CELEX: 31984R2141
Language: en
Date: 1984-07-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2141/84 of 25 July 1984 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

26 . 7 . 84                               Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 196/33
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2141 /84
                                                          of 25 July 1984
                                      fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      (a) 75 % where the market price is less than or equal
COMMUNITIES,                                                             to 102 % of the guide price ;
                                                                    (b) 50 % where the market price is more than 102 %
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                         and less than or equal to 104 % of the guide
                                                                          price ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EpC) No 805/68                 (c) 25 % where the market price is more than 1 04 %
of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the                        and less than 106% of the guide price ;
market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by the Act             (d) 0 % where the market price is more than 106 %
of Accession of Greece (2), and in particular Article 1 2                 of the guide price ;
(8) thereof,
                                                                    Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                        animals on representative Community markets is
Committee,                                                          equal to or less than the guide price, the levy appli­
                                                                    cable equals the following percentage of the basic
Whereas under Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No                      levy :
805/68 a levy is applicable to the products specified in
Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) of that Regulation ; whereas Article 12         (a) 100 % where the market price is more than or
fixes the amount of the levy applicable by reference to                   equal to 98 % of the guide price ;
a percentage of the basic levy ;                                    (b) 105 % where the market price is less than 98 %
                                                                          and more than or equal to 96 % of the guide
Whereas, in respect of the types of frozen meat listed                    price ;
in section (b) of the Annex to the said Regulation
under subheading 02.01 A II b) 1 , the basic levy is                (c) 110 % where the market price is . less than 96 %
determined on the basis of the difference between :                       and more than or equal to 90 % of the guide
                                                                          price ;
— the guide price multiplied by a coefficient repre­                (d) 114 % where the market price is less than 90 % of
     senting the ratio existing in the Community                          the guide price ;
     between the price of fresh meat of a category
     competitive with the frozen meat in question,                  Whereas the guide prices for adult bovine animals to
     presented in the same form, and the average price              be applied from 2 April 1984 have been fixed by
     of adult bovine animals, and                                   Council Regulation (EEC) No 868/84 of 31 March
— the Community free-at-frontier offer price for                     1984 (5) ;
     frozen meat, plus the amount of the customs duty               Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price for
     and a standard amount representing the specific                frozen meat is determined by reference to the world
     costs of the import operations ;                                market price based on the most representative purcha­
Whereas, by Commission Regulation (EEC) No                           sing possibilities, as regards quality and quantity,
586/77 of 18 March 1977 laying down rules for the                    recorded over a certain period preceding the fixing of
application of the levies on beef and veal and amen­                 the basic levy, taking into account in particular :
ding Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common                       — foreseeable developments on the market in frozen
Customs Tariff (3), as last amended by Regulation                         meat,
(EEC) No 31 14/83 (4), the abovementioned coefficient,              — the most representative prices on third country
calculated in accordance with the rules laid down in
                                                                          markets for fresh and chilled meat of a category
Article 11 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 , has                    which is competitive with frozen meat,
been fixed at 1-69 units of account and the standard
                                                                    — past experience ;
amount referred to in Article 1 1 (2) (b) of the said
Regulation has been fixed at 6,65 ECU ;                              Whereas the basic levy on the types of frozen meat
                                                                     listed in section (b) of the Annex to Regulation (EEC)
Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine               No 805/68 under subheadings 02.01 A II b) 2 to 4 is
animals on representative Community markets is                       equal to the basic levy fixed for the product falling
higher than the guide price, the levy applicable equals              within subheading 02.01 A II b) 1 , multiplied by a
the following percentage of the basic levy :                         standard coefficient fixed for each of the products in
                                                                     question ; whereas these coefficients were fixed in
(') OJ   No L   148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 24.                            Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;
(2) OJ   No L   291 , 29 . 11 . 1979 , p. 17 .
(') OJ   No L   75, 23 . 3 . 1977, p. 10 .
 4) OJ   No L   303, 5 . 11 . 1983 , p. 16.                          O OJ No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 30 .
