CELEX: 31973R1213
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-11 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1213/73 of the Commission of 10 May 1973 fixing the import levies on calves and adult bovine animals and on beef and veal other than frozen

11 . 5 . 73                         Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 125/ 19
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1213/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 10 May 1973
               fixing the import levies on calves and adult bovine animals and on beef and veal other
                                                        than frozen
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 218/
  COMMUNITIES,                                                    73 (4) of 29 January 1973 on the determination
                                                                 of the import price and the special import price for
Having regard to the Treaty establishing (the Euro­              calves and adult bovine animals provides that the
pean Economic Community ;                                        import price is to be calculated in accordance with
                                                                 the method set out in Article 4 on the basis of all
Halving regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/               the representative free-at-frontier offer prices in the
68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                Community established for each of the categories
of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by               and cuts specified in Article 2, and ascertained in par­
Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2), and in particular                ticular from :
the second subparagraph of Article 10 (7) thereof ;
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                     (a) prices given in the customs documents accom­
 Committee ;                                                          panying the products imported from such other
                                                                      third countries ;
Whereas Article 10 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
805/68 provides that, where the import price for                  (b) other information concerning the export prices
calves or adult bovine animals, after addition of the                 ruling in such other countries ;
customs duty, is lower than the guide price, the dif­
ference between the latter price and the import price
plus that addition is offset by a levy on imports of             Whereas, however, offer prices which do not corres­
that product ; whereas, however, such levy is to be              pond to actual purchasing possibilities are to be dis­
 fixed at :                                                      regarded, as are also offer prices relating to unrepre­
                                                                 sentative quantities ; whereas offer prices which,
— 75 °/o of the abovementioned difference, if it is              because of the development of prices in general or
      found that the price of the product in question on         from the information available, do not seem to be
      the representative markets of the Community is             representative of the actual trend of prices in the
      more than the guide price but does not exceed              exporting country should also be disregarded ;
      102 %> of that price ;
                                                                 Whereas, where no free-at-frontier offer price can
— 50 %> of the abovementioned difference, if it is               be reconded for one or more categories of live ani­
      found that the price of the product in question on         mals or of meat, the last available price must be
                                                                 used for the calculation ;
      the representative markets of the Community is
      more thain 102 °/o of the guide price but does not
      exceed 104 %> of that price ;                              Whereas, if the import price differs by less than 0-50
                                                                 unit of account per 100 kg live weight from the
— 25 °/o of the abovementioned difference, if it is              import price previously used to calculate the levy,
      found that the price of the product in question on         the latter price must be maintained ;
      the representative markets of the Community is
      more than 104 °/o of the guide price but does not
      exceed 106 °/o of that price ;                             Whereas the import price must be calculated on the
                                                                 first and third Thursday of each month for the pur­
                                                                 pose of calculating the levies valid from the follow­
— nil, if it is found that the price of the product in           ing Monday ; whereas, however, if circumstances so
      question on the representative markets of the              require, the import price may be fixed on another
      Community is more than 106 °/o of the guide                day of the same week ;
      price ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1192/73 (8),
 fixed the guide prices for calves and adult bovine              Whereas Article 10 (5 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
animals valid for the 1973/74 marketing year ;                   805 /68 provides that the price recorded on the repre­
                                                                 sentative markets of the Community is derived from
 (») OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.
 (l) OJ No L 25, 30. 1. 1973, p. 23.
 (») OJ No L 122, 9. 5 . 1973, p. 6 .                            (<) OJ No L 26, 31 . 1 . 1973 , p. 16.
