CELEX: 31979R0068
Language: en
Date: 1979-01-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 68/79 of 16 January 1979 fixing countervailing charges on seeds

17 . 1 . 79                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 11 / 5
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 68/79
                                                        of 16 January 1979
                                            fixing countervailing charges on seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      have no economic effect on the market because of the
COMMUNITIES,                                                        insignificant quantities for which they are made are to
                                                                    be disregarded for the purpose of calculating these
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               prices ;
Economic Community,
                                                                    Whereas under Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         1665/72 an adjustment must be made in the case of
2358/71 of 26 October 1971 on the common organiza­                  information on prices referring to a stage other than
tion of the market in seeds (!), as last amended by                 free-at-Community-frontier ; whereas under Article 4
Regulation (EEC) No 1346/78 (2), and in particular                  (2) of that Regulation the countervailing charge must
Article 6 (5) thereof,                                              be amended where a significant variation in the free­
Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71                at-frontier offer price is recorded ;
provides that where the free-at-frontier offer price,               Whereas, as a result of the application of the afore­
plus customs duties for a type of hybrid maize,                     mentioned provisions to the information currently
coming from a non-member country, for sowing is                     available to the Commission, the countervailing
lower than the corresponding reference price, a coun­               charge in respect of certain types of hybrid is to be
tervailing charge shall be levied on imports of the                 fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex to this
hybrid from that country, subject to obligations                    Regulation ; whereas the hybrid types are defined in
resulting from binding under GAIT ; whereas the                     Article 2 ( 1 ) (B) of Council Directive 66/402/EEC of
countervailing charge is equal to the difference                     14 June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed (5);
between the reference price and the free-at-frontier
price plus customs duties ;                                         Whereas the Management Committee for Seeds has
                                                                    not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by
Whereas the reference prices for the 1978/79                        its chairman ,
marketing year for hybrid maize for sowing were fixed
in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1410/78 (3) ;                                      4
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the free-at-frontier offer prices for each
country of provenance are determined using all avail­
                                                                                             Article 1
able relevant information ; whereas such relevant infor­
mation is defined in Article 1 ( 1 ), (2) and (3) of                The countervailing charges on seeds are fixed as
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 665/72 (4) ;                       shown in the Annex hereto.               1
whereas Article 3 of the same Regulation provides
that the free-at-frontier offer prices for each country of                                   Article 2
provenance shall be determined from the most favour­
able purchasing opportunities for the products in ques­             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
tion calculated in accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of              following its publication in the Official Journal of
that Regulation ; whereas information on offers which                the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 16 January 1979.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                   Vice-President
(>) OJ    No L 246, 5. 11 . 1971 , p. 1 .
(2) OJ    No L 165, 22. 6 . 1978 , p. 1 .
(3) OJ    No L 170, 27. 6. 1978 , p. 32.
(4) OJ    No L 175, 2. 8 . 1972, p. 49.                             (5) OJ No 125, 11 . 7. 1966, p. 2309/66.
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                                                                       ANNEX
                                       Countervailing charge on hybrid maize for sowing
                                                                                                            (A VA/1 00 kg)
                     CCT                                                                Amount
                                                                                                      Country of origin
                   heading                                 Description              of countervailing
                                                                                                         of goods
                      No                                                                charge (')
                    10.05              Maize :
                                       ex A. Hybrid, for sowing :
                                                — Three-cross hybrids                     100          Hungary
                                                                                          130          Romania
           (!) The countervailing charge shall not exceed 4 % of the customs value.