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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1973/86 of 25 June 1986 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (b) 50 % where the market price is more than 102 % and less than or equal to 104 % of the guide price ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European (c) 25 % where the market price is more than 104 % and Economic Community, less than 1 06 % of the guide price ; Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and (d) 0 % where the market price is more than 106 % of Portugal, the guide price ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market animals on representative Community markets is equal to in beef and veal ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) or less than the guide price, the levy applicable equals the No 3768/85 (2), and in particular Article 12 (8) thereof, 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 to 98 % of the guide price ; Whereas under Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 (b) 105 % where the market price is less than 98 % and a levy is applicable to the products specified in Article 1 more than or equal to 96 % of the guide price ; (1 ) (a) of that Regulation ; whereas Article 12 fixes the amount of the levy applicable by reference to a percen­ (c) 110 % where the market price is less than 96 % and tage of the basic levy ; more than or equal to 90 % of the guide price ; (d) 114 % where the market price is less than 90 % of Whereas, in respect of the types of frozen meat listed in the guide price ; section (b) of the Annex to the said Regulation under 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 applied from 12 May 1986 have been fixed by Council — the guide price multiplied by a coefficient represen­ Regulation (EEC) No 1 345/86 (^ ; ting the ratio existing in the Community between the price of fresh meat of a category competitive with the Whereas the Community free-at-frontier offer price for frozen meat in question, presented in the same form, frozen meat is determined by reference to the world and the average price of adult bovine animals, and market price based on the most representative purchasing — the Community free-at-frontier offer price for frozen possibilities, as regards quality and quantity, recorded over meat, plus the amount of the customs duty and a stan­ a certain period preceding the fixing of the basic levy, dard amount representing the specific costs of the taking into account in particular : import operations ; — foreseeable developments on the market in frozen meat, Whereas, by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 586/77 of 18 March 1977 laying down rules for the application of — the most representative prices on third country the levies on beef and veal and amending Regulation markets for fresh and chilled meat of a category which (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff (3), as is competitive with frozen meat, last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 31 14/83 (4), the — past experience ; abovementioned coefficient, calculated in accordance with the rules laid down in Article 11 (2) (a) of Regulation Whereas the basic levy on the types of frozen meat listed (EEC) No 805/68 , has been fixed at 1 -69 units of account in section (b) of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No and the standard amount referred to in Article 11 (2) (b) 805/68 under subheadings 02.01 A II b) 2 to 4 is equal to of the said Regulation has been fixed at 6,65 ECU ; the basic levy fixed for the product falling within subhea­ Whereas, if it is found that the price of adult bovine ding 02.01 A II b) 1 , multiplied by a standard coefficient fixed for each of the products in question ; whereas these animals on representative Community markets is higher coefficients were fixed in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) than the guide price, the levy applicable equals the follo­ No 586/77 ; wing percentage of the basic levy :

(a) 75 % where the market price is less than or equal to Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the free-at-frontier 102% 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 . 0 OJ No L 303, 5. 11 . 1983, p. 16. 0 OJ No L 119, 8 . 5. 1986.

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offer prices should also be excluded when the movement United Kingdom the weighted average prices of adult of prices in general or the information available gives bovine animals recorded on the representative markets of reason to believe that they are unrepresentative of the true Great Britain on the one hand and Northern Ireland on trend of prices in the country of origin ; 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) Whereas if one or more Member States, for veterinary or No 805/68 the price of adult bovine animals on represen­ health reasons for example, adopt measures affecting the tative Community markets is the price established on the normal trend of prices recorded on their markets, the basis of prices recorded over a period to be determined on Commission may disregard the prices recorded on the the representative market or markets of each Member market or markets in question, or use the latest prices State for the various categories of adult bovine animals or recorded on the market or markets in question before the of meat from such animals, taking into account the size of entry into force of such measures ; each of these categories and the relative size of the bovine herd of each Member State ; Whereas, in the absence of information, prices recorded on representative Community markets are determined mainly by reference to the most recently recorded prices ; Whereas the prices of adult bovine animals recorded on 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 meat of such 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, the price of adult bovine retained ; animals recorded on the representative market or markets of the United Kingdom shall be corrected by the amount of the premium granted to producers under Regulation Whereas the levies must be so fixed that obligations (EEC) No 1311 /85 (') ; whereas the representative markets, arising from international agreements concluded by the categories and qualities of products and weighting coeffi­ Community continue to be fulfilled ; cients are fixed in Annex II to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 610/77 of 18 March 1977 on the determination Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 (4), of prices of adult bovine animals on representative amended by Regulation (EEC) No 692/86 (*), lays down Community markets and the survey of prices of certain the arrangements applicable on agricultural products and other cattle in the Community (2), as last amended by certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural Regulation (EEC) No 1969/86 (3) ; products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and territories ;

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

(') OJ No L 137, 27. 5. 1985, p. 20 . Q OJ No L 77, 25. 3. 1977, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3 . 1985, p. 4. (3) See page 24 of this Official Journal. 0 OJ No L 63, 5. 3 . 1986.

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frozen beef and veal should be as set out in the Annex Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies should be calculated on the following basis : hereto, — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ tion to each other at any given moment within a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 (»), Article 1 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of The import levies on frozen beef and veal shall be as set these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­ out in the Annex hereto . tion to the Community currencies referred to in the previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient,

Article 2 Whereas, having regard to the provisions of the aforemen­ tioned Regulations, and in particular to the information and quotations known to the Commission, the levies on This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 July 1986.

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

Done at Brussels, 25 June 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 25 June 1986 fixing the import levies on frozen beef and veal (')

(ECU/ 100 kg)

CCT heading No Levy

— Net weight — \

02.01 All b) 1 217,779 02.01 A II b) 2 174,223 (a) 02.01 A II b) 3 272,224 02.01 A II b) 4 aa) 326,668 02.01 A lib) 4 bb) 11 272,224 (a) 02.01 A 11 b) 4 bb) 22 (b) 272,224 (a) 02.01 All b) 4 bb) 33 374,579 (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.