CELEX: 31992R1619
Language: en
Date: 1992-06-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1619/92 of 24 June 1992 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of tomatoes originating in Turkey

No L 170/26                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                25. 6. 92
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1619/92
                                                       of 24 June 1992
                 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs
                                  duty on imports of tomatoes originating in Turkey
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices with the
                                                                  coefficient fixed in the third indent of Article 1 (2) (a) of
                                                                  Regulation (EEC) No 655/92 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas, for Turkish tomatoes, the entry price calculated
                                                                  in this way has remained at least ECU 0,6 below the
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                reference price for two consecutive market days ; whereas
Portugal,                                                         a countervailing charge should therefore be introduced for
                                                                  these tomatoes ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                  Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by            3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
Regulation (EEC) No 11 56/92 (2), and in particular the           Community of certain agricultural products originating in
second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                    Turkey (6), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                  1 555/84 f), when the Commission introduces a counter­
                                                                  vailing charge on imports of tomatoes originating in
Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72             Turkey, at the same time it reintroduces for the product
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported           in question the conventional rate of customs duty ;
from a third country remains at least ECU 0,6 below the           whereas, therefore, a rate of customs duty of 1 8 % should
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­          be reintroduced for these tomatoes, with a minimum
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the            charge of ECU 3,5 per 100 kilograms net ;
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of            Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
the last two entry prices available for that exporting            price should be calculated on the following basis :
country ;
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                       tion to each other at any given moment within a band
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 655/92 of 16                    of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
March 1992 fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the             rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in the
 1992 ; marketing year (3) fixed the reference price for               last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regulation
products of class I for the month of June 1992 at ECU                  (EEC) No 1 676/85 (8), as last amended by Regulation
99,96 per 100 kilograms net ;                                          (EEC) No 2205/90 O,
                                                                  — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is               average of the ecu rates published in the Official
equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic            Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of                a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
the quantities from the exporting country concerned                    cient referred to in the preceding indent,
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) No
 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is
defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 1035/72 ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Commission                                      Article 1
Regulation (EEC) No 21 1 8/74 (4), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 381 1 /85 (*), the prices to be taken
into consideration must be recorded on the representative          1 . A countervailing charge of ECU 24,31 per 100 kilo­
markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ;          grams net is applied on imports of tomatoes falling
                                                                  within CN code 0702 00 originating in Turkey.
(■) OJ  No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L 122, 7. J. 1992, p. 3.                               («) OJ   No L  367,  23. 12. 1981 , p. 3.
(3) OJ  No L 70, 17. 3. 1992, p. 10.                              0   OJ   No L  150,  6. 6. 1984, p. 4.
(4) OJ  No L 220, 10. 8. 1974, p. 20.                             (■) OJ   No L  164,  24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L 368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .                           0   OJ   No L  201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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2. The rate of customs duty on imports of these                                        Article 2
products shall be 18 % with a minimum charge of ECU
3,5 per 100 kilograms net from 15 May 1992.                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 June 1992.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 24 June 1992.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                    Member of the Commission