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REGULATION (EEC) No 221 /72 OF THE COMMISSION of 31 January 1972 fixing the coefficients for determining the book value and the margin of tolerance for the quantity loss resulting from the storage of beef under intervention

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, when intervention measures were effected COMMUNITIES, during the first years of application of the common organization of the market in beef and veal, storage Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ conditions could be different in Member States ; pean Economic Community; whereas an average margin of tolerance of 1 % , in­ clusive of the weight of packing, should therefore Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No be adopted; whereas it is also necessary to specify 2305/701 of 10 November 1970 on the financing of the loss of weight of fore-quarters boned by the inter­ expenditure on intervention in the . internal market vention agencies, so that there may be a basis for the in beef and veal, and in particular paragraph 1 (a) application of the margin of tolerance in such cases; and paragraph 2 (c) of Article 3 thereof; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­ Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­ (EEC) No 2305 / 70, an account showing the net agement Committee for Beef and Veal, losses sustained by intervention agencies has to be drawn up for each Member State and for each of the periods defined in paragraph 2 of that Article; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas the account has to be debited with the items referred to in Article 3 ( 1 ) of the abovementioned Article 1 Regulation; whereas these items include the value of The coefficients provided for in Article 3 ( 1 ) (a) of the quantities of meat brought forward from the pre­ Regulation (EEC) No 2305/ 70 shall be as follows : ceding period, such value being determined by apply­ ing certain coefficients to the guide price Valid on the - hind-quarters : 1-7 ; first day of the new period; - fore-quarters : 1-0; - ^ Whereas these coefficients have to be fixed for each - boned hind-quarter cuts : 2-2 ; cut of meat, and whereas the price ratios recorded, - boned fore-quarter cuts : 1-5 . since the entry into force of Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/682 of 27 June 1968 on the common Article 2 organization of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2838/7 13, between 1 . The margin of tolerance provided for in Article the selling prices of the different cuts in the different 3 (2) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2305/70 shall be Member States and the guide prices in force\at the fixed at 1 % . This represents the difference between time of such sales constitute a suitable basis for the the weight of the unpacked product as recorded at determination of those coefficients ; the time of intervention and the weight of the packed product as recorded when released from storage.. Whereas the abovementioned account has to be cred­ ited with the items referred to in Article 3 (2) of In applying this margin of tolerance to boned cuts Regulation (EEC) No 2305/70 ; whereas these items derived from the boning of fore-quarters at the time include the value of quantity loss exceeding the mar­ of intervention, allowance shall be made for a 36 % gin of tolerance; loss of weight due to boning. ,

2 . The margin of tolerance specified in paragraph 1 OJ No L 249, 17.11.1970, p . 1 . OJ No L 148, 28.6.1968, p . 24. shall be applicable only to quantities taken over be­ OJ No L 286, 30.12.1971 , p . 1 . fore 1 January 1971 .

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Article 3 day following its publication in the Official Journal This Regulation shall enter into force on the third of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 31 January 1972 .

For the Commission The President H. D. GRIESAU