CELEX: 31974R1444
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-10 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1444/74 of the Commission of 10 June 1974 fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 12 June 1974

11 . 6 . 74                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 154/7
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1444/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 10 June 1974
               fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 12 June 1974
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   whereas, to the extent necessary to allow this trade to
COMMUNITIES,                                                      continue, the refund must be fixed at an amount
                                                                 which will cover the difference between prices on the
                                                                 Swiss market and export prices in the Member States ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;
                                                                 Whereas, in the case of the preserved meats set out in
Having regard - to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
805/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                1082/68 (5) of 26 July 1968 fixing coefficients
tion of the market in beef and veal, as last amended              expressing the meat content of preserved meats manu­
by Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2), and in particular              factured from frozen meat, as amended by Regulation
the first sentence of Article 1 8 (5) thereof ;                  (EEC) No 207/70 (6), which contain 40 % or more of
                                                                  meat, Community participation in international trade
                                                                  may be ensured by granting a refund which takes
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                      account of the refund hitherto granted to exporters ;
Committee ;
                                                                 Whereas, in the case of other beef and veal products, a
Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                  refund need not be fixed since Community participa­
provides that the difference between prices on the                tion in world trade in these products is not signifi­
world market and prices within the Community for                  cant ;
the products listed in Article 1 of that Regulation may
be covered by an export refund ;
                                                                 Whereas Article 92 of the Act (7) annexed to the
                                                                 Treaty (8) concerning the Accession of new Member
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 (3) of                 States to the European Economic Community and the
28 June 1968 lays down general rules for granting                 European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brus­
export refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of              sels on 22 January 1972, provides that the refund on
such refunds ;
                                                                  exports from the new Member States for the products
                                                                  specified in Article 1 (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC)
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and                  No 805/68 shall be corrected by the amount of the
criteria to the foreseeable situation on the market in            difference between the customs duties on the products
beef and veal that the refund should be fixed as indi­            from which these products are produced ;
cated below ;
                                                                  Whereas if the refund system is to operate normally,
Whereas the present market situation in the Commu­                refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
nity and the setting possibilities, particularly in certain
third countries, leads to granting an export refund for          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
live domestic animals of the bovine species for the                   relation to each other, at any given moment,
export of certain fresh or chilled meats shown in the                 within a band of 2*25 % , a rate of exchange based
Annex under heading No ex 02.01 A II a) 1 and for                     on their effective parity ;
the export to certain destinations, of certain frozen
meats shown in the Annex under heading No ex                     — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
02.01 A II a) 2 ; whereas , for products the subject                  arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
matter of the tender referred to in Regulation (EEC)                  of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
No 873/74 (4) the special conditions of sale do not                   relation to the Community currencies referred to
render ilecessary the granting of a refund ;                          in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas, in the case of edible meat of domestic                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
bovine animals, boned or boneless, salted and dried,              are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
there are traditional trade flows to Switzerland ;                ment Committee for Beef and Veal,
(') OJ   No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24.                         (5) OJ  No  L 181 , 27. 7. 1968, p. 9 .
(2) OJ   No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 23.                           (6) OJ  No  L 28 , 5 . 2. 1970, p. 10 .
(») OJ   No L 156, 4. 7. 1968, p. 2.                             (7) OJ  No  L 73, 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(4) OJ   No L 101 , 11 . 4. 1974, p. 50 .                        (8) OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : x                            805/68 is granted and the amount of that refund is
                                                           fixed as shown in the Annex.
