31982R0430

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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 430/82

of 25 February 1982

fixing the import levies on live cattle and on beef and veal other than frozen

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas if it is found that the price of adult bovine COMMUNITIES, animals on representative Community markets is equal to or less than the guide price, the levy appli­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European cable equals the following percentage of the basic Economic Community, levy :

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 (a) 100 % where the market price is more than or of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the equal to 98 % of the guide price ; market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by the Act (b) 105 % where the market price is less than 98 % of Accession of Greece (2), and in particular Article 1 2 and more than or equal to 96 % of the guide (8) thereof, price ; (c) 110 % where the market price is less than 96 % Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, and more than or equal to 90 % of the guide price ; Whereas under Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No (d) 114 % where the market price is less than 90 % of 805/68 a levy is applicable to the products specified in the guide price ; Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) of that Regulation ; whereas Article 12 fixes the amount of the levy applicable by reference to Whereas pursuant to Article 10 (4) of Regulation (EEC) a percentage of the basic levy ; No 805/68 the basic levy on the meat specified in sections (a), (c) and (d) of the Annex hereto is equal to Whereas in respect of bovine animals the basic levy is the basic levy determined for bovine animals, multi­ determined on the basis of the difference between the plied by a standard coefficient fixed for each of the guide price and the Community free-at-frontier offer products in question ; whereas these coefficients are price plus the amount of the customs duty ; whereas fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 of the Community free-at-frontier offer price is deter­ 18 March 1977 laying down rules for the application mined in the light of the most representative purcha­ of levies on beef and veal and amending Regulation sing possibilities, as regards quality and quantity, (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff (3), recorded over a certain period for bovine animals and as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 882/79 (4) ; for the fresh or chilled meat specified in section (a) of the Annex to the said Regulation under subheadings Whereas the guide prices for adult bovine animals to 02.01 A II a) 1 to 3, account being taken in particular be applied from 7 December 1981 were fixed by of the position with respect to supply and demand, of Council Regulation (EEC) No 898/81 of 1 April world market prices for frozen meat of a category 1981 0 ; which is competitive with fresh or chilled meat and of past experience ; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 stipulates that the basic levy is to be calculated according to the Whereas if it is found that the price of adult bovine method set out in its Article 3 and on the basis of all animals on representative Community markets is the representative free-at-frontier offer prices of the higher than the guide price, the levy applicable equals Community determined for the products of each of the following percentage of the basic levy : the categories and cuts specified in Article 2 and (a) 75 % where the market price is less than or equal established principally by reference to the prices speci­ to 102% of the guide price ; fied in the customs documents accompanying products imported from third countries or from other (b) 50 % where the market price is more than 1 02 % and less than or equal to 104 % of the guide information concerning export prices obtaining in those third countries ; price ; (c) 25 % where the market price is more than 1 04 % Whereas, however, offer prices that do not correspond and less than or equal to 106 % of the guide to real purchasing possibilities or that relate to unre­ price ; presentative quantitities should not be taken into (d) 0 % where the market price is more than 106 % account ; whereas offer prices should also be excluded of the guide price ; (3) OJ No L 75, 23 . 3 . 1977, p. 10 . (') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968, p. 24. 0 OJ No L 111 , 4. 5. 1979, p. 14. (2) OJ No L 291 , 19 . 11 . 1979 , p. 17. 0 OJ No L 90, 4. 4. 1981 , p. 24.

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when the movement of prices in general or the infor­ on the basis of prices recorded over a priod to be mation available suggests that they are unrepresenta­ determined on the representative market or markets of tive of the true trend of prices in the country of each Member State in respect of the various categories origin ; of adult bovine animals or of meat from such animals, after taking into account the size of each of these cate­ gories and the relative size of the bovine herd of each Whereas in cases where for one or more categories of Member State ; bovine animals or cuts of meat a free-at-frontier offer price cannot be established, the most recent available price should be used for the calculation ;

Whereas the prices of adult bovine animals recorded Whereas if the free-at-frontier offer price differs by on the representative market or markets of each less than 0-60 ECU per 100 kilograms of live weight Member State are equal to the average, weighted by from that previously used for the calculation of the the appropriate coefficients, of the prices for the levy, the latter price should be retained ; various qualities of adult bovine animals or meat of such animals over a period of seven days in that Member State at a particular wholesale marketing Whereas pursuant to Article 10 (3) of Regulation (EEC) stage ; whereas the representative markets, categories No 805/68 a special basic levy is determined for and qualities of products and weighting coefficients certain third countries on the basis of the difference are fixed in Annex II to Commission Regulation between the guide price and the average price (EEC) No 610/77 of 18 March 1977 on the determina­ recorded over a certain period plus the amount of the tion of prices of adult bovine animals on representa­ customs duty ; tive Community markets and the survey of prices of certain other cattle in the Community (3), as last Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 611 /77 of amended by Regulation (EEC) No 337/82 (4) ; 18 March 1977 ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 925/77 (2), provides that the special levy on products originating in and coming from Austria, Sweden and Switzerland should be determined on the Whereas, for Member States with several representative basis of the weighted average of the prices of adult markets, the price of each category and quality is equal bovine animals recorded on the representative markets to the arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each of those third countries ; whereas the weighting coeffi­ of those markets ; whereas, for representative markets cients and representative markets are specified in the held several times in one period of seven days, the Annexes to Regulation (EEC) No 611 /77 ; price of each category and quality is equal to the arith­ metic mean of the prices recorded on each market day ; whereas in respect of Italy the price of each cate­ Whereas the average price is not to be used for calcu­ gory and quantity is equal to the average, weighted by lating the special levy unless it is at least 1-21 ECU the special weighting coefficients fixed in Annex II to per 100 kilograms of live weight more than the free­ Regulation (EEC) No 610/77, of the prices recorded in at-frontier offer price determined in accordance with the surplus and deficit zones ; whereas the price Article 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 ; recorded in the surplus zone is equal to the arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each of the markets Whereas if the average price differs by less than 0-60 within that zone ; whereas in respect of the United ECU per 100 kilograms of live weight from that Kingdom the weighted average prices of adult bovine previously used to calculate the levy, the latter may be animals recorded on the representative markets of retained ; Great Britain on the one hand and Northern Ireland on the other are adjusted by the coefficient fixed in the abovementioned Annex II : Whereas in cases where one or more of the abovemen­ tioned third countries adopt, for reasons of health for example, measures affecting the prices recorded on their markets, the Commission may use the latest Whereas prices for the different categories and quali­ prices recorded before the entry into force of such measures ; ties not obtained from prices which are 'live weight excluding tax' are multiplied by the live weight conversion coefficients fixed in Annex II to the said Whereas pursuant to Article 1 2 (6) of Regulation (EEC) Regulation and, in the case of Italy, are first increased No 805/68 the price of adult bovine animals on repre­ or reduced by the corrective amounts fixed in the said sentative Community markets is th price established Annex ;

