CELEX: 31990R0998
Language: en
Date: 1990-04-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 998/90 of 20 April 1990 fixing the export refunds on beef and veal and amending Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 establishing an agricultural product nomenclature for export refunds

No L 101 / 10                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                  21 . 4. 90
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 998/90
                                                        of 20 April 1990
                  fixing the export refunds on beef and veal and amending Regulation (EEC) No
                 3846/87 establishing an agricultural product nomenclature for export refunds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        No 3815/87 (13), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    1 199/89 (14), lay down the conditions applying to the
                                                                   export of certain beef and veal held by certain interven­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              tion agencies and intended for export ; whereas refunds
Economic Community,                                                granted under those Regulations should be discontinued
                                                                   since all the formalities related to those exports have been
                                                                   completed ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,
                                                                   Whereas it follows from applying those rules and criteria
                                                                   to the foreseeable situation on the market in beef and veal
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of             that the refund should be as set out below ;
27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market
in beef and veal ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 571 /89 (2), and in particular Article 18 thereof,              Whereas given the current market situation in the
                                                                    Community and the possibilities of disposal in certain
                                                                   third countries, in particular export refunds on adult male
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,            bovine animals of a live weight of at least 300 kilograms
                                                                   and other bovines of a live weight of at least 250 kilo­
                                                                   grams ; whereas experience gained in recent years has
                                                                   shown that it is advisable to treat live pure-bred breeding
Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68
                                                                   animals of a weight of at least 250 kilograms for females
provides that the difference between prices on the world            and 300 kilograms for males in an identical manner to
market for the products listed in Article 1 of that Regula­         other bovine animals, while subjecting them to certain
tion and prices for those products within the Community             special administrative formalities ;
may be covered by an export refund ;
                                                                   Whereas export refunds should be granted for certain
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 (3), as last             destinations on certain fresh or chilled meat listed in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 427/77 (4), lays down               Annex I under CN code 0201 , on certain frozen meat
general rules for granting export refunds and criteria for          listed in Annex I under CN code 0202, on certain meat
fixing the amount of such refunds ;                                 or offal listed in Annex I under CN code 0206 and on
                                                                    certain other prepared or preserved meat or offal listed in
                                                                    Annex I under CN code 1602 50 10 ;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 32/82 (s), as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 3169/87 (% Regulation (EEC) No
1964/82 Q, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3169/87,               Whereas, in view of the wide differences in products
and Regulation (EEC) No 2388/84 (8), as last amended by             covered by the CN codes 0201 20 90 700 and
Regulation (EEC) No 3988/87 (9), lay down the conditions            0202 20 90 100 used for refund purposes, the refund
for granting special export refunds for certain cuts of beef        should only be granted on cuts in which the weight of
and veal and certain preserved beef and veal products ;             bone does not exceed one third ;
Whereas Regulations (EEC) Nos 2908/85 (10) and 142/                 Whereas refunds should also be granted on fresh or
86 (u), Regulation (EEC) No 1055/87 (12), as last amended           frozen boned or boneless pieces, even where each piece is
by Regulation (EEC) No 3988/87 and Regulation (EEC)                 not individually wrapped, and on minced meat, and the
                                                                    wording of the tariff subheadings for fresh boned or bone­
(') OJ  No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24.                            less pieces specified ;
(2) OJ  No L 61 , 4. 3. 1989, p. 43.
(3) OJ  No L 156, 4. 7. 1968, p. 2,
(4) OJ  No L 61 , 5. 3 . 1977, p. 16.                               Whereas, in the case of meat of bovine animals, boned or
M OJ No L 4, 8. 1 . 1982, p. 11 .                                   boneless, salted and dried, there are traditional trade flows
(«) OJ No L 301 , 24. 10. 1987, p. 21 .
0 OJ No L 212, 21 . 7. 1982, p. 48 .                                to Switzerland ; whereas to allow this trade to continue,
(8) OJ No L 221 , 18 . 8 . 1984, p. 28 .                            the refund should be set to cover the difference between
0 OJ No L 376, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 31 .
(10) OJ No L 279, 19. 10. 1985, p. 18 .
