CELEX: 31973R0218
Language: en
Date: 1973-01-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 218/73 of the Commission of 29 January 1973 on the calculation of the import price and the special import price for calves and adult bovine animals

No L 26/ 16                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              31 . 1 . 73
                             REGULATION EEC) No 218/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 29 January 1973
              on the calculation of the import price and the special import price for calves and adult
                                                        bovine animals
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas certain categories of live animals or cuts of
COMMUNITIES ,                                                      fresh or chilled meat represent a very small propor­
                                                                   tion of total trade ; whereas offer prices for these
                                                                   categories and cuts should therefore be disregarded ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community ;
                                                                   Whereas, when the import price or the special im­
                                                                   port price is being calculated, alii free-at-Community­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       frontier offers from third countries must be taken
805/68 (*) of 27 June 1-968 on the common organiza­                into consideration ; whereas if information known
tionof the market in beef and veal, as last amended                to the Commission indicates that certain offers do
by the Aot (2) annexed to the Treaty (3 ) concerning
the Accession of new Member States to the Euro­
                                                                   not correspond to actual purchasing possibilities, are
                                                                   not representative of the actual trend of prices or do
pean Economic Community and the European Ato­                      not relate to representative quantities, such offers
mic Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22                     should be disregarded ;
January 1972, and in particular Article 10 ( 6) and
Article 25 thereof ;
                                                                   Whereas offer prices should be adjusted by making
                                                                   allowance for the difference over a reference period
Whereas, pursuant to Article 10 ( 1 ) of Regulation
                                                                   between the price of each category and the price re­
(EEC) No 805/68, import prices are calculated for                  corded for adult bovine animals on the representa­
both calves and adult bovine animals on the basis of
                                                                   tive Community markets and by applying to the dif­
free-at-Community-frontier prices by reference to                  ferent cuts of beef and veal the relevant coefficients
the purchasing possibilities which are most represen­              fixed in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC )
tative as regards quality and quantity and the trend               No 1025/68 "(4) of 22 July 1968 fixing the coeffi­
of the market in these products ; whereas this im­
                                                                   cients for calculating the levy on beef and veal other
port price is used to calculate the levy ;
                                                                   than frozen , as last amended by Regulation (EEC )
                                                                   No 1987/71 (5 ) ;
Whereas Article . 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
805 /68 provides that if live animals or fresh and
                                                                   Whereas account must also be taken , for adult bo­
chilled meat are exported from one or more third
countries at abnormally low prices a special import                vine animals, of imports of each category in relation
price shall be calculated for calves and adult bovine              to imports of all categories and, for meat, of imports
animals imported from these third countries ;                      of each cut in relation to imports of all cuts ;
whereas this special import price is used to calculate             whereas the relative importance of imports of cattle
a special levy ;                                                   for slaughter and of fresh and chilled meat over a
                                                                   reference period should also be taken into considera­
                                                                   tion ; whereas, however, if the offer price for one
Whereas offer prices can be regarded as abnormally                 or more categories of cuts cannot be established,
low if they differ by a fixed percentage from the im­              the last available price must be used ;
port price ; whereas, to avoid disturbances on the
Community market, the lowest price should be
used for the purpose of calculating the special im­                Whereas, to avoid too frequent alteration of the
port price :                                                       levy, a certain margin should be allowed within
                                                                   which variations in the factors entering into the cal­
                                                                   culation of the 'import price do not entail an altera­
                                                                   tion in that price ;
 (x) OJ No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24.
(2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.                                (4 ) OJ No L 174, 23 . 7. 1968 , p . 9 .
 (3) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 5.                                 (5) OJ No L 209, 15 . 9. 1971 , p. 28 .
