No L 75/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 21. 3. 92 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 704/92 of 20 March 1992 . . fixing the export refunds on beef and veal and amending Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 establishing an agricultural product nomenclature for export refunds 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 1628/91 (3, and in particular Article 18 thereof, Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 provides that the difference between prices on the world market for the products listed in Article 1 of that Regula- tion and prices for those products within the Community may be covered by an export refund;. ‘Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 885/68 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 427/77 (¥, lays down general rules for granting export refunds and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 32/82 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3169/87(9, (EEC) No 1964/82 ("), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3169/87, and (EEC) No 2388/84 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3988/87 (°), lay down the conditions for gran- ting special export refunds for certain cuts of beef and veal and certain preserved beef and veal products; Whereas it follows from applying those rules and criteria to the foreseeable situation on the market in beef and veal that the refund should be as set out below; Whereas, given the current market situation in the Community and the possibilities of disposal in certain third countries in particular, export refunds on adult male bovine animals of a live weight of at least 300 kilograms () OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24. () OJ No L 150, 15. 6. 1991, p. 16. () OJ No L 156, 4. 7. 1968, p. 2. () O No L 61, 5. 3. 1977, p. 16. () O No L 4, 8. 1. 1982, p. 11. () OJ No L 301, 24. 10. 1987, p. 21. ().OJ No L 212, 21. 7. 1982, p. 48. () O No L 221, 18. 8. 1984, p. 28. () OJ No L 376, 31. 12. 1987, p. 31. and other bovine animals of a live weight of at least 250 kilograms should be granted ; whereas experience gained in recent years has shown that it is advisable to treat live pure-bred breeding animals weighting of at least 250 kilo- grams for females and 300 kilograms for males in an identical manner as other bovine animals, while making them subject to certain special administrative formalities ; Whereas export refunds should be granted for certain destinations on some fresh or chilled meat listed in Annex I under CN code 0201, on some frozen meat listed in Annex I under CN code 0202, on some meat or offal listed in Annex I under CN code 0206 and on some other prepared or preserved meat or offal listed in Annex I under CN code 1602 50 10 ; Whereas, in view of the wide differences in products covered by CN codes 0201 20 90 700 and 0202 20 90 100 used for refund purposes, refunds should only be granted on cuts in which the weight of bone does not exceed one third ; Whereas a minimum content of lean bovine meat should be fixed for boneless cuts wrapped individually and covered by CN codes 0201 30 and 0202 30; Whereas refunds should also be granted on fresh or frozen boned or boneless pieces, even where each piece is not individually wrapped, and on minced meat, and the wording of the tariff subheadings for fresh boned or bone- less pieces specified ; Whereas, in the case of meat of bovine animals, boned or boneless, salted and dried, there are traditional trade flows to Switzerland ; whereas, to allow this trade to continue, the refund should be set to cover the difference between prices on the Swiss market and export prices in the Member States ; whereas there are possibilities for export- ing such meat and also salted, smoked and dried meat to certain African, Near and Middle Eastern countries; whereas a refund should accordingly be set; Whereas, in the case of certain other cuts and preserves of meat or offal shown in Annex I under CN code 1602 50 90, Community participation in international trade may be maintained by granting a refund corres- ponding to that at present available ;