CELEX: 31988R2763
Language: en
Date: 1988-09-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2763/88 of 5 September 1988 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of fresh lemons originating in Turkey

6. 9 . 88                                Official Journal of the European . Communities                            No L 247/9
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2763/88
                                                         of 5 September 1988
                     introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs
                                    duty on imports of fresh lemons originating in Turkey
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 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 fresh lemons originating in Turkey, the
                                                                      entry price calculated in this way has remained at least 0,6
                                                                      ECU below the reference price for two consecutive
   Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
   Portugal,                                                          therefore be introduced for these fresh lemons ;
                                                                      Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
   of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                   Community of certain agricultural products originating in
   market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by             Turkey (®), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
   Regulation (EEC) No 2238/88 (2), and in particular the              1 555/84 Q, a rate of customs duty of 4% should be
   second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                     reintroduced.
- Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
   provides that, if the entry price of a product imported            price should be calculated on the following basis :
   from a third country remains at least 0,6 ECU below the            — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
   reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­                tion to each other at any given moment within a band
   tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the                  of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
   exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­                rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in the
  stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference                 last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regulation
  between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of                   (EEC) No 1 676/85 (8), as last amended by Regulation
   the last two entry prices available for that exporting                  (EEC) No 1636/87 (9),
  country ;
                                                                      — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                           arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
  Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1386/88 of                        these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
   20 May 1988 fixing the reference price for fresh lemons                 tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
  for the 1988/89 marketing year (3) fixed the reference                   previous indent and the: aforesaid coefficient,
  price for products of class I for the month of September
   1988 at 60,24 ECU per 100 kilograms net for July and
  August 1988 and at 55,48 ECU per 100 kilograms net ;
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is
  equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic                                      Article 1
  mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of
  the quantities from the exporting country concerned                  1 . A countervailing charge of 7,10 ECU per 100 kilo­
  which are marketed on all representative markets for                grams net is applied on imports of fresh lemons falling
  which prices are available less the duties and the charges          within CN code 0805 30 10 originating in Turkey.
  indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
   1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is           2.     The import duty on these products is fixed at 4 % .
  defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
   1035/72 ;
                                                                                                  Article 2
  Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Regulation
  (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation
  (EEC) No 3811 /85 0, the prices to be taken into                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 September
                                                                      1988 .
  O   OJ  No  L 118,  20.  5. 1972, p. 1 .
  0   OJ  No  L 198,  26.  7. 1988, p. 1 .                            (*) OJ  No  L  367, 23. 12. 1981 , p. 3.
  0   OJ  No  L 128,  21 . 5. 1988, p. 21 .                           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 .
  O   OJ  No  L 368,  31 . 12. 1985, p. L                             0   OJ  No  L  153, 13. 6. 1987, 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 September 1988 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                        Vice-President