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REGULATION (EEC) No 1213/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 10 May 1973 fixing the import levies on calves and adult bovine animals and on beef and veal other than frozen
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 218/ COMMUNITIES, 73 (4) of 29 January 1973 on the determination of the import price and the special import price for Having regard to the Treaty establishing (the Euro calves and adult bovine animals provides that the pean Economic Community ; import price is to be calculated in accordance with the method set out in Article 4 on the basis of all Halving regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/ the representative free-at-frontier offer prices in the 68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization Community established for each of the categories of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by and cuts specified in Article 2, and ascertained in par Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2), and in particular ticular from : the second subparagraph of Article 10 (7) thereof ; (a) prices given in the customs documents accom Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary panying the products imported from such other Committee ; third countries ; Whereas Article 10 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 provides that, where the import price for (b) other information concerning the export prices calves or adult bovine animals, after addition of the ruling in such other countries ; customs duty, is lower than the guide price, the dif ference between the latter price and the import price Whereas, however, offer prices which do not corres plus that addition is offset by a levy on imports of pond to actual purchasing possibilities are to be dis that product ; whereas, however, such levy is to be fixed at : regarded, as are also offer prices relating to unrepre sentative quantities ; whereas offer prices which, because of the development of prices in general or — 75 °/o of the abovementioned difference, if it is from the information available, do not seem to be found that the price of the product in question on representative of the actual trend of prices in the the representative markets of the Community is exporting country should also be disregarded ; more than the guide price but does not exceed 102 %> of that price ; Whereas, where no free-at-frontier offer price can be reconded for one or more categories of live ani — 50 %> of the abovementioned difference, if it is mals or of meat, the last available price must be found that the price of the product in question on used for the calculation ; the representative markets of the Community is more thain 102 °/o of the guide price but does not exceed 104 %> of that price ; Whereas, if the import price differs by less than 0-50 unit of account per 100 kg live weight from the — 25 °/o of the abovementioned difference, if it is import price previously used to calculate the levy, found that the price of the product in question on the latter price must be maintained ; the representative markets of the Community is more than 104 °/o of the guide price but does not exceed 106 °/o of that price ; Whereas the import price must be calculated on the first and third Thursday of each month for the pur pose of calculating the levies valid from the follow — nil, if it is found that the price of the product in ing Monday ; whereas, however, if circumstances so question on the representative markets of the require, the import price may be fixed on another Community is more than 106 °/o of the guide day of the same week ; price ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1192/73 (8), Whereas Article 10 (5 ) of Regulation (EEC) No fixed the guide prices for calves and adult bovine 805 /68 provides that the price recorded on the repre animals valid for the 1973/74 marketing year ; sentative markets of the Community is derived from
(») OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p . 24. (l) OJ No L 25, 30. 1. 1973, p. 23. (») OJ No L 122, 9. 5 . 1973, p . 6 . (<) OJ No L 26, 31 . 1 . 1973 , p. 16.
