CELEX: 31973R0321
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-08
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 321/73 of the Commission of 31 January 1973 fixing the import levies on calves and adult bovine animals and on beef and veal other than frozen

No L 36/24                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                               8 . 2 . 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 321/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 31 January 1973
                 fixing the import levies on calves and adult bovine animals and on beef and veal other
                                                               than frozen
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 218/
COMMUNITIES,                                                            73 (5) of 29 January 1973 on the determination
                                                                        of the import price and the special import price for
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                      calves and adult bovine animals provides that the
pean Economic Community ;                                               import price is to be calculated in accordance with
                                                                        the method set out in Article 4 on the basis of all
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/                       the representative free-at-frontier offer prices in the
68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                       Community established for each of the categories
of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by                      and cuts specified in Article 2, and ascertained in par­
Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2), and in particular                       ticular from :
the second ' subparagraph of Article 10 (7) thereof ;
Whereas Article 10 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                         ( a) prices given in the customs documents accom­
                                                                              panying the products imported from such other
805/68 provides that, where the import price for                              third countries ;
calves or adult bovine animals, after addition of the
customs duty, is lower than ithe ' guide price, the dif­
ference between the latter price and the import price                    (b) other information concerniing the export prices
plus that addition is offset by a levy on imports of                          ruling in such other countries ;
that product ; whereas, however, such levy is to be
fixed at :
                                                                         Whereas, however, offer prices which do not corres­
                                                                         pond to actual purchasing possibilities are to be dis­
— 75 °/o of the abovementioned difference, if it is                      regarded, as are also offer prices relating to unrepre­
      found that the price of the product in question on                 sentative quantities ; whereas offer prices which,
      the representative markets of the Community is                     because of the development of prices in general or
       more (than the guide price but does not exceed                    from the information available, do not seem to be
       102 °/o of that price ;                                          representative of the actual trend of prices in the.
                                                                        exporting country should also be disregarded ;
— 50 °/o of the abovementioned difference, if it is
      found that the price of the product in question on                Whereas, where no free-at-frontier offer price can
      the representative markets of the Community is                    be recorded for one or more categories of live ani­
       more than 102 °/o of the guide price but does not                mals ox of meat, the last available price must be
      exceed 104 °/o of that price ;                                    used for the calculation ;
— 25 °/o of the abovementioned difference, if it is
       found that the price of the product in question on               Whereas, if the import price differs by less than 0-50
       the representative markets of the Community is                   unit of account per 100 kg live weight from the
      ■more than 104 % of the guide price but does not                  import price previously used to calculate the levy,
      exceed 106 °/o of that price ;                                    the latter price must be maintained ;
 — nil, if it is found that the price of the product in                 Whereas the import price must be calculated on the
       question on the representative markets of the                    first and third Thursday of each month for the pur­
       Community is more than 106 °/o of the guide                      pose of calculating the levies valid from the follow­
       price ;                                                           ing Monday ; whereas, however, if circumstances So
                                                                         require, the import price may be fixed on another
 "Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1653/72 (3)                       day of the same week ;
 of 31 July 1972, as last amended by Regulation
  (EEC) No 2823/72 (4), fixed the guide prices for
 calves and adult bovine animals valid for the                          Whereas Article 10 (5 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
  1972/73 marketing year ;                                               805/68 provides that the price recorded on the repre­
                                                                         sentative markets of the Community is derived from
  (*)  OJ  No  L  148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.
  (2)  OJ  No  L  25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 23.
  (■)  OJ  No   L 174, 1 . 8 . 1972, p. 55 .
  (<)  OJ  No   L 298, 31 . 12. 1972, p. 3 .                              (5) OJ No L 26, 31 . 1 . 1973, p. 16.
