CELEX: 31976R0586
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 586/76 of 15 March 1976 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

No L 69/44                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                               15 . 3 . 76
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 586/76
                                                          of 15 March 1976
                                        fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       nities among those which are most representative as
COMMUNITIES,                                                         regards quality and quantity as mentioned in Article
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 13 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 should be
Economic Community,                                                  determined in the first place with reference to free-at­
                                                                     Community-frontier offers or, where such offers are
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         not sufficiently representative of the market situation,
805/68 ( ! ), of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                world market offers delivered free-at-Community­
tion of the market in beef and veal, as last amended                 frontier for each of the products listed in Section (c) of
by Regulation (EEC) No 568/76 (2), and in particular                 the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 ; whereas,
Article 13 (6) thereof,                                              for products other than those covered by the first
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                         subparagraph of Article 13 (2) of that Regulation, the
Committee,                                                           offer price is converted into a price relating to the
                                                                      products covered by that subparagraph by means of
Whereas Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68               the coefficients referred to in Article 13 (3) of that
provides for charging a levy on imports of the frozen                 Regulation ; whereas those coefficients were fixed in
meat listed in Section (c) of the Annex to that Regula­               Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2260/73 ;
tion ; whereas the levy on products falling within
subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) is equal to the differ­
ence between :                                                       Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2260/73
— the guide price for the corresponding product                       provides that the Commission, when determining the
     multiplied by a coefficient expressing the ratio                 world market price referred to in Article 13 (2) (b) of
     existing in the Community between the price for                  Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 must disregard offer
     fresh meat of a quality competitive with the frozen              prices which do not correspond to real purchasing
     meat in question, presented in the same form, and                opportunities or which relate to small unrepresenta­
     the average price for adult bovine animals, and                  tive quantities or to qualities which differ appreciably
— the price on the world market for frozen meat,                      from those of the majority of the products entering
     based on the most favourable purchasing opportu­                 world trade ; whereas offer prices which the Commis­
     nities among those which are most representative,                sion believes, in view of general price movements or
     as regards quality and quantity, of the develop­                 information available to it, not to be representative of
     ment of this market, plus customs duty and a                     real price trends in the country of origin must also be
     standard amount representing the specific costs                  disregarded ;
     incurred in importing trozen meat ;
Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                      Whereas offers on the world market are converted
990/68 of 15 July 1968 on general rules for fixing the                into free-at-Community-frontier offers by taking into
levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and veal provides                account the normal transport and insurance costs of
that the guide price for the corresponding product is                 which the Commission has knowledge ;
the guide price for adult bovine animals (3) ; whereas
this guide price was fixed by Council Regulation
(EEC) No 558 /76 of 15 March 1976 (4).                                Whereas the standard amount referred to in Article 13
Whereas the abovementioned coefficient, calculated                    (2) (b) of Regulation ( EEC) No 805/68 is fixed at 5-5
 in accordance with the rules contained in Article 13                 units of account per 100 kg ;
(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 was fixed at 1-53
by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2260/73 of 17
                                                                      Whereas, as long as the world market price for frozen
August 1973 determining the bases for calculating the
                                                                      meat differs by less that 1 unit of account per 100 kg
levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and veal (5), as
                                                                      from the world market price previously used, the latter
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 60/74 (6) ;
                                                                      price is maintained ;
Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 990/68
 provides that the most favourable purchasing opportu­
                                                                      Whereas Article 13 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/
(') OJ  No   L  148, 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 24.                          68 provides that, for the frozen meat listed in Section
(2) OJ  No   L  67, 15. 3 . 1976, p. 28 .                             (c) of the Annex to that Regulation under subheadings
(3) OJ  No   L  169, 18 . 7 . 1968 , p . 12 .                         02.01 A II a) 2 bb), 02.01 A II a) 2 cc) and 02.01 A II
(4) OJ  No   L  67, 15. 3 . 1976, p. 4.
(5) OJ  No   L  233 , 21 . 8 . 1973, p. 10.                           a) 2 dd), the levy is equal to the levy on the product in
(') OJ  No   L  127, 9 . 5 . 1974, p . 32.                            the same Section under subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 aa)
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multiplied by the fixed coefficient for each of the           — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
products in question ; whereas this coefficient was               arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
fixed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2260/73 ;                 of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
whereas that Regulation also defines the requirements             relation to the Community currencies referred to
to be met by certain products for which the levy is               in the previous subparagraph ;
fixed by means of these coefficients ;
                                                              Whereas it follows from applying the provisions of
Whereas Article 13 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68          the abovementioned Regulations to the quotations
provides that, where free quotations on the world             and other information known to the Commission that
market are not a determining factor for the offer price       the levies on frozen meat should be fixed as shown in
and where that price is lower than these quotations, a        the Annex to this Regulation,
special price calculated on the basis of the offer price
is substituted, solely in respect of the imports in ques­     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tion, for the world market price for frozen meat
referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article ;                                         Article 1
Whereas, subject to the foregoing, the levy referred to       The levies referred to in Article 13 of Regulation
in Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 is          (EEC) No 805/68 are fixed as shown in the Annex to
fixed before the 25th day of each month and is appli­         this Regulation .
cable from the first Monday of the following month ;
whereas, however, the levy is altered in the inter­                                  Article 2
vening period if there is considerable fluctuation in
the world market price for frozen meat ;                      To  be classified as products falling within :
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­       —   subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 aa),
tion (EEC) No 805/68 , the nomenclature provided for          —   subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 bb) and cc),
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common              —   subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 dd) and 22 bbb).
Custofris Tariff ;
                                                              Products must correspond to the definition for the
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,           product in question contained in Regulation (EEC)
levies should be calculated on the following basis :          No 2260/73 .
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                                     Article 3
     relation to each other, at any given moment,
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based       This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 March
     on their effective parity ;                               1976 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 15 March 1976.
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                          P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                    Member of the Commission
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                                                                   ANNEX
                           Levies applicable from 15 March 1976 to imports from third countries (1)
                CCT                                                                                                Levy in
              heading                                        Description of goods                                u. a. /100 k«
                  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               108-171
                                            bb) Forequarters                                                      86-537 ( a)
                                            cc)  Hindquarters                                                   135-214
                                            dd) Other :
                                                11 . Unboned (bone-in)                                          162-257
                                                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 maxi­
                                                            mum of five pieces, and the other, the
                                                            hindquarter, excluding the tenderloin, in
                                                            one piece                                            135-214 (a)
                                                       bbb) Crop, chuck and blade and brisket cuts (b)           135-214 ( a)
                                                       ccc) Other                                                186-054 ( a)
           (i) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 the levies are not applied to imports into the French
                overseas departments of products originating in the African , Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas
                countries and territories'.
            (■) Subject to the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 1063/74 ( OJ No L 119, 1 . 5. 1974, p. 70) 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 .
            (b) 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.