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the prices recorded on the" representative market or                    Whereas, where these quotations do not relate to
markets of each Member State for the various quali­                     'live weight excluding tax' prices, the quotations for
ties — of calves, adult bovines animals or the meat                     the different qualities are to be corrected by the
of these animals, as the case may be — after taking                     live-weight conversion coefficients laid down in Annex
into account the relative quantity of each of such                      II to that Regulation and, in respect of Italy and the
qualities and the relative magnitude of the bovine                      United Kingdom, are first increased or reduced by the
stock of each Member State ;                                            corrective amounts laid down in that Annex ; where­
                                                                        as for Ireland the price per calf recorded on the
                                                                        representative market is to be increased by the correc­
                                                                        tive amount fixed in that Annex and subsequently
Whereas the prices for calves and adult bovine ani­                     converted back into live weight per unit of weight
mals, recorded on the representative market or mar­                     by applying the corrective coefficient fixed in that
kets of each Member State, is equal to the average,                     Annex ;
weighted by coefficients, of the prices for the quali­
ties of calves, adult bovine animals and meat of
these animals formed during a period of seven days
in that Member State at a standard wholesale stage ;                     Whereas, if one or more Member States take mea­
whereas the representative markets, the qualities of                     sures, such as health protection measures, which
the products and the weightings were fixed in                            affect the normal development of quotations re­
Annex II to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 320/                          corded on their markets, the Commission may either
 73 (*) of 31 January 1973 on the determination of                      disregard the quotations recorded on the market or
the prices for calves and adult bovine animals on                       markets in question or use the last quotations
the representative markets of the Community ;                           recorded on the market or markets in question
                                                                        before those measures were put into effect ;
Whereas the prices of . calves and adult bovine ani­
mals so established on the market or markets of                         Whereas, where information is not available, the
each of the new Member States must be increased by                      quotations recorded on representative Community
the basic compensatory amount provided for in Art­                       markets are to be determined with particular refer­
icle 1 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No                             ence to the latest known quotations ;
 181 /73 (2) of 23 January 1973 laying down general
 rules for the system of compensatory amounts for
beef and veal ;
                                                                         Whereas, for as long as the price recorded for
                                                                         calves and adult bovine animals on the representa­
                                                                         tive Community markets differs by less than 0-20
 Whereas, where there are several representative mar­                    unit of account per 100 kg live weight from the
 kets in a Member State, the price of each quality is                    price previously used, the latter price is to be main­
 the average of the quotations recorded on each of                       tained ;
 these markets ; whereas, where in a Member State
 there is a single representative market, held several
 times during the seven-day period, the price of each
 quality is to be equal to the arithmetic mean of quo­                    Whereas Article 12 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
 tation's recorded at each market ; whereas, with                         805/68 provides that if a levy is charged on
 regard to Italy, the price of each quality is the aver­                  calves or adult bovine animals, a levy is also to be
 age, weighted by the special weighting coefficients                      charged on imports of the meat of calves or adult
 laid down in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 320/                       bovine animals as listed in Section (a) of the Annex
 73 , of the prices recorded in the surplus and deficit                  to that Regulation under tariff subheadings Nos
  production areas ; whereas the price recorded in the                    02.01 A II a) 1 aa) and 02.01 A II a) 1 bb) ; where­
 surplus production area is equal to the average of the                   as this levy is equal to the levy charged on calves
  quotations recorded on each of the markets within                       or adult bovine animals, as the case may be,
  that area ; whereas for the United Kingdom the                          adjusted by a coefficient expressing the value ratio
  weighted average of the prices recorded on the repre­                   between the meat in question on the one hand and
  sentative markets in Great Britain and in Northern                      calves or adult bovine animals on the other ;
  Ireland are to be multiplied by the coefficient fixed
  in the said Annex II ;
                                                                          Whereas Article 12 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                           805/68 provides that if the levy is charged on adult
   ( x ) OJ No L 36, 8 . 2 . 1973 , p . 13 .                              bovine animals, a levy is also to be charged on
   (*) OJ No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 9.                                     imports of the meat listed in Section (b) of the
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  Annex to that Regulation ; whereas this levy is                      Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
• equal to the levy charged on adult bovine animals,                   levies should be calculated on the basis of an
  multiplied by a standard coefficient ;                               exchange rate which is based, in the case of curren­
                                                                       cies which are floating or whose central rate differs
  Whereas Article 12 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No                        from the official parity, on the effective rate or the
  805/68 provides that the levy may be charged on                      central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
  imports of the products listed in Section ( a) of the                the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
  Annex to that Regulation under tariff subheading                     on 13 February 1973 ;
  No 02.01 A II a) 1 cc) ; whereas this levy is equal to
  the highest levy applicable to calves or adult bovine                Whereas it follows from the provisions of the above­
  animals, multiplied by a standard coefficient ;                      mentioned Regulations and in particular from the
                                                                       quotations and other information known to the
  Whereas the standard coefficients referred to above                  Commission that the levies on calves, adult bovine
                                                                       animals and on beef and veail other than frozen
  were fixed for each of the products in question in
  the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1025/68 (*), as                     should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regu­
                                                                       lation ;
  last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1987/71 (2) ;
  whereas that Regulation also defines the require­
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  ments to be met by certain products for which the
  levy has been fixed by means of these coefficients ;
                                                                                               Article 1
  Whereas levies must be fixed with due regard for
                                                                        The levies referred to in Articles 10 and 12 of Regu­
  obligations arising out of international agreements
                                                                        lation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be as shown in the
  concluded by the Community ; whereas Council
                                                                        Annex to this Regulation.
