CELEX: 31973R1672
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1672/73 of the Commission of 22 June 1973 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

No L 169/8                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               26. 6. 73
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 1672/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 22 June 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)
                                                                   No 1986/71 (6) ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community ;
                                                                  Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 990/68
                                                                  provides that the most favourable purchasing oppor­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805 /                tunities among those which are most representative
68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                  as regards quality and quantity as mentioned in
of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by                Article 13 (2) (b ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68
Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2), and in particular                 should be determined in the first place with refer­
Article 13 (6) thereof ;                                          ence to free-at-Community-frontier offers or, where
                                                                  such offers are not sufficiently representative of the
Whereas Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                   market situation, world market offers delivered free­
805/68 provides for charging a levy on imports of
the frozen meat listed in Section (c) of the Annex to             at-Community-frontier for each of the products
                                                                  listed in Section (c) of the Annex to Regulation
that Regulation ; whereas the levy on products
                                                                   (EEC) No 805/68 ; whereas, for products other than
falling within subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) is               those covered by the first subparagraph of Article
equal to the difference between :
                                                                   13 (2) of that Regulation, the offer price is
                                                                  converted into a price relating to the products
— the guide price for the corresponding product                   covered by that subparagraph by means of the coef­
     multiplied by a coefficient expressing the ratio             ficients referred to in Article 13 (3 ) of that Regula­
     existing in the Community between the price for              tion ; whereas those coefficients were fixed in the
     fresh meat of a quality competitive with the                 Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1072/68 ;
     frozen meat in question, presented in the same
     form, and the average price for adult bovine                 Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1072/68
     animals, and
                                                                  provides that the Commission, when determining
— the price on the world market for frozen meat,                  the world market price referred to in Article 13 (2)
     based on the most favourable purchasing oppor­               (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 must disregard
     tunities among those which are most representa­              offer prices which do not correspond to real
     tive, as regards quality and quantity, of the devel­         purchasing opportunities or which relate to small
    opment of this market, plus customs duty and a                unrepresentative quantities or to qualities which
     standard amount representing the specific costs              differ appreciably from those of the majority of the
     incurred in importing frozen meat ;                          products entering world trade ; whereas offer prices
                                                                  which the Commission believes, in view of general
Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                  price movements or information available to it, not
990/68 (3) of 15 July 1968 on general rules for
                                                                  to be representative of real price trends in the
fixing the levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and
                                                                  country of origin must also be disregarded ;
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
animals ; whereas this guide price was fixed by                   into free-at-Community-frontier offers by taking
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1192/73 (4 ) of 8 May                into account the normal transport and insurance
 1973 ;                                                           costs of which the Commission has knowledge ;
                                                                  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 .
(*) 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 .                                (8) 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 %>, 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 ) N° 1072/68 ; whereas                "Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee
that Regulation also defines thie requirements to be            was requested ;
met by certain products for which the levy is fixed            "Whereas it follows from applying the provisions of
by means of these coefficients ;                               the abovementioned Regulations to the quotations
                                                                and other information known to the Commission
                                                               that the levies on frozen meat should be fixed as
Whereas Article 13 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/;
68 provides that, where free quotations on the                  shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
world market are not a determining factor for the               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
offer price and where that price is lower than these
quotations, a special price calculated on the basis                                      Article 1
of the offer price is substituted, solely in respect of
the imports in question, for the world market price             The levies referred to in Article 13 of Regulation
for frozen meat referred to in paragraph 2 of that              (EEC) No 805 /68 are hereby fixed as shown in the
Article ;                                                       Annex to this Regulation.
                                                                                         Article 2
Whereas, subject to the foregoing, the levy referred
to in Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68            To be classified as products falling within :
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 2 July
 Common Customs Tariff ;                                         1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
               Done at Brussels, 22 June 1973 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                       Member of the Commission
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                                                                  ANNEX
                              Levies applicable from 2 July 1973 to imports from third countries (*)
                  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            29-152
                                             bb)   Forequarters                                                 29-152 ( a)
                                             cc)  Hindquarters                                                 36-440
                                             dd)   Other :
                                                  11 . Unboned (bone-in)                                       43-728
                                                  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                                             36-440 ( a )
                                                       bbb) Other                                              50-141 ( 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.