CELEX: 31986R1667
Language: en
Date: 1986-05-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1667/86 of 29 May 1986 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of tomatoes originating in Turkey

No L 145/50                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                30 . 5. 86
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1667/86
                                                      of 29 May 1986
                introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs
                                 duty on imports of tomatoes originating in Turkey
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                     in certain circumstances, on other markets ; whereas it is
                                                                necessary to multiply the prices with the coefficient fixed
                                                                in the second indent of Article 1 (2) (a) of Regulation
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           (EEC) No 985/86 ;
Economic Community,
                                                                Whereas, for Turkish tomatoes, the entry price calculated
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and              in this way has remained at least 0,6 ECU below the
Portugal,                                                       reference price for two consecutive market days ; whereas
                                                                a countervailing charge should therefore be introduced for
                                                                these tomatoes ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by          Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
Regulation (EEC) No 1351 /86 (2), and in particular the         3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                  Community of certain agricultural products originating in
                                                                Turkey (% as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                1 555/84 Q, when the Commission introduces a counter­
Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72           vailing charge on imports of tomatoes originating in
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported         Turkey, at the same time it reintroduces for the product
from a third country remains at least 0,6 ECU below the         in question the conventional rate of customs duty ;
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­        whereas, therefore, a rate of customs duty of 18 % should
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the          be reintroduced for these tomatoes, with a minimum
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­        charge of 3,50 ECU per 100 kilograms net ;
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference
between the reference price and the arithmetic -mean of         Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
the last two entry prices available for that exporting          price should be calculated on the following basis :
country ;
                                                                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                     tion to each other at any given moment within a band
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 985/86 of 4                   of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
April 1986 fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the           rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in the
1986 marketing year (3) fixed the reference price for                last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regulation
products of class I for May 1986 at 136,76 ECU per 100               (EEC) No 1676/85 (8),
kilograms net ;
                                                                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is             these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic           tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of              previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient,
the quantities from the exporting country concerned
which are marketed on all representative markets for
which prices are available less the duties and the charges
indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 ;
                                                                                           Article 1
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation             1.    A countervailing charge of 29,32 ECU per 100 kilo­
(EEC) No 3811 /85 (% the prices to be taken into conside­        grams net is applied on imports of tomatoes falling
ration must be recorded on the representative markets or,
                                                                 within subheading 07.01 M of the Common Customs
                                                                 Tariff originating in Turkey.
(') OJ  No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No L 119, 8. 5. 1986, p. 46.
(3) OJ  No L 90. 5. 4. 1986, p. 25.                              («) OJ No L 367, 23. 12. 1981 , p. 3.
0   OJ  No L 220, 10. 8. 1974, p. 20.                            f) OJ No L 150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 4.
M OJ No L 368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .                             (8 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
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2. The rate of customs duty on imports of these                                        Article 2
products shall be 18 % with a minimum charge of 3,50
ECU per 100 kilograms net.                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 31 May 1986.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 29 May 1986.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                           Vice-President