CELEX: 31993R2343
Language: en
Date: 1993-08-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2343/93 of 23 August 1993 introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of prunes originating in Hungary

No L 213/ 12                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                  24. 8 . 93
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2343/93
                                                       of 23 August 1993
                   introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of prunes originating in
                                                             Hungary
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        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 these prunes originating in Hungary the
 Economic Community,                                                entry prices calculated in this way have for six consecutive
                                                                    market days been alternatively above and below the
                                                                    reference price ; whereas three of these entry prices are at
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               least ECU 0,6 below the reference prices ; whereas a
 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                  countervailing charge should therefore be introduced for
 market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by             these prunes ;
 Regulation (EEC) No 638/93 (2), and in particular the
 second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,
                                                                   Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                    1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (6) are used to
                                                                    convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 Whereas Article 25a ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72           and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 provides that, if the entry price of a product imported            conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
 from a non-member country is alternatively above and              whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
 below the reference price for five to seven consecutive            tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
 market days a countervailing charge is introduced in               lation (EEC) No 3819/92 (7),
 respect of that non-member country, save in exceptional
 cases ; whereas that charge is introduced when three entry
 prices fall below the reference price and one of those
 entry prices is at least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ;
 whereas that charge is equal to the difference between the
 reference price and the last available entry price by at           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1429/93 of                                             Article 1
 10 June 1993 fixing for the 1993/94 marketing year the
 reference prices for prunes (3) fixed the reference price for
 products of class I of Group I at ECU 69,39 per 100 kilo­
grams net for the month of August 1 993 ;
                                                                   A countervailing charge of ECU 19,78 per 100 kilograms
                                                                   net is applied to plums (CN codes 0809 40 1 1 and
                                                                   0809 40 19), other than the following varieties : Altesse
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is           simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetschge), Reine-Claude
equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for at          d'Oullins (Oullins Gage), Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gerstetter,
least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting country            Ontario, Wangenheimer (early Wangenheim quetsche),
concerned which are marketed on all representative                 Pershore (Yellow Egg), Mirabelle and Bosnische origina­
markets for which prices are available less the duties and         ting in Hungary.
the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
 No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price
is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 ;
                                                                                             Article 2
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Commission           This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 August 1993 .
Regulation (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 249/93 (*), the prices to be taken             Subject to the provisions of the second subparagraph of
                                                                   Article 26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, this Regu­
(■) OJ   No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                             lation shall be applicable until 30 August 1993.
(2) OJ   No L 69, 20. 3. 1993, p. 7.
(3) OJ   No L 140, 11 . 6. 1993, p. 23 .
(4) OJ  No  L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20 .                           (6) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(Ó OJ No L 28, 5. 2. 1993, p. 45.                                  0 OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 23 August 1993.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Rene STEICHEN
                                                             Member of the Commission