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the prices recorded on the" representative market or Whereas, where these quotations do not relate to markets of each Member State for the various quali 'live weight excluding tax' prices, the quotations for ties — of calves, adult bovines animals or the meat the different qualities are to be corrected by the of these animals, as the case may be — after taking live-weight conversion coefficients laid down in Annex into account the relative quantity of each of such II to that Regulation and, in respect of Italy and the qualities and the relative magnitude of the bovine United Kingdom, are first increased or reduced by the stock of each Member State ; corrective amounts laid down in that Annex ; where as for Ireland the price per calf recorded on the representative market is to be increased by the correc tive amount fixed in that Annex and subsequently Whereas the prices for calves and adult bovine ani converted back into live weight per unit of weight mals, recorded on the representative market or mar by applying the corrective coefficient fixed in that kets of each Member State, is equal to the average, Annex ; weighted by coefficients, of the prices for the quali ties of calves, adult bovine animals and meat of these animals formed during a period of seven days in that Member State at a standard wholesale stage ; Whereas, if one or more Member States take mea whereas the representative markets, the qualities of sures, such as health protection measures, which the products and the weightings were fixed in affect the normal development of quotations re Annex II to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 320/ corded on their markets, the Commission may either 73 (*) of 31 January 1973 on the determination of disregard the quotations recorded on the market or the prices for calves and adult bovine animals on markets in question or use the last quotations the representative markets of the Community ; recorded on the market or markets in question before those measures were put into effect ;
Whereas the prices of . calves and adult bovine ani mals so established on the market or markets of Whereas, where information is not available, the quotations recorded on representative Community each of the new Member States must be increased by markets are to be determined with particular refer the basic compensatory amount provided for in Art ence to the latest known quotations ; icle 1 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 181 /73 (2) of 23 January 1973 laying down general rules for the system of compensatory amounts for beef and veal ; Whereas, for as long as the price recorded for calves and adult bovine animals on the representa tive Community markets differs by less than 0-20 Whereas, where there are several representative mar unit of account per 100 kg live weight from the kets in a Member State, the price of each quality is price previously used, the latter price is to be main the average of the quotations recorded on each of tained ; these markets ; whereas, where in a Member State there is a single representative market, held several times during the seven-day period, the price of each quality is to be equal to the arithmetic mean of quo Whereas Article 12 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No tation's recorded at each market ; whereas, with 805/68 provides that if a levy is charged on regard to Italy, the price of each quality is the aver calves or adult bovine animals, a levy is also to be age, weighted by the special weighting coefficients charged on imports of the meat of calves or adult laid down in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 320/ bovine animals as listed in Section (a) of the Annex 73 , of the prices recorded in the surplus and deficit to that Regulation under tariff subheadings Nos production areas ; whereas the price recorded in the 02.01 A II a) 1 aa) and 02.01 A II a) 1 bb) ; where surplus production area is equal to the average of the as this levy is equal to the levy charged on calves quotations recorded on each of the markets within or adult bovine animals, as the case may be, that area ; whereas for the United Kingdom the adjusted by a coefficient expressing the value ratio weighted average of the prices recorded on the repre between the meat in question on the one hand and sentative markets in Great Britain and in Northern calves or adult bovine animals on the other ; Ireland are to be multiplied by the coefficient fixed in the said Annex II ;
Whereas Article 12 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 provides that if the levy is charged on adult ( x ) OJ No L 36, 8 . 2 . 1973 , p . 13 . bovine animals, a levy is also to be charged on (*) O J No L 25 , 30. 1 . 1973 , p . 9 . imports of the meat listed in Section (b) of the
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Annex to that Regulation ; whereas this levy is Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, • equal to the levy charged on adult bovine animals, levies should be calculated on the basis of an multiplied by a standard coefficient ; exchange rate which is based, in the case of curren cies which are floating or whose central rate differs Whereas Article 12 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No from the official parity, on the effective rate or the 805/68 provides that the levy may be charged on central rate of these currencies and, in the case of imports of the products listed in Section ( a) of the the US dollar, on the change in parity announced Annex to that Regulation under tariff subheading on 13 February 1973 ; No 02.01 A II a) 1 cc) ; whereas this levy is equal to Whereas it follows from the provisions of the above the highest levy applicable to calves or adult bovine mentioned Regulations and in particular from the animals, multiplied by a standard coefficient ; quotations and other information known to the Whereas the standard coefficients referred to above Commission that the levies on calves, adult bovine animals and on beef and veail other than frozen were fixed for each of the products in question in should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regu the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1025/68 (*), as lation ; last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1987/71 (2) ; whereas that Regulation also defines the require HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : ments to be met by certain products for which the levy has been fixed by means of these coefficients ; Article 1 Whereas levies must be fixed with due regard for The levies referred to in Articles 10 and 12 of Regu obligations arising out of international agreements lation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be as shown in the concluded by the Community ; whereas Council Annex to this Regulation. Regulation (EEC) No 1474/72 (3) of 10 July 1972 on the levies on imports from Yugoslavia of adult Article 2 bovine animals and meat thereof should also be taken into account ; To be classified as products falling within subhead ings Nos 02.01 A II a) 1 aa) and 02.01 A II a) 1 Whereas, in accordance with Article 33 (2) of Regu bb), products must correspond to the definitions lation (EEC) No 805/68 , the nomenclature provided contained in Articles 1 a and 2 of Regulation (EEC) for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Com No 1025 /68 . mon Customs Tariff ; Article 3
Whereas the levies must be fixed once each week This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 May and be valid from the following Monday ; 1973 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 10 May 1973 . For the Commission
P.J. LARDINOIS
Member of the Commission
(*) OJ No L 174, 23 . 7. 1968, p. 9. («) OJ No L 209, 15 . 9 . 1971 , p . 28 . (») OJ No L 157, 13 . 7. 1972, p . 1 .
