CELEX: 31990R1850
Language: en
Date: 1990-06-30
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1850/90 of 29 June 1990 fixing countervailing charges on seeds

No L 168/38                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                30 . 6 . 90
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1850/90
                                                         of 29 June 1990
                                            fixing countervailing charges on seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         whereas information on offers which have no economic
                                                                    effect on the market in particular because of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               insignificant quantities for which they are made are to be
Economic Community,                                                 disregarded for the purpose of calculating these prices ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No
Portugal,                                                            1665/72, an adjustment must be made in the case of price
                                                                    information relating to a stage other than free-at-
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71                Community-frontier ; whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of
of 26 October 1971 on the common organization of the                that Regulation, the countervailing charge must be
market in seeds ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)            amended where a significant variation in the free-at-
No 1239/89 (2), and in particular Article 6 (5) thereof,            frontier offer price is recorded ;
Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71                Whereas, as a result of the application of the aforemen­
provides that where the free-at-frontier offer price, plus          tioned provisions to the information currently available to
customs duties, for a type of hybrid maize and hybrid               the Commission, the countervailing charge in respect of
sorgum for sowing and coming from a non-member                      certain types of hybrid is to be fixed at the amounts
country, is lower than the corresponding reference price, a         indicated in the Annex to this Regulation ;
countervailing charge on hybrid maize and hybrid
sorghum shall be levied on imports of the hybrid from               Whereas, consequently, Commission Regulation (EEC)
that country, subject to obligations resulting from binding          No 1925/89 (<■), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
under GATT ; whereas the countervailing charge is equal              1162/90 0, which fixed the countervailing charges for the
to the difference between the reference price and the                preceding period, should be repealed ;
free-at-frontier price plus customs duties ;                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                     in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Whereas the reference prices for the 1990/91 marketing               Committee for Seeds,
year for hybrid maize and hybrid sorgum for sowing were
fixed in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1849/90 (3) ;                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the free-at-frontier offer prices for each
                                                                                               Article 1
country of provenance are determined using all
available relevant information ; whereas such relevant               The countervailing charges on seeds are fixed as shown in
information is defined in Article 1 (1 ), (2) and (3) of             the Annexes hereto.
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1665/72 (4), amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 281 1 /86 0 ; whereas Article 3 of                                      Article 2
the same Regulation provides that the free-at-frontier
offer prices for each country of provenance shall be                 Regulation (EEC) No 1925/89 is hereby repealed.
determined      from    the   most      favourable   purchasing                                Article 3
opportunities for the products in question calculated in
accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of the Regulation ;                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1990.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 29 June 1990.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                           Member of the Commission
 (>) OJ No L 246, 5. 11 . 1971 , p. 1 .
 (2) OJ No L 128, 11 . 5. 1989, p. 35.
 (3) See page 36 of this Official Journal.
 (<) OJ No L 175, 2. 8. 1972, p. 49.                                  (*) OJ No L 187, 1 . 7. 1989, p. 24.
 (*) OJ No L 260, 12. 9. 1986, p. 8.                                  0 OJ No L 116, 8 . 5. 1990, p. 16.
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                                            ANNEX I
                  Countervailing charge on hybrid maize for sowing
                                                                          (ECU/100 kg)
                                             Amount of
                      CN code               countervailing            Country of
                                              charge (')               origin (2)
                    1005 10 11                  13,8                     404
                                                14,34                    064
           l                                    15,8                     048
           l                                    31,8                     400
                                                32,4                     066
                                                32,4                         1
                    1005 10 13                    0,7                    512
                                                 16,9                    048
                                                21,6                     0 66
                                                21,7                     062
                                                26,0                     068
                                                27,1                     064
           l                                    45,5                     528
                                                45,5                        2
                    1005 10 15                    2,9                    064
                                                38,8                     346
           \                                    42,3                     066
                                                42,4                     388
                                                77,2                     404
           I                                    80,9                     528
                                                87,3                     048
                                               130,8                     052
                                               130,8                        3
             (') The countervailing charge may not exceed 4 % of the customs value.
                 In the case of Spain it may not exceed the rate obtained by alignment
                 on the Common Customs Tariff in accordance with the timetable
                 specified in the Act of Accession.
             (2) Origin identification :
                   1 Other countries with the exception of Austria and Chile
                   2 Other countries with the exception of Canada, Japan, Austria and
                       the United States
                   3 Other countries with the exception of Bulgaria, Austria, the United
                      States and Chile
                 048 Yugoslavia
                 052 Turkey
                 062 Czechoslovakia
                 064 Hungary
                 066 Romania
                 068 Bulgaria
                 346 Kenya
                 388  South Africa
                 400  the United States
                 404  Canada
                 512  Chile
                 528 Argentina
                                            ANNEX II
                Countervailing charge on hybrid sorghum for sowing
                                                                          (ECU/100 kg)
                                             Amount of
                      CN code               countervailing            Country of
                                               charge                  origin (')
                     1007 00 10                  14,7                     064
             (') Origin identification :
                 064 Hungary