CELEX: 31988R0918
Language: en
Date: 1988-04-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 918/88 of 6 April 1988 introducing a countervailing charge on aubergines originating in Spain (except the Canary Islands)

No L 90/24                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                  7. 4. 88
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 918/88
                                                       of 6 April 1988
                 introducing a countervailing charge on aubergines originating in Spain
                                                (except the Canary Islands)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      Regulation (EEC) No 3811 /850, 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
Economic Community,                                              Whereas, for aubergines originating in Spain (except the
                                                                 Canary Islands) the entry price calculated in this way has
                                                                 remained at least 0,6 ECU below the reference price for
                                                                 two consecutive market days ; whereas a countervailing
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and               charge should therefore be introduced for these auber­
Portugal,                                                        gines ;
                                                                 Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the entry
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72             price should be calculated on the following basis :
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the
                                                                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
market in fruit and vegetables 0, as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 824/88 (2), and in particular the                tion to each other at any given moment within a band
second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                       of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
                                                                     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
                                                                     the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regu­
                                                                     lation (EEC) No 1676/85 0, as last amended by Regu­
Whereas Article 25 ( 1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               lation (EEC) Nq 1636/87Q,
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported
from a third country remains at least 0,6 ECU below the          — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the               these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­             tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference             previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of
the last two entry prices available for that exporting           Whereas, pursuant to Article 136 (2) of the Act of Acces­
country ;
                                                                 sion of Spain and Portugal 0, the arrangements applicable
                                                                 to trade between, on the one hand, a new Member State
                                                                 and, on the other, the Community as constituted at 31
                                                                 December 1985, must be those which were applicable
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 724/88 of 18              before accession ;
March 1988 fixing for the 1988 marketing year the
reference prices for aubergines 0 fixed the reference price      Whereas Article 140(1 ) provides for a 6 % reduction in
for products of class I for the month of April 1988 at           the countervailing charges applicable under Regulation
87,72 ECU per 100 kilograms net ;                                (EEC) No 1035/72 during the third year after accession,
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for at
least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting country
concerned which are marketed on all representative                                           Article 1
markets for which prices' are available less the duties and
the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC)      A countervailing charge of 31,22 ECU per 100 kilograms
No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price         net is applied to aubergines (CN code 0709 30 00) origi­
is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No              nating in Spain (except the Canary Islands).
1035/72 ;
                                                                                             Article 2
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 2118/74 0, as last amended by                This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 April 1988 .
(') OJ  No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                            0  OJ   No  L 368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L 85, 30. 3. 1988, p. 5.                              0  OJ   No  L 164, 24.  6. 1985, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L 74, 19. 3. 1988, p. 53.                             o  OJ   No  L 153, 13 . 6. 1987, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L 220, 10. 8. 1974, p. 20 .                           0  OJ   No  L 302, 15.  11 . 1985, p. 9.
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         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States.
         Done at Brussels, 6 April 1988.
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                 Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                    Vice-President