CELEX: 31984R2140
Language: en
Date: 1984-07-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2140/84 of 25 July 1984 fixing the import levies on live cattle and on beef and veal other than frozen

26 . 7 . 84                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No 4* 196/ 29
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2140/84 ,
                                                       of 25 July 1984
                    fixing the import levies on live cattle and on beef and veal other than frozen
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas if it is found that the price of adult bovine
COMMUNITIES,                                                     animals on representative Community markets is
                                                                 equal to or less than the guide price, the levy appli­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            cable equals the following percentage of the basic
Economic Community,                                              levy :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68              (a) 100 % where the market price is more than or
of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the                     equal to 98 % of the guide price ;
market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by the Act          (b) 105 % where the market price is less than 98 %
of Accession of Greece (:), and in particular Article 12              and more than or equal to 96 % of the guide
(8) thereof ,                                                         price ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     (c) 110 % where the market price is less than 96 %
Committee ,                                                           and more than or equal to 90 % of the guide
                                                                      price ;
Whereas under Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No                   (d) 114 % where the market price is less than 90 % of
805/68 a levy is applicable to the products specified in              the guide price ;
Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) of that Regulation ; whereas Article 12
fixes the amount of the levy applicable by reference to
a percentage of the basic levy ;                                 Whereas pursuant to Article 10 (4) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                  No 805/68 the basic levy on the meat specified in
Whereas in respect of bovine animals the basic levy is           sections (a), (c) and (d) of the Annex hereto is equal to
determined on the basis of the difference between the             the basic levy determined for bovine animals, multi­
guide price and the Community free-at-frontier offer              plied by a standard coefficient fixed for each of the
price plus the amount of the customs duty ; whereas               products in question ; whereas these coefficients are
the Community free-at-frontier offer price is deter­              fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 of
mined in the light of the most representative purcha­             18 March 1977 laying down rules for the application
sing possibilities, as regards quality and quantity,              of levies on beef and veal and amending Regulation
recorded over a certain period for bovine animals and            (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff (J),
for the fresh or chilled meat specified in section (a) of         as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 31 14/83 (4) ;
the Annex to the said Regulation under subheadings
02.01 A II a) 1 to 3, account being taken in particular           Whereas the guide prices for adult bovine animals to
of the position with respect to supply and demand, of             be applied from 2 April 1984 were fixed by Council
world market prices for frozen meat of a category                 Regulation (EEC) No 868 /84 of 31 March 1984 Q ;
which is competitive with fresh or chilled meat and of
past experience ;                                                 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 stipulates that
                                                                  the basic levy is to be calculated according to the
Whereas if it is found that the price of adult bovine             method set out in its Article 3 and on the basis of all
animals on representative Community markets is                    the representative free-at-frontier offer prices of the
 higher than the guide price, the levy applicable equals          Community determined for the products of each of
 the following percentage of the basic levy :                     the categories and cuts specified in Article 2 and
(a) 75 % where the market price is less than or equal             established principally by reference to the prices speci­
     to 102% of the guide price ;                                 fied in the customs documents accompanying
                                                                  products imported from third countries or from other
(b) 50 % where the market price is more than 102 %                information concerning export prices obtaining in
     and less than or equal to 104 % of the guide                 those third countries ;
     price ;
(c) 25 % where the market price is more than 104 %                Whereas, however, offer prices that do not correspond
     and less than or equal to 106 % of the guide                 to real purchasing possibilities or that relate to unre­
     price ;                                                      presentative quantitities should not be taken into
(d) 0 % where the market price is more than 106 %                 account ; whereas offer prices should also be excluded
     of the guide price ;
                                                                  O OJ No L 75 , 23 . 3 . 1977, p. 10 .
(') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24 .                         (4) OJ No L 303 , 5 . 11 . 1983, p. 16 .
(2) OJ No L 291 , 19 . 11 . 1 979 , p. 17 .                       O OJ No L 90 , 1 . 4 . 1984, p. 30 .
