CELEX: 31967R0134
Language: en
Date: 1967-06-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation No 134/67/EEC of the Council of 13 June 1967 establishing the list of products for which sluice-gate prices are fixed and adopting the rules for fixing the sluice-gate price for pig carcases

Official Journal of the European Communities                                       77
21.6.67                       OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES                                         2WI67
                                REGULATION No 134/67/EEC OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 13 June 1967
               establishing the list of products for which sluice-gate prices are fixed and adopting
                                the rules for fixing the sluice-gate price for pig carcases
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC                             — a standard amount representing overhead costs of
COMMUNITY,                                                           production and marketing;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­               Whereas this quantity of feed grain should be calcu­
pean Economic Community;                                         lated on the basis of a processing coefficient of
                                                                 1 : 5-46 ; whereas this coefficient is obtained by multi­
Having regard to Council Regulation No 121/67/                   plying the total amount of feeding-stuffs required for
EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common organisation                  the production and fattening of young pigs, these
of the market in pigmeat, and in particular Article 12           quantities containing on average approximately 15%
(4) thereof;                                                     of feeding-stuffs other than grain, by a coefficient of
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;              1-3 expressing the ratio of the value of one kilo­
                                                                 gramme of live swine to that of one kilogramme of
Whereas, as regards the products listed in Article 1 of          pig carcases;
Regulation No 121/67/EEC other than pig carcases,
sluice-gate prices should be fixed in pursuance of               Whereas it is appropriate to take as representative of
Article 12 of that Regulation only in respect of cer­            the quantity of feed grain on the world market a
tain products and for these the sluice-gate prices               mixture of cereals with the following composition :
should be derived from the sluice-gate price for pig
carcases ;
                                                                                    Barley         40%
                                                                                    Maize          35%
Whereas the system of sluice-gate prices only
achieves its purpose where an offer price can be fixed                              Oats           25%
which is sufficiently representative of all products
falling within a single tariff heading; whereas such an          Whereas in order to calculate the value of the
offer price cannot always be fixed for certain prod­             quantity of feed grain and in view of its composition,
ucts which are manufactured from various cuts and                it would appear that its price on the world market
by various methods and are consequently offered on               should be equal to the average, weighted according
the market in a wide range of qualities ; whereas,               to the composition of that feed mixture, of the prices
therefore, sluice-gate prices should not at present be           for each of the cereals in question ;
fixed for those products;
                                                                 Whereas in order to calculate the price of each cereal
Whereas under Article 12 of Regulation No 121/67/                therein the average c.i.f. price for such cereal for the
EEC, the sluice-gate price for pig carcases is made up           period mentioned in the second subparagraph of
of three components :                                            Article 12 (2) of Regulation No 121/67/EEC should
— an amount equal to the value on the world mar­                 be used, this average being increased by 0-475 units
     ket of the quantity of feed grain equivalent to the         of account per 100 kilogrammes of cereals represent­
     quantity of feedingrstuffs required for the pro­            ing the costs of transport to the place of use and
     duction in third countries of one kilogramme of             costs of processing into feed;
     pigmeat;                                                    Whereas the quantity of feed grain does not take into
— a standard amount representing the extra cost,                 account the extra value of protein feeds, mineral salts
     over feed grain, of feeding-stuffs other than grain         and vitamins; whereas in the light of experience on
     required for the production of one kilogramme of            the world market in recent years, this extra value can
     pigmeat;                                                    be estimated in general at 12% of the value of the
                                                                 quantity of feed grain; whereas, therefore, the value
                                                                 of that quantity should be increased by that percent­
1 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2283/67.                              age ;
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Whereas the available information enables the veteri­                                     Article 2
nary, stalling and labour costs on the world market
to be estimated at approximately 13 units of account             1 . The value of the quantity of feed grain men­
per 100 kilogrammes of pig carcases, and the insur­              tioned in Article 12 (2) (a) of Regulation No 121 /67/
ance' and transport costs and the trading margin on              EEC shall be equal to the price of 5-46 kilogrammes
the world market at approximately 4-37 units of ac­              of feed grain with the following composition :
count per 100 kilogrammes of pig carcases ; whereas,                                 Barley         40%
therefore, the value of the quantity of feed grain
should be increased by an amount of 17-37 units of                                   Maize          35%
account per 100 kilogrammes of pig carcases.                                         Oats           25%
Whereas when the sluice-gate prices applicable from
1 November, 1 February and 1 May are being fixed,                2. The price of this quantity of feed grain shall be
changes in world market prices for feed grain should             equal to the average, weighted according to the per­
be taken into account only if the value of the quantity          centages shown in paragraph 1 , of the prices, ex­
of feed grain shows a minimum variation from that                pressed per kilogramme, of each of the cereals con­
used in calculating the sluice-gate price for the                tained in this quantity, the average being multiplied
preceding quarter;                                               by 5-46.
Whereas a variation of less than 3% does not have a
noticeable effect on the costs of pig feed ; whereas the         3 . The price of each cereal shall be equal to the
minimum variation should therefore be fixed at 3% ;              average c.i.f. price of this cereal for the period of six
                                                                 months laid down in the second subparagraph of
                                                                 Article 12 (2) of Regulation No 121 /67/EEC, in­
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                    creased by 0-475 units of account per 100 kilo­
                                                                 grammes of cereals .
                         Article 1
Apart from the meat of domestic swine in carcases or                                      Article 3
half-carcases, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted or in brine,
with or without heads, feet or flare fat (sub-headings           1.    The standard amount referred to in Article 12
Nos ex 02.01 A III ( a) and ex 02.06 B of the Com­               (2) (b) of Regulation No 121/67/EEC shall be 12%
mon Customs Tariff), sluice-gate prices shall be fixed           of the value specified in Article 2 of this Regulation.
for the following products :
                                                                 2.    The standard amount referred to in Article 12
                                                                 (2) (c) of Regulation No 121/67/EEC shall be 17-37
       CCT
      heading                    Description of goods            units of account per 100 kilogrammes of pig carcases.
        No
                                                                                          Article 4
ex 01.03            Live swine :
      ' ex A        Domestic species:                            The minimum variation referred to in the last sub­
                                                                 paragraph of Article 12 (2) of Regulation No 121/67/
            Π       Other :
                                                                 EEC shall be 3% .         .
                    (a) Sows for slaughter ..
                    (b) Other
                                                                                          Article 5
ex 02.01            Meat of domestic swine,
   A III . (a) and  fresh, chilled, frozen, salted or in         This Regulation shall enter into force on the day fol­
                    brine:
                                                                 lowing its publication in the Official Journal of the
ex 02.06 B          2 . Hams                                     European Communities.
                    3 . Shoulders
                    4 . Loins                                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirely and
                    5 . Bellies (streaky)
                                                                 directly applicable in all Member States.
ëx 02.05            Pig fat, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted      Done at Brussels, 13 June 1967.
                    or in brine (except unrendered fat)
   15.01 A Π        Lard and other rendered pig fat not                                               For the Council
                    intended for industrial uses other
                    than the manufacture of foodstuffs                                                 The President
                                                                                                        Ch. HEGER