CELEX: 51982PC0609
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Date: 1982-09-30
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for frozen beef and veal falling within subheading 02.01 A II b) of the Common Customs Tariff (1983) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                   Proposal for a
                              COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
opening , allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff
quota for frozen beef and veal falling within subheading 02.01 A II b ) of the
                            Common Customs Tariff ( 1983 )
                   ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
 COM ( 82 ) 609 final
 ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORT MEMORANDUM
The European Economic Community has agreed in GATT multilateral negotiations
to open an annual Community tariff quota of 50 000 tonnes ( expressed as "boned
meat ) of frozen "beef falling within subheading 02.01 A II b) of the Common
Customs Tariff at a 20% rate of duty.
For the Community ^ obligation to be satisfied , a Regulation must be adopted
before 1 January I9S3 opening, allocating and providing for the administration
of the quota .
Since compensatory amouts can be applied in respect of 16 500 tonnes of the
quota , the Commission has in its proposals divided the 50 000 tonnes into two
parts , one of 33 500 tonnes and the other of 16 500 tonnes , each part to be
allocated separately among all the Member States .
As regards the allocation , in recent years imports of frozen beef into the
Community have been made almost exclusively under special arrangements ( such as
the GATT quota , the ACP preferential system and the arrangement for importing
meat for processing). The allocation figures may not therefore be representative
of the trend of imports and requirements in each Member State , Moreover , the
economic outlook for the year covered by the quota cannot be assessed accurately
enough ,
In view of these difficulties , the Commission takes the view that the same
allocation of the quota amounts should be made to the Member States as was made
for 1982 .
 ---pagebreak---                           Proposal for a
                   COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) "
opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community
tariff quota for froeen beef and veal falling within subheading 02.01 A
II b ) of the Common Customs Tariff ( 1983 )
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economio Community , and in
particular Articles 43 and 113 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament ( l ),
Whereas , in the context of the General Agreement on tariffs and trade ( GATT), the
Community has undertaken to open , at a duty of 20%, an annual Community tariff quota
of 50 000 tonnes of frosen beef and veal falling within subheading 02*01 A II b ) of
the Common Customs Tariff, expressed as boned or boneless meat ;  whereas , therefore ,
this tariff quota should be opened on 1 January 1983 ;
Whereas equal and oontinuous aocess to the quota should be ensured for all persons
conoerned and the rate laid down for the tariff quota should be applied consistently
in all Member States to all imports of the produot in question until the quota is
used up ; whereas a system of utilisation of the Community tariff quota, based on an
allocation between the Member States ooncerned, would , in the light of the principles
outlined above , appear consistent with the Community nature of the quota ; whereas ,
in order to arrive at a fair allocation between the Member States and to represent as
olosely as possible the actual market trends in the product in question, the said
allocation should be proportionate to the requirements of the Member States
caloulated with referenoe to taport statistics for the product concerned and to
the economic prospects for the quota year in question ;
( 1 ) OJ No C
 ---pagebreak---   Whereas , pursuant to Article 2(4 ) of Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No 3183/80 of
  3 December 1980 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system
  of import and export licences and advance fixing certificates for agricultural
  products ( 2 ), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No        ( 3 )* import lioences
  authorise the importation of a quantity exceeding by 5 the quantity indicated
  therein ; whereas , however , the levy provided for in Article 12 of Council Regulation
  ( EEC ) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the market in beef and
 veal ( 4) 9 as last amended by the Aot of Accession of Greece , should be applied to
 any quantity exceeding that indicated in the lioenoe ;
 Whereas , since the tariff quota in question is relatively small , it ought to be possible
 to provide for a system of allocation based on a single apportionment between the
 Member States , without thereby derogating from its Community nature ; whereas it
 appears best to leave to each Member State the choice of a management system for its
 share of the quota, so that it may ensure an allocation whioh is appropriate from ail
 economic viewpoint ;
 Whereas , since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand
 Duohy of Luxembourg are jointly represented by the Benelux economic union , any
 operation concerning the administration of the quota shares allocated to that economic
 union may be oarried out by any one of its members ;
Whereas there should be a possibility whereby quantities which are not taken
up may be apportioned by the Council ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                      Article 1
1# A Community tariff quota for froaen beef and veal falling within subheading 02.01
      A II b ) of the Common Customs Tariff, totalling 50 000 tonnes expressed as boned
      or boneless meat , is hereby opened for 1983.
