CELEX: 31986R0925
Language: en
Date: 1986-03-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 925/86 of 26 March 1986 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

27. 3 . 86                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 84/29
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 925/86
                                                           of 26 March 1986
                                         fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            (b) 50 % where the market price is more than 102 % and
                                                                            less than or equal to 1 04 % of the guide price ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 (c) 25 % where the market price is more than 104 % and
Economic Community,                                                         less than 106% of the guide price ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                     (d) 0 % where the market price is more than 106 % of
Portugal,                                                                   the guide price ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of                 Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine
27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market                  animals on representative Community markets is equal to
in beef and veal ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)              or less than the guide price, the levy applicable equals the
No 3768/85 (2), and in particular Article 12 (8) thereof,              following percentage of the basic levy :
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,                (a) 100 % where the market price is more than or equal
                                                                            to 98 % of the guide price ;
Whereas under Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                  (b) 105 % where the market price is less than 98 % and
a levy is applicable to the products specified in Article 1                 more than or equal to 96 % of the guide price ;
( 1 ) (a) of that Regulation ; whereas Article 12 fixes the            (c) 110 % where the market price is less than 96 % and
amount of the levy applicable by reference to a percen­                     more than or equal to 90 % of the guide price ;
tage of the basic levy ;
                                                                       (d) 114 % where the market price is less than 90 % of
Whereas, in respect of the types of frozen meat listed in                   the guide price ;
section (b) of the Annex to the said Regulation under
subheading 02.01 A II b) 1 , the basic levy is determined              Whereas the guide prices for adult bovine animals to be
on the basis of the difference between :                               applied from 27 May 1985 have been fixed by Council
                                                                       Regulation (EEC) No 1308/85 of 23 May 1985 0 as
— the guide price multiplied by a coefficient represen­                extended by Regulation (EEC) No 915/86 (6);
      ting the ratio existing in the Community between the
      price of fresh meat of a category competitive with the           Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price for
      frozen meat in question, presented in the same form,             frozen meat is determined by reference to the world
      and the average price of adult bovine animals, and               market price based on the most representative purchasing
— the Community free-at-frontier offer price for frozen                possibilities, as regards quality and quantity, recorded over
      meat, plus the amount of the customs duty and a stan­            a certain period preceding the fixing of the basic levy,
      dard amount representing the specific costs of the               taking into account in particular :
      import operations ;                                              — foreseeable developments on the market in frozen
                                                                            meat,   ,
Whereas, by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 of
18 March 1977 laying down rules for the application of                 — the most representative prices on third country
the levies on beef and veal and amending Regulation                         markets for fresh and chilled meat of a category which
(EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff (3), as                        is competitive with frozen meat,
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 31 14/83 (4), the                  — past experience ;
abovementioned coefficient, calculated in accordance with
the rules laid down in Article 11 (2) (a) of Regulation                Whereas the basic levy on the types of frozen meat listed
(EEC) No 805/68, has been fixed at 1 -69 units of account              in section (b) of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No
and the standard amount referred to in Article 11 (2) (b)              805/68 under subheadings 02.01 A II b) 2 to 4 is equal to
of the said Regulation has been fixed at 6,65 ECU ;                    the basic levy fixed for the product falling within subhea­
                                                                       ding 02.01 A II b) 1 , multiplied by a standard coefficient
Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine                 fixed for each of the products in question ; whereas these
animals on representative Community markets is higher                  coefficients were fixed in Annex II to Regulation (EEC)
than the guide price, the levy applicable equals the follo­            No 586/77 ;
wing percentage of the basic levy :
(a) 75 % where the market price is less than or equal to               Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the free-at-frontier
      1 02 % of the guide price ;                                      offer prices, offer prices that do not correspond to real
                                                                       purchasing possibilities or that relate to unrepresentative
                                                                       quantities should not be taken into account ; whereas
(')  OJ   No L  148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24.
(2)  OJ   No L  362, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 8 .
(3)  OJ   No L  75, 23 . 3 . 1977, p. 10.                              0 OJ No L 137, 27. 5. 1985, p. 16.
(4)  OJ   No L  303, 5. 11 . 1983, p. 16.                              (6) See page 2 of this Official Journal.
