CELEX: 31973R2481
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2481/73 of the Commission of 12 September 1973 altering the import levies on frozen beef and veal

13 . 9 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 256/13
                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 2481/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 12 September 1973
                                              altering the import levies on frozen beef and veal
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                            2260/73 (5) of 17 August 1973 determining the bases
  COMMUNITIES ,                                                              for calculating the levy on certain kinds of frozen
                                                                            beef and veal ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
  pean Economic Community ;                                                 Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 990/68
                                                                            provides that the most favourable purchasing oppor­
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805 /                        tunities among those which are most representative
  68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                         as regards quality and quantity as mentioned in
  of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by                        Article 13 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 /68
  Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2), and in particular                         should be determined in the first place with refer­
  Article 13 (6) thereof ;                                                  ence to free-at-Community-frontier offers or, where
                                                                            such offers are not sufficiently representative of the
  Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                              market situation, world market offers delivered free­
  Committee ;                                                               at-Community-frontier for each of the products
  Whereas Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                           listed in Section (c) of the Annex to Regulation
  805/68 provides for charging a levy on imports of                         ( EEC) No 805/68 ; whereas, for products other than
  the frozen meat listed in Section (c) of the Annex to                     those covered by the first subparagraph of Article
  that Regulation ; whereas thie levy on products                           13 (2) of that Regulation, the offer price is
  falling within subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) is                       converted into a price relating to the products
  equal to the difference between :                                         covered by that subparagraph by means of the coef­
                                                                            ficients referred to in Article 13 (3 ) of that Regula­
  — the guide price for the corresponding product                            tion ; whereas those coefficients were fixed in
       multiplied by a coefficient expressing the ratio                     Annex I to Regulation ( EEC) No 2260/73 ;
       existing in the Community between the price for
       fresh meat of a quality competitive with the
       frozen meat in question, presented in the same                       Whereas Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC) No 2260/73
       form, and the average price for adult bovine                         provides that the Commission, when determining
       animals, and                                                         the world market price referred to in Article 13 (2)
                                                                            ( b) of Regulation (EEC ) No 805 / 68 must disregard
 — the price on the world market for frozen meat,                           offer prices which do not correspond to real
       based on the most favourable purchasing oppor­                      purchasing opportunities or which relate to small
       tunities among those which are most representa­                     unrepresentative quantities or to qualities which
       tive, as regards quality and quantity, of the devel­                differ appreciably from those of the majority of the
       opment of this market, plus customs duty and a                      products entering world trade ; whereas offer prices
       standard amount representing the specific costs                     which the Commission believes, in view of general
       incurred in importing frozen meat ;                                 price movements or information available to it, not
 Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                          to be representative of real price trends in the
 990/68 (3) of 15 July 1968 on general rules for                       (   country of origin must also be disregarded ;
 fixing the levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and
 veal provides that the guide price for the corres­                       Whereas offers on the world market are converted
 ponding product is the guide price for adult bovine                       into free-at-Community-frontier offers by taking
 animals ; whereas this guide price was fixed by                           into account the normal transport and insurance
 Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1192/73 (4) of 8 May                        costs of which the Commission has knowledge ;
 1973 ;
                                                                          Whereas the standard amount referred to in Article
Whereas the abovementioned coefficient, calculated                         13 (2) ( b ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 /68 is fixed
in accordance with the rules contained in Article 13
                                                                           at 5-5 units of account per 100 kg ;
 (2 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 was fixed at
1-53 by Commission Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                          Whereas, as long as the world market price for
                                                                          frozen meat differs by less that 1 unit of account
(J)   OJ   No  L  148 , 28. 6. 1968, p . 24.
(*)   OJ   No  I. 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 23 .
(«)   OJ   No  L  169, 18. 7. 1968 , p . 12 .
(*)  OJ    No  L  122, 9. 5 . 1973 , p. 6.                                ( 5) OJ No L 233 , 21 . 8 . 1973 , p . 10 .
