CELEX: 31976R0889
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 889/76 of 14 April 1976 suspending imports of frozen hake and saithe, wheter whole or in fillets

No L 101 /38                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               15. 4. 76
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 889/76
                                                      of 14 April 1976
                suspending imports of frozen hake and saithe, whether whole or in fillets
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   lize Community markets ; whereas, in order to prevent
COMMUNITIES,                                                     disturbances as a result of abnormally low prices,
                                                                  imports of the products in question should be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            suspended,
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in fishery products (*), and in parti­                                Article 1
cular the third subparagraph of Article 19 (6) thereof,
Whereas Article 19 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76              1 . All Community imports of :
provides inter alia that, where the entry price for a             — frozen hake, whole, headless or in pieces of
given product imported from any third country is                      subheading ex 03.01 B I q) of the Common
lower than the reference price, then, in the case of the              Customs Tariff, as well as frozen fillets of hake of
products listed in Annex IV (B), imports may be                       subheading ex 03.01 B II b) 7 of the Common
suspended or restricted to specified qualities, forms of              Customs Tariff,
presentation or end uses ;                                        — frozen saithe, whole, headless or in pieces of
Whereas, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3373/75                       subheading 03.01 B I ij) 2 of the Common
                                                                      Customs Tariff, as well as frozen fillets of saithe of
of 23 December 1975 (2), fixed among others the refer­
ence prices for hake and saithe listed in Annex IV (B)                subheading 03.01 B II b) 2 of the Common
to Regulation (EEC) No 100/76 for the 1976 fishing                    Customs Tariff are hereby suspended.
year ;                                                            2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to imports of
Whereas Article 19 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76              products which comply with the reference prices set
                                                                  out in the Annex hereto .
provides that, for products in respect of which a refer­
ence price is fixed, there shall be established an entry
                                                                                         Article 2
price, based on the lowest prices recorded for one and
the same marketing stage on representative import                 The items to be taken into account in determining
markets or in representative ports of import, reduced             whether an import complies with the reference price
by an amount equal to any customs duties and                      as referred to in Article 1 (2) shall be as follows :
charges levied on these products and by the cost of
transporting the product from these markets or ports              (a) the free-at-Community frontier price, before
to Community frontier crossing points ;                               customs clearance ;
                                                                  (b) unloading costs.
Whereas in the case of frozen hake and saithe, whole,
headless or in pieces and of frozen fillets of these                                     Article 3
products, the entry prices are apparently far below the
level of the reference prices ; whereas this is likely to         This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 April
have an adverse effect on the measures taken to stabi­             1976 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 14 April 1976.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
 (») OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 333, 30 . 12. 1975, p. 37.
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                                                       ANNEX
                                                                                             Price
                 CCT heading No                        Description of goods
                                                                                     (u.a./metric ton net)
          ex 03.01 B I q)                Frozen hake, whole, headless or in pieces           350
          ex 03.01 B II b) 7             Frozen fillets of hake                              625
             03.01 B I ij) 2             Frozen saithe, whole, headless or in pieces         250
             03.01 B II b) 2             Frozen fillets of saithe                            548