CELEX: 31985R1541
Language: en
Date: 1985-06-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1541/85 of 5 June 1985 introducing a countervailing charge on apricots originating in Spain

No L 147/28                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              6. 6. 85
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1541 /85
                                                          of 5 June 1985
                      introducing a countervailing charge on apricots originating in Spain
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     tion (EEC) No 31 10/83 (*), 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 Spanish apricots, the entry price calcu­
                                                                     lated in this way has remained at least 0,6 ECU below
                                                                     the reference price for two consecutive market days ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       whereas a countervailing charge should therefore be
  1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                  introduced for these apricots ;
 of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1332/84 (2), and in                  Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the
 particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)                entry price should be calculated on the following
 thereof,                                                            basis :
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 Whereas Article 25 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                          relation to each other at any given moment within
  1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product                 a band of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on
 imported from a third country remains at least 0,6                      their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient
 ECU below the reference price for two consecutive                       provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC)
 market days, a countervailing charge must be intro­                     No 974/71 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
 duced in respect of the exporting country concerned,                    No 855/84 0,
 save in exceptional circumstances ; whereas this charge
 is equal to the difference between the reference price             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 and the arithmetic mean of the last two entry prices                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
 available for that exporting country ;                                  these currencies recorded over a given period in
                                                                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                         in the previous indent, and the aforesaid coeffi­
                                                                         cient,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 783/85 of
 27 March 1985 fixing for the 1985 marketing year the
 reference prices for apricots (3) fixed the reference price
 for products of class I for the period 1 to 10 June 1985
 at 103,30 ECU per 100 kilograms net ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
 is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for
                                                                                             Article 1
at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­
sentative markets for which prices are available less the           A countervailing charge of 37,49 ECU per 100 kilo­
duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of               grams net is applied to apricots (subheading 08.07 A of
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning                   the Common Customs Tariff) originating in Spain.
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 Regula­
tion (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regula
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 June 1985.
(') OJ  No  L  118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L  130, 16. 5. 1984, p. 1 .                             0 OJ No L 303, 5. 11 . 1983, p. 5.
(3) OJ  No  L  88 , 28 . 3 . 1985, p. 24.                           («) OJ No L 106, 12. 5. 1971 , p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No  L  220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.                            0 OJ No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .
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         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States.
         Done at Brussels, 5 June 1985.
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                 Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                    Vice-President