CELEX: 31990R0655
Language: en
Date: 1990-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 655/90 of 16 March 1990 introducing a countervailing charge on cabbage lettuces originating in the United States of America

No L 71 / 18                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                  17. 3. 90
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 655/90
                                                    of 16 March 1990
                introducing a countervailing charge on cabbage lettuces originating in the
                                               United States of America
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                    Regulation (EEC) No 3811 /85 (s), 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 cabbage lettuces originating in the United
                                                               States of America the entry price calculated in this way
                                                               has remained at least ECU 0,6 below the reference price
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and             for two consecutive market days ; whereas a countervailing
Portugal,                                                      charge should therefore be introduced for these cabbage
                                                               lettuces ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the               Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the entry
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by         price should be calculated on the following basis :
Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 19/89 (2), and in particular the       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,
                                                                    tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                    of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
                                                                    rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
Whereas Article 25 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72              the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported             tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (*), as last amended by Regula­
from a third country remains at least ECU 0,6 below the             tion (EEC) No 1636/87f),
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the         — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference            these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of              tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
the last two entry prices available for that exporting              previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient,
country ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3103/89 of
16 October 1989 fixing for the 1989/90 marketing year
the reference prices for cabbage lettuces (3) fixed the
reference price for products of class I for the period 1
March to 31 May 1990 at ECU 82,34 per 100 kilograms
net :
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is
equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for at
                                                                                          Article 1
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      A countervailing charge of ECU 1,50 per 100 kilograms
the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC)     net is applied to cabbage lettuces (CN code 0705 11 10)
No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price        originating in the United States of America.
is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 ;
                                                                                          Article 2
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (!) of Commission
 Regulation (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 March 1990.
(') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 12.                            0 OJ No L 368 , 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .
h) OJ No L 298, 17. 10. 1989, p. 8.                             (6) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(*) OJ No L 220, 10. 8. 1974, p. 20.                            0 OJ No L 153, 13 . 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States
           Done at Brussels, 16 March 1990.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                              Member of the Commission