CELEX: 31988R0204
Language: en
Date: 1988-01-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 204/88 of 25 January 1988 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of fresh clementines originating in Turkey

No L 20/22                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 26. 1 . 88
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 204/88
                                                       of 25 January 1988
                 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs
                             duty on imports of fresh Clementines originating in Turkey
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas, for Clementines originating in Turkey, the entry
                                                                    price calculated in this way has remained at least 0,6 ECU
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               below the reference price for two consecutive market
Economic Community,                                                 days ; whereas a countervailing charge should therefore be
                                                                    introduced for these Clementines ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
Portugal,                                                           3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
                                                                    Community of certain agricultural products originating in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               Turkey (*), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                    1 555/84 Q, a rate of customs duty of 8 % should be re­
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by              introduced for these Clementines ;
Regulation (EEC) No 3910/87 (2), and in particular the
second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                     Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
                                                                    price should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported                  tion to each other at any given moment within a band
from a third country remains at least 0,6 ECU below the                  of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­                 rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in the
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the                   last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regulation
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­                 (EEC) No 1 676/85 (8), as last amended by Regulation
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference                 (EEC) No 1636/87 (9),
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of
the last two entry prices available for that exporting             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
country ;
                                                                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
                                                                         these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
                                                                         tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3478/87 of                        previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient,
19 November 1987 fixing the reference price for Clemen­
tines for the 1987/88 marketing year (3) fixed the
reference price for products of class I for the period from
1 December 1987 to 29 February 1988 at 59,57 ECU per                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
100 kilograms net ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is                                        Article 1
equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic
mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of
the quantities from the exporting country concerned                 1 . A countervailing charge of 21,68 ECU per 100 kilo- »
which are marketed on all representative markets for               grams net is applied on imports of fresh Clementines
which prices are available less the duties and the charges          falling within subheading 08.02 B I of the Common
indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No                  Customs Tariff and subheading 0805 20 10 of the
1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is           combined nomenclature originating in Turkey.
defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 ;                                                           2.     The import duty on these products is fixed at 8 % .
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation
                                                                                                Article 2
(EEC) No 381 1 /85 0, the prices to be taken into
consideration must be recorded on the representative
markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ;           This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 January
                                                                    1988 .
(') OJ  No L 118, 20.  5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No L 370, 30.  12. 1987, p. 33.                            («) OJ    No L  367, 23. 12. 1981 , p. 3.
(3  OJ  No L 329, 20.  11 . 1987, p. 35.                           0   OJ    No L  150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 4.
(4) OJ  No L 220,  10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.                            (8) OJ    No L  164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L 368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .                            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, 25 January 1988 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                      Vice-President