CELEX: 31983R2016
Language: en
Date: 1983-07-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2016/83 of 20 July 1983 introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in Spain

No L 198 /22                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             21 . 7. 83
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2016/83
                                                       of 20 July 1983
              introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in
                                                            Spain
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    consideration must be recorded on the representative
COMMUNITIES,                                                      markets or, in certain circumstances, on other
                                                                  markets ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                               Whereas, for Spanish plums of group I, the entry price
                                                                  calculated in this way has remained at least 0,6 ECU
                                                                  below the reference price for two consecutive market
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      days ; whereas a countervailing charge should therefore
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                 be introduced for these plums ;
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1738/82 (2), and in
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)              Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the
thereof,                                                          entry price should be calculated on the following
                                                                  basis :
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product                relation to each other at any given moment within
imported from a third country remains at least 0,6                    a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
ECU below the reference price for two consecutive                     their central rate ,
market days, a countervailing charge must be intro­
duced in respect of the exporting country concerned,              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
save in exceptional circumstances ; whereas this charge               arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
is equal to the difference between the reference price                these currencies recorded for a given period in
and the arithmetic mean of the last two entry prices                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
available for that exporting country ;                                in the previous indent,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1336/83
of 27 May 1983 fixing for the 1983 marketing year the
reference prices for plums (3) fixed the reference price
for class I, group I, at 61,09 ECU per 100 kilograms              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
net for the period 11 June to 31 July 1983 ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for                                  Article 1
at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­
sentative markets for which prices are available, less            A countervailing charge of 5,48 ECU per 100 kilo­
the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)           grams net is applied to plums (subheading 08.07 D of
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                      the Common Customs Tariff), of varieties other than
meaning of representative price is defined in Article             Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetschge),
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                           Reine-Claude d'Oullins (Oullins Gage), Sveske­
                                                                  blommer, Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario, Wangenheimer
                                                                  (early Wangenheim quetsche), Pershore (Yellow Egg),
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Regula­             Mirabelle and Bosniche, originating in Spain .
tion (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 3011 /81 (*), the prices to be taken into
(') OJ No   L 118,  20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                                                    Article 2
(2) OJ No   L 190,  1 . 7. 1982, p. 7.
(3) OJ No   L 139,  28 . 5. 1983, p. 24.
(4) OJ No   L 220,  10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20.
(*) OJ No   L 301 , 22. 10 . 1981 , p. 18 .                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 July 1983.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 20 July 1983 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Poul DALSAGER
                                                              Member of the Commission