      For the purpose of charging imports against this quota, 100 kilograms of unboned
      meat shall be taken to be equivalent to 77 kilograms of boned or boneless meat .
                                                                             • • •/ • • •
 ( 2 ) OJ No L 338 , 13.12.1980 , p. 1 .
 ( 3 ) OJ No L
 (4 ) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6.1968 , p. 24 .
 ---pagebreak---  2 . Imports of those goods whioh have been admitted under the "benefit of another
     preferential tariff regime shall not be set off against this tariff quota.
 3 . The Common Customs Tariff duty for this quota shall be 20$.
                                    Article 2
 The quantity of 50 000 tonnes shall be divided into two parts , one totalling 33 500
tonnes , the other 16 500 tonnes , allocated as follows :
                                    Por the part            Por the part
                                      totalling               totalling
                                    33 500 tonnes           16 500 tonnes
     Bénélux                            3 189                  1 571
     Denmark                              157                     78
     Germany                            6 020                  2 965
     Greece                             1 710                    840
     Prance                             3 343                  1 647
     Ireland                                 3                     2
     Italy                              9 658                  4 757
     United Kingdom                     9 420                  4 640
                                    Artide 3
1 . The Member States shall take all appropriate steps to guarantee all persons con­
     cerned , established within their territories , free access to the quota shares
     allocated to them .
2 . The extent to which the shares of the Member States have been used up shall be
    verified on the basis of imports as the product is presented for customs
     clearance under the declaration for free circulation .
                                    Artide 4
The Member States shall regularly inform the Commission of imports which have been
charged against their shares .
                                    Artide 5
The Member States sr 1 the Commission shall cooperate olosely to ensure that this
Regulation i ? ^onr-lied with .
 ---pagebreak---                                   Artide 6
The Commission shall not later than 1 October 1983 , submit to the Council a report
on the quantities for which licences have "been delivered in each Member State .
The Council , acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission , shall ,
where appropriate , re-allocate the amounts which have not been used up .
                                  Article 7
This Regulation shall enter into foroe on 1 January 1983 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States .
Done at Brussels ,                                   Por the Counoil
 ---pagebreak---                     FINANCIAL              STATEMENT
                                                                              DATE |    27 August 1982
                                                                           1982     1 899 000 000 ECU
  1 . budcct     IIEADINO :     100 Hnvonne
                                                    Draft Budget for I983           1 588 500 000 ECU
  2 . TITLE OP MEASURE:             Draft Council Regulation opening, allocating and providing
                                     for the administration of a Community tariff quota for frozen
                                    "beef and veal falling within subheading 0A.01 A II "b ) of the
                                    Common Customs Tariff .
  3. lecal basis 1       Article 43 of the Treaty
 4. PURPOSE OF MEASURE : To open the 1983 GATT quota of 5° 000 t of frozen beef and
                                      veal at a rate of duty of 20$.
 5 . FINANCIAL CONSEQUCNCE                     12 MONTH PERIOD
 5.O EXPENDITURE
                                                                   CURRENT ^NAI.'CIAL TEAR FCLLOWINO g^JANCIAL TEAR
      –CHARGED TO THE EC BUDGET
        ( RlìKUNUS/lNTERVENTI ONS )
      –CHARGED TO NATIONAL ADKINI3TR .
      -CHARCED TO OTHER 3ECT0RS
 SI RECEIPTS
      –OVÍN RESCUnCiS OF T!!E ER
        ( levies ;                              - 120 mio ECU               -                    - 120 mio ECU
      -NATIONAL
                                             YEAR                 YEAR                      TEAR
 5.O.I PLURI A.VNUAL PATTER» OF EXPENDITURE
 5.1.1 pluri annual PATTERif of receipts            Measure applies in 19^3 only
 5.2 KETilOD OF CALCULATION
                      Maximum quantity                 50 000 t
                      Levy loss                         2 400 ECU/ t
                      Maximum revenue loss                 120 mio ECU
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