  Regulation (EEC) No 1474/72 (3) of 10 July 1972 on
  the levies on imports from Yugoslavia of adult                                               Article 2
   bovine animals and meat thereof should also be
   taken into account ;                                                 To be classified as products falling within subhead­
                                                                        ings Nos 02.01 A II a) 1 aa) and 02.01 A II a) 1
   Whereas, in accordance with Article 33 (2) of Regu­                  bb), products must correspond to the definitions
   lation (EEC) No 805/68 , the nomenclature provided                   contained in Articles 1 a and 2 of Regulation (EEC)
   for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Com­                   No 1025 /68 .
   mon Customs Tariff ;                                                                        Article 3
   Whereas the levies must be fixed once each week                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 May
   and be valid from the following Monday ;                              1973 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                 Done at Brussels, 10 May 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                Member of the Commission
    (*) OJ No L 174, 23 . 7. 1968, p. 9.
    («) OJ No L 209, 15 . 9 . 1971 , p . 28 .
     (») OJ No L 157, 13 . 7. 1972, p . 1 .
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                                                                   ANNEX
                       Levies applicable from 14 May 1973 to imports from third countries (1)
                 CCT                                                                                       Levy in
               heading
                 No
                                                            Description of goods                        u.a./lOO kg
                                                                                                        Live weight
             01.02        Live animals of the bovine species :
                          A. Domestic species :
                              II . Other :
                                   a) Calves                                                             0       ( b)
                                   b ) Other :
                                       1 . Cows for immediate slaughter, the meat of which is
                                           intended for processing (a)                                   0
                                       2 . Other :
                                           aa) Not yet having any permanent teeth, of a weight
                                                of not less than 350 kg but not more than 450 kg
                                                in the case of male animals, or of not less than
                                                320 kg but not more than 420 kg in the case of
                                                female animals (c)                                       0
                                           bb ) Other                                                    0       ( b)
                                                                                                        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 •
                                       1 . Fresh or chilled :
                                           aa) Of calves :
                                                11 . Carcases and half-carcases                               0
                                                22 . Separated or unseparated forequarters                    0
                                                33. Separated or unseparated hindquarters                     0
                                           bb ) Of adult animals :
                                                11 . Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quar­
                                                     ters :
                                                     aaa ) Carcases of a weight of not less than 180
                                                            kg but not more than 270 kg and half­
                                                            carcases or 'compensated' quarters, of a
                                                            weight of not less than 90 kg but not
                                                            more than 135 kg, with a low degree of
                                                            ossification of the cartilages (more es­
                                                            pecially those of the symphysis pubis and
                                                            the vertebral apophyses), the meat of
                                                            which is of a light pink colour and the
                                                            fat of which, of extremely fine structure,
                                                            is white to light yellow in colour (c)            0
                                                     bbb ) Other                                              0
                                                22 . Forequarters :
                                                     aaa) Of a weight of not less than 45 kg but
                                                            not more than 68 kg, with a low degree
                                                            of ossification of the cartilages (more
                                                            especially those of the vertebral apo­
                                                            physes), the meat of which is of a light
                                                            pink colour and the fat of which, of
                                                            extremely fine structure, is white to light
                                                            yellow in colour (c)                              0
                                                     bbb ) Other                                              0
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                    CCT                                                                                                   Levy in
                  heading                                     Description of goods                                     u . a. /100 kg
                     No
                                                                                                                   I  Net weiehr
               02.01                              33 . Hindquarters :
               (cont'd )
                                                       aaa) Of a weight of not less than 45 kg but
                                                               not more than 68 kg (not less than 38 kg
                                                               but not more than 61 kg in the case of
                                                              ' Pistola' cuts), with a low degree of
                                                              ossification of the cartilages (more es­
                                                              pecially those of the vertebral apophyses),
                                                              the meat of which is of a light pink
                                                              colour and the fat of which, of extremely
                                                              fine structure, is white to light yellow in
                                                              colour (c)                                                      0
                                                       bbb) Other                                                             0
                                              cc) Other cuts of veal and beef :
                                                  11 . Unboned (bone-in)                                                      0
                                                  21. Boned or boneless                                                       0
             02 06            Meat and edible meat offals (except poultry liver), salted, in brine,
                              dried or smoked :
                              C. Other :
                                  1 . Of domestic bovine animals :
                                      a ) Meat :
                                          1 . Unboned (bone-in)                                                               0
                                          2 . Boned or boneless                                                              0
             (') RrpHation (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 OCT.
            (a) p..itry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent authorities and to
                 the special conditions at present applicable to cows imported under the bilateral agreement on cattle for
                  the food processing industry between the European Communities and Austria.
            (b) Where these products are imported under the conditions set out in Article 11 of Council Regulation (EEC)
                 No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 ana in the provisions adopted for its application , the levy is either refunded or not
                 collected in accordance with those provisions .
            (c) Entry under this subheading is subject to the production of the certificate referred to in paragraph 2 (c) of
                 Protocol No 1 annexed to the trade agreement between the EEC and the Socialist Federal Republic of
                 Yugoslavia .