(") OJ No L 19 , 25. 1 . 1986, p. 8 .                               H OJ No L 357, 19 . 12. 1987, p. 24.
(12) OJ No L 103, 15. 4. 1987, p. 10 .                              O 4) OJ No L 123 , 4. 5. 1989, p. 16 .
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prices on the Swiss market and export prices in the                compared with that from the bovine species alone
Member States ; whereas there are possibilities for expor­         contained in prepared or preserved meat covered by CN
ting such meat and smoked dried meat to certain African,           code 1 602 50 ; whereas products of the bovine species
Near and Middle Eastern countries ; whereas a refund               alone should accordingly be set apart and a new heading
should accordingly be set ;                                        should be created for mixtures of meats or offals ; whereas
                                                                   control over products other than mixtures of meat or offal
                                                                   should be reinforced by marking the granting of refunds
                                                                   on certain of these products conditional on manufacturer
Whereas, in the case of certain other cuts and preserves of
meat or offal       shown     in Annex I under CN code             under the arrangements provided for in Article 4 of
1 602 50 90 Community participation in international               Council Regulation (EEC) No 565/80 of 4 March 1980 on
trade may be maintained by granting a refund correspon­            the advance payment of export refunds in respect of agri­
ding to that at present available ;                                cultural products Q, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   2026/83 («) ;
Whereas, in the case of other beef and veal products, a            Whereas moreover, as Community participation in world
refund need not be fixed since Community participation             trade in products covered by CN code 1602 90 has been
in world trade is not significant ;                                very slight since the introduction of the Combined
                                                                   Nomenclature, the refund on these products should for
                                                                   simplification be withdrawn ; whereas Regulation (EEC)
Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,              No 3846/87 should be amended accordingly ;
refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                   in accordance with the opinion of the Management
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band          Committee for Beef and Veal,
     of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
     the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
     tion (EEC) No 1 676/85 ('), as last amended by Regula­
     tion (EEC) No 1636/87 Q,
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
     tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
     previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (3),
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 88/90 (4)
establishes the agricultural product nomenclature for the          The list of products on which the export refund referred
purposes of export refunds ;                                        to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 is granted
                                                                    and the amount of that refund shall be as set out in
                                                                   Annex I hereto.
Whereas, in order to simplify customs export formalities
for operators, the refunds for all boned cuts packed indivi­
dually should be harmonized ; whereas therefore the                The description of goods and footnotes for CN codes
refund on frozen boned cuts should be the same as that              0202 30 and 1602 in Section 6 of the Annex to Regula­
on fresh boned cuts except in the case of certain boned             tion (EEC) No 3846/87 setting out the agricultural
beef held by the intervention agencies that is to be                product nomenclature for export refunds is replaced by
expected under Commission Regulations (EEC) No                     Annex II to this Regulation.
243/90 0 and (EEC) No 676/90 («) ;
Whereas in certain cases experience has shown that it is
often difficult to determine quantities of other meat, as                                    Article 2
(>) OJ   No  L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
0   OJ   No  L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 April 1990.
(3) OJ   No  L 366, 24. 12. 1987, p. 1
0   OJ   No  L 21 , 13. 1 . 1990, p. 23.
0   OJ   No  L 27, 31 . 1 . 1990, p. 8 .                           f) OJ No L 62, 7. 3. 1980, p. 5.
0   OJ   No  L 75, 21 . 3. 1990, p. 8 .                             (8) OJ No L 199, 22. 7. 1983, p. 12.
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              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 20 April 1990.
