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Date: 1973-12-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 31 October 1973 fixing the amount by which the monetary compensatory amounts for beef and veal are to be reduced

6 . 12 . 73                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 336/ 11
                                                        COMMISSION
                                                      COMMISSION DECISION
                                                           of 31 October 1973
                fixing the amount by which the monetary compensatory amounts for beef and
                                                         veal are to be reduced .
                                                               (73/365/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           that for the application of Article 4a (2) of Regulation
COMMUNITIES,                                                             (EEC) No 974/71 to beef meat, the Commission shall
                                                                         give notice of the amounts by which the monetary
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    compensatory amounts are to be reduced ; whereas the
Economic Community ;                                                     amounts fixed in accordance with this rule are periodi­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                             cally altered when changes in the tax on imports from
974/71 (') of 12 May 1971 on certain measures of                         third countries make this necessary ;
conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture
following the temporary widening of the margins of
fluctuation     for  the      currencies     of  certain  Member         Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1 695/73 (7) of
States, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                           25 June 1973 as amended by Regulation ( EEC) No
 1 225/73 (2) ;                                                          1 824/73 (s) has determined to what extent the mone­
                                                                         tary compensatory amounts applicable to beef and
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No                         veal by reason of the depreciation of a currency may
 1463/73 (3) of 30 May 1973, as to the detailed rules for                be higher than the tax on imports from third coun­
applying the monetary compensatory amounts as last                       tries ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2575/73 (4), and in
particular Article 5, paragraph 2 thereof ;
                                                                         Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, world
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                             market ' prices should be calculated on the following
Committee ;                                                              basis :
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No
2102/73 (5) of 31 July 1973, as last amended by Regu­                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
lation (EEC) No 2994/73 (6) fixed the monetary                                relation to each other, at any given moment,
compensatory amounts to be applied from 1                                     within a band of 2-25 % , at rate of exchange based
November 1973 ;                                                               on their effective parity ;
Whereas these compensatory amounts have been
fixed without taking account of Article 4a (2) of Regu­                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
lation (EEC) No 974/71 which provides that in trade                           arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
among the Member States and between the Member                             - of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
States and third countries the compensatory amounts                           relation to the Community currencies referred to
applicable because of a depreciation of the currency                          in the previous subparagraph ;
concerned cannot exceed the tax on imports from
third countries ;
                                                                         Whereas pursuant to the second subparagraph of
                                                                         Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1463/73 if the
Whereas, in order that this rule may be observed,                        monetary compensatory amount for certain products
Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1463/73 has stated                      has to be reduced by a higher amount in the United
                                                                         Kingdom than in Ireland , the amount of the reduc­
(■)  OJ  No  L  106,  12. 5 . 1971 , p. 1 .                              tion fixed for the United Kingdom shall apply to
(2 ) OJ  No  L  125,  11 . 5 . 1973, p. 49 .                             Ireland ;
(3 ) OJ  No  L  146, 4. 6 . 1973, p. 1 .
H    OJ  No  L  266, 22. 9 . 1973, p. 14.
(5)  OJ  No  L  213, 1 . 8 . 1973 , p. 1 .                               O OJ No L 173 , 28 . 6. 1973, p. 1 .
(')  OJ  No  L  304, 1 . 11 . 1973, p. 1 .                                8 OJ No L 185, 7. 7. 1973, p. 1 .
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  Whereas application of the said criteria results in a                         • reduced in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation
   fixing of the amounts by which the monetary compen­                            (EEC) No 1463/73, are fixed in the Annex hereto.
  satory amounts are to be reduced at the level
  appearing in the Annex hereto,                                                                               Article 2
                                                                                  This Decision is addressed to all Member States .
   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                                  Done at Brussels, 31 October 1973 .
                                   Article 1
                                                                                                                   For the Commission
   With effect from 1 November 1 973 the amounts by
   which the monetary compensatory amounts appearing                                                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
   in the Annex to Regulation ( EEC) No 2102/73, as last
   amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2994/73 must be                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                                        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) (J)                                                   0                            0                     0
           ex  01.02  A  II a) (2)                                                   0                         4-987                 4-987
           ex  01.02  A  II b) (8)                                                   0                            0                     0
           ex  01.02  A  II b) (4)                                                   0                         4-325                 4-325
                                                                                                    — Net weight —
               02.01 A II a) 1 aa) 11                                                0                         6-568                 6-568
               02.01 A II a) 1 aa) 22                                                0                         4-940                 4-940
              02.01 A II a) 1 aa) 33                                                 0                         8-197                 8-197
               02.01 A II a) 1 bb) 11                                                0                         7-088                 7-088
               02.01 A II a) 1 bb) 22                                                0                         5-572                 5-572
               02.01 A II a) 1 bb ) 33                                               0                         8-604                 8-604
               02.01 A II a ) 1 cc) 11                                               0                         7-088                 7-088
               02.01 A II a ) 1 cc) 22                                               0                       . 4-997                 4-997
              02.01 A II a ) 2 aa )                                                 0                          5-916                 5-916
              02.01 A II a) 2 bb)                                                    0                         4-635                 4-635
              02.01   A II  a) 2 cc)                                                 0                         7-518                 7-518
              02.01   A II  a) 2 dd ) 11                                             0                         5-916                 5-916
              02.01   A II  a) 2 dd ) 22 aaa )                                      0                          5-115                 5-115
              02.01   A II  a) 2 dd ) 22 bbb) ( s)                                  0                          5-115                 5-115
              02.01 A II a) 2 dd) 22 ccc)                                           0                          5-115                 5-115
              02.06 C I a) 1                                                        0                          6-448                 6·448
              02.06 C I a) 2                                                        0                          3-514                   0
 (') 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.
(4) 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 .