CELEX: 31984R0591
Language: en
Date: 1984-03-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 591/84 of 7 March 1984 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of apples originating in Turkey

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                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 591/84
                                                        of 7 March 1984
              introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs
                                    duty on imports of apples originating in Turkey
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas, for Turkish apples, the entry price calculated
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      in this way has remained at least 0,6 ECU below the
                                                                   reference price for two consecutive market days ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             whereas a countervailing charge should therefore be
 Economic Community,                                               introduced for these apples ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                 3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
 of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                Community of certain agricultural products origina­
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2004/83 (2), and in                 ting in Turkey (*), when the Commission introduces a
 particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)              countervailing charge on imports of apples originating
 thereof,                                                          in Turkey, at the same time it reintroduces for the
                                                                   product in question the conventional rate of customs
                                                                   duty ; whereas, therefore, a rate of customs duty of
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                    8,8 % should be reintroduced for these apples, with a
 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product            minimum charge of 2,08 ECU per 1 00 kilograms net ;
 imported from a third country remains at least 0,6
 ECU below the reference price for two consecutive                 Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
 market days, a countervailing charge must be intro­               price should be calculated on the following basis :
duced in respect of the exporting country concerned,
save in exceptional circumstances ; whereas this charge            — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
is equal to the difference between the reference price                  relation to each other at any given moment within
and the arithmetic mean of the last two entry prices                    a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
available for that exporting country ;                                  their central rate,
                                                                   — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2085/83                          arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
of 26 July 1983 fixing the reference price for apples                   these currencies recorded for a given period in
for the 1983/84 marketing year (3) fixed the reference                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
price for products of class I for the month of March                    in the previous indent,
 1984 at 45,49 ECU per 100 kilograms net ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative price or the arith­          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 metic mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least
30 % of the quantities from the exporting country
concerned which are marketed on all representative                                          Article 1
markets for which prices are available less the duties
and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regula­              1 . A countervailing charge of 6,13 ECU per 100
tion (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of                     kilograms net is applied on imports of apples falling
representative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of               within subheading 08.06 A II b) of the Common
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                                      Customs Tariff originating in Turkey.
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­             2.     The rate of customs duty on imports of these
tion (EEC) No 2118/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­              products shall be 8,8 % with a minimum charge of
tion (EEC) No 3110/83 (^ the prices to be taken into               2,08 ECU per 100 kilograms net.
consideration must be recorded on the representative
markets or,     in     certain    circumstances,    on   other
markets ;                                                                                   Article 2
(') OJ  No  L 118 , 20 . 5.  1972, p. 1.                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 March
(2) OJ  No  L 198,  21 . 7.  1983, p. 2.                            1984.
(3) OJ  No  L 203 , 27. 7.   1983, p. 23.
(«) OJ  No  L 220,  10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .
O   OJ  No  L 303,  5 . 11 . 1983, p. 5.                           (*) OJ No L 367, 23. 12. 1981 , p. 3 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 7 March 1984.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Poul DALSAGER
                                                              Member of the Commission