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ANNEX
Levies applicable from 14 May 1973 to imports from third countries (1)
CCT Levy in heading Description of goods u.a./lOO kg No Live weight 01.02 Live animals of the bovine species :
A. Domestic species : II . Other : a) Calves 0 ( b) b ) Other : 1 . Cows for immediate slaughter, the meat of which is intended for processing (a) 0 2 . Other : aa ) Not yet having any permanent teeth, of a weight of not less than 350 kg but not more than 450 kg in the case of male animals, or of not less than 320 kg but not more than 420 kg in the case of female animals (c) 0 bb ) Other 0 ( b) Net weight 02.01 Meat and edible offals of the animals falling within heading No 01.01 , 01.02, 01.03 or 01.04, fresh , chilled or frozen : A. Meat : II . Of bovine animals : a ) Of domestic bovine animals • 1 . Fresh or chilled : aa) Of calves : 11 . Carcases and half-carcases 0 22 . Separated or unseparated forequarters 0 33 . Separated or unseparated hindquarters 0 bb ) Of adult animals : 11 . Carcases, half-carcases or ' compensated' quar ters : aaa ) Carcases of a weight of not less than 180 kg but not more than 270 kg and half carcases or ' compensated' quarters, of a weight of not less than 90 kg but not more than 135 kg, with a low degree of ossification of the cartilages (more es pecially those of the symphysis pubis and the vertebral apophyses ), the meat of which is of a light pink colour and the fat of which, of extremely fine structure, is white to light yellow in colour (c) 0 bbb ) Other 0
22 . Forequarters : aaa) Of a weight of not less than 45 kg but not more than 68 kg, with a low degree of ossification of the cartilages ( more especially those of the vertebral apo physes), the meat of which is of a light pink colour and the fat of which, of extremely fine structure, is white to light yellow in colour (c) 0 bbb ) Other 0
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CCT Levy in heading Description of goods u . a. /100 kg No I Net weiehr 02.01 33 . Hindquarters : (cont'd ) aaa) Of a weight of not less than 45 kg but not more than 68 kg (not less than 38 kg but not more than 61 kg in the case of ' Pistola' cuts), with a low degree of ossification of the cartilages (more es pecially those of the vertebral apophyses), the meat of which is of a light pink colour and the fat of which, of extremely fine structure, is white to light yellow in colour (c) 0 bbb) Other 0 cc) Other cuts of veal and beef :
11 . Unboned ( bone-in) 0 21 . Boned or boneless 0
02 06 Meat and edible meat offals (except poultry liver), salted , in brine, dried or smoked :
C. Other : 1 . Of domestic bovine animals : a ) Meat : 1 . Unboned (bone-in) 0 2 . Boned or boneless 0
(') RrpHation (EEC) No 521 /70 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas departments of products originating in the AASM and OCT . ( a) p..itry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent authorities and to the special conditions at present applicable to cows imported under the bilateral agreement on cattle for the food processing industry between the European Communities and Austria . (b) Where these products are imported under the conditions set out in Article 11 of Council Regulation (EEC ) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 ana in the provisions adopted for its application , the levy is either refunded or not collected in accordance with those provisions . (c) Entry under this subheading is subject to the production of the certificate referred to in paragraph 2 (c) of Protocol No 1 annexed to the trade agreement between the EEC and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia .