CELEX: 31982R0431
Language: en
Date: 1982-02-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 431/82 of 25 February 1982 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

26. 2. 82                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 55/ 19
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 431 /82
                                                  of 25 February 1982
                                 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 (a) 75 % where the market price is less than or equal
COMMUNITIES,                                                        to 102 % of the guide price ;
                                                               (b) 50 % where the market price is more than 102 %
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               and less than or equal to 104 % of the guide
Economic Community,
                                                                    price ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68            (c) 25 % where the market price is more than 104 %
of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the                   and less than 106 % of the guide price ;
market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by the Act        (d) 0 % where the market price is more than 106 %
of Accession of Greece (2), and in particular Article 1 2           of the guide price ;
(8) thereof,
                                                               Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                   animals on representative Community markets is
Committee,                                                     equal to or less than the guide price, the levy appli­
                                                               cable equals the following percentage of the basic
Whereas under Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No                 levy :
805/68 a levy is applicable to the products specified in
Article 1 (1 ) (a) of that Regulation ; whereas Article 12     (a) 100 % where the market price is more than or
fixes the amount of the levy applicable by reference to             equal to 98 % of the guide price ;
a percentage of the basic levy ;                               (b) 105 % where the market price is less than 98 %
                                                                    and more than or equal to 96 % of the guide
Whereas, in respect of the types of frozen meat listed              price ;
in section (b) of the Annex to the said Regulation             (c) 110 % where the market price is less than 96 %
under subheading 02.01 A II b) 1 , the basic levy is
determined on the basis of the difference between :                 and more than or equal to 90 % of the guide
                                                                    price ;
— the guide price multiplied by a coefficient repre­           (d) 114 % where the market price is less than 90 % of
    senting the ratio existing in the Community                     the guide price ;
    between the price of fresh meat of a category
     competitive with the frozen meat in question,             Whereas the guide prices for adult bovine animals to
     presented in the same form, and the average price         be applied from 7 December 1981 have been fixed by
    of adult bovine animals, and                                Council Regulation (EEC) No 898/81 of 1 April
— the Community free-at-frontier offer price for                19810 ;
     frozen meat, plus the amount of the customs duty          Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price for
     and a standard amount representing the specific            frozen meat is determined by reference to the world
     costs of the import operations ;                           market price based on the most representative purcha­
Whereas, by Commission Regulation (EEC) No                      sing possibilities, as regards quality and quantity,
 586/77 of 18 March 1977 laying down rules for the              recorded over a certain period preceding the fixing of
application of the levies on beef and veal and amen­            the basic levy, taking into account in particular :
ding Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common                   — foreseeable developments on the market in frozen
 Customs Tariff (3), as last amended by Regulation                   meat,
(EEC) No 882/79 (4), the abovementioned coefficient,            — the most representative prices on third country
calculated in accordance with the rules laid down in                 markets for fresh and chilled meat of a category
Article 11 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68, has                which is competitive with frozen meat,
been fixed at 1-69 units of account and the standard
                                                                — past experience ;
amount referred to in Article 11 (2) (b) of the said
Regulation has been fixed at 6-65 ECU ;                         Whereas the basic levy on the types of frozen meat
                                                                listed in section (b) of the Annex to Regulation (EEC)
Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine          No 805/68 under subheadings 02.01 A II b) 2 to 4 is
 animals on representative Community markets is                 equal to the basic levy fixed for the product falling
 higher than the guide price, the levy applicable equals        within subheading 02.01 A II b) 1 , multiplied by a
 the following percentage of the basic levy :                   standard coefficient fixed for each of the products in
                                                                question ; whereas these coefficients were fixed in
(') OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.                            Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;
0 OJ No L 291 , 29. 11 . 1979, p. 17.
(3) OJ No L 75, 23. 3. 1977, p. 10.
(4) OJ No L 111 , 4. 5. 1979, p. 14.                            0 OJ No L 90, 4. 4. 1981 , p. 24.
