CELEX: 31974R0743
Language: en
Date: 1974-03-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 743/74 of the Commission of 29 March 1974 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

No L 86/48                                     Official Journal of the European Communities                               30 . 3 . 74
                                      REGULATION (EEC) No 743/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                              of 29 March 1974
                                                fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                             2260/73 ( 5) of 17 August 1973 determining the bases
COMMUNITIES ,                                                               for calculating the levy on certain kinds of frozen
                                                                            beef and veal ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community ;                                                  Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 990/68
                                                                           provides that the most favourable purchasing oppor­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No 805 /                        tunities among those which are most representative
68 ( 1 ) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                        as regards quality and quantity as mentioned in
of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by                         Article 13 (2 ) ( b) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 /68
Regulation ( EEC) No 187/73 (2 ), and in particular                        should be determined in the first place with refer­
Article 13 ( 6 ) thereof ;                                                 ence to free-at-Community-frontier offers or, where
                                                                           such offers are not sufficiently representative of the
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                               market situation, world market offers delivered free­
Committee ;                                                                at-Community-frontier for each of the products
Whereas Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No                           listed in Section ( c) of the Annex to Regulation
805 /68 provides for charging a levy on imports of                          ( EEC ) No 805 /68 ; whereas, for products other than
the frozen meat listed in Section (c) of the Annex to                      those covered by the first subparagraph of Article
that Regulation ; whereas the levy on products                              13 ( 2) of that Regulation, the offer price is
falling within subheading No 02.01 A II a ) 2 aa) is                       converted into a price relating to the products
equal to the difference between :                                           covered by that subparagraph by means of the coef­
                                                                            ficients referred to in Article 13 (3 ) of that Regula­
— the guide price for the corresponding product                             tion ; whereas those coefficients were fixed in
      multiplied by a coefficient expressing the ratio                      Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2260/73 ;
      existing in the Community between the price for
      fresh meat of a quality competitive with the
      frozen meat in question , presented in the same                       Whereas Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC) No 2260/73
      form , and the average price for adult bovine                         provides that the Commission, when determining
      animals, and                                                          the world market price referred to in Article 13 (2)
                                                                            (b ) of Regulation (EEC ) No 805 /68 must disregard
— the price on the world market for frozen meat,                            offer prices which do not correspond to real
      based on the most favourable purchasing oppor­                       purchasing opportunities or which relate to small
      tunities among those which are most representa­                      unrepresentative quantities or to qualities which
      tive, as regards quality and quantity, of the devel­                  differ appreciably from those of the majority of the
      opment of this market, plus customs duty and a                        products entering world trade ; whereas offer prices
      standard amount representing the specific costs                      which the Commission believes, in view of general
      incurred in importing frozen meat ;                                   price movements or information available to it, not
Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC ) No                           to be representative of real price trends in the
990/68 ( 3 ) of 15 July 1968 on general rules for                           country of origin must also be disregarded ;
fixing the levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and
veal provides that the guide price for the corres­                          Whereas offers on the world market are converted
ponding product is the guide price for adult bovine                         into free-at-Community-frontier offers by taking
animals ; whereas this guide price was fixed by                             into account the normal transport and insurance
Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 667/74 (4) of 28                              costs of which the Commission has knowledge ;
March 1974 ;
                                                                            Whereas the standard amount referred to in Article
Whereas the abovementioned coefficient, calculated                           13 ( 2) ( b ) of Regulation {EEC) No 805 /68 is fixed
in accordance with the rules contained in Article 13
                                                                             at 5-5 units of account per 100 kg ;
 (2 ) of Regulation (EEC ) No 805 /68 was fixed at
 1-53 by Commission Regulation (EEC ) No
                                                                            Whereas, as long as the world market price for
                                                                            frozen meat differs by less that 1 unit of account
 (») OJ   No   L  148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.
 (*) OJ   No   I. 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p . 23.
 (»)  OJ  No   L  169, 18. 7. 1968, p. 12.
 (4) OJ   No   L  85 , 29 . 3 . 1974, p . 59 .                               ( 5) OJ No L 233 , 21 . 8 . 1973 , p . 10.
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per 100 kg from the world market price previously               Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
used , the latter price is maintained ;                         levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 13 (3 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No 805 /               relation to each other, at any given moment,
68 provides that, for the frozen meat listed in                     within a band of 2-25 %, a rate of exchange
Section (c) of the Annex to that Regulation under                   based on their effective parity ;
subheadings Nos 02.01 A II a) 2 bb ), 02.01 A II a ) 2          — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
cc) and 02.01 A II a ) 2 dd ), the levy is equal to the             the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
levy on the product in the same Section under                       each of these currencies recorded for a given
subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) multiplied by the                 period, in relation to the Community currencies
fixed coefficient for each of the products in ques­                 referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
tion ; whereas this coefficient was fixed in
Annex I to Regulation ( EEC ) No 2260/73 ; whereas              Whereas it follows from applying the provisions of
that Regulation also defines the requirements to be             the abovementioned Regulations to the quotations
met by certain products for which the levy is fixed             and other information known to the Commission
by means of these coefficients ;                                that the levies on frozen meat should be fixed as
                                                                shown in the Annex to this Regulation,
Whereas Article 13 (4) of Regulation ( EEC) No 805 /
68 provides that, where free quotations on the                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
world market are not a determining factor for the
offer price and where that price is lower than these                                    Article 1
quotations, a special price calculated on the basis
of the offer price is substituted, solely in respect of         The levies referred to in Article 13 of Regulation
the imports in question, for the world market price              (EEC) No 805/68 are fixed as shown in the Annex
for frozen meat referred to in paragraph 2 of that              to this Regulation .
Article ;
                                                                                        Article 2
Whereas, subject to the foregoing, the levy referred            To be classified as products falling within :
to in Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 /68           — subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa),
is fixed before the 25th day of each month and is
applicable from the first Monday of the following               — subheading No 02.01 A II a ) 2 bb ) and cc),
month ; whereas, however, the levy is altered in the            — subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 dd) and 22 bbb).
intervening period if there is considerable fluctu­
ation in the world market price for frozen meat ;               Products must correspond to the definition for the
                                                                 product in question contained in Regulation (EEC)
                                                                 No 2260 / 73 .
 Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regu­                                   Article 3
 lation ( EEC ) No 805 /68 , the nomenclature provided
 for in this Regulation is incorporated in the                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
 Common Customs Tariff :                                         1974.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels , 29 March 1974 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                      Member of the Commission
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                                                                    ANNEX
                          Levies applicable from 1 April 1974 to imports from third countries f1)
                   CCT                                                                                               Levy in
                 heading                                      Description of goods                                 u. a. / 100 kg
                    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                5-945
                                             bb)  Forequarters                                                     4-756 ( a )
                                             cc)  Hindquarters                                                     7-431
                                             dd )  Other :
                                                  11 . Unboned ( bone-in )                                          8-918
                                                  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 maximum
                                                             of five pieces, and the other, the hind­
                                                             quarter, excluding the tenderloin, in one
                                                             piece                                                 7-431 ( a )
                                                       bbb) Crop, chuck and blade and brisket cuts (b)             7-431 (a )
                                                       ccc) Other                                                 10-225 ( a )
           (') Regulation (EEC) No 521 /70 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French oversea*
                  departments of products originating in the AASM and CCT .
           ( a ) 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 .