(') OJ No L 77, 25 . 3 . 1977, p. 14. O OJ No L 77, 25. 3. 1977, p . 1 . (2 OJ No L 109, 30 . 4. 1977, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 42, 13 . 2. 1982, p. 9 .

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Whereas if one or more Member States, for veterinary Whereas the levies and special levies are fixed before or health reasons for example, adopt measures affec­ the 27th day of each month and are applicable from ting the normal trend of prices recorded on their the first Monday of the following month ; whereas markets the Commission may disregard the prices these levies may be altered in the period between two recorded on the market or markets in question, or use fixings where the basic levy or special basic levy is the latest prices recorded on the market or markets in altered, or in the case of changes in the prices question before the entry into force of such measures ; recorded on Community representative markets ;

Whereas, in the absence of information, prices Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, recorded on representative Community markets are levies should be calculated on the following basis : determined mainly by reference to the most recently recorded prices ; — in the case of currencies which are maintained in relation to each other at any given moment within Whereas for such period as the price of adult bovine a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on animals recorded on representative Community their central rate, markets differs by less then 0-24 ECU per 100 kilo­ grams of live weight from the price previously used, — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the the latter is retained ; arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period in Whereas the levies should be so fixed that the obliga­ relation to the Community currencies referred to tions arising from international agreements concluded in the previous indent ; by the Community continue to be fulfilled ; whereas, moreover, account should be taken of Council Regula­ Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the afore­ tion (EEC) No 1272/80 of 22 May 1980 on the conclu­ mentioned Regulation, and in particular to the infor­ sion of the Interim Agreement between the European mation and quotations known to the Commission, the Economic Community and the Socialist Federal levies on live cattle and beef and veal other than Republic of Yugoslavia on trade and trade coopera­ frozen meat should be as set out in the Annex hereto, tion ('), of Council Regulation (EEC) No 438/81 of 20 January 1981 establishing the arrangements applicable to imports originating in Yugoslavia consequent upon the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the Euro­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : pean Economic Community (2), as amended by Regu­ lation (EEC) No 2927/81 (3), and of Council Regula­ tion (EEC) No 3349/81 of 24 November 1981 provi­ Article 1 ding for a reduction in the levy applicable to imports into the Community of certain beef and veal products The import levies on live cattle and beef and veal originating in and coming from Yugoslavia (4) ; other than frozen meat shall be as set out in the Annex hereto . Whereas the various cuts of beef and veal are defined in Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 33 (2) of Regulation Article 2 (EEC) No 805/68, the nomenclature provided for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March Customs Tariff ; 1982.

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

Done at Brussels, 25 February 1982.

For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission

(«) OJ No L 130, 27. 5. 1980, p. 1 . (*) OJ No L 53, 27. 2. 1981 , p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 293, 13. 10. 1981 , p. 1 . O OJ No L 339, 26. 11 . 1981 , p. 1 .

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ANNEX

to die Commission Regulation of 25 February 1982 fixing the import levies on live cattle and on beef and veal other than frozen (') for the period beginning 1 March 1982

(ECU/100 kg) Austria/Sweden/ CCT heading No Yugoslavia 0 Other third countries Switzerland

— Live weight —

01.02 A II (a) 35-060 4-590 79-937

— Net weight —

02.01 A II a) 1 66-614 8-720 151-880 02.01 A II a) 2 53-291 6-977 121-503 02.01 A II a) 3 79-937 10-464 182-256 02.01 A II a) 4 aa) 13Ό80 227-820 02.01 A II a) 4 bb) 14-963 260-594 02.06 C I a) 1 13Ό80 227-820 02.06 C I a) 2 14-963 260-594 16.02 B III b) 1 aa) 14-963 260-594

(') In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 435/80, levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas departments of products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and territories. (2) This levy is applicable only to products complying with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 1725/80 (OJ No L 170, 3 . 7. 1980, p. 4). (a) The levy which is to be applied to young male bovine animals, intended for fattening, of a live weight of 300 kg or less, imported under the conditions set out in Article 13 of Council Regula­ tion (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 , and in the provisions adopted for its application, is totally or partially suspended in accordance with those provisions.