- No L 75/10 Official Journal of the European Communities 23.3.77 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 586/77 of 18 March 1977 laying down rules for the application of levies on beef and veal and amending Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in beef and veal (!), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (3), and in particular Arti- cles 10 (5), 11 (5), 12 (7) and 25 thereof, Whereas the considerable amendments to the common organiztion of the market in beef and veal made in Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 require the method of determining the levy also to be amended ; Whereas under Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 a basic levy is to be determined on imports of bovine animals on the basis of the free-at-Community- frontier offer price established by reference to the most representative purchasing possibilities as regards quality and quantity ; whereas this price determines the amount of the levy ; whereas the method of calcu- lating it should therefore be determined ; Whereas the offer prices should be adjusted, taking into account the price difference which exists during a reference period between the price for each category and the price recorded for bovine animals on the representative markets of the Community and applying the corresponding coefficients to the various cuts of meat; Whereas imports of each category of bovine animal in relation to imports of all such categories and imports of each cut of meat in relation to imports of all such cuts must also be taken into account, as must the respective volume of imports of cattle for slaughter and of fresh and chilled meat during a reference period ; whereas, however, if the offer price for one or more categories of animals or cuts of meat cannot be established, the last available price should be used; (1) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24. () OJ No L 61, 5. 3. 1977, p. 1. Whereas the coefficients referred to in Article 10 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 should express the value ratio between the beef and veal and the live bovine animals ; Whereas under Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 a basic levy is to be determined for imports of frozen meat of the types specified in section (b) of the Annex thereto, calculated on the basis of the free-at- frontier offer price ; whereas this price determines the amount of the levy; whereas the method of calcu- lating it should therefore be determined ; Whereas the levy on the other meat concerned is to be derived, by means of coefficients expressing the value ratio between the various products, from the levy on the meat referred to above; Whereas, to avoid altering the basic levy too often, a certain margin should be allowed within which varia- tions in the free-at-frontier offer price do not entail such an alteration. Whereas certain categories of live animals and certain cuts of fresh or chilled meat represent a very small proportion of total trade; whereas offer prices for those categories and cuts should therefore be disre- garded ; Whereas, when the free-at-Community-frontier offer price is calculated, in principle all free-at-Community- frontier offers from third countries are taken into consideration ; whereas, where it appears from infor- mation available to the Commission that certain offers do not correspond to actual pruchasing possibilities or that they are not representative of the actual trend of prices or that they do not relate to representative quan- tities, such offers should be disregarded ; Whereas both the period during which the free-at- frontier offer prices are recorded and date for fixing the levies should be determined ;