CELEX: 31986R2025
Language: en
Date: 1986-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2025/86 of 30 June 1986 fixing countervailing charges on seeds

No L 173 /38                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                   1 . 7. 86
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2025/86
                                                          of 30 June 1986
                                             fixing countervailing charges on seeds
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          insignificant quantities for which they are made are to be
                                                                      disregarded for the purpose of calculating these prices ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community,                                                 Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      1665/72, an adjustment must be made in the case of price
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                   information relating to a stage other than free-at­
 Portugal,                                                            Community-frontier ; whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of
                                                                      that Regulation, the countervailing charge must be
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71                 amended where a significant variation in the free-at­
 of 26 October 1971 on the common organization of the                 frontier offer price is recorded ;
 market in seeds ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
 No 1355/86 (2), and in particular Article 6 (5) thereof,            Whereas, as a result of the application of the aforemen­
                                                                      tioned provisions to the information currently available to
 Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71                the Commission, the countervailing charge in respect of
 provides that where the free-at-frontier offer price, plus          certain types of hybrid is to be fixed at the amounts
 customs duties, for a type of hybrid maize for sowing and           indicated in the Annex to this Regulation ;
 coming from a non-member country, is lower than the
 corresponding reference price, a countervailing charge              Whereas, consequently, Commission Regulation (EEC)
 shall be levied on imports of the hybrid from that                  No 1795/85 (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 country, subject to obligations resulting from binding               1725/86 (6), which fixed the countervailing charges for the
 under GATT ; whereas the countervailing charge is equal             preceding period, should be repealed ;
 to the difference between the reference price and the free­         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
at-frontier price plus customs duties ;                              in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                     Committee for Seeds,
Whereas the reference prices for the 1986/87 marketing
year for hybrid maize for sowing were fixed in Com­
mission Regulation (EEC) No 2024/86 (3) ;                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the free-at-frontier offer prices for each                                             Article 1
country of provenance are determined using all
available relevant information ; whereas such relevant               The countervailing charges on seeds are fixed as shown in
information is defined in Article 1 ( 1 ), (2) and (3) of            the Annex hereto .
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 665/72 (4) ; whereas
Article 3 of the same Regulation provides that the free­                                       Article 2
at-frontier offer prices for each country of provenance
shall be determined from the most favourable purchasing              Regulation (EEC) No 1795/85 is hereby repealed.
opportunities for the products in question calculated in
accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of the Regulation ;                                           Article 3
whereas information on offers which have no economic
effect on the market in particular because of the                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1986.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 30 June 1986 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                   Vice-President
(') OJ No L 246, 5 . 11 . 19 / 1 , p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 118 , 7 . 5 . 1986, p. 1 .
(3) See page 36 of this Official Journal .                           0 OJ No L 169, 29 . 6. 1985, p. 50 .
(4 OJ No L 175, 2. 8 . 1972, p. 49.                                  (6) OJ No L 149, 3 . 6. 1986, p. 36.
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                                                         ANNEX
                                 Countervailing charge on hybrid maize for sowing
                                                                                              (ECU/100 kg)
                CCT                                                    Amount of
               heading                       Description              countervailing  Country of origin
                 No                                                     charge (')
          ex 10.05         Maize :                                                   I
                           A. Hybrid for sowing :                                    I
                                 I. Double hybrids and top cross            6,9      USA
                                     hybrids                               10,4      Hungary
                                                                           34,5      Rumania
                                                                           34,5      Other countries (2)
                                II . Three cross hybrids                   18,1      Austria
                                                                           30,1      Hungary
                                                                           40,3      Rumania
                                                                           43,3      Argentina
                                                                           43,3      Other countries (3)
                               III. Single hybrids                         16,3      Austria
                                                                           74,0      Hungary
                                                                          119,9      Rumania
                          \                                               136,9      Canada
                                                                          136,9      Other countries (*)
          (') The countervailing charge may not exceed 4 % of the customs value. In the case of Spain and
              Portugal it may not exceed the rate obtained by alignment on the CCT in accordance with the
              timetable specified in the Act of Accession .
          (2) With the exception of Canada, Austria and Yugoslavia.
          (3) With the exception of Canada, USA, Chile, Japan and Yugoslavia.
          (4) With the exception of Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and USA.