CELEX: 31997R0602
Language: en
Date: 1997-04-04 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 602/97 of 4 April 1997 fixing the maximum buying-in price and the quantities of beef to be bought in under the 179th partial invitation to tender as a general intervention measure pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89

5 . 4. 97              EN I               Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 91 / 1
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                                                    (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                             COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 602/97
                                                              of 4 April 1997
                       fixing the maximum buying-in price and the quantities of beef to be bought in
                       under the 179th partial invitation to tender as a general intervention measure
                                               pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            Whereas, following the buying in of forequarters, the
                                                                          price of such products should be defined on the basis of
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 carcase prices;
   Community,
                                                                          Whereas the quantities offered at present exceed the
                                                                          quantities which may be bought in; whereas a reducing
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of                 coefficient or, where appropriate, depending on the
   27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market                  differences in prices and the quantities tendered for,
   in beef and veal ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)               several reducing coefficients should accordingly be
   No 2222/96 (2), and in particular Article 6 (7) thereof,              applied to the quantities which may be bought in in
                                                                         accordance with Article 13 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
   Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) No                   2456/93 ;
   2456/93 of 1 September 1993 laying down detailed rules
   for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No                    Whereas the scale of the quantities awarded warrants the
   805/68 as regards the general and special intervention                application of the possibility provided for in Article 16 (2)
   measures for beef (*), as last amended by Regulation (EC)             of Regulation (EEC) No 2456/93 of extending the period
   No 545/97 (4), an invitation to tender was opened                     during which the intervention products are to be
   pursuant to Article 1 ( 1 ) of Commission Regulation (EEC)            delivered ;
   No 1627/89 of 9 June 1989 on the buying in of beef by
  invitation to tender Q, as last amended by Regulation (EC)             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
  No 524/97(%                                                            in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                         Committee for Beef and Veal ,
  Whereas, in accordance with Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation
  (EEC) No 2456/93, a maximum buying-in price is to be
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  fixed for quality R3, where appropriate, under each partial
  invitation to tender in the light of tenders received;
 whereas, in accordance with Article 14 of that Regulation,                                       Article 1
 only tenders quoting prices not exceeding the maximum
 buying-in price and not exceeding the average national or
                                                                         Under the 179th partial invitation to tender opened
 regional market price, plus the amount referred to in                   pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1627/89 :
 paragraph 1 of that Article, are to be accepted;
                                                                        (a) for category A:
 Whereas, once tenders submitted in respect of the 179th
 partial invitation to tender have been considered and
                                                                             — the maximum buying-in price shall be ECU
                                                                                  269,99 per 100 kg of carcases or half-carcases of
 taking account, pursuant to Article 6 ( 1 ) of Regulation
                                                                                 quality R3,
 (EEC) No 805/ 68 , of the requirements for reasonable
 support of the market and the seasonal trend in slaugh­                     — the price of forequarters shall be derived from the
 terings, the maximum buying-in price and the quantities                         carcase price using the coefficient 0,80 for the
which may be bought in should be fixed;                                          straight cut,
                                                                             — the maximum quantity of carcases, half-carcases or
(')   Of   No  L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24.                                     forequarters accepted shall be 8 003 tonnes,
(2)   OJ   No  L 296, 21 . 11 . 1996, p. 50.                                — the quantities offered at a price greater than ECU
(')   OJ   No  L 225, 4. 9. 1993, p. 4.
(4)   OJ   No  L 84, 26. 3 . 1997, p. 11 .                                       245 shall be multiplied by a coefficient of 25 % ,
( s) OJ    No  L 159, 10 . 6. 1989, p. 36.                                       in accordance with Article 13 (3) of Regulation
 * OJ      No  L 82, 22. 3 . 1997, p. 35 .                                       (EEC) No 2456/93 ;
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(b) for category C :                                                     60 % in Great Britain in accordance with Article
                                                                         13 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2456/93 and those
    — the maximum buying-in price shall be ECU                           offered at a price greater than ECU 257 shall be
        269,99 per 100 kg of carcases or half-carcases of                multiplied by a coefficient of 25 % .
        quality R3,
    — the price of forequarters shall be derived from the                                 Article 2
        carcase price using the coefficient 0,80 for the
        straight cut,                                            The first sentence of Article 16 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
    — the maximum quantity of carcases, half-carcases or         No 2456/93 notwithstanding, the time limit for delivery
                                                                 to intervention stores is extended by one week.
        forequarters accepted shall be 12 832 tonnes,
    — the quantities offered at a price greater than ECU                                  Article 3
        245 and less than or equal to ECU 257 shall be
        multiplied by a coefficient of 75 % in Ireland and       This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 April 1997.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 4 April 1997.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                             Franz FISCHLER
                                                                      Member of the Commission