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Date: 1973-11-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 19 October 1973 fixing the amount by which the monetary compensatory amounts for beef and veal are to be reduced

13 . 11 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 312/ 19
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                                                         COMMISSION
                                                       COMMISSION DECISION
                                                            of 19 October 1973
                fixing the amount by which the monetary compensatory amounts for beef and
                                                          veal are to be reduced
                                                                (73/337/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                            among the States and between the States and third
COMMUNITIES ,                                                             countries the compensatory amounts applicable
                                                                          because of a depreciation of the currency concerned
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     cannot exceed the tax on imports from third coun­
Economic Community ;                                                      tries ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
974/71 (') of 12 May 1971 on certain measures of                          Whereas, in order that this rule may be observed,
conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture                            Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1463/73 has stated
following the temporary widening of the margins of                        that for the application of Article 4a (2) of Regulation
fluctuation     for  the     currencies      of   certain  Member         (EEC) No 974/71 to beef meat, the Commission shall
States, as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No                           give notice of the amounts by which the monetary
 1 225/73 (2) ;                                                           compensatory amounts are to be reduced ;
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 1463/73 (3) of 30 May 1973 , as to the detailed rules for                Whereas the amounts fixed in accordance with this
applying the monetary compensatory amounts, as last                       rule are periodically altered when changes in the tax
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2575/73 (4), and in                        on imports from third countries make this necessary ;
particular Article 5 (2) thereof ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                              Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1695/73 (7) of
Committee ;                                                               25 June 1973 , as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                           1824/73 (8), has determined to what extent the mon­
Whereas Commission                 Regulation (EEC) No                    etary compensatory amounts applicable to beef and
2102/73 (5) of 31 July 1973, as last amended by Regu­                     veal by reason of the depreciation of a currency may
lation ( EEC) No 2843/73 (6) fixed the monetary                           be higher than the charge on imports from third coun­
compensatory amounts to be applied from 22 October                        tries ;
 1973 ;
Whereas these compensatory amounts have been                              Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, world
fixed without taking account of Article 4a (2) of Regu­                   market prices should be calculated on the following
lation (EEC) No 974/71 , which provides that in trade                     basis :
(!)  OJ  No  L  106, 12. 5. 1971 , p . 1 .                                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
(2 ) OJ  No  L  125, 11 . 5. 1973 , p . 49 .                                   relation to each other, at any given moment,
0    OJ  No  L  146, 4 . 6 . 1973, p. 1 .
(4)  OJ  No  L  266, 22. 9 . 1973 , p . 14.
(5)  OJ  No  L  213, 1 . 8 . 1973, p. 1 .                                 ( 7) OJ No L 173 , 28 . 6. 1973 , p . 1 .
(o   OJ  No  L  294, 22. 10 . 1973, p. 1 .                                (8) OJ. No L 185, 7. 7. 1973, p. 1 .
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    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based       HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
    on their effective parity ;
                                                                                  Article 1
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each        With effect from 22 October 1973 the amounts by
    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in     which the monetary compensatory amounts appearing
    relation to the Community currencies referred to         in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2102/73, as last
    in the previous subparagraph ;                           amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2843/73 must be
                                                             reduced in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation
Whereas, pursuant to the second subparagraph of             (EEC) No 1463/73, are fixed in the Annex hereto.
Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1463/73 ; if the
monetary compensatory amount for certain products                                 Article 2
has to be reduced by a higher amount in the United
                                                            This Decision is addressed to all Member States .
Kingdom than in Ireland, the amount of the reduc­
tion fixed for the United Kingdom shall apply to
Ireland .                                                    Done at Brussels, 19 October 1973 .
                                                                                     For the Commission
Whereas application of the said criteria results in a
fixing of the amounts by which the monetary compen­                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
satory amounts are to be adjusted to the level
appearing in the Annex hereto,                                                   Member of the Commission
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                                                                        ANNEX
                                       Amounts to be deducted from the monetary compensatory amounts
                                                                                   Italy                      Ireland    United Kingdom
                            CCT heading No                                     (Lit/ 100 kg)                (£/100 kg)      (£/100 kg)
                                                                                                    — Live weight —
           ex  01.02  A  II a) H                                                      0                       4-987           4-987
           ex  01.02  A  II a) («)                                                    0                       4-987           4-987
           ex  01.02  A II  b) (3)                                                 382                        4-325           4-325
           ex  01.02  A II  b) {*)                                                 382                        4-325           4-325
                                                                                                     — Net weight —
              02.01 A II a       aa) 11                                               0                        6-568          6-568
              02.01   Alia       aa) 22                                               0                        4-940          4-940
              02.01   A II a     aa) 33                                               0                        8-197          8-197
              02.01   Alia       bb) 11                                               0                       7-088           7-088
              02.01   A II a     bb) 22                                               0                       5-572           5-572
              02.01   All a      bb) 33                                               0                       8-604           8-604
              02.01   A II a     cc) 11                                               0                      12-404          12-404
              02.01   A II a     cc) 22                                              0                       10-340           7-206
              02.01   A II a     aa)                                                  0                       5-916           5-916
              02.01   AH a       bb)                                                  0                       4-635           4-635
              02.01   A II a     cc)                                                 0                        7-518           7-518
              02.01   A II a     dd) 11                                              0                        9-119           9-119
              02.01   A II a     dd ) 22 aaa)                                        0                        5-115           5-115
              02.01 Alia         dd) 22 bbb) («)                                     0                        5-115           5-115
              02.01 All a        dd) 22 ccc)                                         0                        7-038           7-038
              02.06 CI a )                                                           0                        9-916           9-916
              02.06 C I a)                                                           0                        7-493             0
                                                                                                   L
 P) Calves for fattening weighing less than 80 kg.
(*) Calves other than those referred to in (') above.
     Entry in this subheading is subject to the conditions to be determined by the competent authorities.
 (•) Young male bovine animals for fattening of a minimum weight of 220 kg and a maximum weight of 300 kg.
(*) Young male bovine animals other than those referred to in (') above.
      Entry in this subheading is subject to the conditions to be determined by the competent authorities .
(*) Entry under this subheading is subject to the production of a certificate issued on conditions laid down by the competent authorities of
     the European Communities .