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when the movement of prices in general or the infor­            of adult bovine animals or of meat from such animals,
mation available suggests that they are unrepresenta­           after taking into account the size of each of these cate­
tive of the true trend of prices in the country of              gories and the relative size of the bovine herd of each
origin ;                                                        Member State ;
Whereas in cases where for one or more categories of
bovine animals or cuts of meat a free-at-frontier offer         Whereas the prices of adult bovine animals recorded
price cannot be established, the most recent available          on the representative market or markets of each
price should be used for the calculation ;                      Member State are equal to the average, weighted by
                                                                the appropriate coefficients, of the prices for the
Whereas if the free-at-frontier offer price differs by          various qualities of adult bovine animals or meat of
less than 0,60 ECU per 100 kilograms of live weight             such animals over a period of seven days in that
from that previously used for the calculation of the            Member State at a particular wholesale marketing
levy, the latter price should be retained ;                     stage ; whereas, for the 1984/85 marketing year, the
                                                                price of adult bovine animals recorded on the repre­
Whereas pursuant to Article 10 (3) of Regulation (EEC)          sentative market or markets of the United Kingdom
No 805/68 a special basic levy is determined for                shall be corrected by the amount of the premium
certain third countries on the basis of the difference          granted to producers under Regulation (EEC) No
between the guide price and the average price                   1 063/84 (3) ; whereas the representative markets, cate­
recorded over a certain period plus the amount of the           gories and qualities of products and weighting coeffi­
customs duty ;                                                  cients are fixed in Annex II to Commission Regula­
                                                                tion (EEC) No 610/77 of 18 March 1977 on the deter­
                                                                mination of prices of adult bovine animals on repre­
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 611 /77 of               sentative Community markets and the survey of prices
 18 March 1977 ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC)              of certain other cattle in the Community (4), as last
 No 925/77 (2), provides that the special levy on               amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2019/84
 products originating in and coming from Austria,
 Sweden and Switzerland should be determined on the
basis of the weighted average of the prices of adult
bovine animals recorded on the representative markets           Whereas, for Member States with several representative
 of those third countries ; whereas the weighting coeffi­       markets, the price of each category and quality is equal
cients and representative markets are specified in the          to the arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each
Annexes to Regulation (EEC) No 611 /77 ;                        of those markets ; whereas, for representative markets
                                                                held several times in one period of seven days, the
                                                                price of each category and quality is equal to the arith­
Whereas the average price is not to be used for calcu­
                                                                metic mean of the prices recorded on each market
 lating the special levy unless it is at least 1,21 ECU per
                                                                day ; whereas in respect of Italy the price of each cate­
 100 kilograms of live weight more than the free-at­
 frontier offer price determined in accordance with             gory and quantity is equal to the average, weighted by
 Article 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 ;                 the special weighting coefficients fixed in Annex II to
                                                                Regulation (EEC) No 610/77, of the prices recorded in
                                                                the surplus and deficit zones ; whereas the price
Whereas if the average price differs by less than 0,60          recorded in the surplus zone is equal to the arithmetic
 ECU per 100 kilograms of live weight from that                 mean of the prices recorded on each of the markets
 previously used to calculate the levy, the latter may be       within that zone ; whereas in respect of the United
 retained ;                                                     Kingdom the weighted average prices of adult bovine
                                                                animals recorded on the representative markets of
 Whereas in cases where one or more of the abovemen­            Great Britain on the one hand and Northern Ireland
 tioned third countries adopt, for reasons of health for        on the other are adjusted by the coefficient fixed in
 example, measures affecting the prices recorded on             the abovementioned Annex II ;
 their markets, the Commission may use the latest
 prices recorded before the entry into force of such
 measures ;
                                                                Whereas prices for the different categories and quali­
                                                                ties not obtained from prices which are 'live weight
 Whereas pursuant to Article 12 (6) of Regulation (EEC)         excluding tax' are multiplied by the live weight
 No 805/68 the price of adult bovine animals on repre­          conversion coefficients fixed in Annex II to the said
 sentative Community markets is f.h price established           Regulation and, in the case of Italy, are first increased
 on the basis of prices recorded over a priod to be             or reduced by the corrective amounts fixed in the said
 determined on the representative market or markets of          Annex ;
 each Member State in respect of the various categories
                                                                (■') OJ No L 105, 18 . 4 . 1984, p. 1 .
 (') OJ No L 77, 25 . 3 . 1977, p. 14.                          (4) OJ No L 77, 25 . 3 . 1977, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 109 , 30 . 4 . 1977, p. 1 .                         O OJ No L 187, 14. 7 . 1984, p. 48 .
