State other than that of their
                                flag                                                                        42-00 i1 )
                 dd )      Others :
                      11 . Unboned (bone-in) :
                           — for the provision of sea-going vessels or aircraft or
                                armed forces stationed on the territory of a Member
                               State other than that of their flag                                          29-00 i 1)
                 ex 22 .   Boned or boneless, excluding the chaps and the offals :
                           — for export to the United States of America                                     54-00 H
                           — packaged separately, for the provision of sea-going
                               vessels or aircraft or armed forces stationed on the
                                territory of a Member State other than that of their
                                flag
                                                                                                            35-00 (*)
ex 02.06 C I a) 2          Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, boned or
                           boneless, salted and dried :
                           — for export to Switzerland
                                                                                                            14-00 i 1 )
                                                                                                       United
                                                                                            Ireland
                                                                                                      Kingdom       Other Member State·
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 °/o ore imore of meat, excluding offal and fat           0         0                 12-50
                               2 . 60 °/o or more but less than 80 °/o of meat, exclu­
                                   ding offal and fat                                          0         0                   7-50
                               3 . 40 °/o or more but less than 60 % 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 (1) of
    Regulation (EEC) No 181/73 (OJ No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 9).
N.B. : Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 provides that no export refunds shall be granted on products
        imported from third countries and re-exported to third countries.