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                      Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                 Member of the Commission
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                                                ANNEX I
                                                                                    (ECU/100 kg)
                Product code                    Destination 0         Amount of refund (8)
                                                                       — Live weight —
               0102 10 00 190                        01                      96,00
               010210 00 390                         01                      96,00
               0102 90 31 900                        02                      68,50
                                                     03                      55,50
                                                     04                      25,50
               0102 9033 900                         02                      68,50
                                                     03                      55,50
                                                     04                      25,50
               0102 90 35 900                        02                      86,50
                                                     03                      73,00
                                                     04                      34,50
               0102 90 37 900                        02                      86,50
                                                     03                      73,00
                                                     04 •                    34,50
                                                                       — Net weight —
               0201 10 10 100                        02                      73,50
                                                     03                      65,00
                                                     04                      32,50
               0201 10 10 900                        02                     101,50
           l                                         03                      88,00
                                                     04                      44,00
               0201 10 90 HOC)                       02                     106,00
                                                     03                      85,00
                                                     04                      42,50
               0201 10 90 190                        02                      73,50
                                                     03                      65,00
                                                     04                      32,50
             . 0201 10 90 910 (')                    02                     146,50
                                                     03                     115,00
                                                     04                      57,50
               0201 10 90 990                        02                     101,50
                                                     03                      88,00
                                                     04                      44,00
               0201 20 21 000                        02                     101,50
                                                     03                      88,00
                                                     04                      44,00
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                                                                                    (ECU/100 kg)
               Product code                    Destination f7)       Amount of refund (')
                                                                      — Net weight —
              0201 20 29 100 (')                    02                    146,50
                                                    03                    115,00
                                                    04                      57,50
              0201 20 29 900                        02                    101,50
                                                    03                      88,00
                                                    04                     44,00
              0201 20 31 000                        02                      73,50
                                                    03                      65,00
                                                    04                      32,50
              0201 20 39 100 (')                    02                    106,00
                                                    03                      85,00
                                                    04                     42,50
              0201 20 39 900                        02                      73,50
                                                    03                      65,00
                                                    04                      32,50
              0201 20 51 100                        02                    129,00
                                                    03                    110,50
                                                    04                      56,00
              0201 20 51 900                        02                      73,50
                                                    03                      65,00
                                                    04                      32,50
              0201 20 59 110 (')                    02                    186,50
                                                    03                    146,00
                                                    04                      73,00
              0201 20 59 190                        02                    129,00
                                                    03                    110,50
                                                     04                     56,00
              0201 20 59 910 (')                     02                   106,00
                                                     03                     85,00
                                                     04                     42,50
              0201 20 59 990                         02 :                   73,50
                                                     03                     65,00
                                                     04                     32,50
              0201 20 90 700                         02                     73,50
                                                     03                     65,00
                                                     04                     32,50
              0201 30 00 050 (4)                     05                   112,00
              0201 30 00 100 (2)                     02                   266,50
                                                     03                   208,50
                                                     04                   104,50
                                                     06                   266,50
              0201 30 00 150                         02                   144,50
                                                     03                   125,00
                                                     04                     62,50
                                                     06                   144,50
                                                     07                     90,00
              0201 30 00 190 I6)                     02                    102,50
                                                     03                     84,00 :
                                                     04                     42,00
                                                     06                    102,50
                                                     07                     90,00
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                                                                                  (ECU/100 kg)
              Product code                    Destination Q         Amount of refund (8)
                                                                     — Net weight —
             0202 10 00 100                        02                      73,50
           l                                       03                      65,00
                                                   04                      32,50
             0202 10 00 900                        02                    101,50
                                                   03                      88,00
                                                   04                      44,00
             0202 20 10 000                        02                    101,50
                                                   03                      88,00
                                                   04                      44,00
             0202 20 30 000                        02                      73,50
                                                   03                      65,00
                                                   04                      32,50
             0202 20 50 100                        02                    129,00
           I                                       03                    110,50
                                                   04                      56,00
