CELEX: 31981R0925
Language: en
Date: 1981-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 925/81 of 3 April 1981 fixing the import levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and goatmeat other than frozen meat

6 . 4 . 81                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 93/ 35
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 925 /81
                                                         of 3 April 1981
              fixing the import levies on live sheep and goats on sheepmeat and goatmeat
                                                    other than frozen meat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     customs documents which           accompany products
COMMUNITIES,                                                       imported from non-member countries or on other
                                                                   information concerning the export prices applied by
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              those non-member countries ; whereas offer prices
Economic Community,                                                which do not correspond to actual purchasing possi­
                                                                   bilities or which relate to unrepresentative quantities
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       and offer prices which, in view of general price move­
1837/80 of 27 June 1980 on the common organization                 ments or other information available, may be consi­
of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('), as                    dered not to be representative of actual price trends in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 899/81 (2), and in                  the country of origin are to be disregarded ;
particular the first paragraph of Article 1 1 thereof,
                                                                   Whereas a special levy may be fixed for products origi­
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       nating in or coming from one or more non-member
Committee,
                                                                   countries if exports of the said products are made at
                                                                   abnormally low prices ;
Whereas, under Article 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
1837/80, a levy is applicable to the products specified
in Article 1 (a) of that Regulation ;                              Whereas the levy on live animals within subheading
                                                                   01.04 B and on the meat falling within subheadings
Whereas the levy on products falling within subhead­               02.01 A IV a) 2, 3, 4 and 5 and 02.06 C II a) listed in
ing 02.01 A IV a) 1 listed in Annex I to Regulation                Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is to be
(EEC) No 1837/80 is to be equal to the difference                  equal to the levy determined for carcases, multiplied
between the seasonally-adjusted basic price and the                by a standard coefficient fixed for each of the products
Community free-at-frontier offer price ;                           in question ; whereas these coefficients are fixed in
                                                                   Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2668 / 80 ;
Whereas the seasonally-adjusted basic price is fixed in
Article 32 of Regulation (EEC) No 900/ 81 (3) for the
1981 /82 marketing year ;                                          Whereas the levies should be so fixed that the obliga­
                                                                   tions arising from international agreements concluded
Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price is              by the Community continue to be fulfilled ; whereas,
determined in the light of the most representative                 moreover, account should be taken of the voluntary
purchasing possibilities, as regard quality and quantity,          restraint arrangements made by the Community with
recorded over the period from the 21st day of the                  certain non-member countries ;
preceding month to the 20th day of the month during
which the levies are determined, taking particular
account of the supply and demand situation for fresh               Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of
or chilled meat, the world market price for frozen                  each month for each week during the following
meat of a category which is competitive with fresh or               month ; whereas they are applicable from Monday to
chilled meat and of past experience ;                               Sunday ; whereas they can be altered within that
                                                                    period if necessary ;
Whereas the free-at-frontier offer price is to be deter­
mined, if necessary, on the basis of the most represent­
ative purchasing possibilities recorded for live sheep ;            Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                    levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
No 2668 /80 (4), the free-at-frontier offer prices are to           — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
be based inter alia on the prices shown in the                          relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                        a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
(') OJ   No L 183 , 16 . 7. 1980 , p . 1 .                              their effective parity,
(2) OJ   No L 90 , 4. 4.  1981 .
(3) OJ   No L 90 , 4. 4.  1981 .                                    — in the case of other currencies, an exchange based
(4) OJ   No L 276, 20 .  10 . 1980 , p. 39 .                            on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
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    each of those currencies recorded for a given            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    period in relation to the Community currencies
    referred to in the previous indent ;                                            Article 1
                                                             The import levies on live sheep and goats and on
Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the above­       sheepmeat and goatmeat other than frozen meat shall
mentioned Regulations and, in particular, to the infor­      be as set out in the Annex hereto .
mation and quotations known to the Commission , the
levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and                                 Article 2
goatmeat other than frozen meat should be as set out
in the Annex to this Regulation ,                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 April 1981 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 3 April 1981 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                        Poul DALSAGER
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                             ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 3 April 1981 fixing the import levies on live sheep and
                              goats and on sheepmeat and goatmeat other than frozen meat
                                                                                                                    (ECU/100 kg)
                                      Week No 1                Week No 2              Week No 3              Week No 4
             CCT
                                     from 6 to 12            from 13 to 19           from 20 to 26        from 27 April to
          heading No
                                       April 1981              April 1981              April 1981            3 May 1981
01.04 B                                 59-056 (')              60-818 (')              60-672 (')              60-484 (')
02.01 A IV a) 1                        125-650 (2)             129-400 (2)             129-090 (2)            128-690 (2)
                2                       87-955 (2)              90-580 (2)              90-363 (2)              90-083 (2)
                3                      138-215 (2)             142-340 (2)             141-999 (2)            141-559 (2)
                4                      163-345 (2)             168-220 (2)             167-817 (2)            167-297 (2)
                5 aa)                  163-345 (2)             168-220 (2)             167-817 (2)            1 67-297 (2)
                  bb)                  228-683 (2)             235-508 (2)             234-944 (2)            234-216 (2)
02.06 C II a) 1                       163-345                  168-220                 167-817               167-297
                2                     228-683                  235-508                 234-944               234-216
(') The levy applicable is limited in the conditions laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2645/80 and Commission Regula­
    tions (EEC) No 3379/80, (EEC) No 3380/80, (EEC) No 3349/80 and (EEC) No 644/81 .
(2) The levy applicable is limited to the amount bound under GATT or in the conditions laid down in the voluntary restraint
    agreements or those laid down in Commission Regulations (EEC) No 3379/80, (EEC) No 3380/80, (EEC) No 3349/80, (EEC)
    No 3495/80 and (EEC) No 644/81 .