CELEX: 31988R0680
Language: en
Date: 1988-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 680/88 of 16 March 1988 fixing the export refunds on beef and veal

No L 71 /8                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                17. 3 . 88
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 680/88
                                                       of 16 March 1988
                                         fixing the export refunds on beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas Regulations (EEC) No 2908/85 ("), (EEC) No
                                                                   142/86 (12), (EEC) No 1055/87 (13), as amended by Regula­
                                                                   tion (EEC) No 1416/87 ("), and (EEC) No 381 5/87 (15) lay
                                                                   down the conditions applying to the export of certain
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              beef and veal held by certain intervention agencies and
Economic Community,                                                intended for export ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 Whereas it follows from applying these rules and criteria
Portugal,                                                          to the foreseeable situation on the market in beef and veal
                                                                   that the refund should be as set out below ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of
27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market              Whereas the current market situation in the Community
in beef and veal ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   and sales outlets, particularly in non-member countries,
No 3905/87 (2), and in particular the first sentence of
                                                                   leads * to the granting of export refunds on adult male
Article 18 (5) thereof,
                                                                   bovine animals of a live weight of at least 300 kilograms
                                                                   and other bovines of a live weight of 250 kilograms and
                                                                   over ; whereas experience gained in recent years has
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,            shown that it is advisable to treat live pedigree breeding
                                                                   animals of a weight of at least 250 kilograms for females
                                                                   and 300 kilograms for males in an identical manner to
                                                                   other bovine animals, while subjecting them to certain
Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                   special administrative formalities ;
provides that the difference between prices on the world
market for the products listed in Article 1 of that Regula­
tion and prices for those products within the Community
may be covered by an export refund ;                               Whereas it is necessary to grant refunds for the export to
                                                                   certain destinations of certain fresh or chilled meat listed
                                                                   in the Annex under heading No 0201 of the combined
                                                                   nomenclature of certain frozen meat listed in the Annex
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 of 28 June              under heading No 0202, of certain meat offal listed in the
1968 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   Annex under heading No 0206 and of certain other
427/77 (4), lays down general rules for granting export            prepared or preserved meat or meat offal listed in the
refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of such                 Annex under subheadings 1602 50 10 and 1602 90 61 ;
refunds ;
                                                                   Whereas, in view of the wide differences in products
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 32/82 (*), as last amended             falling within subheadings 0201 20 90 700 and
by Regulation (EEC) No 3169/87 (^ and Regulations                   0202 20 90 100 used for refunds, the refund should only
(EEC) No 1964/82 0, (EEC) No 74/84 (% as amended by                be granted for cuts in which the weight of bone does not
Regulation (EEC) No 3169/87, and (EEC) No 2388/84 f),               exceed one-third ;
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3425/86 (I0), lay
down the conditions for granting special export refunds
for certain cuts of beef/veal and certain preserved beef
and veal products ;                                                Whereas refunds should also be granted for fresh or
                                                                    frozen boned or boneless pieces, even where each piece is
(>) OJ NQ  L  148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 24.                             not individually wrapped, and for minced meat, and the
0   OJ No  L  370, 30. 12. 1987, p. 7.                             wording of the tariff subheading for fresh boned or bone­
(3) OJ No  L  156, 4. 7. 1968, p. 2.                                less pieces specified ;
(4) OJ No  L  61 , 5. 3. 1977, p. 16.
    OT No L 4. 8 . 1 . 1982. n. 11 .
(«) OJ No L 301 , 24. 10 . 1987, p. 21 .                           (")   OJ No  L 279, 19. 10. 1985, p. 18.
0 OJ No L 212, 21 . 7. 1982, p. 48 .                                (,2) OJ No  L 19, 25. 1 . 1986, p. 8.
(•) OJ No L 10, 13. 1 . 1984, p. 32.                                (13) OJ No  L 103, 15. 4. 1987, p. 10.
0 OJ No L 221 , 18 . 8. 1984, p. 28 .                               (")  OJ No  L 135, 23. 5. 1987, p. 18 .
H OJ No L 316, 11 . 11 . 1986, p. 9.                                H    OJ No  L 357, 19. 12. 1987, p. 24.
