CELEX: 31994R0543
Language: en
Date: 1994-03-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 543/94 of 10 March 1994 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of apples originating in Turkey

11 . 3. 94                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 68/27
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 543/94
                                                         of 10 March 1994
                   introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs
                                        duty on imports of apples originating in Turkey
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Whereas for apples originating in Turkey the entry pnces
                                                                      calculated in this way have for six consecutive market
                                                                      days been alternatively above and below the reference
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               price ; whereas two of these entry prices are at least ECU
  Community,                                                          0,6 below the reference prices ; whereas a counterviling
                                                                      charge should therefore be introduced for these apples ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                     3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
 market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by               Community of certain agricultural products originating in
 Regulation (EC) No 3669/93 (2), and in particular the                Turkey (% as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                       1 555/84 Q, a rate of customs duty of 8 % should be rein­
                                                                      troduced ;
 Whereas Article 25a (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
 provides that, if the entry price of a product imported              1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as
 from a non-member country is alternatively above and                 amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (9), are used to
 below the reference price for five to seven consecutive              convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 market days a countervailing charge is introduced in                 and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 respect of that non-member country, save in exceptional              conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
 cases ; whereas that charge is introduced when three entry           whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
 prices fall below the reference price and one of those               tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
 entry prices is at least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ;         lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (10),
 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 the reference price for apples for the
 1993/94 marketing year (3) fixed the reference price for
 products of class I at ECU 52,73 per 100 kilograms net                                         Article 1
 for the month of March 1 994 ;
                                                                      1 . A countervailing charge of ECU 2,44 per 100 kilo­
                                                                     grams net is applied on imports of apples falling within
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is              CN code 0808 10 31 , 0808 10 33, 0808 10 39, 0808 10 51 ,
 equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic          0808 10 53,    0808 10 59,    0808 10 81 , 0808 10 83    and
 mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of             0808 10 89) originating in Turkey.
 the quantities from the exporting country concerned
which are marketed on all representative markets for                 2.     The import duty on these products is fixed at 8 % .
which prices are available less the duties and the charges
 indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is
defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 :
                                                                                                Article 2
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Regulation             This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 March 1994.
(EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 249/93 (*), the prices to be taken into                     Subject to the provisions of the second subparagraph of
consideration must be recorded on the representative                 Article 26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, this Regu­
markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets :             lation shall be applicable until 17 March 1994.
(') OJ   No  L 118, 20.  5. 1972, p. 1 .                             (6) OJ  No L 367, 23. 12. 1981 , p. 3.
(2) OJ   No  L 338, 31 . 12. 1993, p. 26.                            0 OJ    No L 150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 4.
(3) OJ   No  L 157, 29.  6. 1993, p. 8.                              (8) OJ  No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(4) OJ   No  L 220, 10.  8. 1974, p. 20.                            0 OJ     No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
0   OJ   No  L 28, 5. 2.  1993, p. 45.                              H 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, 10 March 1994.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Rene STEICHEN
                                                              Member of the Commission