CELEX: 31988R1553
Language: en
Date: 1988-06-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1553/88 of 3 June 1988 introducing a countervailing charge on apricots originating in Spain (except the Canary Islands)

4. 6 . 88
No L 139/34                            Official Journal of the European Communities
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1553/88
                                                       of 3 June 1988
                 introducing a countervailing charge on apricots originating in Spain (except the
                                                       Canary Islands)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       (EEC) No 3811 /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             Whereas, for apricots originating in Spain (except the
Economic Community,
                                                                  Canary Islands) the entry price calculated in this way has
                                                                  remained at least 0,6 ECU below the reference price for
                                                                  two consecutive market days ; whereas a countervailing
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                charge should therefore be introduced for these apricots ;
Portugal,
                                                                  Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the entry
                                                                  price should be calculated on the following basis :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by                  tion to each other at any given moment within a band
Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 17/88 (2), and in particular the                of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                          rate, multiplied by the corrective, factor provided for in
                                                                        the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
                                                                        tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (*), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                        tion (EEC) No 1636/87Q,
Whereas Article 25 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported            — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
from a third country remains at least 0,6 ECU below the                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­                these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the                  tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­                previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient,
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of             Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 36 (2) of the Act of Acces­
the last two entry prices available for that exporting             sion of Spain and Portugal (8), the arrangements applicable
country ;
                                                                   to trade between, on the one hand, a new Member State
                                                                   and, on the other, the Community as constituted at 31
                                                                   December 1985, must be those which were applicable
                                                                   before accession ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 828/88 of 29
March 1988 fixing for the 1988 marketing year the                  Whereas Article 140 (1 ) provides for a 4 % reduction in
 reference prices for apricots (3) fixed the reference price       the countervailing charges applicable under Regulation
 for products of class I for the period from 1 to 10 June          (EEC) No 1035/72 during the second year after accession,
 1988 at 106,26 ECU per 100 kilograms net ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for at
 least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting country
 concerned which are marketed on all representative                                              Article 1
 markets for which prices are available less the duties and
 the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC)       A countervailing charge of 31,46 ECU per 100 kilograms
 No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price           net is applied to apricots (CN code 0809 10 00) origin­
 is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                ating in Spain (except the Canary Islands).
 1035/72 ;
                                                                                                 Article 2
 Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation
 (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation               This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 June 1988.
 (') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                               0   OJ  No  L  368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .
 I1) OJ No L 107, 28. 4. 1988, p. 1 .                               («) OJ  No  L  164, 24.  6. 1985, p. 1 .
 (3) OJ No L 85, 30. 3. 1988, p. 12.                                O   OJ  No  L  153, 13.  6. 1987, p. 1 .
 (*) OJ No L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.                              (8) OJ  No  L  302, 15.  11 . 1985, p. 9.
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         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States.
         Done at Brussels, 3 June 1988 .
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                 Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                    Vice-President