CELEX: 31973R0548
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 548/73 of the Commission of 23 February 1973 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

No L 54/8                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               27. 2 . 73
                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 548/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 23 February 1973
                                            fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        1072/68 ( 6) of 25 July 1968 determining the bases
  COMMUNITIES,                                                           for calculating the levy on certain kinds of frozen
                                                                         beef and veal, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    No 1986/71 (7) ;
  pean Economic Community ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805 /                    Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 990/68
  68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                      provides that the most favourable purchasing oppor­
  of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by                    tunities among those which are most representative
 Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2 ), and in particular                     as regards quality and quantity as mentioned in
  Article 13 ( 6) thereof ;                                             Article 13 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68
                                                                        should be determined in the first place with refer­
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                           ence to free-at-Community-frontier offers or, where
  Committee ;                                                           such offers are not sufficiently representative of the
                                                                        market situation, world market offers delivered free­
 Whereas Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                        at-Community-frontier for each of the products
  805/68 provides for charging a levy on imports of                     listed in Section (c) of the Annex to Regulation .
 the frozen meat listed in Section (c) of the Annex to                  (EEC) No 805 /68 ; whereas, for products other than
  that Regulation ; whereas the levy on products'                       those covered by the first subparagraph of Article
 falling within subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) is                    13 (2) of that Regulation, the offer price is
 equal to the difference between :                                     converted into a price relating to the products ,
 — the guide price for the corresponding product                       covered by that subparagraph by means of the coef­
      multiplied by a coefficient expressing the ratio                 ficients referred to in Article 13 (3 ) of that Regula­
      existing in the Community between the price for                  tion ; whereas those coefficients were fixed in the
      fresh meat of a quality competitive with the                     Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1072/68 ;
     frozen meat in question, presented in the same
     form, and the average price for adult bovine                      Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1072/68
      animals, and                                                     provides that the Commission, when determining
                                                                       the world market price referred to in Article 13 (2)
 — the price on the world market for frozen meat,                      (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 must disregard
     based on the most favourable purchasing oppor­                    offer prices which do hot correspond to real
     tunities among those which are most representa­                   purchasing opportunities or which relate to small
     tive, as regards quality and quantity, of the devel­              unrepresentative quantities or to qualities which
     opment of this market, plus customs duty and a                    differ appreciably from those of the majority of the
     standard amount representing the specific costs                   products entering world trade ; whereas offer prices
     incurred in importing frozen meat ;                               which the Commission believes, in view of general
Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No.                      price movements or information available to it, not
 990/68 (3) of 15 July 1968 on general rules for                      to be representative of real price trends in the
fixing the levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and                    country of origin must also be disregarded ;
 veal provides that the guide price for the corres­
ponding product is the guide price for adult bovine                   Whereas offers on the world market are converted
 animals ; whereas this guide price was fixed by                      into free-at-Community-frontier offers by taking
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1653/72 (4) of 31 July                   into account the normal transport and insurance
1972 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 236/                           costs of which the Commission has knowledge ;
73 (•) ;
                                                                      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 3 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  L  25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 23 .
(») OJ   No  L  169, 18. 7. 1968, p. 12.
(*) OJ   No  L  174, 1 . 8 . 1972, p. 55 .                            («) OJ No L 180, 26. 7. 1968, p. 21 .
<8) OJ No L 29, 1 . 2 . 1973, p. 8 .                                  (7) OJ No L 209, 15 . 9. 1971 , p. 27.
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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 basis of an
                                                                exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
 Whereas Article 13 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 /           which are floating or whose central rate differs from
 68 provides that, for the frozen meat listed in                the official parity,, on the effective rate or the
Section (c) of the Annex to that Regulation under               central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
 subheadings Nos 02.01 A II a) 2 bb), 02.01 A II a) 2           the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
 cc) and 02.01 A II a) 2 dd), the levy is equal to the          on 13 February 1973 ;
 levy on the product in the same Section under
 subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) multiplied by the            Whereas it follows from applying the provisions of
 fixed coefficient for each of the products in ques­            the abovementioned Regulations to the quotations
 tion ; whereas this coefficient was fixed in the               and other information known to the Commission
Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1072/68 ; whereas                  that the levies on frozen meat should be fixed as
that Regulation also defines the requirements to be             shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
 met by certain products for which the levy is fixed
 by means of these coefficients ;
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas Article 13 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/j
68 provides that, where free quotations on the                                         Article 1
world market are not a determining factor for the
 offer price and where that price is lower than these           The levies referred to in Article 13 of Regulation
quotations, a special price calculated on the basis             (EEC) No 805/68 are hereby fixed as shown in the
of the offer price is substituted, solely in respect of         Annex to this Regulation.
the imports in question, for the world market price '
for frozen meat referred to in paragraph 2 of that                                     Article 2
Article ;
                                                                To be classified as products falling within :
Whereas, subject to the foregoing, the levy referred           — subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) ;
to in Article 13 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68
is fixed before the 25th day of each month and is              — subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 bb) and cc) ;
applicable from the first Monday of the following              products must correspond to the definition for the
month ; whereas, however, the levy is altered in the           product in .question contained in Regulation (EEC)
intervening period if there is considerable fluctu­            No 1072/68, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
ation in the world market price for frozen meat ;              No 1986/71 .
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 5 March
Common Customs Tariff ;                                         1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 23 February 1973 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                           P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                     Member of the Commission
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                                                                  ANNEX
                            Levies applicable from 5 March 1973 to imports from third countries (*)
                 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                      0
                                            bb)   Forequarters                                                           0(a)
                                            cc)  Hindquarters                                                           0
                                            dd)   Other :
                                                 11. Unboned (bone-in)                                                  0
                                                 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                                                       0(a)
                                                      bbb) Other                                                        0(a)
            (') Regulation (EEC) No 521/70 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas
                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.