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 the prices recorded on the representative market or                 Whereas, where these quotations dio not relate to
 markets of each Member State for the various quali­                 'live weight excluding tax' prices, the quotations for
 ties — of calves, adult bovines animals or the meat                 the different qualities are to be corrected by the
 of these animals, as the case may be — after taking                 live-weight conversion coefficients laid idown in Annex
into account the relative quantity of each of such                   II to that Regulation and, in respect of Italy and the
 qualities and the relative magnitude of the bovine                  United Kingdom, are first increased or reduced by the
stock of each Member State :                                         corrective amounts laid down in that Annex ; where­
                                                                     as for Ireland the price per calf recorded on the
                                                                     representative market is to be increased by the correc­
                                                                     tive amount fixed in that Annex and subsequently
Whereas the prices for calves and adult bovine ani­                  converted back into live weight per unit of weight
mals, recorded on the representative market or mar­                  by applying the corrective coefficient fixed in that
kets of each Member State, is equal to the average,                  Annex :
weighted by coefficients, of the prices for the quali­
ties of calves, adult bovine animals and meat of
these animals formed during a period of seven days
in that Member State at a standard wholesale stage ;                 Whereas, if one or more Member States take mea­
whereas the representative markets, the qualities of                 sures, such as health protection measures, which
the products and the weightings were fixed in                        affect the normal development of quotations re­
Annex II to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 320/                       corded on their markets, the Commission may either
73 (*) of 31 January 1973 on the determination of                    disregard the quotations recorded on the market or
the prices for calves and adult bovine animals on                    markets in question or use the last quotations
the representative markets of the Community ;                        recorded on the market or markets in question
                                                                     before those measures were put into effect ;
Whereas the prices of calves and adult bovine ani­
mals so established on the market or markets of                      Whereas, where information is not available, the
each of the new Member States must be increased by                    quotations recorded on representative Community
the basic compensatory amount provided for in Art­                   markets are to be determined with particular refer­
icle 1 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No                          ence to the latest known quotations ;
181/73 (2) of 23 January 1973 laying down general
rules for the system of compensatory amounts for
beef and veal ;
                                                                     Whereas, for as long as the price recorded for
                                                                     calves and adult bovine animals on the representa­
                                                                     tive Community markets differs by less than 0-20
Whereas, where there are several representative mar­                  unit of account per 100 kg live weight from the
kets in a Member State, the price of each quality is                 price previously used, the latter price is to be main­
the average of the quotations recorded on each of                    tained;
these markets ; whereas, where in a Member State
there is a single representative market, held several
 times during the seven-day period, the price of each
 quality is to be equal to the arithmetic mean of quo­               Whereas Article 12 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No
 tations recorded at each market ; whereas, with                      805 /68 provides that if a levy is charged on
 regard to Italy, the price of each quality is the aver­             calves or adult bovine animals, a levy is also to be
 age, weighted by the special weighting coefficients                  charged on imports of the meat of calves or adult
laid down in Annex II to Regulation (EEC ) No 320/                    bovine animals as listed in Section (a) of the Annex
 73 , of the prices recorded in the surplus and deficit              to that Regulation under tariff subheadings Nos
 production areas ; whereas the price recorded in the                02.01 A II a) 1 aa) and 02.01 A II a) 1 bb ) ; where­
 surplus production area is equal to the average of the               as this levy is equal to the levy charged on calves
 quotations recorded on each of the markets within                   or adult bovine animals, as the case may be,
 that area ; whereas for the United Kingdom the                       adjusted by a coefficient expressing the value ratio
 weighted average of the prices recorded on the repre­                between the meat in question on the one hand and
 sentative markets in Great Britain and in Northern                  calves or adult bovine animals on the other :
 Ireland are to be multiplied by the coefficient fixed
 in the said Annex II ;
                                                                      Whereas Article 12 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      805/68 provides that if the levy is charged on adult
 (J ) See p. 13 of this Official Journal.                             bovine animals, a levy is also to be charged on
 («) OJ No L 25 , 30. 1 . 1973, p. 9 .                                imports of the meat listed in Section (b) of the
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Annex to that Regulation ; whereas this levy is                      Whereas the levies must be fixed once each week
equal to the levy charged on adult bovine animals,                   and be valid from the following Monday ;
multiplied by a standard coefficient ;
                                                                     Whereas it follows from the provisions of the above­
                                                                     mentioned Regulations and in particular from the
Whereas Article 12 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No                        quotations and other information known to the
805/68 provides that the levy may be charged on                      Commission that the levies on calves, adult bovine
imports of the products listed in Section ( a) of the                animals and on beef and veail other than frozen
Annex to that Regulation under tariff subheading                     should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regu­
No 02.01 A II a) 1 cc) ; whereas this levy is equal to               lation ;
the highest levy applicable to calves or adult bovine
animals, multiplied by a standard coefficient ;                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the standard coefficients referred to above                                         Article 1
were fixed for each of the products in question in
the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1025/68 ( 1 ), as                   The levies referred to in Articles 10 and 12, of Regu­
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1987/71 (2) ;                    lation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be as shown in the
whereas that Regulation ails© defines the require­                   Annex to this Regulation.
ments to be met by certain products for which the
levy has been fixed by means of these coefficients ;                                        Article 2
                                                                     To be classified as products falling within subhead­
Whereas levies must be fixed with due regard for                     ings Nos 02.01 A II a) 1 aa) and 02.01 A II a) 1
obligations arising out of international agreements                  bb), products must correspond to the definitions
concluded by the Community ; whereas Council                         contained in Articles 1 a and 2 of Regulation (EEC)
Regulation (EEC) No 1474/72 (3) of 10 July 1972 on                   No 1025 /68 .
the levies on imports from Yugoslavia of adult
bovine animals and meat thereof should also be
                                                                                            Article 3
taken into account ;
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of
Whereas, in accordance with Article 33 (2) of Regu­                  its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­
lation (EEC) No 805/68, the nomenclature provided                    pean Communities.
