CELEX: 31987R0843
Language: en
Date: 1987-03-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 843/87 of 24 March 1987 introducing a countervailing charge on lemons originating in Spain (except the Canary Islands)

25. 3 . 87                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 81 /35
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 843/87
                                                       of 24 March 1987
                 introducing a countervailing charge on lemons originating in Spain (except the
                                                         Canary Islands)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        (EEC) No 381 1 /85 (5), 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 lemons originating in Spain (except the
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 Canary Islands) the entry prices calculated in this way
Portugal,                                                          have for seven consecutive market days been alternatively
                                                                   above and below the reference price ; whereas three of
                                                                   these entry prices are at least 0,6 ECU below the reference
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               prices ; whereas a countervailing charge should therefore
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                   be introduced for these lemons ;
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1351 /86 (2), and in particular the
first subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,
                                                                   Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the entry
                                                                   price should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas Article 25a ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported
from a non-member country is alternatively above and               — in the case of currencies which ^re maintained in rela­
below the reference price for five to seven consecutive                 tion to each other at any given moment within a band
market days a countervailing charge is introduced in                    of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
respect of that non-member country, save in exceptional                 rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
cases ; whereas that charge is introduced when three entry              the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
prices fall below the reference price and one of those                  No 1676/85 (6),
entry prices is at least 0,6 ECU below the reference price ;
whereas that charge is equal to the difference between the         — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
reference price and the last available entry price by at                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
least 0,6 ECU below the reference price ;                               these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
                                                                        tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
                                                                        previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1661 /86 of
29 May 1986 fixing for the 1986/87 marketing year the
reference prices for lemons (3) fixed the reference price for
products of class I for the period 1 November 1986 to 30           Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 36 (2) of the Act of Acces­
April 1987 at 45,00 ECU per 100 kilograms net ;                     sion of Spain and Portugal Q, the arrangements applicable
                                                                    to trade between, on the one hand, a new Member State
                                                                    and, on the other, the Community as constituted at 31
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is            December 1985, must be those which were applicable
equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for at           before accession ;
 least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting country
concerned which are marketed on all representative
 markets for which prices are available less the duties and
 the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC)        Whereas Article 140 ( 1 ) provides for a 4 % reduction in
 No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price           the countervailing charges applicable under Regulation
 is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                (EEC) No 1035/72 during the second year after accession ;
 1035/72 ;
 Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation          Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 (EEC) No 211 8 /74 (4), as last amended by Regulation              in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                     Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 (■) OJ No  L 118,  20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ No  L 119,  8 . 5. 1986, p. 46.                             O OJ No L 368 , 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .
 (3) OJ No  L 145,  30 . 5. 1986, p. 39.                            («) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
  4  OJ No  L 220,  10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.                            O OJ No L 302, 15. 11 . 1985, p. 9.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                             Article 2
                          Article 1                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 March 1987.
A countervailing charge of 1,79 ECU per 100 kilograms
net is applied to lemons (subheading 08.02 C of the             Subject to the provisions of the second subparagraph of
Common Customs Tariff) originating in Spain (except the         Article 26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, this Regu­
Canary Islands).                                                lation shall be applicable until 31 March 1987.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 24 March 1987.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                             Vice-President