CELEX: 31985R1370
Language: en
Date: 1985-05-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1370/85 of 24 May 1985 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

No L 139/34                          Official Journal of the European Communities                            27. 5. 85
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1370/85
                                                     of 24 May 1985
                                 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 (a) 75 % where the market price is less than or equal
COMMUNITIES,                                                        to 1 02 % of the guide price ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          (b) 50 % where the market price is more than 102 %
Economic Community,                                                 and less than or equal to 104 % of the guide
                                                                    price ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68            (c) 25 % where the market price is more than 104 %
of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the                   and less than 106% of the guide price ;
market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by the Act        (d) 0 % where the market price is more than 106 %
of Accession of Greece (2), and in particular Article 1 2           of the guide price ;
(8) thereof,
                                                               Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                   animals on representative Community markets is
Committee,                                                     equal to or less than the guide price, the levy appli­
Whereas under Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No                 cable equals the following percentage of the basic
                                                               levy :
805/68 a levy is applicable to the products specified in
Article 1 (1 ) (a) of that Regulation ; whereas Article 12     (a) 100 % where the market price is more than or
fixes the amount of the levy applicable by reference to             equal to 98 % of the guide price ;
a percentage of the basic levy ;                               (b) 105 % where the market price is less than 98 %
                                                                    and more than or equal to 96 % of the guide
Whereas, in respect of the types of frozen meat listed              price ;
in section (b) of the Annex to the said Regulation
under subheading 02.01 A II b) 1 , the basic levy is           (c) 110 % where the market price is less than 96 %
determined on the basis of the difference between :                 and more than or equal to 90 % of the guide
                                                                    price ;
— the guide price multiplied by a coefficient repre­           (d) 114 % where the market price is less than 90 % of
     senting the ratio existing in the Community                     the guide price ;
     between the price of fresh meat of a category
     competitive with the frozen meat in question,             Whereas the guide prices for adult bovine animals to
     presented in the same form, and the average price         be applied from 27 May 1985 have been fixed by
     of adult bovine animals, and                              Council Regulation (EEC) No 1308/85 of 23 May
— the Community free-at-frontier offer price for                1985 0 ;
     frozen meat, plus the amount of the customs duty          Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price for
     and a standard amount representing the specific           frozen meat is determined by reference to the world
     costs of the import operations ;                          market price based on the most representative purcha­
Whereas, by Commission Regulation (EEC) No                     sing possibilities, as regards quality and quantity,
586/77 of 18 March 1977 laying down rules for the              recorded over a certain period preceding the fixing of
application of the levies on beef and veal and amen­           the basic levy, taking into account in particular :
ding Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common                  — foreseeable developments on the market in frozen
Customs Tariff (3), as last amended by Regulation                    meat,
(EEC) No 31 14/83 (4), the abovementioned coefficient,         — the most representative prices on third country
calculated in accordance with the rules laid down in                 markets for fresh and chilled meat of a category
Article 11 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 , has               which is competitive with frozen meat,
been fixed at 1-69 units of account and the standard
                                                               — past experience ;
amount referred to in Article 11 (2) (b) of the said
Regulation has been fixed at 6,65 ECU ;                        Whereas the basic levy on the types of frozen meat
                                                                listed in section (b) of the Annex to Regulation (EEC)
Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine          No 805/68 under subheadings 02.01 A II b) 2 to 4 is
 animals on representative Community markets is                 equal to the basic levy fixed for the product falling
 higher than the guide price, the levy applicable equals       within subheading 02.01 A II b) 1 , multiplied by a
 the following percentage of the basic levy :                   standard coefficient fixed for each of the products in
                                                                question ; whereas these coefficients were fixed in
 (') OJ No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 24.                         Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;
(2) OJ No L 291 , 29. 11 . 1979, p. 17.
 (3) OJ No L 75, 23. 3. 1977, p. 10.
 b) OJ No L 303, 5. 11 . 1983, p. 16.                           0 OJ No L 137, 27. 5. 1985, p. 16.
