CELEX: 31982R1222
Language: en
Date: 1982-05-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1222/82 of 19 May 1982 fixing the import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat

No L 141 /40                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             20 . 5. 82
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1222/82
                                                        of 19 May 1982
                             fixing the import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    account of the supply and demand situation for fresh
COMMUNITIES,                                                      or chilled meat, the world market price for frozen
                                                                  meat of a category which is competitive with fresh or
                                                                  chilled meat and of past experience ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                  No 2668/80, the free-at-frontier offer prices are to be
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      based inter alia on the prices shown in the customs
1837/80 of 27 June 1980 on the common organization                documents which accompany products imported from
of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('), as last              non-member       countries  or  on   other  information
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 195/82 (2), and in               concerning the export prices applied by those non­
particular the first paragraph of Article 11 thereof,             member countries ; whereas offer prices which do not
                                                                  correspond to actual purchasing possibilities or which
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                      relate to unrepresentative quantities and offer prices
Committee,                                                        which, in view of general price movements or other
                                                                  information available, may be considered not to be
                                                                  representative of actual price trends in the country of
Whereas under Article 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No               origin are to be disregarded ;
1837/80 a levy is applicable to the products falling
within subheading 02.01 A IV b) listed in Annex I to
that Regulation ;                                                 Whereas a special levy may be fixed for products origi­
                                                                  nating in or coming from one or more non-member
                                                                  countries if exports of the said products are made at
Whereas, pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EEC)               abnormally low prices ;
No 1837/80, the levy on frozen carcases and half­
carcases is to be equal to the difference between :
                                                                  Whereas the levy on the meat falling within subhead­
(a) the basic price multiplied by a coefficient represen­         ings 02.01 A IV b) 2, 3, 4 and 5 listed in Annex I to
      ting the relationship existing in the Community             Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is to be equal to the
      between the price of fresh meat of a category               levy determined for frozen carcases, multiplied by a
      competitive with the frozen meat in question,               standard coefficient fixed for each of the products in
      presented in the same form, and the average price           question ; whereas these coefficients are fixed in
      of fresh and chilled sheep carcases, and                    Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 2668/80 ;
(b) the Community free-at-frontier offer price for the
      said frozen meat ;                                          Whereas the levies should be so fixed that the obliga­
                                                                   tions arising from international agreements concluded
                                                                  by the Community continue to be fulfilled ; whereas,
Whereas the basic price for the 1982/83 marketing                  moreover, account should be taken of the voluntary
year is fixed in Article 31 of Regulation (EEC) No                 restraint arrangements made by the Community with
 1 1 96/82 (3) ; whereas the coefficient referred to in            certain non-member countries ;
Article 13 ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is
 fixed in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
2668/80 (4) ;                                                      Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of
                                                                   each month for each week during the following
                                                                   month ; whereas they are applicable from Monday to
Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price is              Sunday ; whereas they can be altered within that
 determined in the light of the most representative                period if necessary ;
 purchasing possibilities, as regards quality and quan­
 tity, recorded over the period from the 21st day of the
 preceding month to the 20th day of the month during               Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
which the levies are determined, taking particular                 levies should be calculated on the following basis ;
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
(>)  OJ  No   L  183, 16.  7. 1980, p. 1 .                             relation to each other at any given moment within
0    OJ  No   L  140, 20.  5. 1982, p. 22.
(J)  OJ  No   L  140, 20 . 5. 1982, p. 24.                             a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
(4)  OJ  No   L  276, 20 . 10. 1980, p. 3 !                            their central rate,
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    in the case of other currencies, an exchange based       goatmeat other than frozen meat should be as set out
    on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of       in the Annex to this Regulation,
    each of those currencies recorded for a given
    period in relation to the Community currencies
                                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    referred to in the previous indent ;
                                                                                    Article 1
                                                             The import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat
                                                             shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the above­
mentioned Regulations and, in particular, to the infor­                             Article 2
mation and quotations known to the Commission, the
levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and          This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 May 1982.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 19 May 1982.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                        Poul DALSAGER
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 19 May 1982 fixing the import levies on frozen
                                                 sheepmeat and goatmeat
                                                                                                (ECU/100 kg)
                      CCT                    Week No 7              Week No 8             Week No 9
                     heading                 from 20 to             from 24 to          from 31 May to
                       No                  23 May 1982 (')        30 May 1982 (')        6 June 1982 0
           02.01 A IV b) 1                     114-115                113-275               110-583
                           2                    79-881                 79-293                77-408
                           3                   125-527                124-603               121-641
                           4                   148-350                147-258               143-758
                           5 aa)               148-350                147-258               143-758
                             bb)               207-689                206-161               201-261
           (') The levy applicable is limited to the amount bound under GATT or in the conditions laid down
               in Council Regulations (EEC) No 3019/81 and (EEC) No 424/82 and Commission Regulation
               (EEC) No 19/ 82.