CELEX: 31993R0337
Language: en
Date: 1993-02-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 337/93 of 15 February 1993 introducing a countervailing charge on apples originating in Austria

No L 38/26                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               16. 2. 93
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 337/93
                                                    of 15 February 1993
                      introducing a countervailing charge on apples originating in Austria
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Commission
                                                                 Regulation (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by
                                                                 Regulation (EEC) No 249/93 (*), the prices to be taken
                                                                 into consideration must be recorded on the representative
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ;
Economic Community,
                                                                 Whereas, for apples originating in Austria the entry price
                                                                 calculated in this way has remained at least ECU 0,6
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and               below the reference price for two consecutive market
Portugal,                                                        days ; whereas a countervailing charge should therefore be
                                                                 introduced for these apples ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72             Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                  1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 0 are used to
market in fruit and vegetables (]), as last amended by           convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
Regulation (EEC) No 1754/92 (2), and in particular the           and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                   conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
                                                                 whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
                                                                 tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
                                                                 lation (EEC) No 3819/92Q,
Whereas Article 25 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported
from a third country remains at least ECU 0,6 below the
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of
the last two entry prices available for that exporting
country ;
                                                                                           Article 1
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1660/92 of
26 June 1992 fixing for the 1992/93 marketing year the
reference prices for apples (3) fixed the reference price for    A countervailing charge of ECU 10,83 per 100 kilograms
products of Quality class I at ECU 50,44 per 100 kilo­           net is applied to apples (CN codes 0808 10 31 ,
                                                                 0808 10 33,     0808 10 39,       0808 10 51 , 0808 10 53,
grams net for the month of February 1993 ;
                                                                 0808 10 59, 0808 10 81 , 0808 10 83 and 0808 10 89) origi­
                                                                 nating in Austria.
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is
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                                         Article 2
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         This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 February
is defined in Article 24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No                1993 .
1035/72 :
                                                                 (4) OJ  No L 220, 10.  8. 1974, p. 20.
(') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                             O   OJ  No L 28, 5. 2. 1993, p. 45.
0 OJ No L 180, 1 . 7. 1992, p. 23.                               O   OJ  No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
O OJ No L 172, 27. 6. 1992, p. 57.                               O   OJ  No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 17.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 15 February 1993.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Rene STEICHEN
                                                             Member of the Commission