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Date: 1974-06-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 May 1974 fixing the amount by which the monetary compensatory amounts for beef and veal are to be reduced

No L 160/20                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                17. 6 . 74
                                                       COMMISSION DECISION
                                                             of 17 May 1974
                  fixing the amount by which the monetary compensatory amounts for beef and veal
                                                            are to be reduced
                                                              (74/294/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          Regulation (EEC ) No 974/71 to beef meat, the
COMMUNITIES ,                                                           Commission shall give notice of the amounts by
                                                                        which the monetary compensatory amounts are to be
                                                                        reduced ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community ;
                                                                        Whereas the amounts fixed in accordance with this
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No                          rule are periodically altered when changes in the tax
974/71 (*) of 12 May 1971 on certain measures of                        on imports from third countries make this necessary ;
conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture
following the temporary widening of the margins of                      Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1695 /73 (7 ) of
fluctuation for the currencies of certain Member                        25 June 1973 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
States, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                          1824/73 (8) has determined to what extent the
3450/73 (2 );                                                           monetary compensatory amounts applicable to beef
                                                                        and veal by reason of the depreciation of a currency
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC ) No                        may be higher than the tax on imports from third
1463 /73 (3 ) of 30 May 1973 , as to the detailed rules                 countries ;
for applying the monetary compensatory amounts as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 350/74 (4),
and in particular Article 5 (2 ) thereof;                               Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, world
                                                                        market prices should be calculated on the following
                                                                        basis :
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;
                                                                        — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC ) No                                       relation to each other, at any given moment,
218 /74 ( 3 ) of 25 January 1974, as last amended by                          within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
Regulation ( EEC ) No 1246/74 (6) fixed the monetary                          based on their effective parity ;
compensatory amounts to be applied from 20 May
1974 ;                                                                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on
                                                                              the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
                                                                              each of these currencies recorded for a given
Whereas these compensatory amounts have been                                  period, in relation to the Community currencies
fixed without taking account of Article 4a (2) of                             referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
Regulation (EEC ) No 974/71 which provides that in
trade among the Member States and between the
Member States and third countries the compensatory                      Whereas pursuant to the second subparagraph of
amounts applicable because of a depreciation of the                     Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC ) No 1463/73 if the
currency concerned cannot exceed the tax on imports                     monetary compensatory amount for certain products
from third countries ;                                                  has to be reduced by a higher amount in the United
                                                                        Kingdom than in Ireland, the amount of the
Whereas , in order that this rule may be observed,                      reduction fixed for the United Kingdom shall apply
                                                                        to Ireland ;
Article 5 of Regulation (EEC ) No 1463 /73 has stated
that for the application of Article 4a (2) of
                                                                        Whereas application of the said criteria results in a
                                                                        fixing of the amounts by which the monetary
                                                                        compensatory amounts are to be reduced at the level
(!)  OJ No    L 106, 12 . 5 . 1971 , p. 1 .
                                                                        appearing in the Annex hereto,
(2)  OJ No    L 353 , 22 . 12 . 1973 , p . 25,
(3)  OJ No    L 146, 4. 6 . 1973 , p. 1 .
(4 ) OJ No    L 41 , 13 . 2 . 1974, p. 9 .
(3 ) OJ No    L 24, 28 . 1 . 1974, p. 14 .                              ( 7 ) OJ No L 173 , 28 . 6. 1973 , p. 1 .
(8)  OJ No    L 137, 20 . 5 . 1974 , p. 1 .                             («) OJ No L 185 , 7. 7. 1973 , p. 1 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                                                        Article 2
                                                                                     This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
                                 Article 1
With effect from 20 May 1974 the amounts by which                                    Done at Brussels, 17 May 1974 .
the monetary compensatory amounts appearing in
the Annex to Regulation ( EEC ) No 218 /74, as last                                                                             For the Commission
amended by Regulation (EEC ) No 1246/74 must be                                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
reduced in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation
(EEC ) No 1463 /73 , are fixed in the Annex hereto.                                                                    Member of the Commission
                                                                         ANNEX
                                     Amounts to be deducted front the monetary compensatory amounts
                                                                      United Kingdom             Ireland                     Italy              France
                           CCT heading No                                ( £ / 100 kg)        ( £ / 100 kg)            ( Lit / 100 kg)       ( FF/ 100 kg)
                                                                                         y                  Live weight
       ex  01.02   All  a) (»)                                              0                    0                             0                    0
       ex  01.02   A II a) (s )                                             0                    0                             0                    0
       ex  01.02   A II b)  (3 )                                            0                    0                             0                    0
       ex  01.02   A II b)  (4 )                                            0                    0                             0                    0
                                                                                                            Net weight
           02.01   All  a) 1 aa) 11                                         0                    0                             0                    0
           02.01   A II a) 1 aa) 22                                         0                    0                             0                    0
           02.01   A II a) 1 aa ) 33                                        0                    0                             0                    0
           02.01   All  a) 1 bb ) 11                                        0                    0                             0                    0
           02.01   A II a) 1 bb ) 22                                        0                    0                             0                    0
           02.01   A II a) 1 bb) 33                                         0                    0                             0                    0
           02.01   A II a) 1 cc) 11                                         0                    0                             0                    0
           02.01   A II a) 1 cc) 22                                         0                    0                             0                    0
           02.01   A II a) 2 aa)                                            0-910                0-910                         0                    0
           02.01   A II a) 2 bb )                                           0-740                0-740                         0                    0
           02.01   A II a) 2 cc)                                            1-123                 1-123                        0                    0
           02.01   A II a) 2 dd) 11                                         0                    0                             0                    0
           02.01   A II a) 2 dd) 22 aaa)                                    1-062                1-062                         0                    0
           02.01 A II a) 2 dd) 22 bbb ) (·')                                 1-062                1-062                        0                    0
           02.01 A II a) 2 dd) 22 ccc)                                      0-080                0-080                         0                    0
           02.06 C I a) 1                                                   0                    0                             0                    0
           02.06 C I a) 2                                                   0                    0                             0                    0
(') Calves for fattening weighing less than 80 kg .
(2) Calves other than those referred to in (') above .
     Entry in this subheading is subject to the conditions to be determined by the competent authorities .
(3) Young male bovine animals for fattening of a minimum weight of 220 kg and a maximum weight of 300 kg .
( 4) Young male bovine animals other than those referred to in (3) above .
     Entry in this subheading is subject to the conditions to be determined by the competent authorities .
(3) Entry under this subheading is subject to the production of a certificate issued on conditions laid down by the competent authorities of the Euro­
     pean Communities .