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Com­
mon Customs Tariff ;                                                 It shall apply from 1 February 1973 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 31 January 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
 (*) OJ No L 174, 23 . 7. 1968, p. 9 .
 (*) OJ No L 209, 15 . 9 . 1971 , p. 28 .
 (*) OJ No L 157, 13 . 7. 1972, p. 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
                    Levies applicable from 1 February 1973 to imports from third countries (*)
              CCT
                                                                                                      Levy in
            heading                                    Description of goods                        u.a. /lOO kg
              No
                                                                                                   Live weight
          01.02      Live animals of the bovine species :
                     A. Domestic species :
                         II. Other :
                              a) Calves                                                             o       (b)
                              b ) Other :
                                  1 . Cows for immediate slaughter, the meat of which is
                                      intended for processing (a)                                   0
                                  2 . Other :
                                      aa) Not yet having any permanent teeth, of a weight
                                          of not less than 350 kg but not more than 450 kg
                                          in the case of male animals, or of not less than
                                          320 kg bat not more than 420 kg in the case of
                                          female animals ( c)                                       0
                                      bb) Other                                                     0       (b)
                                                                                                   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 animals :
                              a ) Of domestic bovine animals :
                                  1 . Fresh or chilled :
                                      aa) Of calves :
                                           11 . Carcases and half-carcases                               0
                                          22.   Separated or unseparated forequarters                    0
                                          33 .  Separated or unseparated hindquarters                    0
                                      bb) Of    adult animals :
                                          11 .  Carcases , half-carcases or ' compensated' quar­
                                                ters :
                                                aaa) Carcases of a weight of not less than 180
                                                       kg but not more than 270 kg and half­
                                                       carcases or ' compensated ' quarters , of a
                                                       weight of not less than 90 kg but not
                                                       more than 135 kg, with a low degree of
                                                       ossification of the cartilages (more es­
                                                       pecially those of the symphysis pubis and
                                                       the vertebral apophyses), the meat of
                                                       which is of a light pink colour and the
                                                       fat of which, of extremely fine structure,
                                                       is white to light yellow in colour ( c )          0
                                                bbb ) Other                                              0
                                          22 . Forequarters :
                                                aaa ) Of a weight of not less than 45 kg but
                                                       not more than 68 kg, with a low degree
                                                       of ossification of the cartilages ( more
                                                       especially those of the vertebral apo­
                                                       physes ), the meat of which is of a light
                                                       pink colour and the fat of which , of
                                                       extremely fine structure, is white to light
                                                       yellow in colour ( c)                              0
                                                bbb ) Other                                               0
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                CCT
                                                                                                                      Levy in
              heading                                     Description of goods                                      u.a./100 kg
                 No
                                                                                                                    Net weight
           02.01                                33. Hindquarters :
           (cont'd)
                                                     aaa) Of a weight of not less than 45 kg but
                                                           not more than 68 kg (not less than 38 kg
                                                           but not more than 61 kg in the case of
                                                           * Pistola' cuts), with a low degree of
                                                           ossification of the cartilages (more es­
                                                           pecially those of the vertebral apophyses),
                                                           the meat of which is of a light pink
                                                           colour and the fat of which, of extremely
                                                           fine structure, is white to light yellow in
                                                           colour (c)                                                    0
                                                     bbb) Other                                                          0
                                           cc) Other cuts of veal and beef :
                                                11 . Unboned (bone-in)                                                   0
                                              , 22. Boned or boneless                                                    0
           02.06            Meat and edible meat offals (except poultry liver), salted, in brine,
                            dried or smoked :
                            C. Other :
                                1 . Of domestic bovine animals :
                                    a) Meat :
                                       1 . Unboned ( bone-in)                                                            0
                                       2 . Boned or boneless                                                             0
           (') 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 OCT.
           (a) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent authorities and to
               the special conditions at present applicable to cows imported under the bilateral agreement on cattle for
                the food processing industry between the European Communities and Austria .
           (b) Where these products are imported under the conditions set out in Article 11 of Council Regulation (EEC)
               No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 ai)d in the provisions adopted for its application , the levy is either refunded or not
               collected in accordance with those provisions .
           (c) Entry under this subheading is subject to the production of the certificate referred to in paragraph 2 (c) of
               Protocol No 1 annexed to the trade agreement between the EEC and the Socialist Federal Republic of
               Yugoslavia .