CELEX: 31987R1574
Language: en
Date: 1987-06-05
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1574/87 of 4 June 1987 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of tomatoes originating in Turkey

No L 145/ 54                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                   5. 6. 87
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1574/87
                                                         of 4 June 1987
                 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs
                                  duty on imports of tomatoes originating in Turkey
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        in certain circumstances, on other markets ; whereas it is
                                                                   necessary to multiply the prices with the coefficient fixed
                                                                   in the second and third indents of Article 1 (2) (a) of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Regulation (EEC) No 829/87 ;
Economic Community,
                                                                   Whereas, for Turkish tomatoes, the entry price calculated
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 in this way has remained at least 0,6 ECU below the
Portugal,                                                          reference price for two consecutive market days ; whereas
                                                                   a countervailing charge should therefore be introduced for
                                                                   these tomatoes ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by             Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
Regulation (EEC) No 1 351 /86 (2), and in particular the           3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                     Community of certain agricultural products originating in
                                                                   Turkey (6), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    1 555/84 (7), when the Commission introduces a counter­
Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72              vailing charge on imports of tomatoes originating in
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported            Turkey, at the same time it reintroduces for the product
from a third country remains at least 0,6 ECU below the            in question the conventional rate of customs duty ;
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­           whereas, therefore, a rate of customs duty of 18 % should
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the             be reintroduced for these tomatoes, with a minimum
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­           charge of 3,50 ECU per 100 kilograms net ;
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of
the last two entry prices available for that exporting             Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
country ;                                                           price should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 829/87 of 23                      tion to each other at any given moment within a band
March 1987 fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the               of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
1987 marketing year (3) fixed the reference price for                    rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in the
products of class I for the period 1 June to 10 July 1987                last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation
at 99,96 ECU per 100 kilograms net and for the month of                  (EEC) No 1676/85 (8),
May 1987 at 136,75 ECU per 100 kilograms net \                      — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is                 these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic               tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of                  previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient,
the quantities from the exporting country concerned
which are marketed on all representative 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 is           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 ;
                                                                                               Article 1
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 3811 /85 (*), the prices to be taken into conside­          1 . A countervailing charge of 9,74 ECU per 100 kilo­
ration must be recorded on the representative markets or,           grams net is applied on imports of tomatoes falling
                                                                    within subheading 07.01 M of the Common Customs
                                                                    Tariff originating in Turkey.
(') OJ  No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L 119, 8. 5. 1986, p. 46.
(3) OJ  No L 80, 24. 3. 1987, p. 12.                                O OJ No L 367, 23. 12. 1981 , p. 3.
(♦) OJ  No L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.                              0 OJ No L 150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 4.
0   OJ  No L 368 , 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .                              8) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
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2.     The rate of customs duty on imports of these                                    Article 2
products shall be 18 % with a minimum charge of 3,50
ECU per 100 kilograms net.                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 June 1987.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 4 June 1987.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                           Vice-President