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Whereas^ in the case of meat of bovine animals, boned or          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
boneless, salted and dried, there arie traditional trade flows         tion to each other at any given moment within a band
to Switzerland ; whereas, to the extent necessary to allow             of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
this trade to continue, the refund must be fixed at an                 rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
amount which will cover the difference between prices on               the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
the Swiss market and export prices in the Member States ;              tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (3), as last amended by Regula­
whereas there are possibilities for exporting such meat                tion (EEC) No 1636/87 (4),
and salted and dried meat to certain African, Near and
                                                                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Middle East third countries ; whereas account should be
taken of this situation and refund should be fixed accor­
                                                                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
                                                                       these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
dingly ;                                                               tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
Whereas, in the case of certain other cuts and preserves of            previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
meat or offals shown in the Annex under subheadings
 1 602 50 90 and 1 602 90 69, Community participation in          Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
international trade may be ensured by granting a refund           in accordance with the opinion of the Management
which takes account of the refund hitherto granted to             Committee for Beef and Veal,
exporters ;
Whereas a review of the 'situation' has shown that refunds
should be reintroduced for certain products in the beef
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and veal sector for exports to Lebanon and that they
should be fixed at the same levels as for European third
countries ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas, in the case of other beef and veal products, a
refund need not be fixed since Community participation
in world trade in these products is not significant ;             The list of products on which the export refund referred
                                                                  to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 is granted
Whereas, following the introduction of the combined                and the amount of that refund shall be as set out in the
nomenclature by Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Annex hereto.
2658/87 ('), the nomenclature applicable from 1 January
 1988 to export refunds on agricultural products was esta­
blished by Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (2) ;                                                 Article 2
Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :              This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 March 1988 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 16 March 1988 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                 Vice-President
(') OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .                                0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 366, 24. 12. 1987, p. 1 .                              (4) OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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                                                           ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 16 March 1988 . fixing the export refunds on beef and veal
                                                                                                 (ECU/100 kg)
                          Product code                    Destination (')         Amount of refund (')
                                                                                   — Live , weight —
               0102 10 00 190                                  01                        96,00
               0102 10 00 390                                  01                        96,00
               0102 90 31 900                                  02                        68,50
                                                               03                        68,50
                                                               04                        55,50
                                                               05                        55,50
                                                               06                        25,50
               0102 90 33 900                                  02                        68,50
                                                               03                        68,50
                                                               04                        55,50
             \                                                 05                        55,50
                                                               06                        25,50
               0102 90 35 900                                  02                        80,00
                                                               03                        80,00
                                                               04                        65,00
                                                               05                        65,00
                                                               06                        30,50
               0102 90 37 900                                  02                        80,00
                                                               03                        80,00
                                                               04                        65,00
                                                               05                        65,00
                                                               06                        30,50
                                                                                   — Net weight —
               0201 10 10 100                                  02                        79,50
                                                               03                        73,50
                                                               04                        65,00
                                                               05                        65,00
                                                               06                        32,50
               0201 10 10 900                                  02                      107,50
                                                               03                      101,50
             l                                                 04                        88,00
                                                               05                        88,00
                                                               06                        44,00
               0201 10 90 llO (')                              02                      112,00
                                                               03                      106,00
                                                               04                        84,50
                                                               05                        84,50
             l                                                 06                        42,50
               0201 10 90 190                                  02                        79,50
                                                               03                        73,50
                                                               04                        65,00
             I                                                 05                        65,00
                                                               06                        32,50
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                                                                                           (ECU/100 kg)
                       Product code                    Destination (®)       Amount of refund 0
          I                                   I                               — Net weight —
            0201 10 90 910 (')                              02                    152,50
          l                                                 03                    146,50
          I                                                 04                    115,00
                                                            05                    115,00
          1                                                 06                     57,50
            0201 10 90 990                                  02                    107,50
                                                            03                    101,50
                                                            04                     88,00
                                                            05                     88,00
                                                            06                     44,00
            0201 20 11 000                                  02                    107,50
                                                            03                    101,50
                                                            04                     88,00
                                                            05                     88,00
                                                            06                     44,00
            0201 20 19 100 (')                              02                    152,50
                                                            03                    146,50
                                                            04                    115,00
                                                            05                    115,00
                                                            06                     57,50
            0201 20 19 900                                  02                    107,50
                                                            03                    101,50
          l                                                 04                     88,00
          l                                                 05                     88,00
          l                                                 06                     44,00
