CELEX: 31973R2298
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-24 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2298/73 of the Commission of 23 August 1973 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

No L 236/24                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                24. 8 . 73
                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 2298/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 23 August 1973
                                            fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           1072/68 (5) of 25 July 1968 determining the bases
COMMUNITIES,                                                            for calculating the levy on certain kinds of frozen
                                                                        beef and veal, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
Having fegard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                      No 1986/71 (6) ;
pean Economic Community ;
                                                                        Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 990/68
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/                       provides that the most favourable purchasing oppor­
68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                       tunities among those which are most representative
of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by                      as regards quality and quantity as mentioned in
Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2), and in particular                       Article 13 (2) (b ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 /68
Article 13 (6) thereof ;                                                should be determined in the first place with refer­
                                                                        ence to free-at-Community-frontier offers or, where
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                            such offers are not sufficiently representative of the
Committee ;                                                             market situation, world market offers delivered free­
                                                                        at-Community-frontier for each of the products
Whereas Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                         listed in Section (c) of the Annex to Regulation
805 /68 provides for charging a levy on imports of                       (EEC) No 805/68 ; whereas, for products other than
the frozen meat listed in Section (c) of the Annex to                   those covered by the first subparagraph of Article
that Regulation ; whereas the levy on products                          13 (2) of that Regulation, the offer price is
falling within subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) is                     converted into a price relating to the products
equal to the difference between :                                       covered by that subparagraph by means of the coef­
— the guide price for the corresponding product                         ficients referred to in Article 13 (3 ) of that Regula­
     multiplied by a coefficient expressing the ratio                   tion ; whereas those coefficients were fixed in the
     existing in the Community between the price for                    Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1072/68 ;
     fresh meat of a quality competitive with the
     frozen meat in question, presented in the same                     Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1072/68
     form, and the average price for adult bovine                       provides that the Commission, when determining
     animals, and                                                       the world market price referred to in Article 13 (2)
— the price on the world market for frozen meat,                        (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 /68 must disregard
     based on the most favourable purchasing oppor­                     offer prices which do not correspond to real
     tunities among those which are most representa­                    purchasing opportunities or which relate to small
     tive, as regards quality and quantity, of the devel­               unrepresentative quantities or to qualities which
     opment of this market, plus customs duty and a                     differ appreciably from those of the majority of the
     standard amount representing the specific costs                    products entering world trade ; whereas offer prices
     incurred in importing frozen meat ;                                which the Commission believes, in view of general
                                                                        price movements or information available to it, not
Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                        to be representative of real price trends in the
990/68 (3) of 15 July 1968 on general rules for                         country of origin must also be disregarded ;
fixing the levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and
veal provides that the guide price for the corres­                      Whereas offers on the world market are converted
ponding product is the guide price for adult bovine                     into free-at-Community-frontier offers by taking
animals ; whereas this guide price was fixed by                          into account the normal transport and insurance
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1192/73 (4) of 8 May                       costs of which the Commission has knowledge ;
 1973 ;
                                                                        Whereas the standard amount referred to in Article
Whereas the abovementioned coefficient, calculated                       13 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 is fixed
in accordance with the rules contained in Article 13
                                                                         at 3 units of account per 100 kg ;
 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 was fixed at
1-53     by      Commission         Regulation       (EEC)   No
                                                                        Whereas, as long as the world market price for
                                                                        frozen meat differs by less that 1 unit of account
 i1) OJ  No   L   148 , 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.
 (2) OJ  No   I.  25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 23.
 (•) OJ  No   L   169, 18 . 7. 1968, p. 12.                              (5) OJ No L 180, 26. 7. 1968, p. 21.
 (4) OJ  No   L   122, 9. 5 . 1973, p. 6.                                 (6) OJ No L 209, 15 . 9. 1971 , p. 27.
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per 100 kg from the world market price previously              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
used, the latter price is maintained ;                         levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 13 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 /               relation to each other, at any given moment,
68 provides that, for the frozen meat listed in                    within a band of 2·25 °/o, a rate of exchange
Section (c) of the Annex to that Regulation under                  based on their effective parity ;
subheadings Nos 02.01 A II a) 2 bb ), 02.01 A II a) 2          — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
cc) and 02.01 A II a) 2 dd), the levy is equal to the              the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
levy on the product in the same Section under                      each of these currencies recorded for a given
subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa ) multiplied by the               period, in relation to the Community currencies
fixed coefficient for each of the products in ques­                referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
tion ; whereas this coefficient was fixed in the
Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1072/68 ; whereas                 Whereas it follows from applying the provisions of
that Regulation also defines the requirements to be            the abovementioned Regulations to the quotations
met by certain products for which the levy is fixed            and other information known to the Commission
by means of these coefficients ;                               that the levies on frozen meat should be fixed as
                                                               shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Whereas Article 13 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 /
68 provides that, where free quotations on the
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
world market are not a determining factor for the
offer price and where that price is lower than these
                                                                                        Article 1
quotations, a special price calculated on the basis
of the offer price is substituted, solely in respect of        The levies referred to in Article 13 of Regulation
the imports in question, for the world market price            (EEC) No 805 /68 are hereby fixed as shown in the
for frozen meat referred to in paragraph 2 of that             Annex to this Regulation.
Article ;
                                                                                        Article 2
Whereas, subject to the foregoing, the levy referred           To be classified as products falling within :
to in Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 /68
is fixed before the 25th day of each month and is              —• subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) ;
applicable from the first Monday of the following              —■ subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 bb ) and cc) ;
month ; whereas, however, the levy is altered in the
intervening period if there is considerable fluctu­            products must correspond to the definition for the
ation in the world market price for frozen meat ;              product in question contained in Regulation ( EEC )
                                                               No 1072/ 68 , as last amended by Regulation ( EEC )
                                                               No 1986/71 .
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regu­                                   Article 3
lation (EEC) No 805/68, the nomenclature provided
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 September
Common Customs Tariff ;                                         1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 23 August 1973 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                     Member of the Commission
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                                                                  ANNEX
                          Levies applicable from 3 September 1973 to imports from third countries (1)
                 CCT                                                                                               Levy in
               heading                                      Description of goods                                 u.a. / 100 kg
                  No                                                                                             net weight
            02.01           Meat and edible offals of the animals falling within heading No
                            01.01 , 01.02, 01.03 or 01.04 , fresh, chilled or frozen :
                            A. Meat :
                                II. Of bovine animals :
                                    a) Of domestic bovine animals :
                                        2 . Frozen :
                                            aa)  Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quarters                 13·386
                                            bb)   Forequarters                                                    13·386 (a)
                                            cc)  Hindquarters                                                      16·733
                                            dd)   Other :
                                                 11 . Unboned (bone-in)                                           20·079
                                                 22 . Boned or boneless :
                                                      aaa) Forequarters , whole or cut into a maxi­
                                                            mum of five pieces, each quarter being in
                                                            a single block ; 'compensated' quarters in
                                                            two blocks, one of which contains the
                                                            forequarter, whole or cut into a maximum
                                                            of five pieces, and the other, the hind­
                                                            quarter, excluding the tenderloin, in one
                                                            piece                                                 16·733 ( a)
                                                      bbb) Other                                                  23·024 (a)
            (') Regulation (EEC) No 521/70 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas
                departments of products originating in the AASM and CCT .
            (a) Where these products are imported under the conditions set out in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC)
                No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 and in the provisions adopted for its application , the levy is totally or partially
                suspended in accordance with these provisions .
            N.B. : The levies are suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No 182/73 last amended
                       by Regulation (EEC) No 1331/73 .