CELEX: 31985R1077
Language: en
Date: 1985-04-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1077/85 of 26 April 1985 fixing the import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat

27 . 4. 85                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 114/ 15
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1077/85
                                                      of 26 April 1985
                           fixing the import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   or chilled meat, the world market price for frozen
COMMUNITIES,                                                     meat of a category which is competitive with fresh or
                                                                 chilled meat and of past experience ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                              Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                 No 2668/80, the free-at-frontier offer prices are to be
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     based inter alia on the prices shown in the customs
1837/80 of 27 June 1980 on the common organization               documents which accompany products imported from
of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('), as last             non-member      countries     or   on other  information
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 871 /84 (2), and in               concerning the export prices applied by those non­
particular the first paragraph of Article 11 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
 1837/80 a levy is applicable to the products falling            origin are to be disregarded ;
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
Whereas, pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EEC)              countries if exports of the said products are made at
No 1837/80, the levy on frozen carcases and half­                abnormally low prices ;
carcases is to be equal to the difference between :
(a) the basic price multiplied by a coefficient represen­        Whereas the levy on the meat falling within subhead­
                                                                 ings 02.01 A IV b) 2, 3, 4 and 5 listed in Annex I to
     ting the relationship existing in the Community
     between the price of fresh meat of a category               Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is to be equal to the
     competitive with the frozen meat in question,               levy determined for frozen carcases, multiplied by a
     presented in the same form, and the average price           standard coefficient fixed for each of the products in
     of fresh and chilled sheep carcases, and                    question ; whereas these coefficients are fixed in
                                                                 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
Whereas the basic price for the 1984/85 marketing                by the Community continue to be fulfilled ; whereas,
year is fixed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No                moreover, account should be taken of the voluntary
873/84 (3), as last extended by Regulation (EEC) No              restraint arrangements made by the Community with
 1069/85 (4) ; 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 0 ;                                                      Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 (*) lays
                                                                 down the arrangements applicable on agricultural
Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price is            products and certain goods resulting from the proces­
determined in the light of the most representative               sing of agricultural products originating in the African,
                                                                 Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas coun­
purchasing possibilities, as regards quality and quan­
                                                                 tries and territories ;
tity, recorded over the period from the 21st day of the
preceding month to the 20th day of the month during
which the levies are determined, taking particular               Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of
account of the supply and demand situation for fresh             each month for each week during the following
                                                                 month ; whereas they are applicable from Monday to
(') OJ  No L 183, 16.   7. 1980, p. 1 .                          Sunday ; whereas they can be altered within that
(2) OJ  No L 90, 1 . 4.  1984, p. 35 .                           period if necessary ;
(3) OJ  No L 90, 1 . 4.  1984, p. 42.
(4) See page 1 of this  Official Journal.
0   OJ  No L 276, 20.   10 . 1980, p. 39 .                       (*) OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3 . 1985, p. 4.
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 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,            levies on live sheep and goats and on sheepmeat and
 levies should be calculated on the following basis :           goatmeat other than frozen meat should be as set out
 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in            in the Annex to this Regulation,
     relation to each other at any given moment within
     a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
     their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     provided for in Article 2b (2) of Council Regula­
     tion (EEC) No 974/71 ('), as last amended by Regu­
     lation (EEC) No 855/84 (2),
                                                                                       Article 1
 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
                                                                The import levies on frozen sheepmeat and goatmeat
     these currencies recorded over a given period in           shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
     in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­
     cient ;
                                                                                       Article 2
 Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the above­
 mentioned Regulations and, in particular, to the infor­        This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 April
 mation and quotations known to the Commission, the             1985.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 26 April 1985.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                             Vice-President
(') OJ No L 106, 12. 5. 1971 , p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .
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                                                        ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 26 April 1985 fixing the import levies on frozen
                                                sheepmeat and goatmeat
                                                                                                 (ECU/100 kg)
                                  CCT
                                                                              Week No 5
                                heading
                                   No
                                                                     from 29 April to 5 May 1985 (')
          02.01 A IV b) 1                                                       146,500
                         2                                                      102,550
                         3                                                      161,150
                         4                                                      190,450
                         5 aa)                                                  190,450
                           bb)                                                 266,630
          (') The levy applicable is limited to the amount bound under GAIT 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.