CELEX: 31986R0525
Language: en
Date: 1986-02-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 525/86 of 27 February 1986 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in the Canary Islands

28 . 2. 86                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 51 /71
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 525/86
                                                         of 27 February 1986
                     introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in the Canary
                                                                Islands
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          eration 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 cucumbers originating in the Canary Islands
                                                                        the entry prices calculated in this way have for five conse­
                                                                        cutive market days been alternatively above and below the
   Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                   reference price ; whereas three of these entry prices are at
  Portugal,                                                             least 0,6 ECU below the reference prices ; whereas a
                                                                        countervailing charge should therefore be introduced for
                                                                        these cucumbers ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
  of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the
  market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by               Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the entry
  Regulation (EEC) No 3768/85 (2), and in particular the               price should be calculated on the following basis :
  second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                            tion to each other at any given moment within a band
  Whereas Article 25a ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                  of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
  provides that, if the entry price of a product imported                   rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
  from a non-member country is alternatively above and                      the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­
  below the reference price for five to seven consecutive                   tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (<),
  market days a countervailing charge is introduced in                 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
  respect of that non-member country, save in exceptional                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
  cases ; whereas that charge is introduced when three entry                these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
  prices fall below the reference price and one of those                    tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
  entry prices is at least 0,6 ECU below the reference price ;              previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
 whereas that charge is equal to the difference between the
  reference price and the last available entry price by at
 least 0,6 ECU below the reference price ;                             Whereas, in accordance with Article 1 (5) of Protocol 2 to
                                                                       the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal f), the
                                                                       Community must apply in its trade with the Canary
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 237/86 of 3                    Islands, for products covered by Annex II to the EEC
 February 1986 fixing for the 1986 marketing year the                 Treaty, the general arrangements which it applies in its
 reference prices for cucumbers (3) fixed the reference price          foreign trade ;
 for products of class I for January 1986 at 122,42 ECU
 per 100 kilograms net for the period of 21 to 28 February            Whereas, in accordance with Article 4 of the said
  1986 ;                                                               Protocol, the products, including cucumbers, specified in
                                                                      Annex A to the Prtotocol, qualify for preferential arrange­
 Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is              ments, subject to the tariff quota opened by way of
 equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for at             Community Regulation (EEC) No 3806/85 (8) ;
 least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting country
 concerned which are marketed on all representative
 markets for which prices are available less the duties and
 the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC)           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price
 is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 ;
                                                                                                 Article 1
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation
                                                                      A countervailing charge shall be applied as follows in the
(EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation                  case of imports of cucumbers (subheading 07.01 P I of the
(EEC) No 381 1 /85(0, the prices to be taken into consid­             Common Customs Tariff) originating in the Canary
                                                                      Islands :
(') OJ   No  L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No  L 362, 31 .  12. 1985, p. 8 .
0   OJ   No  L 29, 4. 2.   1986, p. 15.                               (*) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(4) OJ   No  L 220, 10 .  8 . 1974, p. 20 .                           0 OJ No L 302, 15. 11 . 1985, p . 9 .
O   OJ   No  L 368 , 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .                             8) OJ No L 367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 44.
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— 14,39 ECU per 100 kg net in respect of a total quan­       In all cases the countervailing charge shall not be applied
  tity not exceeding that of the tariff quota opened by      in respect of imports into Spain within the tariff quota
  way of Regulation (EEC) No 3806/85 ;                       opened by way of Regulation (EEC) No 3806/85.
                                                                                       Article 2
— 14,68 ECU for all other quantities.                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 March 1986.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 27 February 1986.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                           Vice-President