CELEX: 31995R0624
Language: en
Date: 1995-03-22 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 624/95 of 22 March 1995 introducing a countervailing charge on pears originating in Switzerland

23. 3. 95             HEN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 65/23
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 624/95
                                                           of 22 March 1995
                          introducing a countervailing charge on pears originating in Switzerland
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           Regulation (EEC) No 249/93 (6), the prices to be taken
                                                                       into consideration must be recorded on the representative
                                                                       markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Community,
                                                                       Whereas, for pears originating in Switzerland the entry
                                                                       price calculated in this way has remained at least ECU
                                                                       0,7245 below the reference price for two consecutive
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                  market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                      therefore be introduced for these pears ;
 market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by
 Commission Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 (2), and in parti­
 cular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,              Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                        1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 Q, as last
                                                                       amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (8), are used to
                                                                       convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 Whereas Article 25 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) (EC) No                   and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product                conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
 imported from a third country remains at least ECU                    whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
 0,7245 below the reference price for two consecutive                  tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
 market days, a countervailing charge must be inroduced                lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (9), as last amended by Regula­
 in respect of the exporting country concerned, save in                tion (EC) No 1 57/95 (10),
 exceptional circumstances ; whereas this charge is equal
 to the difference between the reference price and the
 arithmetic mean of the last two entry prices available for
 that exporting country ;
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1557/94 of 30
June 1994 fixing for the 1994/95 marketing year the
 reference prices for pears (3) fixed the reference price for
 products of class I at ECU 61,98 per 100 kilograms net
 for the month of March 1995 ;
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 1 (a) of Council Regulation (EC) No
 1 1 65/94 (4) lays down, by way of derogation for apples and
 pears, that the entry price for a given exporting country is
                                                                                                  Article 1
 to be equal to the lowest representative price or to the
weighted average of the lowest representative prices
 recorded for at least 60% of the quantities from the
exporting country in question marketed on all representa­              A countervailing charge of ECU 21,80 per 100 kilograms
tive markets for which prices are available, such price or             net is applied to pears (CN codes 0808 20 31 and
 prices being reduced by the duties and charges referred to            0808 20 37) originating in Switzerland.
 in Article 24 (3) ; whereas what is meant by representative
price is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 ;
                                                                                                  Article 2
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 211 8/74 (*), as last amended by                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 March 1995.
(')  OJ  No   L  118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                              (6) OJ No L 28, 5. 2. 1993, p. 45.
(2)  OJ  No   L  349, 31 . 12. 1994, p. 105.                           0 OJ   No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(3)  OJ  No   L  166, 1 . 7. 1994, p. 55.                              (8) OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(4)  OJ  No   L  130, 25. 5. 1994, p. 14.                              0 OJ   No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
0    OJ  No   L  220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.                             H OJ    No L 24, 1 . 2. 1995, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 22 March 1995.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission