CELEX: 31983R1252
Language: en
Date: 1983-05-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1252/83 of 20 May 1983 fixing the import levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and goatmeat other than frozen meat

21 . 5 . 83                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 133/23
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1252/83
                                                        of 20 May 1983
              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
                                                                  and offer prices which, in view of general price move­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      ments or other information available, may be consi­
 1837/80 of 27 June 1980 on the common organization               dered not to be representative of actual price trends in
of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('), as last              the country of origin are to be disregarded ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 195/82 (2), and in
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 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1218/83 (3) for the
 1983/84 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
                                                                  certain non-member countries ;
recorded over the period from the 21st day of the
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 central rate,
(2) OJ   No L 140 , 20 . 5. 1982, p. 22.
(3  OJ   No L 132,  21 . 5. 1983, p. 18 .                         — 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 23 May 1983.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
              Done at Brussels, 20 May 1983 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      Poul DALSAGER
                                                                Member of the Commission
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                                                           ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 20 May 1983 fixing the import levies on live sheep and
                          goats and on sheepmeat and goatmeat other than frozen meat
                                                                                                 (ECU/100 kg)
                             CCT                            Week No 8                   Week No 9
                         heading No                   from 23 to 29 May 1982   from 30 May to 5 June 1983
            01.04 B                                           96,594 (')                 95,043 (')
            02.01 A IV a) 1                                 205,520 (2)                 202,220 (2)
                           2                                 143,864 (2)                141,554 (2)
                           3                                226,072 (2)                 222,442 (2)
                           4                                276,176 (2)                 262,886 (2)
                           5 aa)                            267,176 (2)                 262,886 (2)
                             bb)                            374,046 (2)                 368,040 (2)
            02.06 C II a) 1                                 267,176                     262,886
                           2                                374,046                     368,040
            (') The levy applicable is limited in the conditions laid down in Council Regulations (EEC) No
                3019/81 and (EEC) No 3459/82 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 19/82.
            (2) The levy applicable is limited to the amount bound under GATT or in the conditions laid down
                in Council Regulations (EEC) No 3019/81 , (EEC) No 1985/82 and (EEC) No 3459/82 and
                Commission Regulation (EEC) No 19/82.