CELEX: 31989R1831
Language: en
Date: 1989-06-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1831/89 of 23 June 1989 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

24. 6. 89                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 177/55
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1831/89
                                                          of 23 June 1989
                                       fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          than the guide price, the levy applicable equals the fol­
                                                                     lowing percentage of the basic levy :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                  (a) 75 % where the market price is less than or equal to
                                                                         102 % of the guide price ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                   (b) 50 % where the market price is more than 102 % and
Portugal,                                                                less than or equal to 104% of the guide price ;
                                                                     (c) 25 % where the market price is more than 104 % and
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of the                       less than or equal to 106% of the guide price ;
Council of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of                (d) 0 % where the market price is more than 106 % of
the market in beef and veal (1), as last amended by Regula­              the guide price ;
tion (EEC) No 571 /88 (2), and in particular Article 12 (8)
thereof,
                                                                     Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,              animals on representative Community markets is equal to
                                                                     or less than the guide price, the levy applicable equals the
                                                                     following percentage of the basic levy :
Whereas under Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68
a levy is applicable to the products specified in Article 1          (a) 100 % where the market price is      more than or equal
(1 ) (a) of that Regulation ; whereas Article 12 fixes the               to 98 % of the guide price ;
amount of the levy applicable by reference to a percent­
age of the basic levy ;                                              (b) 105 % where the market price is      less than 98 % and
                                                                         more than or equal to 96 % of        the guide price ;
Whereas, in respect of the types of frozen meat listed in            (c) 110 % where the market price is      less than 96 % and
section (b) of the Annex to the said Regulation under CN                 more than or equal to 90 % of the guide price ;
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 to be
     price of fresh meat of a category competitive with the          applied from 1 May 1989 have been fixed by Council
     frozen meat in question, presented in the same form,            Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 18/89 (^ ;
     and the average price of adult bovine animals, and
— the Community free-at-frontier offer price for frozen              Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price for
     meat, plus the amount of the customs duty and a stan­           frozen meat is determined by reference to the world
     dard amount representing the specific costs of the              market price based on the most representative purchasing
     import operations ;                                             possibilities, as regards quality and quantity, recorded over
                                                                     a certain period preceding the fixing of the basic levy,
                                                                     taking into account in particular :
Whereas, by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 of
 18 March 1977 laying down rules for the application of              — foreseeable developments on the market in frozen
the levies on beef and veal and amending Regulation                      meat,
(EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff (3), as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3988/87 (4), the                 — the most representative prices on third country
abovementioned coefficient, calculated in accordance with                markets for fresh and chilled meat of a category which
the rules laid down in Article 11 (2) (a) of Regulation                  is competitive with frozen meat,
(EEC) No 805/68, has been fixed at 1,69 units of account             — past experience ;
and the standard amount referred to in Article 11 (2) (b)
of the said Regulation has been fixed at ECU 6,65 ;
                                                                     Whereas the basic levy on the types of frozen meat listed
                                                                     in -section (b) of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine               805/68     under     CN    codes    0202 20 50,   0202 20 90,
animals on representative Community markets is higher                0202 30 1 0, 0202 30 50 and 0202 30 90 is equal to the
                                                                     basic levy fixed for the products falling within CN codes
(') OJ   No L  148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 24.                             020210 00 and 0202 20 10, multiplied by a standard
0   OJ   No L  61 , 4. 3. 1989, p. 43.
(3) OJ   No L 75, 23. 3. 1977, p. 10.
(4) OJ   No L  376, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 31                             0 OJ No L 118, 29 . 4. 1989, p. 11 .
