CELEX: 31985R3648
Language: en
Date: 1985-12-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3648/85 of 23 December 1985 fixing the import levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and goatmeat other than frozen meat

No L 348 / 10                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                24. 12. 85
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3648/85
                                                        of 23 December 1985
                    fixing the import levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and goatmeat
                                                       other than frozen meat
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          which accompany products imported from non-member
                                                                      countries or on other information concerning the export
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                prices applied by those non-member countries ; whereas
 Economic Community,                                                  offer prices which do not correspond to actual purchasing
                                                                      possibilities or which relate to unrepresentative quantities
                                                                      and offer prices which, in view of general price move­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80                 ments or other information available, may be considered
 of 27 June 1980 on the common organization of the                    not to be representative of actual price trends in the
 market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('), as last amended by             country of origin are to be disregarded ;
 Regulation (EEC) No 3523/85 (2), and in particular the
 first paragraph of Article 11 thereof,
                                                                      Whereas a special levy may be fixed for products origina­
                                                                      ting in or coming from one or more non-member coun­
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,              tries if exports of the said products are made at abnor­
                                                                      mally low prices ;
 Whereas, under Article 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1837/80, a levy is applicable to the products specified in
 Article 1 (a) of that Regulation ;                                   Whereas the levy on live animals within subheading
                                                                      01.04 B and on the meat falling within subheadings 02.01
                                                                      A IV a) 2, 3, 4 and 5 and 02.06 C II a) listed in Annex I to
 Whereas the levy on products falling within subheading               Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is to be equal to the levy
 02.01 A IV a) 1 listed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No             determined for carcases, multiplied by a standard coeffi­
 1837/80 is to be equal to the difference between the                 cient fixed for each of the products in question ; whereas
 seasonally-adjusted basic price and the Community free­              these coefficients are fixed in Annex I to Regulation
 at-frontier offer price ;                                            (EEC) No 2668/80 ;
 Whereas the seasonally-adjusted basic price is fixed in
 Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1313/85 (3) for the 1986
                                                                      Whereas the levies should be so fixed that the obligations
                                                                      arising from international agreements concluded by the
 marketing year ;
                                                                      Community continue to be fulfilled ; whereas, moreover,
                                                                      account should be taken of the voluntary restraint arran­
 Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price is                gements made by the Community with certain non­
 determined in the light of the most representative                   member countries ;
 purchasing possibilities, as regard quality and quantity,
 recorded over the period from the 21st day of the prece­
 ding month to the 20th day of the month during which                 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 (*),
 the levies are determined, taking particular account of the          amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2903/85 (% lays down
 supply and demand situation for fresh or chilled meat, the           the arrangements applicable on agricultural products and
 world market price for frozen meat of a category which is            certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
 competitive with fresh or chilled meat and of past experi­           products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
 ence ;                                                               States or in the overseas countries and territories ;
 Whereas the free-at-frontier offer price is to be deter­             Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of each
 mined, if necessary, on the basis of the most represent­             month for each week during the following month ;
 ative purchasing possibilities recorded for live sheep ;             whereas they are applicable from Monday to Sunday ;
                                                                      whereas they can be altered within that period if neces­
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No                 sary ;
 2668/80 (4) the free-at-frontier offer prices are to be based
 inter alia on the prices shown in the customs documents
                                                                      Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
                                                                      should be calculated on the following basis :
(') OJ  No  L  183,  16.  7. 1980, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L  336,  14.  12. 1985, p. 2.
(3) OJ  No  L  137,  27.  5. 1985, p. 23 .                            0 OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3. 1985, p. 4.
(4) OJ  No  L 276,   20 . 10. 1980, p. 39 .                           O OJ No L 279, 19. 10 . 1985, p. 5.
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— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­        on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and goatmeat
    tion to each other at any given moment within a band         other than frozen meat should be as set out in the Annex
    of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central        to this Regulation,
    rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in the
    last paragraph of Article 3 (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    1676/85 ('),
— 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 rela­       The import levies on live sheep and goats and on sheep­
    tion to the Community currencies referred to in the          meat and goatmeat other than frozen meat shall be as set
    previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;              out in the Annex hereto.
Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the above­                                   Article 2
mentioned Regulations and, in particular, to the informa­
tion and quotations known to the Commission, the levies          This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 January 1986.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                  Done at Brussels, 23 December 1985 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                           Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                              Vice-President
(!) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
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                                                                  ANNEX
                    to the Commission Regulation of 23 December 1985 fixing the import levies on live sheep
                               and goats and on sheepmeat and goatmeat other than frozen meat
                                                                                                                          (ECU/100 kg)
             CCT                       Week No 1                  Week No 2                Week No 3               Week No 4
            heading                     from 6 to                  from 13 to               from 20 to         from 27 January to
              No                     12 January 1986            19 January 1986          26 January 1986         2 February 1986
01.04 B                                  85,888 (')                  89,883 (')               94,644 (')            97,816 0
02.01 A IV a) 1                         182,740 (2)                191,240 0                201,370 0              208,120 (2)
               2                        127,918 (2)                133,868 0                140,959 (2)            145,684 0
               3                        201,014 0                  210,364 (2)              221,507 (2)            228,932 (2)
               4                        237,562 (2)                248,612 0                261,781 (2)            270,556 (2)
               5 aa)                    237,562 (2)               248,612 0                 261,781 (2)            270,556 (2)
                  bb)                   332,587 (2)                348,057 (2)              366,493 (2)            378,778 (2)
02.06 C II a) 1                         237,562 (3)                248,612 0                261,781 (3)            270,556 0
               2                        332,587 (3)                348,057 (3)              366,493 (3)            378,778 (3) '
(') The levy applicable is limited in the conditions laid down in Council Regulations (EEC) No 3658/84 and (EEC) No 486/85 and
    Commission Regulation (EEC) No 19/82.
(2) The levy applicable is limited to the amount bound under GATT or in the conditions laid down in Council Regulations (EEC) No
    1985/82, (EEC) No 3658/84 and (EEC) No 486/85 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 19/82.
(3) The levy applicable is limited in the conditions laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 and Commission Regulation (EEC)
    No 19/82.