31977R2685
7. 12 . 77 No L 313/5 Official Journal of the European Communities
COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2685/77 of 6 December 1977 suspending imports of frozen squid
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tive measures applicable to imports of frozen squid (4) COMMUNITIES, makes the importation of such squid conditional on the observance of a minimum price ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas it is to be feared that imports, at the entry prices obtaining at present, of squid subject to the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 100/76 of 19 January 1976 on the common organiza system of reference prices will result, given the inter changeability of the various species, in the same distur tion of the market in fishery products (!), as amended bances of the Italian market as those which led to the by Regulation (EEC) No 2429/76 (2), and in particular adoption of the protective measures ; the third subparagraph of Article 1*9 (6) thereof, Whereas Article 19 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76 Whereas imports of the products in question should, provides among other things that, where the entry therefore, be suspended when they are effected at a price for a given product imported from a non level lower than the reference price, member country is lower than the reference price, in the case of the products listed in Annex II imports HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : may be suspended or restricted to specified qualities, forms of presentation or end uses ; Article 1 Whereas, by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3125/76 of 16 December 1976 fixing, for the 1977 1 . All imports into the Community of frozen squid fishing year, reference prices for fishery products (3), as specified in the Annex hereto originating in and the reference price for frozen squid was fixed at 1 227 coming from non-member countries, with the excep units of account per tonne ; tion of Greece, are hereby suspended . Whereas Article 19 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 100/76 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to imports of provides, that, for products in respect of which a refer products which comply with the reference price set ence price is fixed, an entry price is to be established out in the said Annex . on the basis of the lowest prices recorded for one and the same marketing stage on representative import Article 2 markets or in representative ports of import, reduced by an amount equal to any customs duties and The items to be taken into account in determining charges levied on those products and by the cost of whether an import complies with the reference price transporting the products form those markets or ports as referred to in Article 1 (2) shall be as follows : to Community frontier crossing points ; (a) the free-at-Community frontier price, before Whereas the situation on the Italian market for frozen customs clearance ; squid has led to the adoption of protective measures (b) unloading costs. in respect of imports from non-member countries, with the exception of Greece, of species for which no Article 3 reference price is provided for by Community rules ; whereas, to that end, Commission Regulation (EEC) This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 December 1977 . No 2619/77 of 28 November 1977 adopting protec
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 6 December 1977 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President
(!) OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 276, 7. 10 . 1976, p. 5 . (3) OJ No L 353 , 23 . 12. 1976, p. 11 . («) OJ No L 304, 29 . 11 . 1977, p. 37.
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ANNEX
Reference price CCT heading No Description (u.a ./tonne)
03.03 B IV a) 1 Squid : aa) Ommastrephes sagittatus and Loligo spp ex bb) Todarodes sagittatus and Illex coindetti | 1 227