CELEX: 51986PC0363
Language: en
Date: 1986-06-23
Title: Proposal for a Council Directive on the amount of the fees to be charged for health inspections and controls of fresh meat and poultrymeat pursuant to Directive 85/73/EEC

18.7.86                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                              No C 180/5
                                                                II
                                                        (Preparatory Acts)
                                                   COMMISSION
              Proposal for a Council Directive on the amount of the fees to be charged for health inspections
                        and controls of fresh meat and poultrymeat pursuant to Directive 85/73/EEC
                                                       COM(86) 363 final
                                 (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 24 June 1986)
                                                         (86/C 180/05)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            Whereas the fee should also include the costs incurred in
                                                                    the implementation of Council Directive 000/000
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               concerning the detection of residues in animals and fresh
Economic Community,                                                 meat;
Having regard to Council Directive 85/73/EEC of                     Whereas, in view of the special situation of Spain and
29 January 1985 on the financing of health inspections              Portugal, the fee to be collected by these Member States
and controls of fresh meat and poultrymeat ('), and in              should be progressively aligned on the Community fee;
particular Article 2(1) thereof,
                                                                    Whereas, to ensure that the system functions properly,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                  the fee should be charged entirely to the person on
                                                                    whose behalf the animals are slaughtered and the rate
Having regard       to   the   opinion    of  the   European        should be fixed for converting into national currency the
Parliament,                                                         amount of the fee expressed in ECU, provision being
                                                                    made for the review of that amount if necessary,
Whereas, in order to lay down harmonized rules for the
financing of health inspections and controls, a minimum             HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
amount should be set at Community level for the fee to
be collected to cover the costs of health inspections and
controls;                                                                                     Article 1
                                                                     1.    The level of the fee provided for in the first indent
Whereas, however, without prejudice to the second                   of Article 1 (1) of Directive 85/73/EEC shall be:
indent of Article 1 (1) or the second subparagraph of
Article 2 (1) of Directive 85/73/EEC, a minimum                     — 10      ECU per tonne of bovine meat,
amount should initially be set only for the fee to be
collected in respect of meat from the animals mentioned             —     9,5 ECU per tonne of pigmeat,
in Article 1 (2) of the abovementioned Directive and
slaughtered on Community territory, the provisions of               —; 26     ECU per tonne of sheepmeat or goatmeat,
Articles 23 and 26 of Council Directive 72/462/EEC (2)
as last amended by 000/000, whereby the costs are                   — 17       ECU per tonne of meat of domestic solipeds,
chargeable to the parties concerned, remaining applicable
in the case of imports from third countries;                        — 14,5 ECU per tonne of poultrymeat (category I —
                                                                               1 200 carcasses per hour),
Whereas Article 12 of Council Directive 85/358/EEC of
 16 July 1985 supplementing Directive 81/602/EEC                    — 26       ECU per tonne of poultrymeat (category II —
concerning the prohibition of certain substances having a                      600 carcasses per hour),
hormonal action and of any substances having a
thyrostatic action (3) requires expenses entailed by the            —     7,6 ECU per tonne of poultrymeat (category III —
controls referred to in that Directive are to be included                      600 carcasses per hour — 5 kg or over).
in the fees laid down;
                                                                     2.    In the case of Spain and Portugal the level of the
                                                                     fee shall be one fifth of that specified in paragraph 1.
(') OJ No L 32, 5. 2. 1985, p. 14.                                   Each year and by an equal amount, Spain and Portugal
O OJ No L 302, 31. 12. 1972, p. 28.                                  shall increase the level of the fee so that it reaches the
(») OJ No L 191, 23. 7. 1985, p. 46.                                 amount specified in paragraph 1 within four years.
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                           Article 2                                 Council a report accompanied if necessary by appro-
                                                                     priate proposals for the adjustments of the amount to
The fee provided for in the first indent of Article 1 (1)            take account in particular of the experience gained and
of Directive 85/73/EEC shall be collected at the                     of the changes in the cost of health inspections and
slaughterhouse and shall be payable by the person on                 controls in the Community.
whose behalf the slaughter is carried out.
                           Article 3                                                           Article 5
The rate for conversion into national currency of the                Member States shall bring into force the laws, regu-
amounts in ECU specified in this Directive shall be that             lations and administrative provisions necessary to comply
published annually on the first working day of the month             with the provisions of this Directive not later than
of September in the C Series of the Official Journal of the          31 December 1986 and shall forthwith inform the
European Communities.                                                Commission thereof. However, Greece shall comply with
                                                                     it not later than 1 January 1988.
                           Article 4
                                                                                               Article 6
Before 1 January 1990 the Commission shall review the
amounts specified in Article 1 and shall present to the              This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
             Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 2262/84 laying down
                                             special measures in respect of olive oil
                                                       COM(86)      357final
                                  (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 4 July 1986)
                                                          (86/C 180/06)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             are to be chargeable to the general budget of
                                                                     the European Communities up to certain maximum
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                amounts;
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
thereof,
                                                                     Whereas, for different reasons communicated by Italy
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                    and Greece it was not possible for the agencies in these
                                                                      Member States to perform the inspection work and the
Having regard       to   the    opinion   of  the   European          other duties attributed to them in 1984/85; whereas
Parliament,                                                           1985/86 is the marketing year during which the agencies
                                                                     will actually start to function; whereas no payments
                                                                      arising from the application of these functions have been
Whereas, under Article 1 (1) of Council Regulation                    made in 1984/85 with the exception of a few expenses
 (EEC) N o 2262/84 ('),. as amended by Regulation                     incurred relating to the initial setting up of the agencies;
 (EEC) No 3788/85 (2), each Member State producing                    whereas, accordingly, the period over which the actual
 more than a minimal quantity of olive oil is to set up an            expenditure of the agencies shall be chargeable to the
 agency for the purpose of carrying out certain inspection            general budget of the European Communities must be
 work and other duties in connection with the olive oil               extended by one more year; whereas the total amounts
 production aid scheme;                                               referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 1 (5) of
                                                                      Regulation (EEC) N o 2262/84 must remain the same;
 Whereas, under Article 1 (5) of the same Regulation,
 over a period of three years from 1 November 1984 in
 the case of Italy and Greece and from 1 March 1986 to
 31 October 1987 in the case of Spain and Portugal,                   Whereas the period referred to in the second subpara-
 certain percentages of the agency's actual expenditure               graph of Article 1 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 2262/84
                                                                      must be extended in the case of Spain and Portugal to
                                                                      31 October 1988; whereas provision should be made for
 0) OJ No L 208, 3. 8. 1984, p. 11.                                   a financial contribution from the Community over this
 O OJ No L 367, 31. 12. 1985, p. 1.                                   period,