CELEX: 31993R0830
Language: en
Date: 1993-04-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 830/93 of 6 April 1993 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of tomatoes originating in Turkey

No L 87/ 12                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   7. 4. 93
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 830/93
                                                        of 6 April 1993
                  introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs
                                   duty on imports of tomatoes originating in Turkey
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        coefficient fixed in the second indent of Article 1 (2) (a) of
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 735/93 ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Whereas, for Turkish tomatoes, the entry price calculated
 Economic Community,                                                in this way has remained at least ECU 0,6 below the
                                                                    reference price for two consecutive market days ; whereas
                                                                    a countervailing charge should therefore be introduced for
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               these tomatoes ;
 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the
 market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 638/93 (2), and in particular the
                                                                    Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,
                                                                    3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
                                                                    Community of certain agricultural products originating in
                                                                    Turkey (6), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    1 555/84 f), when the Commission introduces a counter­
 Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72             vailing charge on imports of tomatoes originating in
 provides that, if the entry price of a product imported           Turkey, at the same time it reintroduces for the product
 from a third country remains at least ECU 0,6 below the            in question the conventional rate of customs duty ;
 reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­          whereas, therefore, a rate of customs duty of 1 1 % should
 tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the            be reintroduced for these tomatoes, with a minimum
 exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­           charge of ECU 2 per 100 kilograms net ;
 stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference
 between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of
 the last two entry prices available for that exporting            Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
 country ;                                                          1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8) are used to
                                                                   convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
                                                                   and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                    conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 735/93 of 29
March 1993 fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the         whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
 1993 marketing year (3) fixed the reference price for              tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
products of class I for the month of April 1993 at ECU             lation (EEC) No 3819/92 (9),
 197,27 per 100 kilograms net ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic
mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of
the quantities from the exporting country concerned
                                                                                                Article 1
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) No                  1 . A countervailing charge of ECU 58,21 per 100 kilo­
 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is          grams net is applied on imports of tomatoes falling
defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                   within CN code 0702 00 originating in Turkey.
 1035/72 ;
                                                                   2. The rate of customs duty on imports of these
                                                                   products shall be 11 % with a minimum charge of ECU
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Commission          2 per 100 kilograms net.
Regulation (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 249/93 (*), the prices to be taken
into consideration must be recorded on the representative                                       Article 2
markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ;
whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices with the
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 April 1993.
(') OJ  No  L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No  L 69, 20. 3. 1993, p. 7.                               (6) OJ  No  L  367, 23. 12. 1981 , p. 3.
0   OJ  No  L 75, 30. 3. 1993, p. 16.                              0   OJ  No  L  150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 4.
(4) OJ  No  L 220, 10. 8. 1974, p. 20.                             (8) OJ No   L  387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(Ó OJ No L 28, 5. 2. 1993, p. 45.                                  (9) OJ  No  L  387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 17.
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         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States.
         Done at Brussels, 6 April 1993.
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                  Rene STEICHEN
                                                            Member of the Commission