CELEX: 31975R3321
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3321/75 of the Commission of 19 December 1975 fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 5 January 1976

No L 328/36                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            20 . 12 . 75
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 3321 /75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 19 December 1975
              fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 5 January
                                                             1976
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    there are traditional     trade   flows to Switzerland ;
COMMUNITIES,                                                      whereas, to the extent necessary to allow this trade to
                                                                  continue, the refund must be fixed at an amount
                                                                  which will cover the difference between prices on the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Swiss market and export prices in the Member States ;
Economic Community ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      Whereas, in the case of some other cuts and preserves
805/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                of meat or offals, Community participation in interna­
tion of the market in beef and veal, as last amended              tional trade may be ensured by granting a refund
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 855/74 (2), and in particular            which takes account of the refund hitherto granted to
the first sentence of Article 18(5) thereof ;                     exporters ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                       Whereas, in the case of other beef and veal products, a
                                                                  refund need not be fixed since Community participa­
                                                                  tion in world trade in these products is not signifi­
                                                                  cant :
Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68
provides that the difference between prices on the
world market and prices within the Community for
the products listed in Article 1 of that Regulation may
be covered by an export refund ;                                  Whereas Article 92 of the Act of Accession (4)
                                                                  provides that the refund on exports from the new
                                                                  Member States for the products specified in Article 1
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 (3) of                 (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be
28 June 1968 lays down general rules for granting                 corrected by the amount of the difference between the
export refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of              customs duties on the products from which these
such refunds ;                                                    products are produced ;
Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
criteria to the foreseeable situation on the market in            Whereas if the refund system is to operate normally,
beef and veal that the refund should be fixed as indi­            refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
cated below ;
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                       relation to each other, at any given moment,
Whereas the present market situation in the Commu­
nity and the setting possibilities, particularly in certain           within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
third countries, leads to granting export refunds for                  on their effective parity ;
adult bovine animals with a live weight equal or
superior to 330 kg, for the export of certain fresh or            — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
chilled meats shown in the Annex under subheading                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
ex 02.01 A II a) 1 and for the export toN certain destina­             of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
tions, of certain frozen meats shown in the Annex                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
under subheading ex 02.01 A II a) 2 ;                                  in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas, in the case of edible meat of domestic
bovine animals, boned or boneless , salted and dried ,            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                  are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                  ment Committee for Beef and Veal ,
(') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p . 24.
(-') OJ No L 195, 18 . 7. 1974, p . 14.
(3 ) OJ No L 156, 4. 7 . 1968 , p. 2.                             («) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                              805/68 is granted and the amount of that refund is
                                                           fixed as shown in the Annex.
                      Article 1                                                  Article 2
The list of products on which the export refund            This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 January
referred to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No           1976.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 19 December 1975 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                Member of the Commission
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                                                               ANNEX
   CCT heading No                             Description of goods                   Refund in u.a./100 kg
                        \                                                                Live weight
   01.02 A II            Live domestic animals of the bovine species, other than
                         pure-bred breeding animals :
                        — adult bovine animals with a live weight equal or
                             superior to 330 kg                                           40-00 (*)
                                                                                          Net weight
ex 02.01 A II a) 1       Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, fresh or chilled :
              aa)        Of veal :
                   11 .  Carcases and half-carcases                                       70-00 (*)
        22. and ex 33 .  Unseparated or separated forequarters, with a respective
                         minimum of four pairs of ribs or four ribs and a
                         respective maximum of thirteen pairs of ribs or thirteen
                         ribs, with or without the thin flank, the ribs can be whole
                         or cut                                                           56-00 (')
                ex 33 .  Unseparated or separated hindquarters, excluding unsepa­
                         rated or separated forequarters with respectively more
                         than eight pairs of whole or cut ribs or more than eight
                         whole or cut ribs                                                84-00 (*)
              bb)        Of adult animals :
                   11 .  Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quarters                70-00 (*)
      22. and ex 33 .    Forequarters, with a minimum of four . and a maximum
                         of thirteen whole or cut ribs, with or without the thin
                         flanks                                                           56-00 (*)
                ex 33 .  Hindquarters, excluding the forequarter with more than
                         ten whole or cut ribs                                            84-00 (»)
               cc)       Other cuts of beef and veal :
                   11 . Unboned (bone-in)                                                 56-00 (*)
               ex 22 .  Boned or boneless, excluding the thin flanks and the
                         shin :
                        — each piece packaged individually
                                                                                          32-00 (*)
ex 02.01 A II a) 2      Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, frozen :
              aa)       Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quarters :
                        — for export to European third countries (*), to Jordan,
                             to third countries on the Mediterranean or on the
                             Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian
                             Peninsula and Africa                                        70-00 (*)
       bb) and ex cc) Forequarters, with a minimum of four and a maximum
                        of thirteen whole or cut ribs, with or without the thin
                        flanks :
                        — for export to European third countries (*), to Jordan,
                            to third countries on the Mediterranean or on the
                            Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian
                             Peninsula and Africa                                        56-00 (*)
           ex cc)       Hindquarters, excluding the forequarter with more than
                        ten whole or cut ribs :
                        — for export to European third countries (*), to Jordan,
                            to third countries on the Mediterranean or on the
                            Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian
                            Peninsula and Africa                                         84-00 (*)
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                                                                                                           Refund in u.a./100 kg
     CCT heading No                                 Description of goods
                                                                                                                (Net weight)
                  dd)       Others :
                       11 . Unboned (bone-in) :
                            — for export to European third countries (*), to Jordan,
                                to third countries on the Mediterranean or on the
                                Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian
                                Peninsula and Africa                                                             56-00 (*)
                   ex 22.   Boned or boneless excluding the thin flanks and the
                            shin :
                            — for export to the United States of America                                         81-50 (*)
                            — each piece packaged individually for export to Euro­
                                pean third countries (*), to Jordan, to third countries
                                on the Mediterranean or on the Persian Gulf, to third
                                 countries of the Arabian Peninsula and Africa                                   82-00 (*)
ex 02.06 CI a) 2            Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, boned or
                            boneless, salted and dried :
                            — for export to Switzerland                                                          36-50 (*)
                                                                                                            United
                                                                                                  Ireland  Kingdom       Other Member States
ex 16.02 B III b) 1         Other preparations and preserves of meat or offals ex­
                            cept those finely homogenized (3) containing by weight
                            the following percentages of bovine meat :
                            1 . 80 °/o or more of meat, excluding offal and fat                   31-34     29-18              35-00
                            2. 60 % or more but less than 80 %> of meat, excluding
                                offal and fat                                                      18-80    17-51              21-00
                            3. 40 % or more but less than 60 %> of meat, excluding
                                offal and fat                                                     12-54     11-67              14-00
                            4. 20 % or more but less than 40 % of meat, excluding
                                offal and fat                                                       6 -27    5-84                7-00
 (*) For Ireland and the United Kingdom the refund fixed above must be reduced by the compensatory amount pursuant to Article 12 (1) of
     Regulation (EEC) No 181/73 (OJ No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 9).
 (') Within the meaning of this Regulation those destinations mentioned in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 192/75 (OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975,
     p. 1) are also to be understood as European third countries.
 (') The products which contain a small quantity of visible pieces of meat are also excluded.
 N.B. ; Whereas 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.