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REGULATION ( EEC) No 2150/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 6 August 1973 on the calculation of the special import price for adult bovine animals

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas to prevent the levy from being altered too COMMUNITIES, frequently a certain margin should be specified within which variations in the factors used to calculate the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European import price would not require any change in that Economic Community ; price ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation 805/68 ( ! ) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ are in accordance with the Opinion of the' Manage­ tion of the market in beef and veal , as last amended ment Committee for Beef and Veal : by Regulation (EEC) No 1 87/73 (2), and in particular Article 10(6) thereof ;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 10(1 ) (a) of Regulation HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : (EEC) No 805/68 , a special import price may be fixed for calves and adult bovine animals originating in and coming from third countries with a commercial struc­ Article 1 ture and systems of cattle production comparable to those existing in the Community, on condition that A special import price as referred to in Article 10 ( 1 ) such countries keep a regular record of quoted prices ; (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be fixed, in the matter provided in this Regulation, for adult Whereas a review of third-country markets has shown bovine animals originating in and coming from that a special import price may be applied in respect Austria, Sweden and Switzerland. of adult bovine animals imported from Austria, Sweden and Switzerland ; whereas the Governments of those countries have undertaken inter alia to notify Article 2 regularly the prices recorded on the markets of their countries ; 1 . The special import price for adult bovine Whereas it is, therefore, necessary to lay down rules animals shall be the average, as weighted by the coeffi­ for determining prices and in particular to specify the cients laid down in Annex I, of the quoted prices for adult bovine animals in the third countries referred to most representative markets, the qualities to be taken in Article 1 . into account, the weighting to be accorded to each such quality and any corrective amounts required in order to make prices comparable ; 2. Quoted prices for adult bovine animals in each of the third countries concerned shall be determined Whereas the prices thus determined for each of the having regard to the data indicated in Annex II . countries concerned should, moreover, be weighted according to the quantities generally imported into the Community from each such country ; Article 3

Whereas, however, no special import price should be No special import price shall be fixed if such price fixed unless that price would be appreciably higher would exceed by less than 1 unit of account per 100 than the import price referred to in Article 10 ( 1 ) of kilogrammes live weight the import price as fixed in Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 ; accordance with Article 10 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/ 68 . Whereas the third countries concerned may, in parti­ cular because of health protection regulations, find it necessary to take measures affecting quoted prices ; Article 4 whereas in such cases it would not always be proper to take such prices into account as they would not reflect Should one or more of the third countries referred to the normal trend of the market ; whereas criteria in Article 1 take, in particular for health protection should, therefore, be laid down which may be applied reasons, measures affecting the quoted prices recorded by the Commission in such a situation ; on their markets, the Commission may base itself on the prices last recorded on the market or markets in (!) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24 . 2 ) OJ No L 25, 30 . 1 . 1973 , p. 23 . question before such measures were put into effect.

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Article 5 effect on the Monday following the day on which it was fixed . Where any special import price as calculated in accor­ dance with the foregoing Articles differs by less than 0-5 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes live weight Article 7 from the price previously used to calculate the levy, the latter price may continue to be applied. This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of Article 6 the European Communities. «

The special import price shall be calculated once It shall apply for the first time for the calculation of weekly and shall be used to calculate levies taking levies from 13 August 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 6 August 1973 .

For the Commission The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI

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ANNEX 1

Coefficients to be used in calculating the import price for adult bovine animals :

Austria 72 Sweden 25 Switzerland 3

ANNEX II

A. Austria

1 . Representative markets :

Linz, Salzburg, Vienna ( arithmetic mean)

2. Qualities and coefficients

Qualities Weighting ' coefficients Stiere 53 Ochsen 4 Kalbinnen 10 Kiihe 33

B. Sweden

1 . Representative markets and weighting coefficients :

Stockholm (67), Goteborg (33)

2. Qualities and coefficients

Qualities Coefficients for Weighting conversion into coefficients_ live weight

49 13-5 Ko och aldre tjur klass 1 47 15-8 Ko och aldre tjur klass 1 — 46 8-4 Ko och aldre tjur klass 2 51 13-3 Kviga + kokviga klass 1 49 7-1 Kviga + kokviga klass 1 — Stut klass 1 + 53 4-1 Stut klass 1 51 4-4 Ungtjur klass 1 -f 55 18-2 Ungtjur klass 1 53 15-2

3 . Corrective amounts to be added to the quotations recorded

Ko och aldre tjur : 72-00 Skr 100 kg, Kviga + kokviga : 78-00 Skr/ 100 kg, Stut : 85-00 Skr/ 100 kg, Ungtjur : 92-00 Skr/ 100 kg.

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C. Switzerland

1 . Representative market (Quotation centre) :

Berne.

2. Qualities and coefficients :

Qualities weighting coefficients Génisses et boeufs A 18-8 G6nisses et boeufs B 9-9 Genisses et boeufs C 2 -6 ' Genisses et boeufs D 1-7 Vaches A 4-7 Vaches B 3-1 Vaches C 14-6 Vaches D " 14-0 Vaches E * 15-6 Taureaux A 1 . 7-5 Taureaux A 2 2-4 Taureaux B 1 2-0 Taureaux B 2 1-2 Taureaux C 1-0 Taureaux D 0*5 Taureaux E 0-4