CELEX: 31990R2373
Language: en
Date: 1990-08-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2373/90 of 13 August 1990 introducing a countervailing charge on table grapes originating in Cyprus

14. 8 . 90                            Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 219/41
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2373/90
                                                    of 13 August 1990
                  introducing a countervailing charge on table grapes originating in Cyprus
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1) of Regulation
                                                                 (EEC) No 21 18/74 of the Commission (*), as last amended
                                                                 by Regulation (EEC) No 3811 /85 (*), the prices to be
                                                                 taken into consideration must be recorded on the repre­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            sentative markets or, in certain circumstances, on other
Economic Community,                                              markets ;
                                                                 Whereas, for table grapes originating in Cyprus the entry
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and               price calculated in this way has remained at least ECU 0,6
Portugal,                                                        below the reference price for two consecutive market
                                                                 days ; whereas a countervailing charge should therefore be
                                                                 introduced for these table grapes ;
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of the
Council of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of             Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the entry
the market in fruit and vegetables (l), as last amended by       price should be calculated on the following basis :
Regulation (EEC) No 1 193/90 (2), and in particular the
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
                                                                      of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
                                                                      rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
Whereas Article 25 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported               tion (EEC) No 1676/85 f), as last amended by Regula­
from a third country remains at least ECU 0,6 below the               tion (EEC) No 2205/90 (8),
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­              arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference              these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of                tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
the last two entry prices available for that exporting                previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient,
country ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 891 /90 of 6
April 1990 fixing for the 1990 marketing year the                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
reference prices for table grapes (3) fixed the reference
price for products of class I at ECU 51,92 per 100 kilo­
grams net for the period 20 July to 31 August 1990 ;
whereas this price was adjusted by Commission Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1484/90 (4) ;                                                                    Article 1
                                                                 A countervailing charge of ECU 1,40 per 100 kilograms
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is         net is applied to table grapes (CN codes 0806 10 15 and
equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for at        0806 10 19) originating in Cyprus.
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)                                    Article 2
No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price
is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 ;                                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 5 August 1 990.
(') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                             (0  OJ   No L  220,  10.  8 . 1974, p. 20.
V) OJ No L 119, 11 . 5. 1990, p. 43.                             («) OJ   No L  368,  31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .
(3) OJ Np L 92, 7. 4. 1990, p. 33.                               O   OJ   No L  164,  24.  6. 1985, p. 1 .
(4) OJ No L 140, 1 . 6. 1990, p. 90.                             (») OJ   No L  201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 13 August 1990.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                               Member of the Commission