CELEX: 31968R0990
Language: en
Date: 1968-07-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 990/68 of the Council of 15 July 1968 on general rules for fixing the levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and veal

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266                                  Official Journal of the European Communities
No L 169/12                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                 18.7.68
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 990/68 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                   of 15 July 1968
                   on general rules for fixing the levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and veal
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                      of coefficients expressing the value ratio between
                                                               the meat in question and that of adult bovine
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                   animals ;
European Economic Community ;
                                                              Whereas for recording the prices of these qualities
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   of adult bovine animals the method described in
805/68 1 of 27 June 1968 on the common organisation           Article 10 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 should
of the market in beef and veal, and in particular the          be employed, account should be taken of the rela­
second subparagraph of Article 13 (2) thereof;                 tive magnitude of the bovine stock of each Member
                                                               State and the prices should be recorded over a period
Having regard to the proposal from the Com­                   which is sufficiently representative of the Community
mission ;                                                      market situation ;
Whereas the guide price of the corresponding pro­
duct is a factor in the calculation of the levy on             Whereas, with regard to the price of adult bovine
frozen meats ; whereas the formula laid down for              animals mentioned in Article 13 (2) ( a) of Regu­
such calculation would consequently give different            lation (EEC) No 805/68 , the method described in
results for beef and veal; whereas in view of the             Article 10 (4) of that Regulation should be employed
difficulty, indeed the impossibility in certain cases, of      and the price recorded over the same period;
distinguishing frozen veal from frozen beef at the            Whereas, pursuant to Article 13 (2) (b) of Regulation
time of importation, it is necessary to stipulate that         (EEC) No 805/68 , the world market price for frozen
the above-mentioned calculation should be based in             meat should be based on the most favourable pur­
all cases on the guide price for adult bovine animals ;        chasing opportunities among those which are most
whereas the choice of this guide price is consistent,          representative, as regards quality and quantity, of
moreover, with the method of calculation in Article            the trend of that market;
13 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 , since the other
factors in this calculation either do not distinguish          Whereas, to make it comparable with the guide
between the two categories of meat or refer to adult           price, the world market price should be determined
bovine animals ;                                               in the first place with reference to free-at-Community­
                                                               frontier offers or, where such offers are not suf­
Whereas the coefficient mentioned in Article 13 (2)            ficiently representative of the market situation, to
(a ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 , expresses the             world market offers delivered free-at-Community­
ratio existing in the Community between the price              frontier ;
for fresh meat of a quality competitive with the
frozen meat in question, presented in the same form,           Whereas, so that the maximum information may be
and the average price for adult bovine animals ;               obtained, all the products listed in section (c) of the
                                                               Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 805 /68 should be
Whereas sufficiently representative quotations for the         taken into account ; whereas, for such products
different qualities of fresh meat do not exist in each         which are not covered by the first subparagraph of
Member State ; whereas the price of this meat should           Article 13 (2) of that Regulation, the offer price
therefore be determined from the price resulting from          should be converted into a price relating to the pro­
averaging the prices of adult bovine animals for               ducts covered by that subparagraph by means of
processing and of adult bovine animals of average              coefficients which can be those referred to in Article
quality for consumption weighted by fixed coef­                13 (3 ) of that Regulation ;
ficients which take account of the quantitative ratio
existing on importation between frozen meats for               Whereas, to avoid too frequent alteration of the levy,
these two uses, such average being obtained by means           a certain margin should be allowed within which
                                                               variations in the factors entering into the calculation
                                                               of the world market price do not entail an alteration
1 OJ No L 148 , 28.6.1968 , p. 24.                             of that price;
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                   805/68 shall be the price determined in accordance
                                                                with Article 10 (4) of that Regulation over the period
                          Article 1                             mentioned in the preceding paragraph. ,
The guide price for the corresponding product re­
ferred to in Article 13 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC)                                     Article 3
No 805/68 shall be the guide price for adult bovine
animals .                                                       At least once a year the factors entering into the
                                                                calculation of the coefficent mentioned in Article
                          Article 2                             13 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be
                                                                reviewed .
1 . The coefficient mentioned in Article 13 (2) (a) of
Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be calculated in                                       Article 4
accordance with the following paragraphs.
2. The price of fresh meat of a quality competitive             1 . The most favourable purchasing opportunities
with frozen meat shall be determined on the basis               among those which are most representative, as re­
of the price resulting from averaging the prices of             gards quality and quantity, of the trend of the world
representative qualities, converted into prices for car­        market, as mentioned in Article 13 (2) (b) of Regu­
cases or 'half carcases .                                       lation (EEC) No 805/68, shall be determined in the
                                                                first place with reference to free-at-Community­
(a) of adult bovine animals for processing within the          frontier offers or, where such offers are not suf­
     Community; and                                            ficiently representative of the market situation, world
(b) of adult bovine animals for direct consumption in           market offers delivered free-at-Community-frontier
     the Community,                                             for each of the products listed in Section (c) of the
                                                                Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 .
such average being weighted by means of fixed
coefficients which take account of the quantitative             For products other than those covered by the first
ratio existing on importation between frozen meats              subparagraph of Article 13 (2) of that Regulation,
for the same uses as those indicated in (a) or (b ).            the offer price shall be converted into a price re­
                                                               lating to the products covered by that subparagraph
3 . The average of the prices for adult bovine ani­             by means of the coefficients referred to in Article
mals mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be              13 (3 ) of that Regulation.
determined on the basis of prices recorded on the
representative market or markets of each Member                 2. No account shall be taken of a variation in the
State for the qualities in question, account being              world market price not exceeding an amount to be
taken of the relative magnitude of the bovine stock             determined.
of each Member State over a period which is suf­
ficiently representative of the Community market
situation.                                                                              Article 5
4. The average price of adult bovine animals men­              This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 July
tioned in Article 13 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No             1968 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels 15 July 1968 .
                                                                                     For the Council
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                         G. SEDATI