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Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­                   (b) other information concerning the export prices
tion 'are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man-'                     operative in these third countries.
agement Committee for Beef and Veal ;
                                                                    2.       The following shall be disregarded :
                                                                    ( a) offer prices which do not correspond to actual
                                                                          purchasing possibilities ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                       ( b) offer prices relating to unrepresentative quanti­
                                                                          ties ;
                                                                    (c) offer prices which, because of the development
                            Article 1
                                                                          of prices in general or from the information
                                                                          available, do not seem to the Commission to be
1.       The import price referred to in Article 10 ( 1 ) of              representative of the actual trend of prices in the
Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be calculated on                         exporting country.
the basis of all representative free-at-Community­
frontier prices for each of the categories and cuts
specified in Article 2 .                                                                        Article 4
2. The special import price referred to in Article
10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be calcu­                1 . The import price for calves shall be equal to
lated only if the free-at-Comrnunity-frontier price                 the weighted average of the price for the animals spe­
for the categories and cuts specified in Article 2 give             cified in Article 2 ( 1 ) (a) and of an average price for
a price which is considerably lower than the import                 the irneat specified in paragraph 2 ( a) of the same
                                                                    Article .
price referred to in paragraph 1 . The special import
price shall be equal to the lowest of these prices .
                                                                    The import price for adult bovine animals shall be
                                                                    equal to the weighted average of an average price
                                                                    for .the animals specified in Article 2 ( 1 ) (b ) and an
                            Article 2                               aiverage price for the meat specified in paragraph
                                                                    2 ( b) of the same Article.
1 . Free-at-frontier prices shall be calculated for
the following categories of animals :                               2. The average price for calves shall be calculated
                                                                    by applying to the arithmetic mean of the offer prices
(a ) calves ;
                                                                    for each of the cuts of veal specified in Article
( b ) bulls and heifers, cows.                                      2 (2) ( a) the relevant coefficients fixed in the Annex
                                                                    to Regulation (EEC) No 1025/68 .
2. Free-at-frontier prices shall be calculated for
the following cuts of meat :
( a) 02.01 A II a) 1 aa ) 11 : Carcases or half-carcases            3 . The average price for adu'lt bovine animals
                                   of calves,                       shall be calculated by applying to :
      02.01 A II a ) 1 aa) 33 : Separated or unseparated            ( a) the arithmetic mean of offer prices for each cate­
                                   hindquarters of calves,                gory of adult bovine animasl specified in Article
                                                                          2 ( 1 ) a coefficient expressing the ratio between
( b) 02.01 A II a) 1 bb) 11 : Carcases, half-carcases                    the price for each of these categories and the
                                   and ' compensated' quar­               price recorded on representative markets pur­
                                  ters of adult bovine ani­               suant to Article 10 (5 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                   mals,                                  805/68 ;
      02.01 A II a ) 1 bb ) 33 : Hindquarters of adult bo­
                                   bovine animals .                 ( b ) the arithmetic mean of the offer prices for each
                                                                          of the cuts of beef specified in Article 2 (2) (b)
                                                                         the relevant coefficients fixed in the Annex to
                                                                          Regulation (EEC) No 1025 /68 .
                            Article 3
1.       Free-at-frontier offer prices shall be based inter         4.       Where no free-at-frontier price can be recorded
alia on :                                                           for one or more of the categories of live animals or
                                                                    cuts of meat, the last available price shall be used
( a) prices given in the customs documents accom­                   for the purpose of calculating the average price
      panying the products imported from third coun­                referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 and the import
      tries ;                                                       price .
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                        Article 5                             they shall indicate the category of animal or the cut
                                                              of meat as specified in Article 2, the quantity im­
 If the import price or the special import price differs      ported, the week in which the products were im­
 by less than 0-50 units of account per 100 kilo­             ported and, where possible, the quality.
 grammes live weight from the import price pre­
 viously used for the calculation of the levy, the latter     The Commission shall make use of all the informa­
price shall be maintained.                                    tion at its disposal.
                        Article 6
                                                                                      Atticle 8
The import price shall be calculated on the first and
third Thursday of each month and shall be used for           Regulations (EEC) No 1024/68 and (EEC) No
the calculation of the levies applicable from the             1026/68 are hereby repealed with effect from 31 Jan­
Monday following the day on which it is fixed.               uary 1973 .
However, should circumstances so require, the
import price may be fixed on another day of the
week.                                                                                 Article 9
                        Article 7
                                                             This Reguation shall enter into, foroe on the day of
Member States shall inform the Commission by                 its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­
telex each Tuesday, and for the first (time on 23 Jan­       pean Communities.
uary 1973, of the prices specified in Article 3 , by the
exporting third country, which came to their know­           It shall apply for the first time to the calculation of
ledge during the preceding week ; in this connection         the levies applicable from 1 February 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 29 January 1973 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                           The President
                                                                     Francois-Xavier ORTOL1