CELEX: 31988R1040
Language: en
Date: 1988-04-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1040/88 of 20 April 1988 fixing quantities of imports of dessert apples originating in third countries and amending Regulation (EEC) No 962/88 suspending the issue of import licences for dessert apples originating in Chile

- 21 . 4. 88                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 102/23
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1040/88
                                                         of 20 April 1988
                     fixing quantities of imports of dessert apples originating in third countries and
                     amending Regulation (EEC) No 962/88 suspending the issue of import licences
                                            for dessert apples originating in Chile
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      be taken in respect of imports from such countries by
                                                                    providing for the suspension of the issue of licences once
                                                                    applications for licences for dessert apples originating in
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            various countries exceed an overall quantity which takes
   Economic Community,                                              account of a reasonable increase in imports over the
                                                                    average quantity imported in the last three years ;
   Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and               Whereas that quantity must be divided fairly between the
   Portugal,                                                        various countries concerned ;
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72             Whereas quantities in import licences applied for in
   of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                 respect of Chile exceed the reference quantity ; whereas
   market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by           the issue of import licences for dessert apples from that
   Regulation (EEC) No 824/88_(2), and in particular Article        country should accordingly continue to be suspended
   29 (2) thereof,                                                  until the end of the 1988 importing year,
  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2707/72 (3) lays
   down the conditions for applying protective measures for
   fruit and vegetables ;                                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 346/88 (4) as
  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 871 /88 (*), introduces                                     Article 1
  special surveillance of imports of dessert apples from
  third countries :
                                                                    The issue of import licences for dessert apples covered by
                                                                    CN codes 0808 10 91 , 0808 10 93 and 0808 10 99 is
                                                                    hereby suspended until the end of August 1988 where the
  Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 962/88 (6), as             quantities in respect of which import licences are applied
  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 984/88 Q, suspends the             for exceed the following, less the quantities for import
  issue of import licences for dessert apples originating in        licences not used or partly used :
  Chile from 18 to 29 April 1988 ;
                                                                              South Africa :         166  000 tonnes,
                                                                              New Zealand :          115  000 tonnes,
  Whereas, since the existence of substantial stocks and                      Australia :              11 000 tonnes,
  withdrawals and of prices considerably lower than those                     Argentina :             70  000 tonnes,
  in the previous marketing year on the markets of the                        Chile :                142  131 tonnes,
  main producer countries is a feature of the market for                      Other countries          17 600 tonnes .
  dessert apples in the Community, quantities imported
  from third countries and in particular from southern
  hemisphere countries substantially exceeding the
  traditional quantity of imports into the Community                                         Article 2
  threaten to cause serious disturbance of the market such
  as to jeopardize the objectives of Article 39 of the EEC
  Treaty and in particular to cause serious injury to               In Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 962/88, '29 April
  Community producers ; whereas, on account of those                1988' is hereby replaced by '31 August 1988'.
  critical circumstances, protective measures must urgently
  (') OJ  No  L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                                                     Article 3
  (2) OJ  No  L 85, 30. 3. 1988, p. 5.
  0   OJ  No  L 291 , 28. 12. 1972, p. 3.
  (4) OJ  N6  L 34, 6. 2. 1988, p. 21 .
  0   OJ  No  L 87, 31 . 3. 1988, p. 73.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
  (6) OJ  No  L 95, 13. 4. 1988, p. 10.                             publication in the Official Journal of the European
  0   OJ  No  L 98, 15. 4. 1988, p. 37.                             Communities.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 20 April 1988 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                       Vice-President