            0201 20 31 000                                  02                     79,50
                                                            03                     73,50
          l                                                 04                     65,00
          l                                                 05                     65,00
                                                            06                     32,50
            0201 20 39 100 (')                              02                    112,00
                                                            03                    106,00
                                                            04                     85,00
                                                            05                     85,00
          \                                                 06                     42,50
            0201 20 39 900                                  02                     79,50
                                                            03                     73,50
                                                            04                     65,00
                                                            05                     65,00
                                                            06                     32,50
            0201 20 51 100                                  02                    135,50
          \                                                 03                    129,00
                                                            04                    110,50
          l                                                 05                    110,50
          I                                                 06                     56,00
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                                                                                             (ECU/100 kg)
                         Product code                    Destination (")       Amount of refund 0
                                                                                — Net weight —
               0201 20 51 900                                  02                    79,50
                                                               03                    73,50
                                                               04                    65,00
                                                               05                    65,00
             \                                                 06                    32,50
               0201 20 59 110 (')                              02                   192,50
                                                               03                   186,50
             l                                                 04                   146,00
                                                               05                   146,00
             l                                                 06                    73,00
               0201 20 59 190                                  02                   135,50
                                                               03                   129,00
             l                                                 04                   110,50
                                                               05    ,              110,50
                                                               06                    56,00
               0201 20 59 9100                                 02                   112,00
                                                               03                   106,00
                                                               04                    84,50
                                                               05                    84,50
                                                               06                    42,50
               0201 20 59 990                                  02                    79,50
                                                               03                    73,50
                                                               04                    65,00
                                                               05                    65,00
                                                               06                    32,50
               0201 20 90 100 (2)                              02                   152,50
             \                                                -03                   146,50
             l                                                 04                   115,00
                                                               05                 " 115,00
                                                               06   >                57,50
               0201 20 90 300 0                                02                   112,00
             l                                                 03                   106,00
                                                               04                    84,50
             l                                                 05                    84,50
                                                               06                    42,50
               0201 20 90 500 (2)                              02                   192,50
             l                                                 03                   186,50
                                                               04                   146,00
             l                                                 05                   146,00
                                                               06                    73,00
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                                                                                          (ECU/100 kg)
                       Product code                    Destination (®)       Amount of refundf)
                                                                              — Net weight —
             0201 20 90 700                                 02                     79,50
                                                            03                     73,50
                                                            04                     65,00
                                                            05                     65,00
                                                            06                     32,50
             0201 30 00 050 0                               07                    100,00
             0201 30 00 100 0                               02                    275,00
           l                                                03                    266,50
                                                            04                    208,50
                                                            05                    208,50
           \                                                06                    104,50
           l                                                08                    266,50
             0201 30 00 130                                 02                    153,50
           \                                                03                    144,50
                                                            04                    125,00
                                                            05                    125,00
                                                            06                     62,50
                                                            08                    144,50
                                                            09                     90,00
             0201 30 00 190 0                               02                    109,50
                                                            03                    102,50
                                                            04                     84,00
                                                            05                     84,00
                                                            06                     42,00
                                                            08                    102,50
                                                            09                     90,00
                                                            02
             0202 10 00 100           ^                                            72,50
                                                            03                     66,50
           I                                                04                     66,50
                                                            05                     66,50
                                                            06                     32,00
             0202 10 00 900                                 02                     95,50
                                                            03                     89,50
                                                            04                     89,50
                                                            05                     89,50
                                                            06                     43,00
             0202 20 10 000                                 02                     95,50
                                                            03                     89,50
           \                                                04                     89,50
                                                            05                     89,50
           \                                                06                     43,00
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                                                                                              (ECU/100 kg)
                          Product code                    Destination (8)       Amount ol refund 0
                                                                                 !— Net weight —
               0202 20 30 000                                  02                       72,50
                                                               03                       66,50
                                                               04                       66,50
                                                               05                       66,50
                                                               06                       32,00
               0202 20 50 100                                  02                      118,50
                                                               03                      112,50
                                                               04                      112,50
