CELEX: 51987PC0513(02)
Language: en
Date: 1987-10-22
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 805/68 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN BEEF AND VEAL

No C 344/6                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                  21. 12. 87
               Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 on the common
                                           organization of the market in beef and veal
                                                        COM(87) 513 final
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 9 November          1987)
                                                           (87/C 344/02)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            pasta containing more than 20 % by weight of sausages and
                                                                    the like, meat and meat offal, including fats, are classified in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               subheadings of heading No 16.02 of the Common Customs
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 42 and 43            Tariff presently in force, wich are covered by Regulation
thereof,                                                            (EEC) No 805/68; whereas, in the combined nomenclature
                                                                    based on the harmonized system, by way of simplification,
                                                                    single subheadings have been established for each of the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                  aforementioned preparations; whereas it is desirable that
                                                                    the said preparations be covered by Council Regulation
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social             (EEC) No 2759/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common
Committee,                                                          organization of the markets in pigmeat (4), as last amended
                                                                    by Regulation (EEC) No 000/88; whereas, as a con-
                                                                    sequence, they should no longer be covered by Regulation
In cooperation with the European Parliament,                        (EEC) No 805/68;
Whereas the Community is a contracting party to the
International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity                Whereas numerous Regulations in the beef and veal sector
Description and Coding System, hereinafter referred to as           must be adapted in the light of the new nomenclature;
'the harmonized system', which is intended to replace the           whereas, under Article 15 of Regulation' (EEC) No 2658/
Convention of 15 December 1950 on Nomenclature for the              87, the changes made may be of a technical nature only;
Classification of Goods in Customs Tariffs;                         whereas, accordingly, a provision should be introduced
                                                                    whereby all other adjustments to Council or Commission
                                                                    Regulations on the common organization of the market in
Whereas, from 1 January 1988, there is established by               beef and veal should be made in accordance with the
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (]) a combined                  procedure laid down in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC)
goods nomenclature based on the harmonized system                   No 805/68, provided that such adjustments are required
which will meet the requirements both of the Common                 solely as a result of the introduction of the harmonized
Customs Tariff and of the external trade statistics of the          system.
Community;
Whereas, as a consequence, it is necessary to express the           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
descriptions of goods and tariff heading numbers which
appear in Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 (2), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 467/87 (3), according to
the terms of the combined nomenclature based on the
                                                                                              Article 1
harmonized system;
Whereas edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal may           Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 is hereby amended as
be classified, according to their essential character, in           follows:
various subheadings of heading No 02.06 of the Common
Customs Tariff presently in force; whereas, in the
combined nomenclature based on the harmonized system,
by way of simplification, a single subheading has been
established to cover all edible flours and meals of meat or
meat offal; whereas it is desirable that the said edible flours     1. Article 1 is amended as follows:
and meals of meat or meat offal be covered by Regulation
(EEC) No 805/68;
                                                                        (a) Paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
Whereas certain homogenized preparations of meat, meat
offal or blood, preparations of animal blood, and stuffed                   ' 1. The common organization of the market in beef
                                                                            and veal shall comprise a price and trading system
                                                                            and cover the following products:
(!) OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1.
(2) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.
(3) OJ No L 48, 17. 2. 1987, p. 1.                                  (4) OJ No L 282, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1.
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                       CN code                                              Description
              (a)     0102 90 1 0 ^ 3 7  Live animals of the domestic bovine species, other than pure-bred breeding
                                         animals
                      0201               Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled
                      0202               Meat of bovine animals, frozen
                      0206 10 95         Thick skirt and thin skirt, fresh or chilled
                      0206 29 91         Thick skirt and thin skirt, frozen
                      0210 20            Meat of bovine animals, salted, in brine, dried or smoked
                      0210 90 41         Thick skirt and thin skirt, salted, in brine, dried or smoked
                      0210 90 90         Edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal
                      1602 50 10         Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal of bovine animals, uncooked;
                                         mixtures of cooked meat or offal and uncooked meat or offal
                      1602 90 61         Other prepared or preserved meat containing bovine meat or offal, uncooked;
                                         mixtures of cooked meat or offal and uncooked meat or offal
              (b)     0102 10 00         Live bovine pure-bred breeding animals
                      0206 10 91         Edible offal of bovine animals excluding thick skirt and thin skirt, fresh or chilled,
                      0206 10 99         other than for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products
                      0206 21 00         Edible offal of bovine animals excluding thick skirt and thin skirt, frozen, other
                      0206 22 90         than for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products
                      0206 29 99
                      0210 90 49         Edible meat offal of bovine animals, salted, in brine, dried or smoked, other than
                                         thick skirt or thin skirt
                      1502 00 91         Fats of bovine animals, raw or rendered, whether or not pressed or solvent-
                                         extracted
                      1602 50 90         Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal, of bovine animals, other than
                                         uncooked meat or meat offal and mixtures of cooked meat or offal and uncooked
                                         meat or offal
                      1602 90 69         Other prepared or preserved meat containing bovine meat or offal, other than
                                         uncooked and mixtures of cooked meat or offal and uncooked meat or offal'
   (b) The text of paragraph 2 (a) is replaced by the                      subheadings 0201 10 and 0201 20 11 to 0201 20 59 shall
       following:                                                          be decided on by the Commission where, for the
                                                                           qualities or groups of qualities in question, the
       '(a) "bovine animals" means live animals of the                     following two conditions are met simultaneously:
            domestics bovine species other than pure-bred
            breeding animals falling within subheadings
                                                                           — the average Community market price recorded on
            0102 90 10 to 0102 90 37 of the combined
                                                                               the basis of the Community grid for the classification
            nomenclature;'
                                                                               of beef carcases is less than 91 % of the intervention
                                                                               price,
2. The first subparagraph of Article 6 (1) is replaced by the                  the average market price recorded on the basis of the
   following:                                                                  said grid in the Member State or States or the region
                                                                               of a Member State is less than 87 % of the
                                                                               intervention price.'
