CELEX: 31984R0884
Language: en
Date: 1984-04-01
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 884/84 of 31 March 1984 fixing the import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat

No L 91 / 16                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              1 . 4 . 84
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 884/84
                                                       of 31 March 1984
                            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 ;
Having 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
                                                                   based inter alia on the prices shown in the customs
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       documents which accompany products imported from
 1837/80 of 27 June 1980 on the common organization                non-member      countries  or   on   other  information
of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('), as last
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
                                                                   relate to unrepresentative quantities and offer prices
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       which, in view of general price movements or other
Committee,                                                         information available, may be considered not to be
                                                                   representative of actual price trends in the country of
Whereas under Article 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                origin are to be disregarded ;
 1837/80 a levy is applicable to the products falling
within subheading 02.01 A IV b) listed in Annex I to               Whereas a special levy may be fixed for products origi­
that Regulation ;                                                  nating in or coming from one or more non-member
                                                                   countries if exports of the said products are made at
Whereas, pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EEC)                abnormally low prices ;
No 1837/80, the levy on frozen carcases and half­
carcases is to be equal to the difference between :                Whereas the levy on the meat falling within subhead­
                                                                   ings 02.01 A IV b) 2, 3, 4 and 5 listed in Annex I to
(a) the basic price multiplied by a coefficient represen­          Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is to be equal to the
     ting the relationship existing in the Community               levy determined for frozen carcases, multiplied by a
     between the price of fresh meat of a category                 standard coefficient fixed for each of the products in
     competitive with the frozen meat in question,                 question ; whereas these coefficients are fixed in
     presented in the same form, and the average price             Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 2668/80 ;
     of fresh and chilled sheep carcases, and
(b) the Community free-at-frontier offer price for the             Whereas the levies should be so fixed that the obliga­
     said frozen meat ;                                            tions arising from international agreements concluded
                                                                   by the Community continue to be fulfilled ; whereas,
Whereas the basic price for the 1984/85 marketing                  moreover, account should be taken of the voluntary
                                                                   restraint arrangements made by the Community with
year is fixed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No                  certain non-member countries ;
873/84 (3) ; whereas the coefficient referred to in
Article 13 ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is
fixed in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                      Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of
2668/80 (4) ;                                                      each month for each week during the following
                                                                   month ; whereas they are applicable from Monday to
                                                                   Sunday ; whereas they can be altered within that
Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price is              period if necessary ;
determined in the light of the most representative
purchasing possibilities, as regards quality and quan­
tity, recorded over the period from the 21st day of the            Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
preceding month to the 20th day of the month during                levies should be calculated on the following basis ;
which the levies are determined, taking particular
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
account of the supply and demand situation for fresh
                                                                       relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                       a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
(') OJ  No  L  183, 16 .  7. 1980, p. 1 .                              their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient
0   OJ  No  L 90 , 1 . 4.  1984, p. 35 .
(3  OJ  No  L 90, 1 . 4.   1984, p. 42.                                provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC)
(<) OJ  No  L 276, 20 .   10 . 1980, p. 39 .                           No 974/71 ,
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— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
     these currencies in relation to the Community
     currencies referred to in the previous indent and                              Article 1
     the aforesaid coefficient ;
                                                             The import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat
Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the above­       shall be as set out in the Annex hereto .
mentioned Regulations and, in particular, to the infor­
mation and quotations known to the Commission, the
levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and                                 Article 2
goatmeat other than frozen meat should be as set out
in the Annex to this Regulation,                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 April 1984.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels , 31 March 1984.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                        Poul DALSAGER
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                               ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 31 March 1984 fixing the import levies on frozen
                                                     sheepmeat and goatmeat
                                                                                                                  (ECU/100 kg)
         CCT                 Week No 1             Week No 2         Week No 3            Week No 4           Week No 5
        heading               from 2 to             from 9 to        from 16 to           from 23 to       from 30 April to
          No               8 April 1984 (')      15 April 1984 (') 22 April 1984 0)    29 April 1984 0)      6 May 1984 (')
02.01 A IV b) 1                154,273               1 54,025          153,500              152,000            150,500
                2              107,991               107,818           107,450              106,400             105,350
                3              169,700               169,428           168,850              167,200            165,550
                4              200,555               200,233           199,550              197,600             195,650
                5 aa)          200,555               200,233           199,550              197,600            195,650
                  bb)          280,777               280,326           279,370              276,640            273,910
(') The levy applicable is limited to the amount bound under GATT or in the conditions laid down in Council Regulations (EEC)
    No 3019/81 , (EEC) No 1985/82 and (EEC) No 2977/83 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 19/82.