31973R2194

11 . 8 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 223 / 13

REGULATION (EEC) No 2194/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 10 August 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 Having 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 Committee ; panying the products imported from such other 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 plus that addition is offset by a levy on imports of Whereas, however, offer prices which do not corres­ that product ; whereas , however, such levy is to be pond to actual purchasing possibilities are to be dis­ fixed at : regarded, as are also offer prices relating to unrepre­ sentative quantities ; whereas offer prices which, — 75 °/o of the abovementioned difference, if it is because of the development of prices in general or found that the price of the product in question on from the information available, do not seem to be the representative markets of the Community is representative of the actual trend of prices in the more than the guide price but does not exceed exporting country should also be disregarded ; 102 °/o of that price ;

Whereas, where no free-at-frontier offer price can — 50 °/o of the abovementioned difference , if it is be recorded for one or more categories of live ani­ found that the price of the product in question on mals or of meat, the last available price must be the representative markets of the Community is used for the calculation ; more than 102 °/o of the guide price but does not exceed 104 ° /o of that price ; Whereas the import price must be calculated on the first and third Thursday of each month for the pur­ — 25 °/o of the abovementioned difference , if it is found that the price of the product in question on pose of calculating the levies valid from the follow­ the representative markets of the Community is ing Monday ; whereas, however, if circumstances so require, the import price may be fixed on another more than 104 °/o of the guide price but does not day of the same week ; exceed 106 % of that price ;

— nil , if it is found that the price of the product in Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 2150/ question on the representative markets of the 73 (5 ) of 6 August 1973 provides for the fixing of Community is more than 106 ° /o of the guide the special import price referred to in Article 10 ( 1 ) price ; ( a ) of Regulation ( EEC ) No 805 / 68 for adult bovine animals originating in and coming from Austria, Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 1192,73 ( 3 ), Sweden and Switzerland on the basis of quotations fixed the guide prices for calves and adult bovine on representative markets in these third countries ; animals valid for the 1973 /74 marketing year ;

( l ) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 24 . ( 2 ) OJ No L 25 , 30 . 1 . 197.1 . p . 23 . ( 4 ) OJ No L 26 , 31 . 1 . 1973 , p . 16 . (s) OJ No L 122 . 9 . 5 . 197.1 , p . 6 . (4) OJ No ' I. 219 , 7 . 8 . 1973 , p . 15 .

No L 223 / 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 11 . 8 . 73

Whereas this special import price is calculated once Whereas, where there are several representative mar­ a week and is used to calculate levies taking effect kets in a Member State, the price of each quality is on the Monday following the day on which it is the average of the quotations recorded on each of fixed ; whereas, however, no special import price is these markets ; whereas, where in a Member State fixed if such price would exceed by less than 1 unit there is a single representative market, held several of account per 100 kilogrammes live weight the times during the seven-day period , the price of each import price fixed, pursuant to Article 10 ( 1 ) of quality is to be equal to the arithmetic mean of quo­ Regulation ( EEC ) No 805 /68 ; as specified in Re­ tations recorded at each market ; whereas , with gulation ( EEC ) No 218 /73 ; regard to Italy , the price of each quality is the aver­ age , weighted by the special weighting coefficients laid down in Annex II to Regulation ( EEC ) No 320/ Whereas , if one or more of the third countries 73 , of the prices recorded in the surplus and deficit referred to take, notably for health protection production areas ; whereas the price recorded in the reasons, measures affecting prices quoted on their surplus production area is equal to the average of the markets , the Commission may base itself on the last quotations recorded on each of the markets within prices recorded before such measures were put into that area ; whereas for the United Kingdom the effect ; weighted average of the prices recorded on the repre­ sentative markets in Great Britain and in Northern Ireland are to be multiplied by the coefficient fixed Whereas, if the import price differs by less than 0-50 in the said Annex II ; unit of account per 100 kg live weight from the import price previously used to calculate the levy, the latter price must be maintained ; Whereas , where these quotations do not relate to Whereas Article . 10 ( 5 ) of Regulation ( EEC ) No ' live weight excluding tax' prices, the quotations for 805/ 68 provides that the price recorded on the repre­ the different qualities are to be corrected by the sentative markets of the Community is derived from live-weight conversion coefficients laid idown in Annex the prices recorded on the representative market or II to that Regulation and , in respect of Italy and the markets of each Member State for the various quali­ United Kingdom , are first increased or reduced by the ties — of calves , adult bovines animals or the meat corrective amounts laid down in that Annex ; where­ of these animals , as the case may be — after taking as for Ireland the price per calf recorded on the into account the relative quantity of each of such representative market is to b£ increased by the correc­ qualities and the relative magnitude of the bovine tive amount fixed in that Annex and subsequently stock of each Member State ; converted back into live weight per unit of weight by applying the corrective coefficient fixed in that Annex : Whereas the prices for calves and adult bovine ani* mals , recorded on the representative market or mar­ kets of each Member State, is equal to the average , weighted by coefficients, of the prices for the quali­ Whereas, if one or more Member States take mea­ ties of calves, adult bovine animals and meat of sures, such as health protection measures, which these animals formed during a period of seven days affect the normal development of quotations re­ in that Member State at a standard wholesale stage ; corded on their markets , the Commission may either whereas the representative markets, the qualities of disregard the quotations recorded on the market or the products and the weightings were fixed in markets in question or use the last quotations Annex II to Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No 320/ recorded on the market or markets in question 73 (*) of 31 January 1973 on the determination of before those measures were put into effect ; the prices for calves and adult bovine animals on the representative markets of the Community ;

