CELEX: 31973R2888
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2888/73 of the Commission of 24 October 1973 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

No L 297/ 16                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               25 . 10 . 73
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 2888/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 24 October 1973
                                            fixing 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 ( x) 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
                                                                        listed in Section (c) of the Annex to Regulation
Whereas Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
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 the 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
 (*) 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 t<3 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 should 'be fixed 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 are fixed as shown in the Annex
for frozen meat referred to in paragraph 2 of that              to this Regulation.
Article ;
                                                                                        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          — subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa),
is fixed before the 25th day of each month and is
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           — subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 dd) and 22 bbb).
intervening period if there is considerable fluctu­
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 5 Novem­
 Common Customs Tariff ;                                        ber 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
               Done at Brussels, 24 October 1973 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                      Member of the Commission
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                                                                    ANNEX
                          Levies applicable from 5 November 1973 to imports from third countries (*)
                  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 ahimals :
                                     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.