CELEX: 31990R2461
Language: en
Date: 1990-08-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2461/90 of 24 August 1990 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

25 . 8 . 90                                Official Journal of the European Communities                               No h 231 / 19
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2461/90
                                                          of 24 August 1990
                                        fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           (b) 50 % where the market price is more than 102 % and
                                                                           less than or equal to 104 % of the guide price ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                (c) 25 % where the market price is more than 104 % and
 Economic Community,                                                       less than or equal to 106 % of the guide price ;
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                   (d) 0 % where the market price is more than 106 % of
 Portugal,                                                                 the guide price ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of                Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine
 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market                 animals on representative Community markets is equal to
 in beef and veal ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)             or less than the guide price, the levy applicable equals the
 No 571 /88 (2), and in particular Article 12 (8) thereof,             following percentage of the basic levy :
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,              (a) 100 % where the market price is more than or equal
                                                                           to 98 % of the guide price ;
Whereas under Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                 (b) 105 % where the market price is less than 98 % and
a levy is applicable to the products specified in Article 1                more than or equal to 96 % of the guide price ;
(1 ) (a) of that Regulation ; whereas Article 12 fixes the
 amount of the levy applicable by reference to a percent­             (c) 110 % where the market price is less than 96 % and
age of the basic levy ;                                                    more than or equal to 90 % of the guide price ;
                                                                      (d) 114 % where the market price is less than 90 % of
Whereas, in respect of the types of frozen meat listed in                  the guide price ;
section (b) of the Annex to the said Regulation under CN
codes 0202 10 00 and 0202 20 10, the basic levy is deter­             Whereas the guide prices for adult bovine animals to be
mined on the basis of the difference between :
                                                                      applied from 14 May 1990 have been fixed by Council
— the guide price multiplied by a coefficient represent­               Regulation (EEC) No 1188/90 (5) ;
      ing the ratio existing in the Community between the
      price of fresh meat of a category competitive with the          Whereas the prices fixed by the Council are to be reduced
      frozen meat in question, presented in the same form,             in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No
      and the average price of adult bovine animals, and               1252/90 of 11 May 1990 establishing the prices and
                                                                      amounts fixed in ecus by the Council in the beef and veal
— the Community free-at-frontier offer price for frozen               sector and reduced as a result of the monetary realign­
      meat, plus the amount of the customs duty and a stan­            ment of 5 January 1990 (6) ;
      dard amount representing the specific costs of the
      import operations ;
                                                                      Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price for
Whereas, by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 of                   frozen meat is determined by reference to the world
 18 March 1977 laying down rules for the application of                market price based on the most representative purchasing
the levies on beef and veal and amending Regulation                    possibilities, as regards quality and quantity, recorded over
(EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff (3), as                  a certain period preceding the fixing of the basic levy,
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3988/87 (4), the                  taking into account in particular :
abovementioned coefficient, calculated in accordance with             — foreseeable developments on - the market in frozen
the rules laid down in Article 11 (2) (a) of Regulation                    meat,
(EEC) No 805/68, has been fixed at 1,69 units of account
and the standard amount referred to in Article 11 -(2) .(b)           — the most representative prices on third country
of the said Regulation has been fixed at ECU 6,65 ;                        markets for fresh and chilled meat of a category which
                                                                           is competitive with frozen meat,
Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine                — past experience ;
animals on representative Community markets is higher
than the guide price, the levy applicable equals the fol­             Whereas the basic levy on the types of frozen meat listed
lowing percentage of the basic levy :                                 in section (b) of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      805/68      under     CN    codes    0202 20 50,   0202 20 90,
(a) 75 % where the market price is less than or equal to
      102 % of the guide price ;                                      0202 30 10, 0202 30 50 and 0202 30 90 is equal to the
                                                                      basic levy fixed for the products falling within CN codes
                                                                      0202 10 00 and 0202 20 10, multiplied by a standard
(') OJ    No L  148 , 28 . 6. 1968, p. 24.
0   OJ    No L  61 , 4. 3. 1989, p. 43.
0   OJ    No L  75, 23. 3. 1977, p. 10 .                              0 OJ No L 119 , 11 . 5. 1990, p. 36.
(*) OJ    No L  376, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 31                               4 OJ No L 121 , 12. 5. 1990, p. 30.
