CELEX: 31973R1214
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-11 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1214/73 of the Commission of 10 May 1973 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

No L 125 /24                                Official Journal of the European Communities                               11 . 5 . 73
                                     REGULATION (EEC) No 1214/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                              of 10 May 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 regard 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
(*) OJ   No   L  148, 28. 6. 1968, p . 24.
(*) OJ   No   L, 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 23 .
(a) OJ   No   L  169, 18 . 7. 1968 , p . 12 .                             («) 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 basis of an
                                                               exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
Whereas Article 13 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 /            which are floating or whose central rate differs from
68 provides that, for the frozen meat listed in                the official parity, on the effective rate or the
Section (c) of the Annex to that Regulation under              central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
subheadings Nos 02.01 A II a) 2 bb), 02.01 A II a) 2           the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
cc) and 02.01 A II a) 2 dd), the levy is equal to the          on 13 February 1973 ;
levy on the product in the same Section under
subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) multiplied by the            Whereas it follows from applying the provisions of
fixed coefficient for each of the products in ques­            the abovementioned Regulations to the quotations
tion ; whereas this coefficient was fixed in the                and other information known to the Commission
Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1072/68 ; whereas                 that the levies on frozen meat should be fixed as
that Regulation also defines the requirements to be             shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
met by certain products for which the levy is fixed
by means of these coefficients ;
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 13 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/.
68 provides that, where free quotations on the                                         Article 1
world market are not a determining factor for the
offer price and where that price is lower than these            The levies referred to in Article 13 of Regulation
quotations, a special price calculated on the basis             (EEC) No 805/68 are hereby fixed as shown in the
of the offer price is substituted, solely in respect of         Annex to this Regulation. .
the imports in question, for the world market price
for frozen meat referred to in paragraph 2 of that                                     Article 2
Article ;
                                                                To be classified as products falling within :
Whereas, subject to the foregoing, the levy referred            — subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) ;
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 bb) and cc) ;
applicable from the first Monday of the following               products must correspond to the definition for the
month ; whereas, however, the levy is altered in the            product in question contained in Regulation (EEC)
intervening period if there is considerable fluctu­             No 1072/68 , ais last amended by Regulation (EEC)
ation in the world market price for frozen meat ;               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 14 May
 Common Customs Tariff ;                                         1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 10 May 1973 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                       Member of the Commission
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                                                                 ANNEX
                        Levies applicable from 14 May 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              21-745
                                            bb)  Forequarters                                                   21-745 (a)
                                            cc)  Hindquarters                                                   27-181
                                            dd)   Other :
                                                 11. Unboned (bone-in)                                          32-618
                                                 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                                               27-181 (a)
                                                      bbb) Other                                                37-401 ( 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 1113/73 .