CELEX: 31988R1259
Language: en
Date: 1988-05-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1259/88 of 6 May 1988 introducing a countervailing charge on courgettes originating in Spain (except the Canary Islands)

No L 119/30                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   7. 5. 88
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1259/88
                                                        of 6 May 1988
                 introducing a countervailing charge on courgettes originating in Spain (except
                                                     the Canary Islands)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       (EEC) No 3811 /85 (*), the prices to be taken into
                                                                  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 courgettes originating in Spain (except the
                                                                  Canary Islands) the entry price calculated in this way has
                                                                  remained at least 0,6 ECU below the reference price for
                                                                  two consecutive market days ; whereas a countervailing
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and               charge should therefore be introduced for these cour­
Portugal,
                                                                  gettes ;
                                                                                                                  /
                                                                  Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the entry
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72              price should be calculated on the following basis :
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1117/88 (2), and in particular the                 tion to each other at any given moment within a band
second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                         of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
                                                                       rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
                                                                       the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
                                                                       tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (*), as amended by Regulation
Whereas Article 25 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                (EEC) No 1636/87 0,
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported
from a third country remains at least 0,6 ECU below the           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­               arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the                 these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­               tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference               previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient,
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of
the last two entry prices available for that exporting            Whereas, pursuant to Article 136(2) of the Act of Acces­
country ;                                                         sion of Spain and Portugal (8), the arrangements applicable
                                                                  to trade between, on the one hand, a new Member State
                                                                  and, on the other, the Community as constituted at 31
                                                                  December 1985, must be those which were applicable
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 825/88 of 29               before accession ;
March 1988 fixing for the 1988 marketing year the
reference prices for courgettes (3) fixed the reference price     Whereas Article 140(1 ) provides for a 4% reduction in
for products of class I for the month of May 1988 at 62,49        the countervailing charges applicable under Regulation
ECU per 1 00 kilograms net ;                                      (EEC) No 1035/72 during the second year after accession,
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
equal to the lowest representative 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 Regulation (EEC)
No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price
                                                                  A countervailing charge of 5,58 ECU per 100 kilograms
                                                                  net is applied to courgettes (CN code 0709 90 70) origin­
is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 ;
                                                                  ating in Spain (except the Canary Islands).
                                                                                               Article 2               >
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation              This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 May 1988 .
(') OJ No  L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                             (^) OJ   No L  368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No  L 107, 28. 4. 1988, p. 1 .                             («) OJ   No L  164, 24.  6. 1985, p. 1 .
0   OJ No  L 85, 30. 3. 1988, p. 6.                               0   OJ   No L  153, 13.  6. 1987, p. 1 .
0   OJ No  L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20 .                           (8) OJ   No L  302, 15.  11 . 1985, p. 9.
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         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States .
         Done at Brussels, 6 May 1988 .
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                 Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                    Vice-President