CELEX: 31973R0186
Language: en
Date: 1973-01-23 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 186/73 of the Council of 23 January 1973 on the opening, apportionment and method of administration of a Community tariff quota for frozen beef and veal falling within subheading 02.01 A II 2 a) of the Common Customs Tariff (1973)

30. 1 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 25 /21
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 186/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                       of 23 January 1973
              on the opening, apportionment and method of administration of a Community tariff
              quota for frozen beef and veal falling within subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 of the Common
                                                      Customs Tariff (1973)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            apportionment between the Member States, is
                                                                    capable of respecting the Community nature of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                        said quota in relation to the principles set out above;
European Economic Community;                                        whereas, in order that the real evolution of the
                                                                    market in the product in question may be the best
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                 possible, this apportionment must be made pro rata
                                                                    to the needs of the Member States, whose needs will
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                        be assessed in particular by taking into account
Parliament;                                                         imports coming from third countries during the most
                                                                    recent years for which complete statistical data are
                                                                    available, and the foreseeable development during the
Whereas the European Economic Community has                         quota period;
undertaken, in the context of the most recent
multilateral negotiations of GATT, to open an
annual Community tariff quota of 22 000 metric tons                 Whereas, since the tariff quota in question is
at a duty of 20 % for frozen beef and veal under                    relatively small, it ought to be possible to provide for
tariff subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 ; whereas the                     a system of allocation based on a single
Agreement with the Argentine, entered into 8                        apportionment between the Member States, without
November 1971 (1), provides that, as from 1 January                 thereby taking from its Community nature; whereas
1972, the aforesaid quota of 22 000 tons must be                    it appears best to leave to each Member State the
regarded as meaning boned meat;                                     choice of a management system for its part of the
                                                                    quota ;
Whereas, according to the terms of Article 60 of the
Act annexed to the Treaty concerning the Accession                  Whereas, in the case of Belgium, The Netherlands and
of new Member States to the European Economic                       Luxembourg, being united and represented by the
Community and the European Atomic Energy                            economic Union Benelux, the entire management of
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January                         the quota part allotted to the said economic Union
1972 (2), the new Member States are bound to apply                  may be carried out by one of its members ;
the common agricultural policy regulations from 1
February 1973 ; whereas it is, therefore, necessary to
provide for the import needs of the new States                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
coming from third countries during the period 1
February to 31 December 1973 ; whereas, in these
circumstances, and taking account of the declaration
of the Community annexed to the aforesaid Agree­                                            Article 1
ment with the Argentine, it is provided that an auto­
nomous supplementary quota be opened at 20 %
duty, which may be fixed at 12 000 tons, this also to               1 . A Community tariff quota for frozen beef and
be in boned meat;                                                   veal, under subheading 02.01 A II a) 2 of the
                                                                    Common Customs Tariff, totalling 34 000 tons, in
                                                                    boned meat, shall be opened, at a duty of 20 % for
Whereas it is particularly opportune to guarantee                   the period :
equal and continuous access to all importers in the
Community to the said quota and the uninterrupted
application of the rate provided for the said quota to              — from 1 January to 31 December 1973 up to the
all imports of the product in question in all Member                    conventional quantity of 22 000 tons ;
States until the quota is exhausted ; whereas a system
                                                                    — from 1 February to 31 December 1973 up to an
of taking up the Community tariff quota, based on
                                                                        autonomous quantity of 12 000 tons.
 (!) OJ No L 249, 10. 11 . 1971 , p . 18 .                          2. For the purposes of charging against quota, 100
 (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 28 .                            kg of unboned meat equals 77 kg of boned meat.
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                       Article 2                              under cover of declarations that they are for
                                                              consumption.
The Community tariff quota mentioned in Article 1
is apportioned as follows :
                                                                                      Article 4
          Germany                  4 750  tons
                                                              The Member States shall inform the Commission at
          Benelux                  4 570  tons
                                                              regular intervals of imports which have been charged
          France                   2 290  tons
                                                              against their shares.
          Italy                  10 390   tons
          Denmark
                                                                                      Article 5
                                     200  tons
          Ireland                    100  tons                The Member States and the Commission shall
          United Kingdom          11 700  tons
                                                              cooperate closely to ensure that the provisions of the
                                                              preceding Articles are respected.
                       Article 3
                                                                                      Article 6
1 . The Member States shall take all appropriate
steps to guarantee to importers established in their          This Regulation shall enter into force the day after its
countries free access to the quota-part allotted to           publication in the Official Journal of the European
them.                                                         Communities,
2.    The extent of depletion of Member States'               It shall be applicable in the original Member States
shares shall be verified on the basis of imports              from 1 January 1973 and in the new Member States
coming from third countries presented at customs              from 1 February 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 23 January 1973 .
                                                                                    For the Council
                   ;                                                                 The President
                                                                                    L. TINDEMANS