CELEX: 31981R1757
Language: en
Date: 1981-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1757/81 of 30 June 1981 fixing countervailing charges on seeds

1 . 7 . 81                           Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 175/27
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1757/81
                                                    of 30 June 1981
                                         fixing countervailing charges on seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  they are made are to be disregarded for the purpose of
COMMUNITIES,                                                    calculating these prices ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas pursuant to Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No
Economic Community,                                             1665/72, an adjustment must be made in the case of
                                                                price information relating to a stage other than free­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    at-Community-frontier ; whereas pursuant to Article 4
2358/71 of 26 October 1971 on the common organi­                (2) of that Regulation, the countervailing charge must
zation of the market in seeds ('), as last amended by           be amended where a significant variation in the free­
the Act of Accession of Greece, and in particular               at-frontier offer price is recorded ;
Article 6 (5) thereof,
                                                                Whereas, as a result of the application of the afore­
Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71            mentioned provisions to the information currently
provides that where the free-at-frontier offer price, plus      available to the Commission, the countervailing charge
customs duties, for a type of hybrid maize for sowing           in respect of certain types of hybrid is to be fixed at
and coming from a non-member country, is lower                  the amounts indicated in the Annex to this Regula­
than the corresponding reference price, a countervail­          tion ;
ing charge shall be levied on imports of the hybrid
 from that country, subject to obligations resulting from       Whereas, consequently, Commission Regulation (EEC)
binding under GATT ; whereas the countervailing                 No 1682/80 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
charge is equal to the difference between the reference         No 1394/81 (*), which fixed the countervailing charges
 price and the free-at-frontier price plus customs              for the preceding period, should be repealed ;
duties ;
                                                                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 Whereas the reference prices for the 1981 /82 marke­           are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 ting year for hybrid maize for sowing were fixed in            Committe for Seeds,
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1756/81 (2) ;
 Whereas the free-at-frontier offer prices for each              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 country of provenance are determined using all avail­
 able relevant information ; whereas such relevant infor­                               Article 1
 mation is defined in Article 1 (1 ), (2) and (3) of
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 665/72 (3) ;                   The countervailing charges on seeds are fixed as
                                                                 shown in the Annex hereto.
 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 favou­
 rable purchasing opportunities for the products in              Regulation (EEC) No 1682/80 is hereby repealed.
 question calculated in accordance with Articles 1 and
 2 of the Regulation ; whereas information on offers                                     Article 3
 which have no economic effect on the market in parti­
 cular because of the insignificant quantities for which         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1981 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 30 June 1981 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                               The President
                                                                              Gaston THORN
  (') OJ No L 246, 5. 11 . 1971 , p. 1 .
  (2) See page 25 of this Official Journal.                      (<) OJ No L 166, 1 . 7. 1980, p. 43.
  (3) OJ No L 175, 2. 8 . 1972, p. 49 .                          0 OJ No L 140, 26. 5. 1981 , p. 18 .
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                                                            ANNEX
                                  Countervailing charge on hybrid maize for sowing
                                                                                               (ECU/100 kg)
                 CCT                                                     Amount of
                heading                       Description               countervailing  Country of origin
                  No                                                      charge (')
           ex 10.05         Maize :
                           A. Hybrid for sowing :
                                  I. Double hybrids       and top cross
                                      hybrids                                 3-6      Austria
                                                                              5-6      USA
                                                                            10-4       Romania
                                                                            14-7       Canada
                                                                            32-4       Yugoslavia
                                                                            32-4       Other countries (2)
                                 II . Three cross hybrids                   14-9       Hungary
                                                                            29-8       Romania
                                                                            29-8       Other countries (3)
                                III. Single hybrids                           3-2      USA
                                                                              8-5      Canada
                                                                            33-6       Spain
                                                                            33-6       Other countries (4)
            (') The countervailing charge may not exceed 4 % of the customs value.
            (2) With the exception of Spain and Hungary.
            (3) With the exception of Austria, Canada, Spain, USA and Yugoslavia.
            (4) With the exception of Austria, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia.