31973R3371

No L 344/ 27 14. 12 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 3371 /73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 13 December 1973 fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 1 January 1974

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in the case of other beef and veal prod­ COMMUNITIES, ucts, a refund need not be fixed since Community participation in world trade in these products is not Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ significant ; pean Economic Community ; Whereas Article 92 of the Act (•) annexed to the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No 805 / Treaty ( 7) concerning the Accession of new Member 68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organization States to the European Economic Community and of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by the European Atomic Energy Community, signed Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2), and in particular the at Brussels on 22 January 1972, provides that the first sentence of Article 18 (5 ) thereof ; refund on exports from the new Member States for the products specified in Article 1 (b) and (c) of Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Regulation ( EEC ) No 805 /68 shall be corrected by Committee ; the amount of the difference between the customs duties on the products from which these products Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 are produced ; provides that the difference between prices on the world market and prices within the Community for Whereas if the refund system is to operate nor­ the products listed in Article 1 of that Regulation mally, refunds should be calculated on the fol­ may be covered by an export refund ; lowing basis :

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC ) No 885 / 68 (3 ) of — in the case of currencies which are maintained 28 June 1968 lays down general rules for granting in relation to each other, at any given moment, export refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of within a band of 2-25 °/'o, a rate of exchange such refunds ; based on their effective parity ;

Whereas it follows from applying these rules and cri­ — for other currencies an exchange rate based on teria to the foreseeable situation on the market in the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of beef and veal that the refund should be fixed as indi­ each of these currencies recorded for a given cated below ; period, in relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous subparagraph ; Whereas, in the case of edible meat of domestic bo­ vine animals, boned or boneless , salted and dried , Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation there are traditional trade flows to Switzerland ; are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ whereas, to the extent necessary to allow this trade ment Committee for Beef and Veal , to continue, the refund must be fixed at an amount which will cover the difference between prices on the Swiss market and export prices in the Member HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : States ;

Whereas, in the case of the preserved meats set out Article 1 in Annex I to Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No 1082/68 (4) of 26 July 1968 fixing coefficients ex­ The list of products on which the export refund re­ pressing the meat content of preserved meats manu­ ferred to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No factured from frozen meat, as amended by Regula­ 805 /68 is granted and the amount of that refund is tion ( EEC ) No 207/70 (s ), which contain 40 % or hereby fixed as shown in the Annex. more of meat, Community participation in interna­ tional trade may be ensured by granting a refund which takes account of the refund hitherto granted Article 2 to exporters ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 Januarv 1974 . (') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 24 . (») OJ No L 25 , 30. 1 . 1973 , p. 23 . (») OJ No L 1 56, 4 . 7. 1968 , p . 2 . (4) OJ No L 181 , 27. 7. 1968, p. 9 . ( 8) OJ No L 73 , 27.3 . 1972, p . 14 . C) OJ No L 28 , 5 . 2 . 1970, p. 10 . ( 7 ) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 .

14 . 12 . 73 No L 344/28 Official Journal of the European Communities

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

Done at Brussels, 13 December 1973 .

For the Commission

The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

ANNEX

Refund in u.a. / 100 kg CCT heading No Description of goods Net weight

ex 02.06 C I a ) 2 Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, boned or boneless, salted and dried :

— for exports to Switzerland 14.00 (»)

United Ireland Other Member States Kingdom

ex 16.02 B III b ) 1 Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal, other, containing bovine meat or offal but excluding those containing meat or offals of domestic swine :

— preserves, other than homogenized , containing the following percentages of bovine meat :

1 . 80% or more of meat, excluding offal and fat 0 0 12.50

2 . 60 «/• or more but less than 80 °/o of meat, excluding offal and fat 0 0 7.50

3 . 40 %> or more but less than 60 °/o of meat, excluding offal and fat 0 0 5.00

(') For Ireland and the United Kingdom the refund fixed above must be reduced by the compensatory amount pursuant to Article 12 (I) o< Regulation (EEC) No 181 /73 ( OJ L 25, 30. 1 . 1973 , p. 9).