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 Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the free-at-frontier         and quality is equal to the average, weighted by the
 offer prices, offer prices that do not correspond to real       special weighting coefficients fixed in Annex II to
 purchasing possibilities or that relate to unrepresenta­        Regulation (EEC) No 610/77, of the prices recorded in
 tive quantities should not be taken into account ;              the surplus and deficit zones ; whereas the price
 whereas offer prices should also be excluded when the           recorded in the surplus zone is equal to the arithmetic
 movement of prices in general or the information                mean of the prices recorded on each of the markets
 available gives reason to believe that they are unrepre­        within that zone ; whereas in respect of the United
 sentative of the true trend of prices in the country of         Kingdom the weighted average prices of adult bovine
 origin ;                                                        animals recorded on the representative markets of
                                                                 Great Britain on the one hand and Northern Ireland
                                                                 on the other are adjusted by the coefficient fixed in
 Whereas, where the free-at-frontier offer price for             the abovementioned Annex II ;
 frozen meat differs by less than one unit of account
 per 100 kilograms from that previously used for the
 calculation of the levy, the latter price should be             Whereas prices for the different categories and quali­
 retained ;                                                      ties not obtained from prices which are 'live weight
                                                                excluding tax', are multiplied by the live weight
                                                                conversion coefficients fixed in Annex II to the said
 Whereas pursuant to Article 1 2 (6) of Regulation (EEC)         Regulation and, in the case of Italy, are first increased
 No 805/68 the price of adult bovine animals on repre­           or reduced by the corrective amounts fixed in the said
 sentative Community markets is the price established           Annex ;
 on the basis of prices recorded over a period to be
 determined on the representative market or markets of
 each Member State for the various categories of adult          Whereas if one or more Member States, for veterinary
 bovine animals or of meat from such animals, taking            or health reasons for example, adopt measures affec­
 into account the size of each of these categories and          ting the normal trend of prices recorded on their
 the relative size of the bovine herd of each Member            markets, the Commission may disregard the prices
 State ;                                                         recorded on the market or markets in question , or use
                                                                the latest prices recorded on the market or markets in
                                                                question before the entry into force of such measures ;
 Whereas the prices of adult bovine animals recorded
 on the representative market or markets of each
 Member State are equal to the average, weighted by
                                                                Whereas, in the absence of information, prices
                                                                recorded on representative Community markets are
 the relevant coefficients, of the prices for the various
                                                                determined mainly by reference to the most recently
 qualities of adult bovine animals or meat of such              recorded prices ;
 animals over a period of seven days in that Member
 State at a particular wholesale marketing stage ;
whereas, for the 1984/85 marketing year, the price of           Whereas, for such period as the price of adult bovine
 adult bovine animals recorded on the representative            animals recorded on representative Community
market or markets of the United Kingdom shall be                markets differs by less than 0,24 ECU per 100 kilo­
 corrected by the amount of the premium granted to              grams of live weight from the price previously used,
 producers under Regulation (EEC) No 1063/84 (');               the latter is retained ;
whereas the representative markets, categories and
qualities of products and weighting coefficients are            Whereas the levies must be so fixed that obligations
 fixed in Annex II to Commission Regulation (EEC)               arising from international agreements concluded by
 No 610 / 77 of 18 March 1977 on the determination of
                                                                the Community continue to be fulfilled ;
prices of adult bovine animals on representative
 Community markets and the survey of prices of
                                                                Whereas the various cuts of frozen meat are defined in
certain other cattle in the Community (2), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 20 1 9/84 (') ;                  Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;
Whereas, for Member States with several representative          Whereas, pursuant to Article 33 (2) of Regulation
markets, the price of each category and quality is equal        (EEC) No 805/68 , the nomenclature provided for in
to the arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each           this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
                                                                Customs Tariff ;
of those markets ; for representative markets held
several times in one period of seven days, the price of
each category and quality is equal to the arithmetic            Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of
mean of the prices recorded on each market day ;                each month and are applicable from the first Monday
whereas in respect of Italy the price of each category          of the following month ; whereas these levies may be
                                                                altered in the period between two fixings where the
(') OJ No L 105, 18 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .                           basic levy is altered, or in these case of changes in the
(2) OJ No L 77, 25 . 3 . 1977, p. 1 .                           prices recorded on Community representative
(') OJ No L 187, 14 . 7 . 1984, p. 48 .                         markets ;
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Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,          mation and quotations known to the Commission, the
levies should be calculated on the following basis :         levies on frozen beef and veal should be as set out in
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in          the Annex hereto,
    relation to each other at any given moment within
    a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
    their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    provided for in Article 2b (2) of Council Regula­
    tion (EEC) No 974/71 , as last amended by Regula­
    tion (EEC) No 855/84,                                                           Article 1
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of      The import levies on frozen beef and veal shall be as
    these currencies recorded over a given period in         set out in the Annex hereto .
    relation to the Community currencies referred to
    in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­
    cient ;                                                                         Article 2
Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the afore­       This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 August
mentioned Regulations, and in particular to the infor­       1984 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 25 July 1984.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                         Poul DALSAGER
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                          ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 25 July 1984 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and
                                    veal (') for the period beginning 6 August 1984
                                                                                                     (ECU / 100 kg)
                                         CCT heading No                                           Levy
                                                                                            — Net weight —
           02.01 A II b) 1                                                                      201,286
           02.01 A lib) 2                                                                       161,030 (a)
           02.01 A lib) 3                                                                       251,608
           02.01 A lib) 4 aa)                                                                   301,930
           02.01 All b) 4 bb) 11                                                                251,608 (a)
           02.01 A II b) 4 bb) 22 (b)                                                           251,608 (a)
           02.01 A II b) 4 bb) 33                                                               346,212 (a)
            (') In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 435/80, 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 .
           (a) Where products are imported under the conditions set out in Article 14 of Council Regulation
                (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 and in provisions adopted for its application, the levy is totally
                or partially suspended in accordance with those 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.