CELEX: 31973R3454
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3454/73 of the Commission of 21 December 1973 altering export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 22 December 1973

22 . 12 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 353 /33
                                     REGULATION (EEC) No 3454/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 21 December 1973
                altering the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 22 December 1973
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas the exceptional market situation leads to
COMMUNITIES,                                                         allowing a refund on the export of adult bovine
                                                                     animals and meats coming under Common Customs
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                   Tariff heading No ex 02.01 A II a ) 1 fob ) 11 ;
pean Economic Community ;
                                                                     Whereas, in the case of other beef and veal prod­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805 /                    ucts, a refund need not be fixed since Community
68 I 1 ) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                  participation in world trade in these products is not
of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by                   significant ;
Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2 ), and in particular the               Whereas Article 92 of the Act (®) annexed to the
second sentence of Article 18 (5 ) thereof ;                         Treaty ( 7 ) concerning the Accession of new Member
                                                                     States to the European Economic Community and
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                         the European Atomic Energy Community, signed
Committee ;                                                           at Brussels on 22 January 1972, provides that the
                                                                     refund on exports from the new Member States for
Whereas Article 18 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 805 /68
                                                                     the products specified in Article 1 ( b ) and (c) of
provides that the difference between prices on the                   Regulation ( EEC) No 805/68 shall be corrected by
world market and prices within the Community for                     the amount of the difference between the customs
the products listed in Article 1 of that Regulation                  duties on the products from which these products
may be covered by an export refund ;                                  are produced ;
Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC) No 885 / 68 (3) of                 Whereas if the refund system is to operate nor­
28 June 1968 lays down general rules for granting                    mally, refunds should be calculated on the fol­
export refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of                 lowing basis :
such refunds ;                                                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained
                                                                            in relation to each other, at any given moment,
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and cri­                       within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange
teria to the foreseeable situation on the market in
beef and veal that the refund should be fixed as indi­
                                                                            based on their effective parity ;
cated below ;                                                        — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
                                                                            the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
Whereas, in the case of edible meat of domestic bo­                         each of these currencies recorded for a given
vine animals, boned or boneless, salted and dried ,                         period , in relation to the Community currencies
there are traditional trade flows to Switzerland ;                          referred to in the previous subparagraph,
whereas, to the extent necessary to allow this trade
to continue, the refund must be fixed at an amount                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
which will cover the difference between prices on
the Swiss market and export prices in the Member
States ;                                                                                          Article 1
Whereas, in the case of the preserved meats set out                   1 . The list of products on which the export refund
in Annex I to Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No                       referred to in Article 18 of Regulation ( EEC ) No
1082/68 (4) of 26 July 1968 fixing coefficients ex­                  805 / 68 is granted and the amount of that refund is
pressing the meat content of preserved meats manu­                   hereby fixed as shown in the Annex.
factured from frozen meat, as amended by Regula­                     2.       Regulation ( EEC) No 3371 /73 ( 8 ) is hereby
tion ( EEC) No 207/70 (5 ), which contain 40 % or                     repealed .
more of meat, Community participation in interna­
tional trade may be ensured by granting a refund
                                                                                                  Article 2
which takes account of the refund hitherto granted
to exporters ;
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 Decem­
                                                                     ber 1973 .
(x ) OJ  No   L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24 .
(*)  OJ  No   L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 23 .
(»)  OJ  No   L 156 , 4 . 7. 1968 , p. 2 .                           ( 8) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14 .
( 4) OJ  No   L 181 , 27. 7. 1968 , p. 9 .                            ( 7 ) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
( 5) OJ   No  L 28 , 5 . 2 . 1970 , p. 10.                           (8) OJ No L 344 , 14 . 12 . 1973 , p . 27 .
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                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 21 December 1973 .
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                  Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                            ANNEX
                                                                                                      Refund in u. a. / 100 kg
     CCT heading No                                         Description of goods
                                                                                                            Net weight
ex 01.02 All               Live animals of the bovine species, other than breeding
                           animals :                                                                       Live weight
                b)         Other                                                                             18-00 ( x )
ex 02.01 A II a) 1         Meat of bovine animals , fresh or chilled :                                      Net weight
               bb)         Of adult animals :
                     11 .  Garcases, half-carcases or ' compensated ' quarters                              35-00 (»)
ex 02.06 C I a) 2          Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, boned or
                           boneless, salted and dried :
                           — for exports to Switzerland                                                      14-00 (»)
                                                                                                       United
                                                                                            Ireland   Kingdom      Other Member State*
ex 16.02 B III b ) 1       Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal, other,
                           containing bovine meat or offal but excluding those
                           containing meat or offals of domestic swine :
                           — preserves, other than homogenized, containing the
                               following percentages of bovine meat :
                               1 . 80 °/o or more of meat, excluding offal and fat             0         0                   12-50
                               2 . 60 % or more but less than 80 °/o of meat,
                                   excluding offal and fat                                     0         0                     7-50
                               3 . 40 % or more but less than 60 °/o of meat,
                                   excluding offal and fat                                     0         0                    5-00
 0) For Ireland and the United Kingdom the refund fixed above must be reduced by the compensatory amount pursuant to Article 12 (1) of
    Regulation (EEC) No 181 /73 ( OJ L 25 , 30 . 1 . 1973 , p. 9).