CELEX: 31976R1354
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1354/76 of 11 June 1976 suspending imports of frozen whole cod

No L 153/36                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             12. 6 . 76
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1354/76
                                                       of 11 June 1976
                                        suspending imports of frozen whole cod
THE COMMISSION OF THE             EUROPEAN                       level of the reference prices ; whereas this is likely to
COMMUNITIES,                                                     have an adverse effect on the measures taken to stabi­
                                                                 lize Community markets ; whereas, in order to prevent
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            disturbances as a result of abnormally low prices,
Economic Community,
                                                                 imports of the products in question should be
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     suspended,
100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in fishery products (l), and in parti­
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
cular the third subparagraph of Article 19 (6) thereof,
Whereas Article 19 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76                                     Article 1
provides inter alia that, where the entry price for a
given product imported from any third country is                  1 . All Community imports of frozen cod, whole,
lower than the reference price, then, in the case of the          headless or in pieces, falling within subheading 03.01
products listed in Annex IV (B), imports may be                   B I h) 2 of the Common Customs Tariff are hereby
suspended or restricted to specified qualities, forms of          suspended.
presentation or end uses ;
                                                                  2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to imports of
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3373/75                    products which comply with the reference prices set
of 23 December 1975 (2), fixed among others the refer­            out in the Annex hereto .
ence price for cod listed in Annex IV (B) to Regula­
tion (EEC) No 100/76 for the 1976 fishing year ;
                                                                                         Article 2
Whereas Article 19 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76
provides that, for products in respect of which a refer­         The items to be taken into account in determining
ence price is fixed, there shall be established an entry          whether an import complies with the reference price
price, based on the lowest prices recorded for one and            referred to in Article 1 (2) shall be as follows :
the same marketing stage on representative import                 (a) the   free-at-Community-frontier     price,    before
markets or in representative ports of import, reduced                 customs clearance ;
by an amount equal to any customs duties and
                                                                  (b) unloading " costs.
charges levied on these products and by the cost of
transporting the product from these markets or ports
to Community frontier crossing points ;                                                  Article 3
Whereas in the case of frozen cod, whole, headless or             This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 June
in pieces, the entry prices are apparently below the               1976.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
              Done at Brussels, 11 June 1976.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(] ) OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 333, 30. 12. 1975, p. 37.
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                                                     ANNEX
                                                                                       Price (u.a./metric
            CCT heading No                       Description of goods
                                                                                            ton net)
          ex 03.01 B I h) 2 Cod (Gadus morrhua or Gadus callarías) frozen, whole,
                            headless or in pieces, with the exception of 'minced fish'        385