CELEX: 31989R1690
Language: en
Date: 1989-06-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1690/89 of 14 June 1989 introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in Spain (except the Canary Islands)

No L 164/38                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                  15. 6. 89
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1690/89
                                                         of 14 June 1989
                 introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in
                                                Spain (except the Canary Islands)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         reference price for two consecutive market days ; whereas
                                                                    a countervailing charge should therefore be introduced for
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               these plums ;
Economic Community,
                                                                    Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the entry
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  price should be calculated on the following basis :
Portugal,                                                           — in the case of Currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                         tion to each other at any given moment within a band
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                     of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                         rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by                   Article 3 (1 ) last paragraph of Regulation (EEC) No
Regulation (EEC) No 11 19/89 (2), and in particular the                  1676/85 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
first subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                             1636/87 0,
                                                                    — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Whereas Article 25 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported                  these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
from a third country remains at least 0,6 ECU below the                  tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­                 previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient,
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­            Whereas, pursuant to Article 136 (2) of the Act of Acces­
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference            sion (8), the arrangements applicable to trade between, on
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of               the one hand, a new Member State and, on the other, the
the last two entry prices available for that exporting              Community as constituted at 31 December 1985, must be
country ;                                                           those which were applicable before accession ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 916/89 of 10                 Whereas Article 140 (1 ) provides for a 8 % reduction in
April 1989 fixing for the 1989 marketing year the                    the countervailing charges applicable under Regulation
reference prices for plums (3) fixed the reference price for        (EEC) No 1035/72 during the fourth year after accession ;
class I, group I, at 69,39 ECU per 100 kilograms net for
the period from 11 June to 31 August 1989 ;                          Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                     in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is             Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
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                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
markets for 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                                       Article 1
is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 ;                                                            A countervailing charge of 3,46 ECU per 100 kilograms
                                                                     net is applied to plums (CN code 0809 40 1 1 and
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Regulation             0809 40 19), of varieties other than the following : Altesse
(EEC) No 21 1 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation                simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetschge), Reine-Claude
(EEC) No 3811 /85 (*), the prices to be taken into conside­          d'Oullins (Oullins Gage), Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gerstetter,
ration must be recorded on the representative markets or,            Ontario, Wangenheimer (early Wangenheim quetsche),
in certain circumstances, on other markets ;                         Pershore (Yellow Egg), Mirabelle and Bosniche, origina­
                                                                     ting in Spain (except the Canary Islands).
Whereas, for plums of group I originating in Spain
(except the Canary Islands), the entry price calculated in                                     Article 2
this way has remained at least 0,6 ECU below the
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 June 1989.
(') OJ  No  L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L 118 , 29 . 4. 1989, p. 12.
(3) OJ  No  L 97, 11 . 4. 1989, p. 11 .                              (6) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No  L 220, 10. 8. 1974, p. 20.                               0 OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No  L 368 , 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .                            (*) 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, 14 June 1989.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                              Member of the Commission