CELEX: 31983R1253
Language: en
Date: 1983-05-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1253/83 of 20 May 1983 fixing the import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat

No L 133 / 26                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             21 . 5 . 83
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1253/83
                                                        of 20 May 1983
                            fixing the import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    account of the supply and demand situation for fresh
COMMUNITIES,                                                      or chilled meat, the world market price for frozen
                                                                  meat of a category which is competitive with fresh or
                                                                  chilled meat and of past experience ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                  No 2668/80, the free-at-frontier offer prices are to be
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      based inter alia on the prices shown in the customs
1837/80 of 27 June 1980 on the common organization                documents which accompany products imported from
of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('), as last              non-member       countries  or  on   other  information
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 195/82 (2), and in               concerning the export prices applied by those non­
particular the first paragraph of Article 1 1 thereof,            member countries ; whereas offer prices which do not
                                                                  correspond to actual purchasing possibilities or which
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                      relate to unrepresentative quantities and offer prices
Committee,                                                        which, in view of general price movements or other
                                                                  information available, may be considered not to be
                                                                  representative of actual price trends in the country of
Whereas under Article 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No               origin are to be disregarded ;
1837/80 a levy is applicable to the products falling
within subheading 02.01 A IV b) listed in Annex I to
that Regulation ;                                                 Whereas a special levy may be fixed for products origi­
                                                                  nating in or coming from one or more non-member
                                                                  countries if exports of the said products are made at
Whereas, pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EEC)               abnormally low prices ;
No 1837/80, the levy on frozen carcases and half­
carcases is to be equal to the difference between :
                                                                  Whereas the levy on the meat falling within subhead­
(a) the basic price multiplied by a coefficient represen­         ings 02.01 A IV b) 2, 3, 4 and 5 listed in Annex I to
     ting the relationship existing in the Community              Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is to be equal to the
    between the price of fresh meat of a category                 levy determined for frozen carcases, multiplied by a
     competitive with the frozen meat in question,                standard coefficient fixed for each of the products in
     presented in the same form, and the average price            question ; whereas these coefficients are fixed in
     of fresh and chilled sheep carcases, and                     Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 2668/80 ;
(b) the Community free-at-frontier offer price for the
     said frozen meat ;                                           Whereas the levies should be so fixed that the obliga­
                                                                  tions arising from international agreements concluded
                                                                  by the Community continue to be fulfilled ; whereas,
Whereas the basic price for the 1983/84 marketing                 moreover, account should be taken of the voluntary
year is fixed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No                 restraint arrangements made by the Community with
 1218/83 (3) ; whereas the coefficient referred to in             certain non-member countries ;
Article 13 ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is
fixed in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
2668 /80 (4) ;                                                    Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of
                                                                  each month for each week during the following
                                                                   month ; whereas they are applicable from Monday to
Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price is              Sunday ; whereas they can be altered within that
determined in the light of the most representative                 period if necessary ;
purchasing possibilities, as regards quality and quan­
tity, recorded over the period from the 21st day of the
                                                                  Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 preceding month to the 20th day of the month during               levies should be calculated on the following basis ;
which the levies are determined, taking particular
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
(') OJ  No  L  183,  16.  7. 1980, p. 1 .                              relation to each other at any given moment within
(2) OJ  No  L  140,  20.  5. 1982, p. 22.                              a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
(3) OJ  No  L  132,  21 . 5. 1983, p. 18 .
 <  OJ  No  L  276,  20 . 10. 1980, p. 39.                             their central rate ,
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     in the case of other currencies, an exchange based      goatmeat other than frozen meat should be as set out
     on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of      in the Annex to this Regulation,
     each of those currencies recorded for a given
     period in relation to the Community currencies
                                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     referred to in the previous indent ;
                                                                                    Article 1
                                                             The import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat
                                                             shall be as set out in the Annex hereto .
whereas, having regard to the provisions of the above­
mentioned Regulations and, in particular, to the infor­                             Article 2
mation and quotations known to the Commission, the
levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and          This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 May 1983.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 20 May 1983.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                        Poul DALSAGER
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                          ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 20 May 1983 fixing the import levies on frozen
                                                 sheepmeat and goatmeat
                                                                                                  (ECU/100 kg)
                            CCT
                                                           Week No 8                    Week No 9
                          heading                   from 23 to 29 May 1 983 (') from 30 May to 5 June 1983 (')
                             No
           02.01 A IV b) 1                                   154,890                      152,415
                          2                                  108,423                      106,691
                          3                                  170,379                      167,657
                          4                                  201,357                      198,140
                          5 aa)                              201,357                      198,140
                            bb)                              281,900                      277,395
           (') The levy applicable is limited to the amount bound under GATT or in the conditions laid down
               in Council Regulations (EEC) No 3019/81 , (EEC) No 1985/82, (EEC) No 3459/82 and Commis­
               sion Regulation (EEC) No 19/82.