CELEX: 31988R3507
Language: en
Date: 1988-11-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3507/88 of 10 November 1988 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of mandarins, including tangerines and satsumas, Wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids, with the exception of clementines originating in Turkey

11 . 11 . 88                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 306/65
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3507/88
                                                  of 10 November 1988
                 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs
                 duty on imports of mandarins, including tangerines and satsumas, Wilkings and
                 other similar citrus hybrids, with the exception of Clementines originating in
                                                          Turkey
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Commission
                                                                 Regulation (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by
                                                                 Regulation (EEC) No 381 1 /85 (5), the prices to be taken
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           into consideration must be recorded on the representative
 Economic Community,                                             markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets :
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,                                                        Whereas, for mandarins, including tangerines and
                                                                 satsumas, Wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids, with
                                                                 the exception of Clementines originating in Turkey, the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72             entry price calculated in this way has remained at least 0,6
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                 ECU below the reference price for two consecutive
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by           market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
Regulation (EEC) No 2238/88 (2), and in particular the           therefore be introduced for these mandarins, including
second subparagraph of Article 27(2) thereof,                   tangerines and satsumas, Wilkings and other similar citrus
                                                                 hybrids, with the exception of Clementines ;
Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported
from a third country remains at least 0,6 ECU below the         Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­        3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the          Community of certain agricultural products originating in
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­        Turkey (6), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference         1 555/84 17), a rate of customs duty of 5,6% should be
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of          reintroduced :
the last two entry prices available for that exporting
country ;
                                                                Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3198/88 of               price should be calculated on the following basis :
18 October 1988 fixing the reference price for mandarins,
including tangerines and satsumas, Wilkings and other
similar citrus hybrids, with the exception of Clementines
for the 1988/89 marketing year (3) fixed the reference          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
price for products of class I from 1 November 1988 to 28             tion to each other at any given moment within a band
February .1989 at 27,51 ECU per 100 kilograms net ;                  of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
                                                                     rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in the
                                                                     last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regulation
                                                                     (EEC) No 1676/85 (8), as last amended by Regulation
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is             (EEC) No 1636/87 (»),
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             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
which are marketed on all representative markets for                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
which prices are available less the duties and the charges­          these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No                   tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is             previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient,
defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 ;                                                       0   OJ  No   L 220, 10. 8. 1974, p. 20.
                                                                0   OJ  No   L 368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .
                                                                C)  OJ  No   L 367, 23. 12. 1981 , p. 3.
(') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                            o   OJ  No   L 150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 4.
0 OJ No L 198, 26. 7. 1988, p. 1 .                              (8) OJ  No   L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 284, 19. 10. 1988, p. 20.                             0   OJ  No   L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                  CN codes 0805 20 30, 0805 20 50, 0805 20 70 and
                                                               0805 20 90 originating in Turkey.
                         Article 1
                                                               2.    The import duty on these products is fixed at 5,6 % .
1.   A countervailing charge of 3,97 ECU per 100 kilo­                                 Article 2
grams net is applied on imports of mandarins, including
tangerines and satsumas, Wilkings and other similar citrus     This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 November
hybrids, with the exception of Clementines falling within      1988 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 10 November 1988 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                         Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                            Vice-President