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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 152/86 of 24 January 1986 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (c) 25 % where the market price is more than 104 % and less than 106% of the guide price ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European (d) 0 % where the market price is more than 106 % of Economic Community, the guide price ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine in beef and veal ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) animals on representative Community markets is equal to No 3768 /85 (2), and in particular Article 12 (8) thereof, or less than the guide price, the levy applicable equals the following percentage of the basic levy : Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, (a) 100 % where the market price is more than or equal Whereas under Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 to 98 % of the guide price ; a levy is applicable to the products specified in Article 1 (b) 105 % where the market price is less than 98 % and ( 1 ) (a) of that Regulation ; whereas Article 12 fixes the more than or equal to 96 % of the guide price ; amount of the levy applicable by reference to a percen­ tage of the basic levy ; (c) 110 % where the market price is less than 96 % and more than or equal to 90 % of the guide price ; Whereas, in respect of the types of frozen meat listed in (d) 114 % where the market price is less than 90 % of section (b) of the Annex to the said Regulation under the guide price ; subheading 02.01 A II b) 1 , the basic levy is determined on the basis of the difference between : Whereas the guide prices for adult bovine animals to be — the guide price multiplied by a coefficient represen­ applied from 27 May 1985 have been fixed by Council ting the ratio existing in the Community between the Regulation (EEC) No 1308/85 of 23 May 1985 (*); price of fresh meat of a category competitive with the frozen meat in question, presented in the same form, and the average price of adult bovine animals, and Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price for frozen meat is determined by reference to the world — the Community free-at-frontier offer price for frozen market price based on the most representative purchasing meat, plus the amount of the customs duty and a stan­ possibilities, as regards quality and quantity, recorded over dard amount representing the specific costs of the a certain period preceding the fixing of the basic levy, import operations ; taking into account in particular :

Whereas, by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 of — foreseeable developments on the market in frozen 18 March 1977 laying down rules for the application of meat, the levies on beef and veal and amending Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff (3), as — the most representative prices on third country last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 31 14/83 (4), the markets for fresh and chilled meat of a category which abovementioned coefficient, calculated in accordance with is competitive with frozen meat, the rules laid down in Article 1 1 (2) (a) of Regulation — past experience ; (EEC) No 805/68 , has been fixed at 1-69 units of account and the standard amount referred to in Article 11 (2) (b) of the said Regulation has been fixed at 6,65 ECU ; Whereas the basic levy on the types of frozen meat listed in section (b) of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine 805/68 under subheadings 02.01 A II b) 2 to 4 is equal to animals on representative Community markets is higher the basic levy fixed for the product falling within subhea­ than the guide price, the levy applicable equals the follo­ ding 02.01 A II b) 1 , multiplied by a standard coefficient wing percentage of the basic levy : fixed for each of the products in question ; whereas these coefficients were fixed in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) (a) 75 % where the market price is less than or equal to No 586/77 ; 102 % of the guide price ; (b) 50 % where the market price is more than 102 % and Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the free-at-frontier less than or equal to 104 % of the guide price ; offer prices, offer prices that do not correspond to real purchasing possibilities or that relate to unrepresentative (') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24. quantities should not be taken into account ; whereas (2) OJ No L 362, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 8 . (3) OJ No L 75, 23 . 3. 1977, p. 10. (4) OJ No L 303 , 5. 11 . 1983, p. 16. 0 OJ No L 137, 27. 5. 1985, p. 16.

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offer prices should also be excluded when the movement markets within that zone ; whereas in respect of the of prices in general or the information available gives United Kingdom the weighted average prices of adult reason to believe that they are unrepresentative of the true bovine animals recorded on the representative markets of trend of prices in the country of origin ; Great Britain on the one hand and Northern Ireland on the other are adjusted by the coefficient fixed in the abovementioned Annex II ;

Whereas, where the free-at-frontier offer price for frozen Whereas prices for the different categories and qualities meat differs by less than one unit of account per 100 kilo­ not obtained from prices which are 'live weight excluding grams from that previously used for the calculation of the tax', are multiplied by the live weight conversion coeffi­ levy, the latter price should be retained ; cients fixed in Annex II to the said Regulation and, in the case of Italy, are first increased or reduced by the correc­ tive amounts fixed in the said Annex ; Whereas pursuant to Article 12 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 the price of adult bovine animals on represen­ Whereas if one or more Member States, for veterinary or tative Community markets is the price established on the health reasons for example, adopt measures affecting the basis of prices recorded over a period to be determined on normal trend of prices recorded on their markets, the the representative market or markets of each Member Commission may disregard the prices recorded on the State for the various categories of adult bovine animals or market or markets in question, or use the latest prices of meat from such animals, taking into account the size of recorded on the market or markets in question before the each of these categories and the relative size of the bovine entry into force of such measures ; herd of each Member State ;