             0202 20 50 900                        02                      73,50
                                                   03                      65,00
           I                                       04                      32,50
             0202 20 90 100                        02                      73,50
                                                   03                      65,00
           l                                       04                      32,50
             0202 30 90 100 («)                    05                    112,00
             0202 30 90 400                        02                    144,50 (10)
                                                   03                    125,00 (10)
                                                   04                      62,50 (">)
           I                                       06                    144,50 (10)
                                                   07                      90,00 (10)
             0202 30 90 500 («)                    02                    102,50
           I                                       03                      84,00
                                                   04                      42,00
           I                                       06                    102,50
                                                   07                      90,00
             0202 30 90 900                        07­                     90,00
             0206 10 95 000                         02                   102,50
                                                   03                      84,00
           I                                        04                     42,00
                                                   06                    102,50
             0206 29 91 000                        02                    102,50
                                                    03                     84,00
                                                   04                      42,00
                                                   06                    102,50
             0210 20 90 100                         08                   102,50
                                                   09                      60,50
             0210 20 90 300                        02                    102,50
             021 0 20 90 500 (3)                   02                    102,50
             1602 50 10 120                         02                   1 08,00 f)
                                                   03                    108,00 (')
                                                   04                    108,00 (')
             1602 50 10 140                         02                     96,00 0
                                                   03                      96,00 (9)
                                                   04                      96,00 (')
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                                                                                                                       (ECU/100 kg)
                             Product code                           Destination f)                    Amount of refund (8)
                                                                                                        — Net weight —
                           1602 50 10 160                                02                                    77,00 O
                                                                         03                                    77,00 0
                                                                         04                                    77,00 0
                           1602 50 10 180                                02                                    51,00
                                                                         03                                    51,00
                                                                         04                                    51,00
                           1602 50 10 240                                02                                    36,00
              l                                                          03                                    36,00
                                                                         04                                    36,00
                           1602 50 10 260                                02                                    26,00
                                                                         03                                    26,00
                                                                         04                                    26,00
                           1602 50 10 280                                02                                    16,00
                                                                         03                                    16,00
                                                                         04                                    16,00
                           1602 50 90 120                                01                                   116,00 (5)
                           1602 50 90 170                                01                                    73,00 f)
                           1602 50 90 320                                01                                   103,00 O
                           1602 50 90 370                                01                                    65,00 O
                           1602 50 90 520                                01                                    77,00 O
                           1602 50 90 570                                01                                    48,50 (')
                           1602 50 90 610                                01                                    36,00
                           1602 50 90 620                                01                                    16,00
                           1602 50 90 700                                01                                    36,00
                           1602 50 90 800                                01                                    26,00
                           1602 50 90 900                                01                                    16,00
                (') Entry under this subheading is subject to the submission of the certificate appearing in the Annex to Commis­
                    sion Regulation (EEC) No 32/82.
                0 Entry under this subheading is subject to compliance with the condition laid down in Commission Regulation
                    (EEC) No 1964/82.
                0 The refund on beef in brine is granted on the net weight of the meat, after deduction of the weight of the brine.
                (4) OJ No L 336, 29. 12. 1979, p. 44.
                0 OJ No L 221 , 19. 8. 1984, p. 28.
                0 The lean bovine meat content excluding fat is determined in accordance with the procedure described in the
                    Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2429/86 (OJ No L 210, 1 . 8 . 1986, p. 39).
                f) The destinations are as follows :
                    01 Third countries.
                    02 North African, Near and Middle East third countries, West, Central East and South African third countries,
                        except Lebanon, Cyprus, Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
                    03 European third countries, the Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, Lebanon, Cyprus, Greenland, Pakistan, Sri
                        Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, North Korea and Hong Kong and the
                        destinations referred to in Article 34 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87 (OJ No L 351 , 14. 12.
                        1987, p. 1 ), except Austria, Sweden and Switzerland.
                    04 Austria, Sweden and Switzerland.
                    05 The United States of America, carried out in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2973/79
                        (OJ No L 336, 29. 12. 1979, p. 44).
                    06 French Polynesia and New Caledonia.
                    07 Canada.
                    08 North, West, Central, East and South African third countries, except Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swazi­
                        land and Zimbabwe.
                    09 Switzerland.
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            (8) Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 provides that no export refunds shall be granted on products imported
                from third countries and re-exported to third countries.
            (*) The refund is granted only on products manufactured under the arrangement provided for in Article 4 of
                Council Regulation (EEC) No 565/80.
           (I0) Excluding boneless pieces exported under Regulation (EEC) No 243/90 and (EEC) No 676/90.
           NB : The countries are as defined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 420/90 (OJ No L 44, 20. 2.
                   1990, p. 15). The descriptions corresponding to the product codes and the footnotes are set out
                   in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 as amended.
