CELEX: 31993R2584
Language: en
Date: 1993-09-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2584/93 of 21 September 1993 introducing a countervailing charge on apples originating in South Africa

No L 237/ 16                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               22. 9. 93
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2584/93
                                                     of 21 September 1993
                     introducing a countervailing charge on apples originating in South Africa
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Regulation (EEC) No 249/93 (% 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 apples originating in South Africa the entry
                                                                   prices calculated in this way have for five consecutive
                                                                   market days been alternatively above and below the
                                                                   reference price ; whereas one of these entry prices is at
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72              least ECU 0,6 below the reference prices ; whereas a
 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                  countervailing charge should therefore be introduced for
 market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by            these apples ;
 Regulation (EEC) No 638/93 (2), and in particular the
 second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,
                                                                   Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                    1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (6) are used to
                                                                   convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 Whereas Article 25a (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72           and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 provides that, if the entry price of a product imported           conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
 from a non-member country is alternatively above and              whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
 below the reference price for five to seven consecutive           tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
 market days a countervailing charge is introduced in              lation (EEC) No 1068/93 0,
 respect of that non-member country, save in exceptional
 cases ; whereas that charge is introduced when three entry
 prices fall below the reference price and one of those
 entry prices is at least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ;
 whereas that charge is equal to the difference between the
 reference price and the last available entry price by at
 least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ;                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1640/93 of
 28 June 1993 fixing for the 1993/94 marketing year the                                      Article 1
 reference prices for apples (3) fixed the reference price for
 products of class I for the month of September 1993 at
 ECU 43,98 per 1 00 kilograms net ;                                A countervailing charge of ECU 4,47 per 100 kilograms
                                                                   net is applied to apples (CN codes 0808 10 31 ,
                                                                   0808 10 33,      0808 10 39,     0808 10 51 ,  0808 10 53,
                                                                   0808 10 59, 0808 10 81 , 0808 10 83 and 0808 10 89),
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is           originating in South Africa.
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
markets for which prices are available less the duties and
the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC)                                  Article 2
 No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price
is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 :                                                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 September
                                                                    1993 .
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Commission           Subject to the provisions of the second subparagraph of
Regulation (EEC) No 211 8 /74 ("), as last amended by              Article 26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, this Regu­
                                                                   lation shall be applicable until 28 September 1993.
(') OJ  No  L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No  L 69, 20. 3. 1993, p. 7.                               0 OJ No L 28, 5. 2. 1993, p. 45.
(3) OJ  No  L 157, 29. 6. 1993, p. 8.                              (6) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
 4  OJ  No  L 220, 10. 8. 1974, p. 20.                             O OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 21 September 1993.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Rene STEICHEN
                                                              Member of the Commission