Whereas, in the absence of information, prices recorded on representative Community markets are determined Whereas the prices of adult bovine animals recorded on mainly by reference to the most recently recorded prices ; the representative market or markets of each Member State are equal to the average, weighted by the relevant Whereas, for such period as the price of adult bovine coefficients, of the prices for the various qualities of adult animals recorded on representative Community markets bovine animals or tneat of §uch animals over a period of differs by less than 0,24 ECU per 100 kilograms of live seven days in that Member State at a particular wholesale weight from the price previously used, the latter is marketing stage ; whereas, until 6 April 1986, the price of retained ; adult bovine animals recorded on the representative market or markets of the United Kingdom shall be corrected by the amount of the premium granted to Whereas the levies must be so fixed that obligations producers under Regulation (EEC) No 131 1 /85 ('); arising from international agreements concluded by the whereas the representative markets, categories and quali­ Community continue to be fulfilled ; ties of products and weighting coefficients are fixed in Annex II to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 610/77 of 18 March 1977 on the determination of prices of adult Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 (4), bovine animals on representative Community markets amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2903/85 (^ lays down and the survey of prices of certain other cattle in the the arrangements applicable on agricultural products and Community (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural 3815/85 (3); products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and territories ;

Whereas the various cuts of frozen meat are defined in Whereas, for Member States with several representative Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 ; markets, the price of each category and quality is equal to the arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each of those markets ; for representative markets held several Whereas, pursuant to Article 33 (2) of Regulation (EEC) times in one period of seven days, the price of each cate­ No 805/68, the nomenclature provided for in this Regula­ gory and quality is equal to the arithmetic mean of the tion is incorporated in the Common Customs Tariff ; prices recorded on each market day ; whereas in respect of Italy the price of each category and quality is equal to the Whereas the levies are fixed before the 27th day of each average, weighted by the special weighting coefficients month and are applicable from the first Monday of the fixed in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 610/77, of the following month ; whereas these levies may be altered in prices recorded in the surplus and deficit zones ; whereas the period between two fixings where the basic levy is the price recorded in the surplus zone is equal to the altered, or in these case of changes in the prices recorded arithmetic mean of the prices recorded on each of the on Community representative markets ;

(') OJ No L 137, 27. 5. 1985, p. 20 . (2) OJ No L 77, 25. 3 . 1977, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3 . 1985, p. 4. (3) OJ No L 368 , 31 . 12. 1985, p. 11 . 0 OJ No L 279, 19. 10 . 1985, p. 5.

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Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies the Community rules introduced for the production of should be calculated on the following basis : and trade in agricultural products and for the trade in — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ certain goods resulting from the processing of Agricul­ tural products shall be postponed, tion to each other at any given moment within a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 ('), HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­ Article 1 tion to the Community currencies referred to in the previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient, The import levies on frozen beef and veal shall be as set Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the aforemen­ out in the Annex hereto . tioned Regulations, and in particular to the information and quotations known to the Commission, the levies on frozen beef and veal should be as set out in the Annex hereto ; Article 2

Whereas, pursuant to Article 394 of the 1985 Act of Accession, the application to the new Member States of This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 February 1986.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 January 1986 .

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

(') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 24 January 1986 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal (')

(ECU / 100 kg)

CCT heading No Levy

— Net weight —

02.01 A II b) 1 236,931 02.01 All b) 2 189,544 (a) 02.01 A lib) 3 296,164 02.01 A lib) 4 aa) 355,396 02.01 All b)4bb) 11 296,164 (a) 02.01 A II b) 4 bb) 22 (b) 296,164 (a) 02.01 A lib) 4 bb) 33 407,520 (a)

(') In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 486/85, 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 . (a) Where products are imported under the conditions set out in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 and in provisions adopted for its application, the levy is totally or partially suspended in accordance with those provisions. (b) Entry under this subheading is subject to the production of a certificate issued on conditions laid down by the competent authorities of the European Communities.