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Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the free-at-frontier       the surplus and deficit zones ; whereas the price
offer prices, offer prices that do not correspond to real     recorded in the surplus zone is equal to the arithmetic
purchasing possibilities or that relate to unrepresenta­      mean of the prices recorded on each of the markets
tive quantities should not be taken into account ;            within that zone ; whereas in respect of the United
whereas offer prices should also be excluded when the         Kingdom the weighted average prices of adult bovine
movement of prices in general or the information              animals recorded on the representative markets of
available gives reason to believe that they are unrepre­      Great Britain on the one^hand and Northern Ireland
sentative of the true trend of prices in the country of       on the other are adjusted by the coefficient fixed in
origin ;                                                      the abovementioned Annex II ;
Whereas, where the free-at-frontier offer price for           Whereas prices for the different categories and quali­
frozen meat differs by less than one unit of account          ties not obtained from prices which are 'live weight
per 1 00 kilograms from that previously used for the          excluding tax', are multiplied by the live weight
calculation of the levy, the latter price should be           conversion coefficients fixed in Annex II to the said
retained ;                                                    Regulation and, in the case of Italy, are first increased
                                                              or reduced by the corrective amounts fixed in the said
Whereas pursuant to Article 1 2 (6) of Regulation (EEC)       Annex ;
No 805/68 the price of adult bovine animals on repre­
sentative Community markets is the price established          Whereas if one or more Member States, for veterinary
on the basis of prices recorded over a period to be           or health reasons for example, adopt measures affec­
determined on the representative market or markets of         ting the normal trend of prices recorded on their
each Member State for the various categories of adult         markets, the Commission may disregard the prices
bovine animals or of meat from such animals, taking           recorded on the market or markets in question, or use
into account the size of each of these categories and         the latest prices recorded on the market or markets in
the relative size of the bovine herd of each Member           question before the entry into force of such measures ;
State ;                                                       Whereas, in the absence of information, prices
                                                              recorded on representative Community markets are
Whereas the prices of adult bovine animals recorded
                                                              determined mainly by reference to the most recently
on the representative market or markets of each
                                                              recorded prices ;
Member State are equal to the average, weighted by
the relevant coefficients, of the prices for the various      Whereas, for such period as the price of adult bovine
qualities of adult bovine animals or meat of such             animals recorded on representative Community
animals over a period of seven days in that Member            markets differs by less than 0,24 ECU per 100 kilo­
State at a particular wholesale marketing stage ;             grams of live weight from the price previously used,
whereas, until 6 April 1986, the price of adult bovine        the latter is retained ;
animals recorded on the representative market or
markets of the United Kingdom shall be corrected by           Whereas the levies must be so fixed that obligations
the amount of the premium granted to producers                arising from international agreements concluded by
under Regulation (EEC) No 131 1 /85 ('); whereas the          the Community continue to be fulfilled ;
representative markets, categories and qualities of           Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 (4) lays
products and weighting coefficients are fixed in Annex        down the arrangements applicable on agricultural
II to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 610/77 of 18             products and certain goods resulting from the proces­
March 1977 on the determination of prices of adult            sing of agricultural products originating in the African,
bovine animals on representative Community markets            Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas coun­
and the survey of prices of certain other cattle in the       tries and territories ;
Community (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 2019/84 (3);                                               Whereas the various cuts of frozen meat are defined in
                                                              Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;
Whereas, for Member States with several representative
markets, the price of each category and quality is equal      Whereas, pursuant to Article 33 (2) of Regulation
to the arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each         (EEC) No 805/68 , the nomenclature provided for in
of those markets ; for representative markets held            this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
several times in one period of seven days, the price of       Customs Tariff ;
each category and quality is equal to the arithmetic
piean of the prices recorded on each market day ;             Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of
whereas in respect of Italy the price of each category        each month and are applicable from the first Monday
and quality is equal to the average, weighted by the          of the following month ; whereas these levies may be
                                                              altered in the period between two fixings where the
special weighting coefficients fixed in Annex II to           basic levy is altered, or in these case of changes in the
 Regulation (EEC) No 610/77, of the prices recorded in
                                                               prices recorded on Community representative
                                                               markets ;
(') OJ No L 137, 27. 5. 1985, p. 20.
(2) OJ No L 77, 25. 3. 1977, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 187, 14. 7. 1984, p. 48 .                         (4) OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3 . 1985, p. 4.
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Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,           mation and quotations known to the Commission, the
levies should be calculated on the following basis :          levies on frozen beef and veal should be as set out in
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in           the Annex hereto,
     relation 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 coefficient
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     provided for in Article 2b (2) of Council Regula­
     tion (EEC) No 974/71 ('), as last amended by Regu­
     lation (EEC) No 855/84 (2),
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the                                Article 1
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
     these currencies recorded over a given period in         The import levies on frozen beef and veal shall be as
     relation to the Community currencies referred to         set out in the Annex hereto.
     in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­
     cient ;
                                                                                     Article 2
Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the afore­
mentioned Regulations, and in particular to the infor­        This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 May 1985.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 24 May 1985.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                           Vice-President
 (') OJ No L 106, 12. 5. 1971 , p. 1 .
 0 OJ No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .
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                                                            ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 24 May 1985 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and
                                       veal (l) for the period beginning 27 May 1985
                                                                                                      (ECU / 100 kg)
                                          CCT heading No                                           Levy
                                                                                            — Net weight —
            02.01  A II b) 1                                                                   205,467
            02.01  A II b) 2                                                                    164,373 (a)
            02.01  A II b) 3                                                                   256,834
            02.01  A lib) 4 aa)                                                                308,200
            02.01  A lib) 4 bb) 11                                                             256,834 (a)
            02.01  A II b) 4 bb) 22 (b)                                                        256,834 (a)
            02.01   A lib) 4 bb) 33                                                            353,402 (a)
             (') 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 .
            (a) Where products are imported under the conditions set out in Article 14 of Council Regulation
                 (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 and in provisions adopted for its application, the levy is totally
                 or partially suspended in accordance with those 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.