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                                                          ANNEX II
                                                                                                                   Product
       CN code                                        Description of goods                                           code
  0202 30       — Boneless :
  0202 30 90    — — Other :
                     — Boned cuts exported to the United States of America under the conditions laid down in
                        Regulation (EEC) No 2973/79 («)                                                        0202 30 90 100
                     — Boned cuts, excluding boned cuts exported under Regulations (EEC) Nos 243/90 Q and
                        676/90 (8), each piece individually wrapped                                            0202 30 90 400
                     — Other, including minced meat, with a lean meat content (excluding fat) of 78 % or
                        more (6)                                                                               0202 30 90 500
                     — Other                                                                                   0202 30 90 900
  1602          Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood :
  1602 50       — Of bovine animals :
  1602 50 10    — — Uncooked ; mixtures of cooked meat or offal and uncooked meat or offal :
                — — — Uncooked ; not containing meat other than that of animals of the bovine species :
                — — — — Containing by weight the following percentages of bovine meats (excluding offal and
                           fats)
                            — 90 % or more                                                                     1602 50 10 120
                            — 80 % or more, but less than 90 %                                                 1602 50 10 140
                            — 60 % or more, but less than 80 %                                                 1602 50 10 160
                            — 40 % or more, but less than 60 %                                                 1602 50 10 180
                            — less than 40 %                                                                   1602 50 10 200
l               — — — Other :
                — — — — Containing by weight 80 % or more of meat or meat offal, of any kind, including fats
                           of any kind or origin :                                                             1602 50 10 240
                _ _ _ _ Containing by weight 40 % or more but less than 80 % of meat or meat offal, of any
                           kind, including fats of any kind or origin :                                        1602 50 10 260
                — — — — Containing by weight less than 40 % of meat or meat offal, of any kind, including
                           fats of any kind or origin :                                                        1602 50 10 280
  1602 50 90 =  — — Other :
                — — — Not containing meat other than that of animals of the bovine species :
                — — — — Containing by weight the following percentages of bovine meats (excluding offal and  l
                           fat)
                — — — — — 90 % or more :
I               — — — — — — Products complying with the conditions laid down in Commission Regulation
                                  (EEC) No 2388/84 0                                                           1602 50 90 120
                   _____ Other :                                                                               1602 50 90 170
                — — — — — 80 % or more, but less than 90 % :
                — — — — — — Products complying with the conditions laid down in Regulation (EEC) No          \
                                  2388/84 0                                                                    1602 50 90 320
                ______ Other                                                                                   1602 50 90 370
                — — — — — 60 % or more, but less than 80 % :
                —• — — —          Products complying with the conditions laid down in Regulation (EEC) No
                                  2388/84 0                                                                    1602 50 90 520
l               — — — — — — Other                                                                              1602 50 90 570
l               — —          — 40 % or more, but less than 60 %                                                1602 50 90 610
                — — — — — 20 % or more, but less than 40 %                                                     1602 50 90 620
                — — — — — Less than 20 %                                                                       1602 50 90 630
                — — — Other
                — — — — Containing by weight 80 % or more of meat or meat offal, of any kind, including fats
l                          of any kind or origin :                                                              1602 50 90 700
                — — — — Containing by weight 40 % or more but less than 80 % of meat or meat offal, of any
                           kind, including fats of any kind or origin :                                        1602 50 90 800
                — — — — Containing by weight less than 40 % of meat or meat offal, of any kind, including
l                          fats of any kind or origin :                                                         1602 50 90 900
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(') Entry within this subheading is subject to the submission of the certificate appearing in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 32/82 (OJ No L
     4, 8. 1 . 1982, p. 11 ).
0 Entry within this subheading is subject to compliance with the conditions laid down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1964/82 (OJ No L 212, 21 . 7.
     1982, p. 48).
(•') The refund on beef in brine is granted on the net weight of the meat after deduction of the " weight of the brine.
0 OJ No L 336, 29 . 12. 1979, p. 44.
0 OJ No L 221 , 18. 8. 1984, p. 28.
(6) The lean bovine meat content excluding fat is determined in accordance with the procedure described in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
     2429/86 (OJ NO L 210, 1 . 8 . 1986, p. 39).
O OJ NO L 27, 31 . 1 . 1990, p. 8 .
(*) OJ No L 75, 21 . 3. 1990, p. 8.
NB : Article 7 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 (OJ No L 156, 4. 7. 1968, p. 2) provides that no export refunds shall be granted on products imported
        from third countries and re-exported to third countries.