                      Article 1                                                    Article 2
The list of products on which the export refund            This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 June
referred to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No           1974.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 10 June 1974.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                        The President
                                                                   Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
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                                                                ANNEX
    CCT heading No                               Description of goods                 Refund in u.a./100 kg
                                                                                                            »
                                                                                          Live weight
    01.02 A II           Live domestic animals of the bovine species, other than
                         pure-bred breeding animals                                        25-00 i1 )
                                                                                           Net weight
ex 02.01 A II a) 1       Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, fresh or chilled :
               aa)       Of veal :
                    11 . Carcases and half-carcases                                         48-00 (*)
      22. and ex 33 .    Unseparated or separated forequarters, with a respective
                         minimum of four pairs of ribs or four ribs and a
                         respective maximum of thirteen pairs of ribs or thirteen
                         ribs, with or without the thin flank, the ribs can be whole
                         or cut                                                             38-00 i 1 )
               ex 33 .   Unseparated or separated hindquarters, excluding unsepa­
                         rated or separated forequarters with respectively more
                         than eight pairs of whole or cut ribs or more than eight
                         whole or cut ribs                                                  57-00 i1 )
               bb)       Of adult animals :
                    11 . Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quarters                  48-00 (»)
     22. and ex 33 .     Forequarters, with a minimum of four and a maximum
                         of thirteen whole or cut ribs, with or without the thin
                         flanks                                                             38-00 (1)
               ex 33 .   Hindquarters, excluding the forequarter with more than
                         ten whole or cut ribs                                              57-00 (l)
                cc)      Other cuts of beef and veal :
                    11 . Unboned (bone-in)                                                  38-00 H
               ex 22 .   Boned or boneless, coming from the hindquarters' cuts,
                         without the thin flanks anid the shin, packaged separa­
                         tely                                                               60-00 (»)
ex 02.01 A Ilia ) 2      Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, frozen :
                aa)       Carcases, half-carcases and 'compensated' quarters :
                         — for export to European third countries, to Jordan,
                              to third countries on the Mediterranean or on the
                              Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian
 ■
                              Peninsula and for the provision of sea-going vessels
                              or aircraft of armed forces stationed on the territory
                              of a Member State other than that of their flag               48-00 C1 )
 bb) and ex cc)          Forequarters, with a minimum of four and a maximum
                          of thirteen whole or cut ribs, with or without the thin
                         flanks, excluding forequarters tendered for under Regu­
                         lation (EEC) No 873/74 :
                         — for export to European third countries, to Jordan,
                              to third countries on the Mediterranean or on the
                              Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian
                              Peninsula and for the provision of sea-going vessels
                              or aircraft of armed forces stationed on the territory
                              of a Member State other than that of their flag               38-00 (')
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                                                                                                       Refund in u. a./100 kg
     CCT heading No                                Description of goods                                     Net weight
              ex cc)      Hindquarters, excluding the forequarter with more than
                          ten whole or cut ribs
                          — for export to European third countries, to Jordan,
                               to third countries on the Mediterranean or on the
                              Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian
                               Peninsula and for the provision of sea-going vessels
                               or aircraft of armed forces stationed on the territory
                              of a Member State other than that of their flag                                57-00 H
                 dd)      Others :
                     11 . Unboned (bone-in) :
                          — for export to European third countries, to Jordan, to
                              third countries on the Mediterranean or on the Per­
                              sian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian Peninsula
                              and for the provision of sea-going vessels or aircraft of
                              armed forces stationed on the territory of a Member
                              State other than that of their flag                                            38-00 ( x)
                ex 22 .   Boned or boneless, excluding the chaps and the offals :
                          — for export to the United States of America                                       65-00 (')
                          — packaged separately, for export to European third
                              countries, to Jordan, to third countries on the Me­
                              diterranean or on the Persian Gulf, to third countries
                              of the Arabian Peninsula and for the provision of
                              sea-going vessels or aircraft or armed forces stationed
                              on the territory of a Member State other than that of
                              their flag                                                                     56-00 C)
ex 02.06 C I a) 2         Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, boned or
                          boneless, salted and dried :
                          — for export to Switzerland                                                        25-00 i1 ) -
                                                                                                       United
                                                                                           Ireland                 Other Member State·
                                                                                                      Kingdom
ex 16.02 B III b) 1       Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal, other,
                          containing (bovine meat or offal but excluding those
                          containing meat or offals of domestic swine :
                          — preserves, other than homogenized, containing the
                              following percentages of bovine meat :
                              1 . 80 °/o ore imore . of meat, excluding offal ¡and fat      10-31       7-05                18-75
                             2. 60 % or more ibut less than 80 % of meat, exclu­
                                  ding offal and fat                                         6-19      4-23                 11-25
                             3 . 40 % or more but less than 60 °/o of meat,
                                  excluding offal and fat                                    4-12      2-82                  7-50'
(') For Ireland and the United Kingdom the refund fixed above must be reduced by the compensatory amount pursuant to Article 12 (1) of
   Regulation (EEC) No 181/73 (OJ No L 25, 30. 1. 1973, p. 9).
N .B. : Whereas 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.