CELEX: 31974R0167
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 167/74 of the Council of 22 January 1974 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for frozen beef and veal falling within subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 of the Common Customs Tariff (1974)

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                              REGULATION (EEC) No 167/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                   of 22 January 1974
              on the opening , allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for
              frozen beef and veal falling within subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 of the Common
                                                  Customs Tariff ( 1974)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     tion    between  the Member States would seem          to
COMMUNITIES,                                                    preserve the Community nature of the quota ; whereas
                                                                to represent as closely as possible the actual develop­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           ment of the market in the product in question the
Economic Community ;                                            allocation should follow proportionately the require­
                                                                ments of Member States calculated both from statistics
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;             of imports from third countries during a representa­
                                                                tive reference period and from the economic outlook
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­            for the tariff in question ;
ment ;
                                                                Whereas, since the tariff quota in question is relatively
                                                                small, it ought to be possible to provide for a system
Whereas the European Economic Community has
undertaken , in the context of the most recent multilat­        of allocation based on a single apportionment
                                                                between the Member States, without thereby affecting
eral negotiations of GATT, to open an annual
Community tariff quota of 22 000 metric tons at a               from its Community nature ; whereas it appears best
duty of 20 % for frozen beef and veal under tariff              to leave to each Member State the choice of a manage­
                                                                ment system for its part of the quota ;
subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 ; whereas the Agreement
with the Argentine ('), entered into 8 November 1971 ,
provides that as from 1 January 1972, the aforesaid             Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the
quota of 22 000 tons must be regarded as meaning                Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
boned meat ;                                                    Luxembourg -are jointly represented by the Benelux
                                                                Economic Union any measure concerning the admin­
                                                                istration of the quota shares allocated to that
Whereas Articles 59 and 60 of the Act (2) annexed to
                                                                economic union may be carried out by one of its
the Treaty concerning the Accession of new Member               members,
States to the European Economic Community and to
the European Atomic Energy Community, signed on
22 January 1972, require the new Member States to
apply the regulations of the common agricultural                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
policy from 1 February 1973 and to align their
customs    tariff duties   on    those    of the Common
Customs Tariff in the timetable provided in Article                                     Article 1
59 ; whereas the new Member States' needs for
imports from third countries should, therefore be
covered in 1974 ; whereas, in view of these considera­           1 . A Community tariff quota for frozen beef and
tions and of the Community Declaration annexed to               veal falling within subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 of
                                                                the Common Customs Tariff of 34 000 metric tons
the aforesaid Agreement with Argentina, an auton­
omous supplementary quota, also expressed in bone­              (22 000 metric tons conventional and 12 000 metric
less meat, should be opened at a provisional level of           tons autonomous), expressed as boneless meat is
 12 000 metric tons ; whereas the total quota volume            opened for 1974.
therefore amounts to 34 000 metric tons ; whereas the
quota duties to be applied by the new Member States              2. For purposes of counting imports against this
should conform to the Act of Accession ;                        quota, 100 kilogrammes of meat on the bone shall be
                                                                 taken to be equivalent to 77 kilogrammes of boneless
                                                                 meat .
Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota
should be ensured for all Community importers and
the rate of levy for the tariff quota should be applied          3 . As regards the quota amounts allocated to the
consistently in all Member States to all imports of the          original Member States, the Common Customs Tariff
product in question until the quota is used up ;                 duty applicable shall be 20 % .
whereas, in the light of the principles outlined above,
a Community tariff arrangement based on an alloca­               4.     As regards the quota amount allocated to the
                                                                 new Member States, the duties shall be those calcu­
(i) OJ No L 249, 10 . 11 . 1971 , p. 18 .                        lated in accordance with the provisions of the Act of
(*) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.                            Accession .
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                       Article 2                              of imports from third countries as the product is
                                                              presented for customs clearance under the declaration
The Community tariff quota mentioned in Article 1             for consumption .
shall be allocated as follows :
     Germany                      4 750 metric   tons                                 Article 4
     Benelux                      4 570 metric   tons
                                                              The Member States shall regularly inform the
     France                       2 290 metric   tons
                                                               Commission of imports which have been charged
     Italy                       10 390 metric   tons
                                                              against their shares.
     Denmark                        200 metric   tons
      Ireland                       100 metric   tons                                 Article 5
     United Kingdom             11 700 metric   tons .
                                                              The Member States and the Commission shall coop­
                       Article 3
                                                              erate closely to ensure that the provisions of this Regu­
                                                               lation are observed .
1 . The Member States shall take all appropriate
                                                                                      Article 6
steps to guarantee to importers established in their
countries free access to the quota-part allotted to           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
them .                                                         publication in the Official Journal of the European
                                                               Communities.
2.    The extent to which the shares of the Member
States have been used up shall be verified on the basis        It shall apply from 1 January 1974.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 22 January 1974.
                                                                           For the Council
                                                                            The President
                                                                               J. ERTL