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coefficient fixed for each of the products in question ;         times in one period of seven days, the price of each cat­
whereas these coefficients were fixed in Annex II to             egory and quality is equal to the arithmetic mean of the
Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;                                     prices recorded on each market day ; whereas in respect of
                                                                  Italy the price of each category and quality is equal to the
                                                                 average, weighted by the special weighting coefficients
                                                                  fixed in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 610/77, of the
Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the free-at-frontier           prices recorded in the surplus and deficit zones ; whereas
offer prices, offer prices that do not correspond to real        the price recorded in the surplus zone is equal to the
purchasing possibilities or that relate to unrepresentative       arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each of the
quantities should not be taken into account ; whereas             markets within that zone ; whereas in respect of the
offer prices should also be excluded when the movement            United Kingdom the weighted average prices of adult
of prices in general or the information available gives          bovine animals recorded on the representative markets of
reason to believe that they are unrepresentative of the true      Great Britain on the one hand and Northern Ireland on
trend of prices in the country of origin ;                        the other are adjusted by the coefficient fixed in the
                                                                  abovementioned Annex II ;
Whereas, where the free-at-frontier offer price for frozen
meat differs by less than one unit of account per 100 kilo­      Whereas prices for the different categories and qualities
grams from that previously used for the calculation of the        not obtained from prices which are 'live weight excluding
levy, the latter price should be retained ;                       tax', are multiplied by the live weight conversion coeffi­
                                                                  cients fixed in Annex II to the said Regulation and, in the
                                                                  case of Italy, are first increased or reduced by the correc­
                                                                  tive amounts fixed in the said Annex ;
Whereas pursuant to Article 12 (6) of Regulation (EEC)
No 805/68 the price of adult bovine animals on represen­
tative Community markets is the price established on the
basis of prices recorded over a period to be determined on       Whereas if one or more Member States, for veterinary or
the representative market or markets of each Member               health reasons for example, adopt measures affecting the
State for the various categories of adult bovine animals or       normal trend of prices recorded on their markets, the
of meat from such animals, taking into account the size of        Commission may disregard the prices recorded on the
each of these categories and the relative size of the bovine      market or markets in question, or use the latest prices
herd of each Member State ;                                       recorded on the market or markets in question before the
                                                                  entry into force of such measures ;
Whereas the prices of adult bovine animals recorded on           Whereas, in the absence of information, prices recorded
the representative market or markets of each Member               on representative Community markets are determined
State are equal to the average, weighted by the relevant          mainly by reference to the most recently recorded prices ;
coefficients, of the prices for the various qualities of adult
bovine animals or meat of such animals over a period of
seven days in that Member State at a particular wholesale        Whereas, for such period as the price of adult bovine
marketing stage ; whereas, the price of adult bovine              animals recorded on representative Community markets
animals recorded on the representative market or markets          differs by less than ECU 0,24 per 100 kilograms of live
of the United Kingdom shall be corrected by the amount           weight from the price previously used, the latter is
of the premium granted to producers under Council                 retained ;
Regulation (EEC) No 1347/86 ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 4132/88 (2) ; whereas the representa­
tive markets, categories and qualities of products and
weighting coefficients are fixed in Annex II to Commis­          Whereas the levies must be so fixed that obligations
sion Regulation (EEC) No 610/77 of 18 March 1977 on               arising from international agreements concluded by the
the determination of prices of adult bovine animals on            Community continue to be fulfilled ;
representative Community markets and the survey of
prices of certain other cattle in the Community (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1683/90 (4);                      Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 0 lays
                                                                  down the arrangements applicable on agricultural
                                                                  products and certain goods resulting from the processing
                                                                  of agricultural products originating in the African, Carib­
Whereas, for Member States with several representative            bean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and
markets, the price of each category and quality is equal to       territories :
the arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each of
those markets ; for representative markets held several
                                                                 Whereas the various cuts of frozen meat are defined in
(') OJ No   L 119, 8 . 5. 1986, p. 40.                            Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;
(2) OJ No   L 362, 30. 12. 1988, p. 4.
0   OJ No   L 77, 25. 3. 1977, p. 1 .
(*) OJ No   L 157, 22. 6. 1990, p. 30.                           0 OJ No L 84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.
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Whereas, pursuant to Article 33 (2) of Regulation (EEC)               a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
 No 805/68, the nomenclature provided for in this Regula­             cient referred to in the preceding indent ;
tion is incorporated in the combined nomenclature ;
                                                                  Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the aforemen­
Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of each          tioned Regulations, and in particular to the information
month and are applicable from the first Monday of the             and quotations known to the Commission, the levies on
following month ; whereas these levies may be altered in          frozen beef and veal should be as set out in the Annex
 the period between two fixings where the basic levy is           hereto,
 altered, or in these case of changes in the prices recorded
 on Community representative markets ;
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
should be calculated on the following basis :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                                           Article 1
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band
     of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in    The import levies on frozen beef and veal shall be as set
                                                                  out in the Annex.
     the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
     tion (EEC) No 1676/85 ('), as last amended by Regula­
     tion (EEC) No 2205/90 (2),                                                            Article 2
— for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
     average of the Ecu rates published in the Official           This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 September
     Journal of the European Communities, C series, over           1990.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 24 August 1990.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .==
(2) OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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                                                                      ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 24 August 1990 fixing the import levies on frozen beef
                                                                    and veal (')
                                                                                                                        (ECU / 100 kg)
                                                      CN code                                                        Levy
               \                                                                                            — Net weight —
                                                    0202 10 00                                                  (■) 197,163
                                                    0202 20 10                                                  (') 197,163
                                                    0202 20 30                                                  (') 157,730
                                                    0202 20 50                                                  (') 246,454
                                                    0202 20 90                                                  («) 295,745
                                                    0202 30 10                                                  (') 246,454
                                                    0202 30 50                                                  (') 246,454
                                                    0202 30 90                                                  (') 339,120
                                                    0206 29 91                                                  (') 339,120
                 (') In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 71 5/90, levies are not applied to: products imported directly into the
                     French overseas departments, originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries
                     and territories.