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Date: 1973-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11 September 1973 fixing the amount by which the monetary compensatory amounts for beef and veal are to be reduced

6. 10 . 73                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 280/29
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                                                           COMMISSION
                                                         COMMISSION DECISION
                                                            of 11 September 1973
               fixing the amount by which the monetary compensatory amounts for beef and
                                                            veal are to be reduced
                                                                  (73/299/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                             among the States and between the States and third
COMMUNITIES,                                                               countries the compensatory amounts applicable
                                                                           because of a depreciation of the currency concerned
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                      cannot exceed the tax on imports from third coun­
Economic Community ;                                                       tries ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
974/71 (') of 12 May 1971 on certain measures of                           Whereas, in order that this rule may be observed,
conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture                             Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1463/73 has stated
following the temporary widening of the margins of                         that for the application of Article 4a (2) of Regulation
fluctuation    for    the      currencies       of  certain  Member        (EEC) No 974/71 to beef meat, the Commission shall
States, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                             give notice of the amounts by which the monetary
 1225/73 (2) ;                                                             compensatory amounts are to be reduced ;
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 1463/73 (3) of 30 May 1973 , as to the detailed rules for                 Whereas the amounts fixed in accordance with this
applying the monetary compensatory amounts, as last                        rule are periodically altered when changes in the tax
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 21 13/73 (4), and in                        on imports from third countries make this necessary ;
particular Article 5 (2) thereof ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                               Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1695/73 (7) of
Committee ;                                                                25 June 1973 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                            1 824/73 (s) has determined to what extent the mone­
Whereas        Commission             Regulation (EEC) No                  tary compensatory amounts applicable to beef and
2102/73 (5) of 31 July 1973, as last amended by Regu­                      veal by reason of the depreciation of a currency may
lation (EEC) No 2361 /73 (6) fixed the monetary                            be higher than the charge on imports from third coun­
compensatory amounts to be applied from 1 1                                tries ;
September 1973 ;
Whereas these compensatory amounts have been                               Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, world
 fixed without taking account of Article 4 (2) of Regula­                   market prices should be calculated on the following
 tion (EEC) No 974/71 which provides that in trade                         basis :
(')  OJ No  L   106,   12. 5 . 1971 , p . 1 .                              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
(2)  OJ No  L   125,   11 . 5 . 1973 , p . 49 .                                  relation to each other, at any given moment,
(3)  OJ No  L   146 , 4 . 6 . 1973, p . 1 .
("») OJ No  L  214,   2. 8 . 1973 , p . 17 .
(5)  OJ No  L  213 ,   1 . 8 . 1973 , p . 1 .                              ( 7) OJ No L 173 , 28 . 6 . 1973 , p . 1 .
(b)  OJ No  L  246,   3 . 9 . 1973 , p . 1 .                               (8) OJ No L 185, 7 . 7. 1973 , p . 1 .
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       within a band of 2-2.5 % , at a rate of exchange               products imported from non-European third countries
       based on their effective parity ;                              and to the products referred to in Article 1 1 of Regula­
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the                 tion (EEC) No 805/68 (4) ;
       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each              Whereas application of the said criteria results in a
       of these currencies recorded for a given period, in            fixing of the amounts by which the monetary compen­
       relation to the Community currencies referred to               satory amounts are to be adjusted to the level
       in the previous subparagraph ;                                 appearing in the Annex hereto,
Whereas pursuant to the second subparagraph of
Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1463/73 the                      HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
amount to be deducted in Ireland and in the United
Kingdom is equal to the highest amount on the                                                      Article 1
grounds of the application of Article 4a of Regulation
(EEC) No 974/71 for each of these two Member                          With effect from 11 September 1973 the amounts, by
States ;                                                              which the monetary compensatory amounts appearing
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No                                in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2102/73, as last
2391 /73 (') of 31 August 1973, which entered into                    amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2361 /73 must be
force on 3 September 1973, repealed the system                        reduced in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation
provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No                           (EEC) No 1463/73, are fixed in the Annex hereto.
 1 82/73 (2 ) of 23 January 1973 , as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1 969 /73 (3) ; whereas the transit                                            Article 2
times provided for by Article 2 of the latter Regula­                 This Decision is addressed to all Member States .
tion means that the system provided for in Regulation
(EEC) No 182/73 must be applied until 10 September
 1973 to beef and veal in trade between Member States                  Done at Brussels, 11 September 1973 .
and in trade with European third countries ;                                                         For the Commission
Whereas, by reason of these transit times, the system                                                     The President
provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 182/73 will
continue to apply until 16 September 1973 to                                                        Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
  ( ) OJ No L 245 , I. 9 . 1973 , p . 71 .
  (2 ) OJ No L 25 , 30 . I. 1973 , p . 13 .
  (} ) 0 | No L 201 , 21 . 7 . 1973 , p . 12 .                         (4 ) O ) No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 24.
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                                                                     ANNEX
                                   Amounts to be deducted from the monetary compensatory amounts
                                                                                Italy                      Ireland              United Kingdom
                          CCT heading No                                    (Lit/ 100 kg)                (£/100 kg)                (£/100 kg)
                                                                                                 — Live weight —
          ex 01.02   A II a)  (*)                                                  0                           0                        0
          ex 01.02   A II a)  (2)                                                  0                        3-250                    3-250
          ex 01.02   A II b)  (s)                                                  0                           0                        0
          ex 01.02   A II b)  (4)                                                  0                        2-817                    2-817
                                                                                                  — Net weight —
               02.01 A II a) 1 aa) 11                                              0                        3-?89                    3-889
               02.01 A II a) 1 aa) 22                                              0                        2-879                    2-879
               02.01 A II a) 1 aa) 33                                              0                        4-900                    4-900
               02.01 A II a) 1 bb) U1                                              0                        4-221                    4-221
               02.01 A II a) 1 bb ) 22                                             0                        3-279                    3-279
               02.01 A II a) 1 bb ) 33                                             0                        5-164                    5-164
               02.01 A II a) 1 cc) 11                                              0                        7-511                    7-511
               02.01 A II a) 1 cc) 22                                              0                        4-743                    4-743
               02.01 A II a) 2 aa )                                                0                        3-699                    3-699
               02.01 A II a ) 2 bb )                                               0                        2-652                    2-652
               02.01 A II a) 2 cc)                                                 0                        4-747                    4-747
               02.01 A II a) 2 dd) 11                                              0                        5-794                    5-794
               02.01 A II a) 2 dd) 22 aaa)                                         0                        2-468                    2-468
               02.01 A II a ) 2 dd ) 22 bbb )                                      0                        3-396                    3-396
               02.06 C I a) 1                                                      0                        5-615                    5-615
               02.06 C I a) 2                                                      0                        2-574                    2-574
(J) Calves for fattening weighing less than 80 kg.
(') Calves other than those referred to in (') above. Entry in this subhea ding is subject to the conditions to be determined by the competent
     authorities .
 (') Young male bovine animals for fattening of a minimum weight of 220 kg and a maximum weight of 300 kg.
 (*) Young male bovine animals other than those referred to in (3) above. Entry in this subheading is subject to the conditions to be determined by
     the competent authorities.