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coefficient fixed for each of the products in question ;         times in one period of seven days, the price of each cat­
whereas these coefficients were fixed in Annex II to             egory and quality is equal to the arithmetic mean of the
Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;                                     prices recorded on each market day ; whereas in respect of
                                                                 Italy the price of each category and quality is equal to the
                                                                 average, weighted by the special weighting coefficients
                                                                 fixed in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 610/77, of the
Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the free-at-frontier          prices recorded in the surplus and deficit zones ; whereas
offer prices, offer prices that do not correspond to real        the price recorded in the surplus zone is equal to the
purchasing possibilities or that relate to unrepresentative      arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each of the
quantities should not be taken into account ; whereas            markets within that zone ; whereas in respect of the
offer prices should also be excluded when the movement           United Kingdom the weighted average prices of adult
of prices in general or the information available gives          bovine animals recorded on the representative markets of
reason to believe that they are unrepresentative of the true     Great Britain on the one hand and Northern Ireland on
trend of prices in the country of origin ;                       the other are adjusted by the coefficient fixed in the
                                                                 abovementioned Annex II ;
Whereas, where the free-at-frontier offer price for frozen
meat differs by less than one unit of account per 100 kilo­      Whereas prices for the different categories and qualities
grams from that previously used for the calculation of the       not obtained from prices which are live weight excluding
levy, the latter price should be retained ;                      tax', are multiplied by the live weight conversion coeffi­
                                                                 cients fixed in Annex II to the said Regulation and, in the
                                                                 case of Italy, are first increased or reduced by the correc­
                                                                 tive amounts fixed in the said Annex ;
Whereas pursuant to Article 12 (6) of Regulation (EEC)
No 805/68 the price of adult bovine animals on represen­
tative Community markets is the price established on the         Whereas if one or more Member States, for veterinary or
basis of prices recorded over a period to be determined on        health reasons for example, adopt measures affecting the
the representative market or markets of each Member               normal trend of prices recorded on their markets, the
State for the various categories of adult bovine animals or       Commission may disregard the prices recorded on the
of meat from such animals, taking into account the size of        market or markets in question, or use the latest prices
each of these categories and the relative size of the bovine      recorded on the market or markets in question before the
herd of each Member State ;
                                                                  entry into force of such measures ;
Whereas the prices of adult bovine animals recorded on            Whereas, in the absence of information, prices recorded
the representative market or markets of each Member               on representative Community markets are determined
State are equal to the average, weighted by the relevant          mainly by reference to the most recently recorded prices ;
coefficients, of the prices for the various qualities of adult
bovine animals or meat of such animals over a period of
seven days in that Member State at a particular wholesale         Whereas, for such period as the price of adult bovine
marketing stage ; whereas, the price of adult bovine              animals recorded on representative Community markets
animals recorded on the representative market or markets          differs by less than ECU 0,24 per 100 kilograms of live
of the United Kingdom shall be corrected by the amount            weight from the price previously used, the latter is
of the premium granted to producers under Council                 retained ;
Regulation (EEC) No 1347/86 ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 4132/88 (2) ; whereas the representa­
tive markets, categories and qualities of products and            Whereas the levies must be so fixed that obligations
weighting coefficients are fixed in Annex II to Commis­           arising from international agreements concluded by the
sion Regulation (EEC) No 610/77 of 18 March 1977 on               Community continue to be fulfilled ;
the determination of prices of adult bovine animals on
representative Community markets and the survey of
prices of certain other cattle in the Community (3), as last      Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 (5), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1646/89 (4);                       amended by Regulation (EEC) No 967/89 (*), lays down
                                                                  the arrangements applicable on agricultural products and
                                                                  certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
Whereas, for Member States with several representative            products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
                                                                  States or in the overseas countries and territories ;
markets, the price of each category and quality is equal to
the arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each of
those markets ; for representative markets held several           Whereas the various cuts of frozen meat are defined in
                                                                  Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;
(') OJ No L 119, 8 . 5. 1986, p. 40.
0 OJ No L 362, 30. 12. 1988, p. 4.
0 OJ No L 77, 25. 3. 1977, p. 1 .                                 O OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3. 1985, p. 4.
(4) ÒJ No L 162, 13. 6. 1989, p. 22.                              («) OJ No L 103, 15. 4. 1989, p. 1 .
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Whereas, pursuant to Article 33 (2) of Regulation (EEC)              tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
No 805/68, the nomenclature provided for in this Regula­             previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
tion is incorporated in the combined nomenclature ;
                                                                 Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the aforemen­
Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of each         tioned Regulations, and in particular to the information
month and are applicable from the first Monday of the            and quotations known to the Commission, the levies on
following month ; whereas these levies may be altered in         frozen beef and veal should be as set out in the Annex
the period between two fixings where the basic levy is           hereto,
altered, or in these case of changes in the prices recorded
on Community representative markets ;
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
should be calculated on the following basis :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
    tion to each other at any given moment within a band                                 Article 1
    of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
    rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in    The import levies on frozen beef and veal shall be as set
    the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­      out in the Annex.
    tion (EEC) No 1676/85 ('), as last amended by Regula­
    tion (EEC) No l636/87 (2),
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the                                    Article 2
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
    these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­       This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 July 1989.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 23 June 1989.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 2 OJ No L 153, 13 . 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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                                                                  ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 23 June 1989 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and
                                                                   veal (')
                                                                                                                   (ECU / 100 kg)
                                                  CN code                                                      Levy
                                                                                                        — Net weight —
                                                0202 10 00                                                   178,791
                                                0202 20 10                                                   178,791
                                                0202 20 30                                                   143,032
                                                0202 20 50                                                   223,489
                                                0202 20 90                                                   268,186
                                                0202 30 10                                                   223,489
                                                0202 30 50                                                   223,489
                                                0202 30 90                                                   307,520
                                                0206 29 91                                                   307,520
             (') In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 486/85, levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas
                 departments of products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and
                 territories .