Whereas, where information is not available, the Whereas the prices of calves and adult bovine ani­ quotations recorded on representative Community mals so established on the market or markets of markets are to be determined with particular refer­ each of the new Member States must be increased by ence to the latest known quotations ; the basic compensatory amount provided for in Art­ 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 Whereas, for as long as the price recorded for beef and veal ; calves and adult bovine animals on the representa­ tive Community markets differs by less than 0-20 unit of account per 100 kg ilive weight from the price previously used , the latter price is to be main­ (') OJ No L 36 , 8 . 2 . 1973 , p . 13 . tained : («) ()| No L IS , 30 . I. 197V p . 9 .

11 . 8 . 73 No L 223/ 15 Official Journal of the European Communities

Whereas Article 12 (1 )- of Regulation (EEC ) No Whereas, in accordance with Article 33 (2) of Regu­ 805/68 provides that if a levy is charged on lation (EEC) No 805/68 , the nomenclature provided calves or adult bovine animals, a levy is also to be for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Com­ charged on imports of the meat of calves or adult mon Customs Tariff ; bovine animals as listed in Section ( a) of the Annex Whereas the levies must be fixed once each week to that Regulation under tariff subheadings Nos and be valid from the following Monday ; 02.01 A II a ) 1 aa ) and 02.01 A II a) 1 bb) ; where­ as this levy is equal to the levy charged on calves Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, or adult bovine animals, as the case may be, levies should be calculated on the following basis : adjusted by a coefficient expressing the value ratio — in the case of currencies which are maintained in between the meat in question on the one hand and relation to each other, at any given moment, calves or adult bovine animals on the other ; within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange based on their effective parity ; Whereas Article 12 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 provides that if the levy is charged on adult — for other currencies an exchange rate based on bovine animals, a levy is also to be charged on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of imports of the meat listed in Section ( b ) of the each of these currencies recorded for a given Annex to that Regulation ; whereas this levy is period , in relation to the Community currencies equal to the levy charged on adult bovine animals, referred to in the previous subparagraph ; multiplied by a standard coefficient ; Whereas it follows from the provisions of the above­ mentioned Regulations and in particular from the Whereas Article 12 (4) of Regulation ( EEC ) No quotations and other information known to the 805/68 provides that the levy may be charged on Commission that the levies on calves, adult bovine imports of the products listed in Section ( a ) of the animals and on beef and veal other than frozen Annex to that Regulation under tariff subheading should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regu­ No 02.01 A II a ) 1 cc ) ; whereas this levy is equal to lation ; the highest levy applicable to calves or adult bovine animals, multiplied by a standard coefficient ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the standard coefficients referred to above Article 1 were fixed for each of the products in question in The levies referred to in Articles 10 and 12 of Regu­ the Annex to Regulation ( EEC ) No 1025 /68 (*), as lation ( EEC ) No 805 /68 shall be as shown in the last amended by Regulation (EEC ) No 1987/71 ( 2 ) ; Annex to this Regulation . whereas that Regulation also defines the require­ Article 2 ments to be met by certain products for which the levy has been fixed by means of these coefficients ; 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 levies must be fixed with due regard for bb ), products must correspond to the definitions obligations arising out of international agreements contained in Articles 1 a and 2 of Regulation ( EEC ) concluded by the Community ; whereas Council No 1025 /68 . Regulation ( EEC ) No 1925 / 73 ( 3 ) of 16 July 1973 on Article 3 the levies on imports from Yugoslavia of adult bovine animals and meat thereof should also be This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 August taken into account ; 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels , 10 August 1973 .

ho r the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission

( l ) OJ No L 174, 23 . 7 . 1968 , p . 9 . (*) OJ No L 209 , 15 . 9 . 1971 , p . 28 . (*) Of No 1 - 199 , 19 . 7 . 1 973 , p . I.

No L 223 / 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 11 . 8 . 73

ANNEX

Levies applicable from 13 August 1973 to imports from third countries ( 1)

(in u.a. / 100 kg) CCT Austria Other third heading Sweden Description of goods countries No Switzerland Live weight 01.02 Live animals of the bovine species :

A. Domestic species : II . Other** : 0 ( b) 0 ( b ) a ) Calves b ) Other : 1 . Cows for immediate slaughter, the meat of which is 0 intended for processing ( a ) 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 0 female animals ( c ) 0 ( b) 0 ( b ) bb) Other

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 0 22 . Separated or unseparated forequarters 0 0 0 0 33 . Separated or unseparated hindquarters 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 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 0

11 . 8 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 223 / 17

(in u.a. /100 kg ) CCT Austria Other third heading Sweden Description of goods countries No Switzerland Net / eight 02.01 55 . 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 0

cc) Other cuts of veal and beef :

11 . Unboned ( bone-in ) 0 0 22 . Boned or boneless 0 0

02 ( If. 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 0 2 . Boned or boneless 0 0

(') Regulation ( EEC ) No 521 /70 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas departments of products origina­ ting in the AASM and OCT . (a ) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent authorities and to the special conditions at pre­ sent applicable to cows imported under the bilateral agreement on cattle for the food processing industry between the European Com­ munities 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 and 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 .