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offer prices should also be excluded when the movement             markets within that zone ; whereas in respect of the
of prices in general or the information available gives            United Kingdom the weighted average prices of adult
reason to believe that they are unrepresentative of the true       bovine animals recorded on the representative markets of
trend of prices in the country of origin ;                         Great Britain on the one hand and Northern Ireland on
                                                                   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           Whereas if one or more Member States, for veterinary or
tative Community markets is the price established on the           health reasons for example, adopt measures affecting the
basis of prices recorded over a period to be determined on         normal trend of prices recorded on their markets, the
the representative market or markets of each Member                Commission may disregard the prices recorded on the
State for the various categories of adult bovine animals or        market or markets in question, or use the latest prices
of meat from such animals, taking into account the size of         recorded on the market or markets in question before the
each of these categories and the relative size of the bovine       entry into force of such measures ;
herd of each Member State ;
                                                                   Whereas, in the absence of information, prices recorded
                                                                   on representative Community markets are determined
Whereas the prices of adult bovine animals recorded on             mainly by reference to the most recently recorded prices ;
the representative market or markets of each Member
State are equal to the average, weighted by the relevant
coefficients, of the prices for the various qualities of adult     Whereas, for such period as the price of adult bovine
bovine animals or meat of such animals over a period of            animals recorded on representative Community markets
seven days in that Member State at a particular wholesale          differs by less than 0,24 ECU per 100 kilograms of live
marketing stage ; whereas, until 6 April 1986, the price of        weight from the price previously used, the latter is
                                                                   retained ;
adult bovine animals recorded on the representative
market or markets of the United Kingdom shall be
corrected by the amount of the premium granted to                  Whereas the levies must be so fixed that obligations
producers under Regulation (EEC) No 1311 /85 0 ;                   arising from international agreements concluded by the
whereas the representative markets, categories and quali­          Community continue to be fulfilled ;
ties of products and weighting coefficients are fixed in
Annex II to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 610/77 of
 18 March 1977 on the determination of prices of adult             Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 (4),
bovine animals on representative Community markets                 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 692/86 (*), lays down
and the survey of prices of certain other cattle in the            the arrangements applicable on agricultural products and
Community (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No              certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
3815/85 (3) ;                                                      products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
                                                                   States or in the overseas countries and territories ;
                                                                   Whereas the various cuts of frozen meat are defined in
Whereas, for Member States with several representative
                                                                   Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;
 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, pursuant to Article 33 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
 times in one period of seven days, the price of each cate­         No 805/68 , the nomenclature provided for in this Regula­
gory and quality is equal to the arithmetic mean of the             tion is incorporated in the Common Customs Tariff ;
 prices recorded on each market day ; whereas in respect of
 Italy the price of each category and quality is equal to the      Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of each
 average, weighted by the special weighting coefficients            month and are applicable from the first Monday of the
 fixed in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 610/77, of the
 prices recorded in the surplus and deficit zones ; whereas         following month ; whereas these levies may be altered in
 the price recorded in the surplus zone is equal to the             the period between two fixings where the basic levy is
 arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each of the              altered, or in these case of changes in the prices recorded
                                                                    on Community representative markets ;
 (') OJ No L 137, 27. 5. 1985, p. 20.
 (2) OJ No L 77, 25. 3. 1977, p. 1 .                                (4) OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3. 1985, p. 4.
  3) OJ No L 368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 11 .                            0 OJ No L 63, 5. 3 . 1986.
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Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies          frozen beef and veal should be as set out in the Annex
should be calculated on the following basis :                       hereto,
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band
     of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
     the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
     No 1676/85 0),
                                                                                            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 set
     these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­         out in the Annex hereto .
     tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
     previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient,
Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the aforemen­                                   Article 2
tioned Regulations, and in particular to the information
and quotations known to the Commission, the levies on               This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 April 1986.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                   Done at Brussels, 26 March 1986 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                Vice-President
(') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
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                                                          ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 26 March 1986 fixing the import levies on frozen beef
                                                        and veal (')
                                                                                                     (ECU / 100 kg)
                                         CCT heading No                                           Levy
                                                                                            — Net weight —
           02.01  A II b) 1                                                                   224,619
           02.01  A II b) 2                                                                    179,695 (a)
           02.01  A lib) 3                                                                    280,774
           02.01  A II b) 4 aa)                                                               336,928
           02.01  All b)4bb) 11                                                                280,774 (a)
           02.01  A II b) 4 bb) 22 (b)                                                         280,774 (a)
           02.01  A II b) 4 bb) 33                                                             386,344 (a)
           (') 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.
           (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.