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per 100 kg from the world market price previously              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
used, the latter price is maintained ;                         levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 13 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 /                 relation to each other, at any given moment,
68 provides that, for the frozen meat listed in                      within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange
Section (c) of the Annex to that Regulation under                    based on their effective parity ;
subheadings Nos 02.01 A II a) 2 bb), 02.01 A II a) 2           — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
cc) and 02.01 A II a) 2 dd), the levy is equal to the                the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
levy on the product in the same Section under                        each of these currencies recorded for a given
subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) multiplied by the                   period, in relation to the Community currencies
fixed coefficient for each of the products in ques­                   referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
tion ; whereas this coefficient was fixed in
Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2260/73 ; whereas               Whereas it follows from applying the provisions of
that Regulation also defines the requirements to be            the abovementioned Regulations to the quotations
met by certain products for which the levy is fixed             and other information known to the Commission
by means of these coefficients ;                                that the levies on frozen meat fixed in the Annex to
                                                                Regulation (EEC) No 2394/73 ( x ), should be amen­
                                                                ded as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Whereas Article 13 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/;
68 provides that, where free quotations on the
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
world market are not a determining factor for the
 offer price and where that price is lower than these                                      Article 1
 quotations, a special price calculated on the basis
 of the offer price is substituted, solely in respect of        The levies referred to in Article 13 of Regulation
 the imports in question, for the world market price             (EEC) No 805 /68 fixed in the Annex to Regulation
 for frozen meat referred to in paragraph 2 of that              (EEC) No 2394/73 are amended as shown in the
 Article ;                                                       Annex to this Regulation .
                                                                                           Article 2
 Whereas, subject to the foregoing, the levy referred
                                                                 To be classified as products falling within :
 to in Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 /68
 is fixed before the 25th day of each month and is               — subheading No 02.01 A II a ) 2 aa ),
 applicable from the first Monday of the following               — subheading No 02.01 A II a ) 2 bb ) and cc ),
 month ; whereas, however, the levy is altered in the
 intervening period if there is considerable fluctu­            — subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 dd ) and 22 bbb).
 ation in the world market price for frozen meat ;               Products must correspond to the definition for the
                                                                 product in question contained in Regulation ( EEC)
                                                                 No 2260/73 .
  Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regu­
                                                                                           Article 3
  lation ( EEC) No 805/68, the nomenclature provided
  for in this Regulation is incorporated in the                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 Septem­
  Common Customs Tariff ;                                        ber 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 12 September 1973 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                        Member of the Commission
                                                                  (!) OJ No L 245 , 1 . 9. 1973 , p . 75 .
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                                                                 ANNEX
                         Levies applicable from 17 September 1973 to imports from third countries H
                 CCT                                                                                              Levy in
               heading                                      Description of goods                                u. a. /100 kg
                  No                                                                                            net weight
            02.01          Meat and edible offals of the animals falling within heading No
                           01.01 , 01.02, 01.03 or 01.04, fresh, chilled or frozen :
                           A. Meat :
                               II . Of bovine animals :
                                    a) Of domestic bovine animals :
                                       2 . Frozen :
                                           aa)  Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quarters                  0-386
                                           bb)  Forequarters                                                       0-309 ( a)
                                           cc)  Hindquarters                                                       0-483
                                           dd)   Other :
                                                11. Unboned (bone-in)                                              0-579
                                                22. Boned or boneless :
                                                     aaa) Forequarters, whole or cut into a maxi­
                                                           mum of five pieces, each quarter being in.
                                                           a single block ; 'compensated' quarters in
                                                           two blocks, one of which contains the
                                                           forequarter, whole or cut into a maximum
                                                           of five pieces, and the other, the hind­
                                                           quarter, excluding the tenderloin, in one
                                                           piece                                                   0-483 ( a)
                                                    bbb) Crop, chuck and blade and brisket cuts (b)                0-483 (a)
                                                    ccc ) Other                                                    0-664 ( a )
            (') Regulation (EEC) No 521/70 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas
                departments of products originating in the AASM and CCT.
            (a) Where these products are imported under the conditions set out in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC)
                No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 and in the provisions adopted for its application, the levy is totally or partially
                suspended in accordance with these provisions .
            (b) Entry under this subheading is subject to the production of a certificate issued on conditions laid down by
                 the competent authorities of the European Communities .