31975R2033

No L 207 / 8 6 . 8 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2033 /75 OF THE COMMISSION of 5 August 1975 amending the definition as laid down in Regulation ( EEC) No 1090/75 (EXIM) of products falling within CCT subheading 16.02 B III b) 1

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES ,

Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1090/75 is amended to read as follows : Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 'Article 1 805/ 68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in beef and veal , as last amended 1 . The products referred to Article 1 (c) of Regu­ by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 855/74 (2), and in particular lation (EEC) No 805/68, with the exception of Article 21 (2) thereof ; those specified in paragraph 2 hereof, shall be subject to the arrangements concerning import Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No licences laid down in Article 15 of that Regula­ tion . 1 090/75 (3 ) of 23 April 1975 on the issue by way of protective measures of import licences for certain beef and veal products (EXIM), as last amended by Regula­ 2. No import licence shall be required in tion (EEC) No 1 585/75 (4), laid down special import respect of the following products falling within arrangements in respect of the beef and veal sector ; subheading 16.02 B III b) 1 :

(a) prepared or preserved beef and veal or beef and Whereas the protective measures provided for have veal offal put up in hermetically sealed been extended, in accordance with Article 1 of the containers weighing not more than 5 kg net ; said Regulation , to imports of certain- products falling (b) cooked and frozen beef and veal put up in within subheading 16.02 B III b) 1 which were used hermetically sealed containers weighing not to replace meat for processing ; whereas it has more than 7 kg net ; however become possible to allow limited quantities of these products to be imported ; 3 . For the purposes of this Regulation the following shall be regarded as cooked and frozen meat : meat which, prior to freezing, has been Whereas the conditions on the Community market subjected to sufficient heat to prevent the growth which led to the application of protective measures of Clostridium botulinium and which has, in addi­ continue to obtain ; whereas the Community market tion , the following characteristics : in beef and veal continues to be threatened as a result of imports by serious disturbances which are likely to — no trace of pinkish liquid on the surface of a jeopardize the objectives of Article 39 of the Treaty ; cross section of meat which, after being completely defrosted , is cut at its thickest point ; Whereas there has been a steady growth in the impor­ tation of seasoned meats exempted under subheading — a pH equal to or greater than 5-5 . 16.02 B III b) 1 from the protective measures ; whereas the total imports effected and to be effected 4. Meat and offal which has been subject to have reached a level incompatible with sound manage­ seasoning (with pepper and salt, for example), ment of the market in beef and veal ; whether minced, cut up or in a single piece shall not be regarded as falling under paragraph 2 (a) above, irrespective of the type of packing in which Whereas it therefore appears that seasoned meats it is put up .' should no longer be exempted from the arrangements laid down in Regulation ( EEC) No 1090 /75, Article 2 (') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24 . (-) OJ No L 1 95 , 18 . 7 . 1974, p. 14 . H OJ No L 108 , 26 . 4 . 1975, p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September (4 ) OJ No L 162, 25 . 6 . 1975 , p. 7 . 1 975 .

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

Done at Brussels, 5 August 1975. For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission