CELEX: 31991R1542
Language: en
Date: 1991-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1542/91 of 6 June 1991 introducing a countervailing charge on fresh lemons originating in Israel

No L 143/28                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                  7. 6. 91
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1542/91
                                                             of 6 June 1991
                     introducing a countervailing charge on fresh lemons originating in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            Regulation (EEC) No 381 1 /85 (6), 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 fresh lemons originating in Israel, the entry
                                                                       price calculated in this way has remained at least ECU 0,6
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                     below the reference price for two consecutive market
Portugal,                                                              days ; whereas a countervailing charge should therefore be
                                                                       introduced for these fresh lemons :
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 3920/90 (2), and in particular the
second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,
                                                                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                           tion to each other at any given moment within a band
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                    of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported                    rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
from a third country remains at least ECU 0,6 below the                    the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­                   tion (EEC) No 1676/85 Q, as last amended by Regula­
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the                     tion (EEC) No 2205/90 (8),
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference               — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of                      average of the ecu rates published in the Official
the last two entry prices available for that exporting                     Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
country ;                                                                   a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
                                                                            cient referred to in the previous indent,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1438 /91 of
30 May 1991 fixing for the 1991 /92 marketing year the
reference prices for fresh lemons (') fixed the reference
price for products of class I for the month of June 1991
at ECU 54,59 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
least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting country
concerned which are marketed on all representative                                                Article 1
markets for which prices are available less the duties and
the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
No 1035/72 according to the dispositions of Regulation                 A countervailing charge of ECU 2,59 per 100 kilograms
(EEC) No 3982/89 of 20 December 1989 altering the                      net is applied to fresh lemons (CN code ex 0805 30 10)
entry price for citrus fruit originating in certain Mediterra­         originating in Israel
nian third countries (4) ; whereas the meaning of represen­
tative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72 ;
                                                                                                  Article 2
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 2118 /74 0, as last amended by
                                                                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 June 1991 .
(') OJ  No L  118 , 20.  5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No L 375,   31 . 12. 1990, p. 17 .
(>) OJ  No L  137,  31 . 5. 1991 , p. 25.                              («) OJ No L 368 , 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No L 380,   29 . 12. 1989, p. 24.                              0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L 220,   10.  8 . 1974, p. 20 . •                           (" OJ No L i01 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States.
         Done at Brussels, 6 June 1991 .
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                 Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                            Member of the Commission