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20 . 3 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 75/7

REGULATION ( EEC) No 617/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 19 March 1974 fixing the export refunds on beef and veal for the period beginning 1 April 1974

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN continue, the refund must be fixed at an amount COMMUNITIES, which will cover the difference between prices on the Swiss market and export prices in the Member States ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas, in the case of the preserved meats set out in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1082/68 (4) of 26 July 1968 fixing coefficients Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No expressing the meat content of preserved meats manu­ 805/68 ( ! ) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ factured from frozen meat, as amended by Regulation tion of the market in beef and veal, as last amended (EEC) No 207/70 (5), which contain 40 % or more of by Regulation (EEC) No 187/73 (2), and in particular meat, Community participation in international trade the second sentence of Article 1 8 (5) thereof ; may be ensured by granting a refund which takes account of the refund hitherto granted to exporters ; Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Committee ; Whereas, in the case of other beef and veal products, a refund need not be fixed since Community participa­ tion in world trade in these products is not signifi­ Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 cant ; provides that the difference between prices on the world market and prices within the Community for the products listed in Article 1 of that Regulation may Whereas Article 92 of the Act (6) annexed to the be covered by an export refund ; Treaty (7) concerning the Accession of new Member States to the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brus­ Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 (3) of 28 June 1968 lays down general rules for granting sels on 22 January 1972, provides that the refund on export refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of exports from the new Member States for the products such refunds ; specified in Article 1 (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be corrected by the amount of the difference between the customs duties on the products Whereas it follows from applying these rules and from which these products are produced ; criteria to the foreseeable situation on the market in beef and veal that the refund should be fixed as indi­ cated below ; Whereas if the refund system is to operate normally, refunds should be calculated on the following basis :

Whereas the present market situation in the Commu­ — in the case of currencies which are maintained in nity and the setting possibilities, particularly in certain relation to each other, at any given moment, third countries, leads to granting an export refund for within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based adult animals of a weight of more than 300 kilo­ on their effective parity ; grammes, for the export of certain fresh or chilled meats shown in the Annex under heading No ex — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the 02.01 A II a) 1 bb) and cc) and for the export to arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each certain destinations, of certain frozen meats shown in of these currencies recorded for a given period, in the Annex under heading No ex 02.01 A II a) 2 aa), relation to the Community currencies referred to bb), cc), dd) 1 1 and dd) 22 ; in the previous subparagraph ;

Whereas, in the case of edible meat of domestic Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation bovine animals, boned or boneless, salted and dried, are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ there are traditional trade flows to Switzerland ; ment Committee for Beef and Veal, whereas, to the extent necessary to allow this trade to (4) OJ No L 181 , 27. 7. 1968, p. 9 . (1 ) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24. (5) OJ No L 28 , 5. 2. 1970, p. 10 . (2) OJ No L 25, 30 . 1 . 1973 , p. 23 . (6) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (3) OJ No L 156, 4. 7. 1968 , p. 2. (7) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 805/68 is granted and the amount of that refund is hereby fixed as shown in the Annex. Article 1 Article 2 The list of products on which the export refund This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April referred to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 1974.

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

Done at Brussels, 19 March 1974. For the Commission The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI

ANNEX

Refund in u.a. / 100 kg CCT heading No Description of goods Net weight Live weight ex 01.02 A II Live domestic animals of the bovine species, other than pure-bred breeding animals : b ) Adult animals of a weight of more than 300 kg 18-00 H

Net weight ex 02.01 A II a ) 1 Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, fresh or chilled :

bb) Of adult animals : 11 . Carcases, half-carcases or ' compensated ' quarters 35-00 H

22 . and ex 33 . Forequaxters, with a minimum of four and a maximum of thirteen whole or cut ribs, with or without the thin flanks 29-00 (*)

ex 33 . Hindquarters, excluding the forequarter with more than ten whole or cut ribs 42-00 H

cc) Other cuts of beef and veal :

11 . Unboned ( bone-in ) 35-00 (») ex 22 . Boned or boneless , coming from the hindquarters' cuts, without the thin flanks and the shin , packaged separa­ tely 50-Q0 (*) ex 02.01 All .a) 2 Edible meat of domestic bovine animals , frozen :

aa ) Carcases, half-carcases and ' compensated ' quarters : — for export to Portugal and to third countries on the Mediterranean and for the provision of sea-going vessels or aircraft or armed forces stationed on the territory of a Member State other than that of\ their flag 35-00 ( l )

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

bb ) and ex cc) Forequarters, with a minimum of four and a maximum of thirteen whole or cut ribs, with or without the thin flanks : — for export to Portugal and third countries on the Mediterranean, and for the provision of seagoing vessels or aircraft or armed forces stationed in the territory of a Member State other than that of their flag 29-00 H

ex cc) Hindquarters, excluding the forequarter with more than ten whole or cut ribs — for export to Portugal and third countries on the Mediterranean, and for the provision of sea-going vessels or aircraft or armed forces stationed in the territory of a Member State other than that of their flag 42-00 i1 ) dd ) Others :

11 . Unboned (bone-in) : — for the provision of sea-going vessels or aircraft or armed forces stationed on the territory of a Member State other than that of their flag 29-00 i 1) ex 22 . Boned or boneless, excluding the chaps and the offals :

— for export to the United States of America 54-00 H

— packaged separately, for the provision of sea-going vessels or aircraft or armed forces stationed on the territory of a Member State other than that of their flag 35-00 (*) ex 02.06 C I a) 2 Edible meat of domestic bovine animals, boned or boneless, salted and dried : — for export to Switzerland 14-00 i 1 )

United Ireland Other Member State· 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 °/o ore imore of meat, excluding offal and fat 0 0 12-50 2 . 60 °/o or more but less than 80 °/o of meat, exclu­ ding offal and fat 0 0 7-50 3 . 40 °/o or more but less than 60 % 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 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 181/73 ( OJ No L 25 , 30. 1 . 1973 , p. 9). N.B. : Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 provides that no export refunds shall be granted on products imported from third countries and re-exported to third countries.