CELEX: 31990R0293
Language: en
Date: 1990-02-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 293/90 of 1 February 1990 introducing a countervailing charge on cabbage lettuces originating in the United States of America

No L 31 /24                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                   Z. 2. 90
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 293/90
                                                    of 1 February 1990
                 introducing a countervailing charge on cabbage lettuces originating in the
                                                United States of America
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES.                     Regulation (EEC) No 381 1 /85 (*), 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 cabbage lettuces originating in the United
                                                                States of America the entry price calculated in this way
                                                                has remained at least ECU 0,6 below the reference price
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and              for two consecutive market days ; whereas a countervailing
Portugal,                                                       charge should therefore be introduced for these cabbage
                                                                lettuces :
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 11 19/89 (2), and in particular the
                                                                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,
                                                                     tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                     of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
Whereas Article 25 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported
                                                                     the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
from a third country remains at least ECU 0,6 below the
                                                                     tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (*), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                     tion (EEC) No 1636/87Q,
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the          — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference             these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of               tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
the last two entry prices available for that exporting               previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient,
country ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3103/89 of
16 October 1989 fixing for the 1989/90 marketing year
the reference prices for cabbage lettuces (3) fixed the
reference price for products of class I for the months of
January and February 1990 at ECU 75,60 per 100 kilo­
grams 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                                    Article 1
concerned which are marketed on all representative
markets for which prices are available less the duties and      A countervailing charge of ECU 16,15 per 100 kilograms
the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC)      net is applied to cabbage lettuces (CN code 0705 11 10)
No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price         originating in the United States of America.
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 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 February 1990.
(*) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
M OJ No L 118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 12.                               0 OJ No L 368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 298, 17. 10. 1989, p. 8.                             («) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
h OJ No L 220, 10. 8. 1974, p. 20.                               o OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 1 February 1990.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                              Member of the Commission