CELEX: 31989R1925
Language: en
Date: 1989-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1925/89 of 30 June 1989 fixing countrevailing charges on seeds

No L 187/24                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                  1 . 7. 89
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1925/89
                                                         of 30 June 1989
                                            fixing countervailing charges on seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         insignificant quantities for which they are made are to be
                                                                    disregarded for the purpose of calculating these prices ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                 Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     1665/72, an adjustment must be made in the case of price
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                   information relating to a stage other than free-at-
Portugal,                                                            Community-frontier ; whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71                 that Regulation, the countervailing charge must be
of 26 October 1971 on the common organization of the                 amended where a significant variation in the free-at-
market in seeds ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)             frontier offer price is recorded ;
No 1239/89 (2), and in particular Article 6 (5) thereof,             Whereas, as a result of the application of the aforemen­
Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71                 tioned provisions to the information currently available to
provides that where the free-at-frontier offer price, plus           the Commission, the countervailing charge in respect of
customs duties, for a type of hybrid maize and hybrid                certain types of hybrid is to be fixed at the amounts
sorgum for sowing and coming from a non-member                       indicated in the Annex to this Regulation ;
country, is lower than the corresponding reference price, a          Whereas, consequently, Commission Regulation (EEC)
countervailing charge on hybrid maize and hybrid                     No 2310/88 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
sorghum shall be levied on imports of the hybrid from                 1520/89 (*), which fixed the countervailing charges for the
that country, subject to obligations resulting from binding          preceding period, should be repealed ;
under GATT ; whereas the countervailing charge is equal
to the difference between the reference price and the                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
free-at-frontier price plus customs duties ;                         in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                     Committee for Seeds,
Whereas the reference prices for the 1989/90 marketing
year for hybrid maize and hybrid sorgum for sowing were
fixed in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1950/89 (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 1 665/72 (4); whereas
Article 3 of the same Regulation provides that the                                             Article 2
free-at-frontier offer prices for each country of provenance
shall be determined from the most favourable purchasing               Regulation (EEC) No 2310/88 is hereby repealed.
opportunities for the products in question calculated in
accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of the Regulation ;                                           Article 3
whereas information on offers which have no economic
 effect on the market in particular because of the                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1989.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 30 June 1989.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                           Member of the Commission
 (') OJ  No L 246,  5. 11 . 1971 , p. 1 .
 O   OJ  No L 128 , 11 . 5. 1989, p. 35.
 (3) See page 96 of this Official Journal.                            0 OJ No L 201 , 27. 7. 1988, p. 77.
 (<) OJ  No L 175,  2. 8. 1972, p. 49.                                (•) OJ No L 148, 1 . 6. 1989, p. 56.
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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 (*)
                    1005 10 11                   9,3                    048
                                                13,6                    064
                                                13,8                    404
                                                41,4                    400
                                                41,4                        1
                    1005 10 13                  21,7                    062
                                                25,5                    064
                                                26,0                    068
                                                40,5                    066
          !                                     40,5                       2
                    100510 15                   14,1                    404
                                                16,1                    064
                                                16,3                     038
                                                24,1                    048
                                                38,0                     066
                                                38,0                       3
                                            ANNEX II
               Countervailing charge on hybrid sorghum for sowing
                                                                         (ECU/100 kg)
                                             Amount of
                     CN code                countervailing           Country of
                                               charge                 origin (2)
                    1007 00 10                  15,3                     400
            (') The countervailing charge may not exceed 4 % of the customs valuer
                In the case of Spain and Portugal it may not exceed the rate obtained
                by alignment on the CCT in accordance with the timetable specified in
                the Act of Accession.
            (2) Origin identification :
                   1 Other countries with the exception of Romania, Austria and Chile
                  2 Other countries with the exception of Canada, Chile, Japan,
                      Austria, Argentina, the United States and Yugoslavia
                  3 Other countries with the exception of Bulgaria, Austria, the United
                     States, Chile, Argentina and South Africa
                038 Austria
                048 Yugoslavia
                062 Czechoslovakia
                064 Hungary
                066 Romania
                068 Bulgaria
                400 the United States
                404 Canada.