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Whereas if one or more Member States, for veterinary           Whereas the levies and special levies are fixed before
or health reasons for example, adopt measures affec­           the 27th day of each month and are applicable from
ting the normal trend of prices recorded on their              the first Monday of the following month ; whereas
markets the Commission may disregard the prices                these levies may be altered in the period between two
recorded on the market or markets in question, or use          fixings where the basic levy or special basic levy is
the latest prices recorded on the market or markets in         altered, or in the case of changes in the prices
question before the entry into force of such measures ;        recorded on Community representative markets ;
Whereas, in the absence of information, prices                 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
recorded on representative Community markets are               levies should be calculated on the following basis :
determined mainly by reference to the most recently            — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
recorded prices ;                                                  relation to each other at any given moment within
Whereas for such period as the price of adult bovine               a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                   their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient
animals recorded on representative Community
markets differs by less then 0,24 ECU per 100 kilo­                provided for in Article 2b (2) of Council Regula­
                                                                   tion (EEC) No 974/71 , as last amended by Regula­
grams of live weight from the price previously used,               tion (EEC) No 855/84,
the latter is retained ;
                                                               — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Whereas the levies should be so fixed that the obliga­             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
tions arising from international agreements concluded              these currencies recorded over a given period in
by the Community continue to be fulfilled ; whereas,               relation to the Community currencies referred to
moreover, account should be taken of Council Regula­               in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­
tion (EEC ) No 314/83 of 24 January 1983 on the                    cient ;
conclusion of the Cooperation Agreement between the
European Economic Community and the Socialist                  Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the afore­
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ('), of Council Regula­         mentioned Regulation, and in particular to the infor­
tion (EEC) No 287/ 82 of 3 February 1982 establishing          mation and quotations known to the Commission, the
the arrangements applicable to imports of products             levies on live cattle and beef and veal other than
originating in Yugoslavia to take account of the acces­        frozen meat should be as set out in the Annex hereto,
sion of the Hellenic Republic to the Community (2),
and of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3349/81 of 24
November 1981 providing for a reduction in the levy            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
applicable to imports into the Community of certain
beef and veal products originating in and coming from                                  Article 1
Yugoslavia (3) ;
                                                               The import levies on live cattle and beef and veal
Whereas the various cuts of beef and veal are defined          other than frozen meat shall be as set out in the
in Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;                                Annex hereto .
Whereas, pursuant to Article 33 (2) of Regulation                                      Article 2
(EEC) No 805/68 , the nomenclature provided for in
this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 August
Customs Tariff ;                                                1984 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
               Done at Brussels, 25 July 1984.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           Poul DALSAGER
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 41 , 14. 2. 1983, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 30, 6 . 2. 1982, p. 1 .
O OJ No L 339, 26. 1 1 . 1981 , p. 1
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                                                          ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 25 July 1984 fixing the import levies on
           live cattle and on beef and veal other than frozen (') for the period beginning
                                                      6 August 1984
                                                                                                     (ECU/100 kg)
                                                                         Austria/Sweden/
                       CCT heading No                Yugoslavia (2)                         Other third countries
                                                                            Switzerland
          I                                                             — Live weight —
           01.02 A II (a)                               53,790                19,111               122,641
                                                                        — Net weight —
          02.01   A II a) 1                            102,201               36,311               233,018
          02.01   A II a) 2                             81,761               29,049                186,415
          02.01   A II a) 3                            122,641               43,573               279,621
          02.01   All a) 4 aa)                                               54,466               349,527
          02.01   A II a) 4 bb)                                              62,302               399,811
          02.06   C I a) 1                                                   54,466               349,527
          02.06   C I a) 2                                                   62,302               399,811
           16.02  B III b) 1 aa)                                             62,302               399,811
          (') In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 435/80, levies are not applied to imports into the French
               overseas departments of products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the
               overseas countries and territories .
          (2) This levy is applicable only to products complying with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No
               1725/80 (OJ No L 170, 3 . 7. 1980, p. 4).
          (a) The levy which is to be applied to young male bovine animals, intended for fattening, of a live
               weight of 300 kg or less, imported under the conditions set out in Article 13 of Council Regula­
               tion (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968, and in the provisions adopted for its application, is totally
               or partially suspended in accordance with those provisions.