31976R0889

No L 101 /38 Official Journal of the European Communities 15. 4. 76

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 889/76 of 14 April 1976 suspending imports of frozen hake and saithe, whether whole or in fillets

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN lize Community markets ; whereas, in order to prevent COMMUNITIES, disturbances as a result of abnormally low prices, imports of the products in question should be Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European suspended, Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in fishery products (*), and in parti­ Article 1 cular the third subparagraph of Article 19 (6) thereof, 1 . All Community imports of : Whereas Article 19 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76 provides inter alia that, where the entry price for a — frozen hake, whole, headless or in pieces of given product imported from any third country is subheading ex 03.01 B I q) of the Common lower than the reference price, then, in the case of the Customs Tariff, as well as frozen fillets of hake of products listed in Annex IV (B), imports may be subheading ex 03.01 B II b) 7 of the Common suspended or restricted to specified qualities, forms of Customs Tariff, presentation or end uses ; — frozen saithe, whole, headless or in pieces of subheading 03.01 B I ij) 2 of the Common Whereas, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3373/75 Customs Tariff, as well as frozen fillets of saithe of of 23 December 1975 (2), fixed among others the refer­ subheading 03.01 B II b) 2 of the Common ence prices for hake and saithe listed in Annex IV (B) Customs Tariff are hereby suspended. to Regulation (EEC) No 100/76 for the 1976 fishing year ; 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to imports of products which comply with the reference prices set Whereas Article 19 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76 out in the Annex hereto . provides that, for products in respect of which a refer­ ence price is fixed, there shall be established an entry Article 2 price, based on the lowest prices recorded for one and the same marketing stage on representative import The items to be taken into account in determining markets or in representative ports of import, reduced whether an import complies with the reference price by an amount equal to any customs duties and as referred to in Article 1 (2) shall be as follows : charges levied on these products and by the cost of (a) the free-at-Community frontier price, before transporting the product from these markets or ports customs clearance ; to Community frontier crossing points ; (b) unloading costs. Whereas in the case of frozen hake and saithe, whole, headless or in pieces and of frozen fillets of these Article 3 products, the entry prices are apparently far below the level of the reference prices ; whereas this is likely to This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 April have an adverse effect on the measures taken to stabi­ 1976 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 14 April 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 CCT heading No Description of goods (u.a./metric ton net)

ex 03.01 B I q) Frozen hake, whole, headless or in pieces 350 ex 03.01 B II b) 7 Frozen fillets of hake 625 03.01 B I ij) 2 Frozen saithe, whole, headless or in pieces 250 03.01 B II b) 2 Frozen fillets of saithe 548