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No L 125 /24 Official Journal of the European Communities 11 . 5 . 73
REGULATION (EEC) No 1214/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 10 May 1973 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 1072/68 (5) of 25 July 1968 determining the bases COMMUNITIES, for calculating the levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and veal, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro No 1986/71 (6) ; pean Economic Community ; Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 990/68 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805 / provides that the most favourable purchasing oppor 68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization tunities among those which are most representative of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by as regards quality and quantity as mentioned in Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2), and in particular Article 13 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 Article 13 (6) thereof ; should be determined in the first place with refer ence to free-at-Community-frontier offers or, where Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary such offers are not sufficiently representative of the Committee ; market situation, world market offers delivered free at-Community-frontier for each of the products Whereas Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No listed in Section (c) of the Annex to Regulation 805/68 provides for charging a levy on imports of (EEC) No 805/68 ; whereas, for products other than the frozen meat listed in Section (c) of the Annex to those covered by the first subparagraph of Article that Regulation ; whereas the levy on products 13 (2) of that Regulation, the offer price is falling within subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) is converted into a price relating to the products equal to the difference between : covered by that subparagraph by means of the coef — the guide price for the corresponding product ficients referred to in Article 13 (3 ) of that Regula multiplied by a coefficient expressing the ratio tion ; whereas those coefficients were fixed in the existing in the Community between the price for Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1072/68 ; fresh meat of a quality competitive with the frozen meat in question, presented in the same Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC ) No 1072/68 form, and the average price for adult bovine provides that the Commission, when determining animals, and the world market price referred to in Article 13 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 must disregard — the price on the world market for frozen meat, offer prices which do not correspond to real based on the most favourable purchasing oppor purchasing opportunities or which relate to small tunities among those which are most representa unrepresentative quantities or to qualities which tive, as regards quality and quantity, of the devel differ appreciably from those of the majority of the opment of this market, plus customs duty and a products entering world trade ; whereas offer prices standard amount representing the specific costs which the Commission believes, in view of general incurred in importing frozen meat ; price movements or information available to it, not to be representative of real price trends in the Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No country of origin must also be disregarded ; 990/68 (3) of 15 July 1968 on general rules for fixing the levy on certain kinds of frozen beef and Whereas offers on the world market are converted veal provides that the guide price for the corres ponding product is the guide price for adult bovine into free-at-Community-frontier offers by taking animals ; whereas this guide price was fixed by into account the normal transport and insurance Council Regulation (EEC) No 1192/73 (4 ) of 8 May costs of which the Commission has knowledge ; 1973 ; Whereas the standard amount referred to in Article Whereas the abovementioned coefficient, calculated 13 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 is fixed in accordance with the rules contained in Article 13 at 3 units of account per 100 kg ; (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 was fixed at 1-53 by Commission Regulation (EEC) No Whereas , as long as the world market price for frozen meat differs by less that 1 unit of account (*) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 24 . (*) OJ No L, 25 , 30. 1 . 1973 , p . 23 . (a) OJ No L 169, 18 . 7. 1968 , p . 12 . («) OJ No L 180, 26. 7. 1968, p . 21 . (4) OJ No L 122, 9 . 5 . 1973 , p . 6 . (6) OJ No L 209, 15 . 9. 1971 , p. 27.
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per 100 kg from the world market price previously Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, used, the latter price is maintained ; levies should be calculated on the basis of an exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies Whereas Article 13 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805 / which are floating or whose central rate differs from 68 provides that, for the frozen meat listed in the official parity, on the effective rate or the Section (c) of the Annex to that Regulation under central rate of these currencies and, in the case of subheadings Nos 02.01 A II a) 2 bb), 02.01 A II a) 2 the US dollar, on the change in parity announced cc) and 02.01 A II a) 2 dd), the levy is equal to the on 13 February 1973 ; levy on the product in the same Section under subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) multiplied by the Whereas it follows from applying the provisions of fixed coefficient for each of the products in ques the abovementioned Regulations to the quotations and other information known to the Commission tion ; whereas this coefficient was fixed in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1072/68 ; whereas that the levies on frozen meat should be fixed as that Regulation also defines the requirements to be shown in the Annex to this Regulation ; met by certain products for which the levy is fixed by means of these coefficients ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Article 13 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/. 68 provides that, where free quotations on the Article 1 world market are not a determining factor for the offer price and where that price is lower than these The levies referred to in Article 13 of Regulation quotations, a special price calculated on the basis (EEC) No 805/68 are hereby fixed as shown in the of the offer price is substituted, solely in respect of Annex to this Regulation. . the imports in question, for the world market price for frozen meat referred to in paragraph 2 of that Article 2 Article ; To be classified as products falling within : Whereas, subject to the foregoing, the levy referred — subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 aa) ; to in Article 13 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 is fixed before the 25th day of each month and is — subheading No 02.01 A II a) 2 bb) and cc) ; applicable from the first Monday of the following products must correspond to the definition for the month ; whereas, however, the levy is altered in the product in question contained in Regulation (EEC) intervening period if there is considerable fluctu No 1072/68 , ais last amended by Regulation (EEC) ation in the world market price for frozen meat ; No 1986/71 .
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regu Article 3 lation (EEC) No 805/68, the nomenclature provided for in this Regulation is incorporated in the This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 May Common Customs Tariff ; 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
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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./100 kg No 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 : 2 . Frozen : 21-745 aa) Carcases, half-carcases or 'compensated' quarters bb) Forequarters 21-745 (a) cc) Hindquarters 27-181 dd) Other : 11 . Unboned (bone-in) 32-618 22 . Boned or boneless :
aaa) Forequarters, whole or cut into a maxi mum of five pieces, each quarter being in. a single block ; 'compensated' quarters in two blocks, one of which contains the forequarter, whole or cut into a maximum of five pieces, and the other, the hind quarter, excluding the tenderloin, in one piece 27-181 (a) bbb) Other 37-401 ( a)
(') Regulation (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 CCT. ( a) Where these products are imported under the conditions set out in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 and in the provisions adopted for its application, the levy is totally or partially suspended in accordance with these provisions.
N.B. : The levies are suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No 182/73 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1113/73 .