CELEX: 31981R0926
Language: en
Date: 1981-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 926/81 of 3 April 1981 fixing the import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat

No L 93 / 38                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                              6 . 4. 81
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 926/81
                                                                of 3 April 1981
                                 fixing the import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                            account of the supply and demand situation for fresh
COMMUNITIES,                                                              or chilled meat, the world market price for frozen
                                                                          meat of a category which is competitive with fresh or
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     chilled meat and of past experience ;
Economic Community,
                                                                          Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                             No 2668 /80, the free-at-frontier offer prices are to be
 1837/80 of 27 June 1980 on the common organization                       based inter alia on the prices shown in the customs
of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('), as
                                                                          documents which accompany products imported from
                                                                          non-member       countries  or  on   other  information
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 899/81 (2), and in
                                                                          concerning the export prices applied by those non­
particular the first paragraph of Article 1 1 thereof,
                                                                          member countries ; whereas offer prices which do not
                                                                          correspond to actual purchasing possibilities or which
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                              relate to unrepresentative quantities and offer prices
Committee ,                                                               which , in view of general price movements or other
                                                                          information available, may be considered not to be
Whereas under Article 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                       representative of actual price trends in the country of
                                                                          origin are to be disregarded ;
 1837/80 a levy is applicable to the products falling
within subheading 02.01 A IV b) listed in Annex I to
that Regulation ;                                                         Whereas a special levy may be fixed for products origi­
                                                                          nating in or coming from one or more non-member
                                                                          countries if exports of the said products are made at
Whereas, pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                          abnormally low prices ;
No 1837/ 80 , the levy on frozen carcases and half­
carcases is to be equal to the difference between :
                                                                          Whereas the levy on the meat falling within subhead­
(a) the basic price multiplied by a coefficient represen­                 ings 02.01 A IV b) 2, 3 , 4 and 5 listed in Annex I to
     ting the relationship existing in the Community                      Regulation (EEC) No 1837/ 80 is to be equal to the
     between the price of fresh meat of a category                        levy determined for frozen carcases, multiplied by a
     competitive with the frozen meat in question ,                       standard coefficient fixed for each of the products in
     presented in the same form , and the average price                   question ; whereas these coefficients are fixed in
     of fresh and chilled sheep carcases, and                             Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 2668/80 ;
(b) the Community free -at-frontier offer price for the
     said frozen meat ;                                                   Whereas the levies should be so fixed that the obliga­
                                                                          tions arising from international agreements concluded
                                                                          by the Community continue to be fulfilled ; whereas,
Whereas the basic price for the 1981 / 82 marketing                       moreover, account should be taken of the voluntary
year is fixed in Article 31 of Regulation ( EEC) No                       restraint arrangements made by the Community with
900/81 ('); whereas the coefficient referred to in                        certain non-member countries ;
Article 13 ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation ( EEC) No 1837/80 is
fixed in Article 2 ( 2) of Regulation ( EEC) No
2668 / 80 (4) ;                                                           Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of
                                                                          each month for each week during the following
                                                                          month ; whereas they are applicable from Monday to
Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price is                     Sunday ; whereas they can be altered within that
determined in the light of the most representative                        period if necessary ;
purchasing possibilities, as regards quality and quan­
tity, recorded over the period from the 21st day of the
preceding month to the 20th day of the month during                       Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
which the levies are determined , taking particular                       levies should be calculated on the following basis ;
                                                                          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
(') OJ  No   L  1 83 , 16 .  7 . 1980 , p . 1 .                               relation to each other at any given moment within
O   OJ  No   L  90 , 4 . 4 .  1981 .
O   OJ  No   L  90 , 4 . 4 .  1981 .                                          a band of 2 25 % , a rate of exchange based on
(4) OJ  No   L  276, 20 .    10 . 1980 , p . 39 .                             their effective parity,
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    in the case of other currencies, an exchange based       goatmeat other than frozen meat should be as set out
    on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of       in the Annex to this Regulation,
    each of those currencies recorded for a given
    period in relation to the Community currencies
                                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
    referred to in the previous indent ;
                                                                                    Article 1
                                                             The import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat
                                                             shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the above­
mentioned Regulations and, in particular, to the infor­                             Article 2
mation and quotations known to the Commission, the
levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and          This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 April 1981 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 3 April 1981 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                        Poul DALSAGER
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                           ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 3 April 1981 fixing the import levies on frozen sheep­
                                                     meat and goatmeat
                                                                                                              (ECU/100 kg)
             CCT                     Week No 1               Week No 2            Week No 3              Week No 4
           heading                  from 6 to 12           from 13 to 19        from 20 to 26        from 27 April to 3
              No                    April 1981 (')          April 1981 (')       April 19810             May 1981 (')
02.01 A IV b) 1                         941 88                 97000                96-768                 96-468
               2                        65-932                 67-900               67-738                 67-528
               3                       103-607                106-700              106-445                106-115
               4                       122-444                126-100              125-798                125-408
               5 aa)                   122-444                126-100              125-798                125-408
                 bb)                   171-422                176-540              176-118                175-572
(') The levy applicable is limited to the amount bound under GATT or in the conditions laid down in the voluntary restraint
    agreements or those laid down in Commission Regulations (EEC) No 3379/80, (EEC) No 3380/80, (EEC) No 3349/80, (EEC)
    No 3495/80 and (EEC) No 644/81 .