   'The intervention agencies designated by the Member
   States shall buy in fresh or chilled meat referred to in
   section (a) of the Annex, under subheadings 0201 20 11
   to 0201 20 59.'
                                                                       4. The second subparagraph of Article 10 (2) is replaced
                                                                           by the following:
3. Article 6a (2) is replaced by the following:
                                                                           'The free-at-Community-frontier offer price shall be
   '2. Buying-in by the intervention agencies in one or                    established by reference to the most representative
   more Member States or in a region of a Member State in                  purchasing possibilities, as regards quality and quan-
   respect of one or more qualities or groups of qualities to              tity, recorded over a period to be fixed preceding the
   be determined of fresh or chilled meat falling within                   determining of the basic levy, for bovine animals and for
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   fresh and chilled meat of the types set out in subheadings         7. The first and second indents of Article 16 (2) are
   0201 10 and 0201 20 11 to 0201 20 59 of section (a) of                 replaced by the following:
   the Annex, and taking into account inter alia:
                                                                          '— products falling within heading No 0201 and
   (a) the supply and demand situation;                                       subheading 0206 10 95 originating in and coming
   (b)the world market prices for frozen meat of a                            from non-member countries which, by reason of the
       category which is competitive with fresh or chilled                    length of the sea voyage involved, comply with an
       meat;                                                                  agreement concluded with the Community in this
                                                                              matter which provides for adequate safeguards,
   (c) past experience.'
                                                                         — products falling within heading No 0202 and
                                                                              subheading 0206 29 91 originating in and coming
5. Article 11 is amended as follows:                                          from non-member countries which comply with an
                                                                              agreement concluded with the Community in this
   (a) In paragraph 2, the introductory phrase is replaced                    matter which provides for adequate safeguards.'
       by the following:
       'This levy shall be determined for frozen meat of the
       types set out in subheadings 0202 10 00 and                    8. The Annex is replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.
       0202 20 10 of section (b) of the Annex, by reference
       to the difference between:'
                                                                                                Article 2
   (b) Paragraph 4 is replaced by the following text:
       '4. For frozen meat of the types set out in                    The Commission, in accordance with the procedure
       subheadings 0202 20 30, 0202 20 50, 0202 20 90,                provided for in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68,
       0202 30 and for thick skirt and thin skirt of                  shall make the necessary adaptations to Council or
       subheading 0206 29 91 of section (b) of the Annex,             Commission acts concerning the common organization of
       the basic levy shall be equal to the basic levy                the market in beef and veal which result from the
       determined for the product referred to in paragraph            application of Article 1.
       2, multiplied by a flat-rate coefficient fixed for each
       of the products in question.'
                                                                                                Article 3
   In Article 14 (1), the introductory phrase is replaced by          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
   the following:                                                     following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                      European Communities.
   'Frozen meat intended for processing and listed in
   section (b) of the Annex under subheadings 0202 20 30,             Article 1 shall apply from 1 January 1988.
   0202 30 and thick skirt and thin skirt of subheading
   0206 29 91 shall qualify, under the conditions laid down           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
   in this Article:'                                                  applicable in all Member States.
                                                              ANNEX
                                                             'ANNEX
                        CN code                                            Description
                      Section (a)
                      0201                Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled:
                      0201 10             — Carcases and half-carcases
                      0201 20             — Other cuts, with bone in:
                      0201 20 11          — — 'Compensated' quarters
                      0201 20 19
                      0201 20 31                 Unseparated or separated forequarters
                      0201 20 39
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    CN code                                       Description
   0201  20 51         Unseparated or separated hindquarters
   0201  20 59
   0201  20 90         Other
   0201  30     — Boneless
ex 0206  10     Edible offal of bovine animals, fresh or chilled:
                       Other:
   0206 10 95              Thick skirt and thin skirt
   Section (b)
   0202         Meat of bovine animals, frozen:
   0202 10 00   — Carcases and half-carcases
   0202 20      — Other cuts, with bone in:
   0202 20 10          'Compensated' quarters
   0202 20 30          Unseparated or separated forequarters
   0202 20 50          Unseparated or separated hindquarters
   0202 20 90   — — Other
   0202 30      — Boneless
ex 0206 29      Other edible offal of bovine animals, frozen:
   0206 29 91                  Thick skirt and thin skirt
   Section (c)
   0210         Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and
                meals of meat or meat offal:
   0210  20     — Meat of bovine animals:
   0210  20 10  — — With bone in
   0210  20 90  — — Boneless
ex 0210  90     — Other, including edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal:
                       Offal:
                           Of bovine animals:
   0210 90 41                  Thick skirt and thin skirt
   0210 90 90   — — Edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal
   Section (d)
ex 1602 50      Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal of bovine animals:
   1602 50 10          Uncooked; mixtures of cooked meat or offal and uncooked meat or offal
ex 1602 90      — Other, including preparations of blood of any animal:
                — — Other:
                           Other:
                               Other:
                                  Containing bovine meat or offal
   1602 90 61                         Uncooked; mixtures of cooked meat or offal and uncooked
                                      meat or offal'