                                                               05                    • 112,50
                                                               06                       53,50
               0202 20 50 900                                  02                       72,50
                                                               03                       66,50
                                                               04                       66,50
             \                                                 05                       66,50
                                                               06                       32,00
               0202 20 90 100                                  02                       72,50
             l                                                 03                       66,50
                                                               04                       66,50
             \                                                 05                       66,50
             l                                                 06                       32,00
               0202 30 90 100 0                                07                      100,00
               0202 30 90 300                                  02                      171,50
                                                               03                      163,00
             l                                                 04                  .   163,00
                                                               05                      163,00
                                                               06                       77,50
                                                               08                      163,00
               0202 30 90 500 f)                               02                      109,50
                                                               03                      102,50
             \                                                 04                       84,00
                                                               05                       84,00
                                                               06                       42,00
             \                                                 08                      102,50
                                                               09                       90,00
               0202 30 90 900                                  09                       90,00
               0206 10 95 000                                  02                      109,50
             l                                                 03                      102,50
                                                               04                       84,00
                                                               05                       84,00
             l                                                 06                       42,00
                                                               08                      102,50
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                                                                                          (ECU/100 kg)
                      Product code                    Destination 0         Amount of refund f)
                                                                             — Net weight —
            0206 29 91 000                                 02                    109,50
                                                           03                    102,50
                                                           04                      84,00
                                                           05                      84,00
          \                                                06                      42,00
                                                           08                    102,50
            0210 20 90 100                                  10                   102,50
                                                            11                     60,50
            0210 20 90 300                                 02                    102,50
          \                                                03                    102,50
            0210 20 90 500 (")                             02                    102,50
          \                                                03                    102,50
            1602 50 10 110                                 02                    115,50
                                                           03                    108,00
          l                                                04                    108,00
                                                           05                    108,00
                                                           06                    108,00
            1602 50 10 130                                 02                    102,50
                                                           03                      96,00
                                                           04                      96,00
                                                           05                      96,00
                                                           06                      96,00
            1602 50 10 150                                 02                      77,00
                                                           03                      77,00
                                                           04                      77,00
          \                                                05                      77,00
          \                                                06                      77,00
            1602 50 10 170                                 02                      51,00
                                                           03                      51,00
                                                           04                      51,00
                                                           05                      51,00
                                                           06                      51,00
            1602 50 90 110                                 01                    1 1 6,00
            1602 50 90 190                                 01                      73,00
            1602 50 90 310                                 01                    103,00 0
            1602 50 90 390                                 01                      65,00
            1602 50 90 510                                 01                      77,00 0
            1602 50 90 590                                 01                      48,50
            1602 50 90 700                                 01                      32,50
            1602 50 90 800                                 01                      16,00
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                                                                                                                      (ECU/100 kg)
                              Product code                         Destination (®)                    Amount of refund Q
                                                       I                                               — Net weight —
               1602 90 61 110                                           02                                     51,00
             \                                                          03                                     51,00
             l                                                          04                                     51,00
                                                                        05                                     51,00
                                                                        06                                     51,00
               1602 90 69 100                                           01                                     32,50
               1602 90 69 500                                           01                                     16,00
               (') Entry under this subheading is subject to the submission of the certificate appearing in the Annex to Commis­
                   sion Regulation (EEC) No 32/82 (OJ No L 4, 8. 1 . 1982, p. 11).
               (*) Entry under this subheading is subject to compliance with the conditions laid down in Commission Regulation
                   (EEC) No 74/84 (OJ No L 10, 13. 1 . 1984, p. 32.).
               (3) Entry under this subheading is subject to compliance with the conditions laid down in Commission Regulation
                   (EEC) No 1964/82 (OJ No L 212, 21 . 7. 1982, p. 48).
               (4) The refund on beef in brine is granted on the net weight of the meat, after deduction of the weight of the brine.
               0 OJ No L 336, 29. 12. 1979, p. 44.
               0 OJ No L 221 , 18. 8. 1984, p. 28 .
               O The lean bovine meat content excluding fat is determined in accordance with the procedure described in the
                   Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2429/86 (OJ No L 210, 1 . 8. 1986, p. 39.).
               0 The destinations are as follows :
                   01 Third countries .
                   02 North African, Near and Middle East third countries, except Lebanon.
                   03 West, Central, East and South African third countries, except Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland and
                       Zimbabwe.
                   04 Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, North Korea and Hong
                       Kong.
                   05 European third countries, the Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, Lebanon and Greenland, and the destinations
                       referred to in Article 34 of Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87 (OJ No L 351 , 14. 12. 1987, p. 1), except Austria,
                       Sweden and Switzerland.
                   06 Austria, Sweden and Switzerland.
                   07 The United States of America, carried out in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2973/79.
                   08 French Polynesia and New Caledonia.
                   09 Canada.
                   10 North, West, Central, East and South African third countries, except Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland
                       and Zimbabwe.
                   11 Switzerland.
               0 Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 provides that no export refunds shall be granted on products imported
                   from third countries and re-exported to third countries.
               NB : The countries are those in Regulation (EEC) No 3639/86 (OJ No L 336, 29. 11 . 1986, p. 46).