CELEX: 31985R1768
Language: en
Date: 1985-06-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1768/85 of 27 June 1985 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of cherries originating in Turkey

No L 168 /24                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               28 . 6. 85
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1768/85
                                                       of 27 June 1985
              introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs
                                 duty on imports of cherries originating in Turkey
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    tion (EEC) No 3110/83 (*), the prices to be taken into
 COMMUNITIES,                                                     consideration 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 Turkish cherries, the entry price calcu­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     lated in this way has remained at least 0,6 ECU below
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                the reference price for two consecutive market days ;
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                whereas a countervailing charge should therefore be
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 332/84 (2), and in               introduced for these cherries ;
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)
thereof,
Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                     Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product           3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
imported from a third country remains at least 0,6                Community of certain agricultural products origina­
ECU below the reference price for two consecutive                 ting in Turkey (*), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
market days, a countervailing charge must be intro­               1 555/84 Q, when the Commission introduces a coun­
duced in respect of the exporting country concerned,              tervailing charge on imports of cherries originating in
save in exceptional circumstances ; whereas this charge           Turkey, at the same time it reintroduces for the
is equal to the difference between the reference price            product in question the conventional rate of customs
and the arithmetic mean of the last two entry prices              duty ; whereas, therefore, a rate of customs duty of
                                                                  1 5 % should be reintroduced for these cherries, with a
available for that exporting country ;
                                                                  minimum charge of 3 ECU per 100 kilograms net ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 784/85 of
27 March 1985 fixing the reference price for cherries
for the 1985 marketing year (3) fixed the reference               Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
price for products of class I for June 1985 at 119,45             price should be calculated on the following basis :
ECU per 100 kilograms net ;
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country                  relation to each other at any given moment within
is equal to the lowest representative price or the arith­              a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
metic mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least                  their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient
30 % of the quantities from the exporting country                      provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC)
concerned which are marketed on all representative                     No 974/71 (8), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
markets for which prices are available less the duties                 No 855/84 0,
and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of                    — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
representative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                                          these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                       in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­                 cient,
tion (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                  0   OJ   No  L 303, 5 . 11 . 1983, p. 5.
(') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .                            (6) OJ   No  L 367, 23 . 12. 1981 , p. 3 .
(2) OJ No L 130 , 16 . 5 . 1984, p. 1 .                           0   OJ   No  L 150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 4.
(3) OJ No L 88 , 28 . 3 . 1985, p. 26.                            (8) OJ   No  L 106, 12. 5. 1971 , p. 1 .
n OI No L 220 . 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .                            0   OJ   No  L 90 , 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                               2. The rate of customs duty on imports of these
                                                            products shall be 15 % with a minimum charge of 3
                       Article 1                            ECU per 100 kilograms net.
1 . A countervailing charge of 37,52 ECU per 100                                  Article 2
kilograms net is applied on imports of cherries falling
within subheading 08.07 C of the Common Customs             This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 June
Tariff originating in Turkey.                               1985 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 27 June 1985.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                        Vice-President