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whereas, for the purpose of fixing the free-at-frontier       special weighting coefficients fixed in Annex II to
offer prices, offer prices that do not correspond to real     Regulation (EEC) No 610/77, of the prices recorded in
purchasing possibilities or that relate to unrepresenta­      the surplus and deficit zones ; whereas the price
tive quantities should not be taken into account ;            recorded in the surplus zone is equal to the arithmetic
whereas offer prices should also be excluded when the         mean of the prices recorded on each of the markets
movement of prices in general or the information              within that zone ; whereas in respect of the United
available gives reason to believe that they are unrepre­      Kingdom the weighted average prices of adult bovine
sentative of the true trend of prices in the country of       animals recorded on the representative markets of
origin ;                                                      Great Britain on the one hand and Northern Ireland
                                                              on the other are adjusted by the coefficient fixed in
                                                              the abovementioned Annex II ;
Whereas, where the free-at-frontier offer price for
frozen meat differs by less than one unit of account          Whereas prices for the different categories and quali­
per 100 kilograms from that previously used for the           ties not obtained from prices which are 'live weight
calculation of the levy, the latter price should be           excluding tax', are multiplied by the live weight
                                                              conversion coefficients fixed in Annex II to the said
retained ;
                                                              Regulation and, in the case of Italy, are first increased
                                                              or reduced by the corrective amounts fixed in the said
                                                              Annex ;
Whereas pursuant to Article 1 2 (6) of Regulation (EEC)
No 805/68 the price of adult bovine animals on repre­
sentative Community markets is the price established
                                                              Whereas if one or more Member States, for veterinary
                                                              or health reasons for example, adopt measures affec­
on the basis of prices recorded over a period to be
determined on the representative market or markets of
                                                              ting the normal trend of prices recorded on their
each Member State for the various categories of adult
                                                              markets, the Commission may disregard the prices
                                                              recorded on the market or markets in question, or use
bovine animals or of meat from such animals, taking           the latest prices recorded on the market or markets in
into account the size of each of these categories and         question before the entry into force of such measures ;
the relative size of the bovine herd of each Member
State ;
                                                              Whereas, in the absence of information, prices
                                                              recorded on representative Community markets are
                                                              determined mainly by reference to the most recently
Whereas the prices of adult bovine animals recorded           recorded prices ;
on the representative market or markets of each
Member State are equal to the average, weighted by
the relevant coefficients, of the prices for the various      Whereas, for such period as the price of adult bovine
qualities of adult bovine animals or meat of such             animals recorded on representative Community
animals over a period of seven days in that Member            markets differs by less than 0-24 ECU per 100 kilo­
State at a particular wholesale marketing stage ;             grams of live weight from the price previously used,
whereas the representative markets, categories and            the latter is retained ;
qualities of products and weighting coefficients are
fixed in Annex II to Commission Regulation (EEC)              Whereas the levies must be so fixed that obligations
No 610/77 of 18 March 1977 on the determination of            arising from international agreements concluded by
prices of adult bovine animals on representative              the Community continue to be fulfilled ;
Community markets and the survey of prices of
certain other cattle in the Community ('), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 337/82 (2) ;                   Whereas the various cuts of frozen meat are defined in
                                                              Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;
Whereas, for Member States with several representative        Whereas, pursuant to Article 33 (2) of Regulation
markets, the price of each category and quality is equal      (EEC) No 805/68, the nomenclature provided for in
to the arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each         this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
                                                               Customs Tariff ;
of those markets ; for representative markets held
several times in one period of seven days, the price of
each category and quality is equal to the arithmetic          Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of
mean of the prices recorded on each market day ;               each month and are applicable from the first Monday
whereas in respect of Italy the price of each category        of the following month ; whereas these levies may be
and quality is equal to the average, weighted by the          altered in the period between two fixings where the
                                                              basic levy is altered, or in these case of changes in the
(') OJ No L 77, 25. 3. 1977, p. 1 .                            prices recorded on Community representative
P) OJ No L 42, 13. 2. 1982, p. 9.                              markets :
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Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,           mation and quotations known to the Commission, the
levies should be calculated on the following basis :          levies on frozen beef and veal should be as set out in
                                                              the Annex hereto .
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
     relation to each other at any given moment within
     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     their central rate,
                                                                                     Article 1
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of      The import levies on frozen beef and veal shall be as
     these currencies recorded for a given period in          set out in the Annex hereto .
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
     in the previous indent ;                                                        Article 2
Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the afore­        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March
mentioned Regulations, and in particular to the infor­        1982 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 25 February 1982.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                          Poul DALSAGER
                                                                    Member of the Commission
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                                                          ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 25 February 1982 fixing the import levies on frozen beef
                                   and veal (') for the period beginning 1 March 1982
                                                                                                       (ECU / 100 kg)
                                          CCT heading No                                           Levy
                                                                                            — Net weight —
           02.01   A II b) 1                                                                    141-599
           02.01   A II b) 2                                                                    1 1 3-280 (a)
           02.01   A II b) 3                                                                    177-000
           02.01   A II b) 4 aa)                                                                212-399
           02.01   A lib) 4 bb) 11                                                              177-000 (a)
           02.01   A II b) 4 bb) 22 (b)                                                         177-000 (a)
           02.01   All b) 4 bb) 33                                                              243-551 (a)
            (') In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 435/80, levies are not applied to imports into the
                 French overseas departments of products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States
                 or in the overseas countries and territories .
           (a) Where products are imported under the conditions set out in Article 14 of Council Regulation
                (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 and in provisions adopted for its application, the levy is totally
                or partially suspended in accordance with those provisions.
           (b) Entry under this subheading is subject to the production of a certificate issued on conditions laid
                down by the competent authorities of the European Communities.