CELEX: 31998R2853
Language: en
Date: 1998-12-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2853/98 of 30 December 1998 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

31. 12. 98             EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 358/57
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2853/98
                                                   of 30 December 1998
                   establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain
                                                    fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas, in compliance with the above criteria, the stand-
                                                                   ard import values must be fixed at the levels set out in the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Annex to this Regulation;
Community,
                                                                   Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1103/
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 3223/               97 of 17 June 1997 on certain provisions relating to the
94 of 21 December 1994 on detailed rules for the applica-          introduction of the euro (5) provides that, as from 1
tion of the import arrangements for fruit and veget-               January 1999, all references to the ecu in legal instru-
ables (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1498/             ments are to be replaced by references to the euro at the
98 (2), and in particular Article 4 (1) thereof,                   rate of EUR 1 to ECU 1,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92
of 28 December 1992 on the unit of account and the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
conversion rates to be applied for the purposes of the
common agricultural policy (3), as last amended by Regu-                                      Article 1
lation (EC) No 150/95 (4), and in particular Article 3 (3)
thereof,                                                           The standard import values referred to in Article 4 of
                                                                   Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 shall be fixed as indicated in
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 lays down,                      the Annex hereto.
pursuant to the outcome of the Uruguay Round multilat-
eral trade negotiations, the criteria whereby the Commis-                                     Article 2
sion fixes the standard values for imports from third
countries, in respect of the products and periods stipu-           This Regulation shall enter into force on 31 December
lated in the Annex thereto;                                        1998.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 30 December 1998.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Karel VAN MIERT
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(1) OJ  L  337, 24. 12. 1994, p. 66.
(2) OJ  L  198, 15. 7. 1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ  L  387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.
(4) OJ  L  22, 31. 1. 1995, p. 1.                                  (5) OJ L 162, 19. 6. 1997, p. 1.
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                                                           ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 30 December 1998 establishing the standard import values
                           for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
                                                                                                          (ECU/100 kg)
                                                             Third country                    Standard import
                            CN code
                                                                 code (1)                           value
                          0702 00 00                               052                              108,8
                                                                   204                               62,8
                                                                   999                               85,8
                          0709 90 70                               052                               87,9
                                                                   204                               90,0
                                                                   999                               89,0
             0805 10 10, 0805 10 30, 0805 10 50                    052                               55,0
                                                                   204                               39,2
                                                                   220                               30,5
                                                                   999                               41,6
                          0805 20 10                               052                               80,9
                                                                   204                               56,8
                                                                   999                               68,9
            0805 20 30, 0805 20 50, 0805 20 70,
                          0805 20 90                               052                               63,1
                                                                   999                               63,1
                          0805 30 10                               052                               60,3
                                                                   600                               68,0
                                                                   999                               64,1
             0808 10 20, 0808 10 50, 0808 10 90                    052                               64,5
                                                                   400                               78,3
                                                                   404                               66,6
                                                                   999                               69,8
                          0808 20 50                               052                              127,1
                                                                   064                               52,5
                                                                   400                               96,2
                                                                   720                               66,2
                                                                   999                               85,5
         (1) Country nomenclature as fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2317/97 (OJ L 321, 22. 11. 1997, p. 19). Code
             ‘999' stands for ‘of other origin'.