CELEX: 31977R0137
Language: en
Date: 1977-01-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 137/77 of 25 January 1977 fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 1 February 1977

No L 22/8                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                               26. 1 . 77
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 137/77
                                                          of 25 January 1977
                fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 1 February
                                                                  1977
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas, in the case of edible meat of domestic
 COMMUNITIES,                                                           bovine animals, boned or boneless, salted and dried,
                                                                        there are traditional trade flows to Switzerland ;
                                                                        whereas, to the extent necessary to allow this trade to
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  continue , the refund must be fixed at an amount
  Economic Community,                                                   which will cover the difference between prices on the
                                                                        Swiss market and export prices in the Member States ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                      Whereas, in the case of some other cuts and preserves
 of the market in beef and veal (•), as last amended by                 of meat or offals, Community participation in interna­
 Regulation (EEC) No 568/76 (2), and in particular the                  tional trade may be ensured by granting a refund
 first sentence of Article 18(5) thereof,                              which takes account of the refund hitherto granted to
                                                                        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
 Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68                       cant :
 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 (5)
                                                                        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 of 28                      (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be
June 1968 (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                       corrected by the amount of the difference between the
 1 504/76 (4), lays down general rules for granting                    customs duties on the products from which these
 export refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of                  products are produced ;
 such refunds ;
                                                                       Whereas if the refund system is to operate normally,
 Whereas it follows from applying these rules and                      refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 criteria to the foreseeable situation on the market in
beef and veal that the refund should be fixed as indi­
cated below ;                                                          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                             relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                             within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Whereas the present market situation in the Commu­                           on their effective parity ;
 nity and the selling possibilities, particularly in certain
 third countries, lead to granting export refunds for the              — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
export of adult bovine animals with a live weight                            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
equal or superior to 300 kilograms, for the export of                        of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
certain fresh or chilled i?jneats shown in the Annex                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
under subheading ex 02.01 A II a) 1 and for the                              in the previous subparagraph ;
export to certain destinations, of certain frozen meats
shown in the Annex under subheading ex 02.01 A II
a) 2 ;                                                                 Whereas the Management Committee for Beef and
                                                                       Veal has not delivered an opinion within the time
(') OJ   No L  148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24.                            limit set by its chairman,
(2) OJ   No L  67, 15. 3 . 1976, p . 28 .
(3) OJ   No L  156, 4. 7 . 1968 , p. 2.
("  OJ   No L  168 , 28 . 6 . 1976, p . 7 .                            (5 ) 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 1 February
referred to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No           1977 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 25 January 1977.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                        Vice-President
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                                                                 ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 25 January 1977 fixing the export refunds on beef and veal
                                             for the period beginning 1 February 1977
   CCT heading No                               Description of goods                       Refund in u.a./lOO kg
                                                                                               Live weight
   01.02 All             Live domestic animals of the bovine species, other than
                         pure-bred breeding animals :
                         — adult bovine animals with a live weight equal or
                             superior to 300 kg                                                 37-00 (*)
                                                                                                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                                             65-00 (»)
       22 . and ex 33 .  CJnseparated or separated forequarters, with a respective
                         minimum of four pairs of ribs or four ribs and a
                         respective maximum of 13 pairs of ribs or 13 ribs, with
                         or without the thin flanks, the ribs can be whole or
                         cut                                                                    52-00 (»)
                 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                                                      78-00 (M
               bb )      Of adult animals :
                    11 . Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quarters                      65-00 (»)
       22 . and ex 33 .  Forequarters, with a minimum of four and a maximum
                         of 13 whole or cut ribs, with or without the thin
                         flanks                                                                 52-00 (»)
                ex 33 .  Hindquarters, excluding the forequarter, with more than
                         10 whole or cut ribs                                                   78-00 0 )
                cc       Other cuts of beef and veal :
                    11 . Unboned ( bone-in )                                                    52-00 (»)
                ex 22 .  Boned or boneless, excluding the thin flanks and the
                         shin :
                         — each piece individually wrapped                                      76-00 (')
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 (2 ), to Jordan,
                             to third countries on the Mediterranean or on the
                             Persian Gulf, to third countries of the Arabian
                             Peninsula and Africa                                               65-00 (M
      bb ) and ex cc)    Forequarters, with a minimum of four and a maximum
                         of 13 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                                               52-00 (*)
            ex cc )      Hindquarters, excluding the forequarter, with more than
                         10 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                                               78-00 1
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                                                       Description of goods
                                                                                                           Refund in u.a./100 kg
     CCT heading No
                                                                                                                (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                                                         52-00 n
                   ex 22 .    Boned or boneless, excluding the thin flanks and the
                              shin :
                             — for export to the United States of America                                       38-50 (*)
                              — each piece individually wrapped 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                                76-00 (»)
ex 02.06 C I a) 2             Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, boned or
                              boneless, salted and dried :
                              — for export to Switzerland                                                       36-50 (»)
                                                                                                            United
                                                                                                 Ireland               Other Member Stat··
                                                                                                           Kingdom
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 % or more of meat, excluding offal and fat                  33-27      32-30             35-00
                             2. 60 % or more but less than 80 °/o of meat, excluding
                                  offal and fat                                                  19-96      19-38             21-00
                             3. 40°/o or more but less than 60% of meat, excluding
                                  offal and fat                                                  13-31      12-92              14-00
                             4. 20 % or more but less than 40 % of meat, excluding
                                  offal and fat                                                   6-65       6-46               7-00
(•) For Ireland and the United Kingdom the refund fixed above must be reduced by the compensatory amount pursuant to Article 12 (1 ) oi
    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.