CELEX: 31988R2310
Language: en
Date: 1988-07-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2310/88 of 26 July 1988 fixing countervailing charges on seeds

27. 7. 88                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 201 /77
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2310/88
                                                         of 26 July 1988
                                           fixing countervailing charges on seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        insignificant quantities for which they are made are to be
                                                                   disregarded for the purpose of calculating these prices ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                               Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    1 665/72, an adjustment must be made in the case of price
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 information relating to a stage other than free-at-
 Portugal,                                                          Community-frontier ; whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71               that Regulation, the countervailing charge must be
 of 26 October 1971 on the common organization of the               amended where a significant variation in the free-at-
 market in seeds ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)           frontier offer price is recorded ;
 No 3997/87 (2), and in particular Article 6 (5) thereof,          Whereas, as a result of the application of the aforemen­
 Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71               tioned provisions to the information currently available to
 provides that where the free-at-frontier offer price, plus        the Commission, the countervailing charge in respect of
 customs duties, for a type of hybrid maize and hybrid             certain types of hybrid is to be fixed at the amounts
 sorgum for sowing and coming from a non-member                     indicated in the Annex to this Regulation ;
 country, is lower than the corresponding reference price, a       Whereas, consequently, Commission Regulation (EEC)
 countervailing charge on hybrid maize and hybrid                   No 1854/87 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 sorghum shall be levied on imports of the hybrid from              1440/88 (6), which fixed the countervailing charges for the
 that country, subject to obligations resulting from binding       preceding period, should be repealed ;
 under GATT ; whereas the countervailing charge is equal
 to the difference between the reference price and the             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 free-at-frontier price plus customs duties ;                      in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                    Committee for Seeds,
Whereas the reference prices for the 1988/89 marketing
year for hybrid maize and hybrid sorgum for sowing were
 fixed in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2203/88 (3) ;             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the free-at-frontier offer prices for each                                           Article 1
 country of provenance are determined using all
 available relevant information ; whereas such relevant            The countervailing charges on seeds are fixed as shown in
 information is defined in Article 1 (1 ), (2) and (3) of          the Annexes hereto.
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 665/72 (4); whereas
Article 3 of the same Regulation provides that the                                           Article 2
 free-at-frontier offer prices for each country of provenance
shall be determined from the most favourable purchasing            Regulation (EEC) No 1854/87 is hereby repealed.
opportunities for the products in question calculated in
accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of the Regulation ;                                         Article J
whereas information on offers which have no economic
effect on the market in particular because of the                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 July 1988 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 26 July 1988 .
                        /                                                    For the Commission
                                                                              Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                 Vice-President
(>) OJ No L 246, 5. 11 . 1971 , p. 1 .
I1) OJ No L 377, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 36.
I3) OJ No L 195, 23. 7. 1988, p. 55.                               0 OJ No L 174, 1 . 7. 1988, p. 46.
(«) OJ No L 175, 2. 8. 1972, p. 49.                                b) OJ No L 131 , 27. 5. 1988, p. 71 .
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                                           ANNEX I
                  Countervailing charge on hybrid maize for sowing
                                                                         (ECU/100 kg)
                                              Amount of
                      CN code              countervailing           Country of
                                               charge (')             origin (J)
             100510 11                            13,8                  404
                                                  14,7                  038 *
                                            '     15,4                  064
                                                  15.4                  400
                                                  53,1                  048
                                                  53,1                      1
             1005 10 13 '                          5,6                  048
                                                   7,3                  400
                                                  16.7                  062
                                                  20.5                  064
                                                  21,0                  068
                                                  41,0                  066
                                                  41,0                     2
             1005 10 15                           14.8                  038
                                                  74.3                  048
                                                  81.4                  400
                                                  89                    066
                                                 103,1                  404
                                                 103,1                     3
                                           ANNEX II
                Countervailing charge on hybrid sorghum for sowing
                                                                         (ECU/100 kg)
                                              Amount of
                      CN code              countervailing           Country of
                                                charge                origin (2)
             100700 10                            44                    400
                                                  44                       4
             (') The countervailing charge may not exceed 4 % of the customs value.
                 In the case of Spain and Portugal it may not exceed the rate obtained
                 by alignment on the CCT in accordance with the timetable specified in
                 the Act of Accession .
             (2) Origin identification :
                    1 Other countries with the exception of Romania and Chile
                   2 Other countries with the exception of Canada, Chile, Japan,
                       Austria and Argentina ;
                   3 Other countries with the exception ' of Bulgaria and Hungary ;
                   4 Other countries
                 038 Austria ;
                 048 Yugoslavia ;
                 062 Czechoslovakia ;
                 064 Hungary ;
                 066 Romania ;
                 068 Bulgaria ;
                 400 USA ;
                 404 Canada.