31979R0068

17 . 1 . 79 No L 11 / 5 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 68 /79

of 16 January 1979

fixing countervailing charges on seeds

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN have no economic effect on the market because of the COMMUNITIES, insignificant quantities for which they are made are to be disregarded for the purpose of calculating these Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European prices ; Economic Community, Whereas under Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1665/72 an adjustment must be made in the case of 2358/71 of 26 October 1971 on the common organiza­ information on prices referring to a stage other than tion of the market in seeds ( !), as last amended by free-at-Community-frontier ; whereas under Article 4 Regulation (EEC) No 1346/78 (2), and in particular (2) of that Regulation the countervailing charge must Article 6 (5) thereof, be amended where a significant variation in the free­ Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71 at-frontier offer price is recorded ; provides that where the free-at-frontier offer price, Whereas, as a result of the application of the afore­ plus customs duties for a type of hybrid maize, mentioned provisions to the information currently coming from a non-member country, for sowing is available to the Commission , the countervailing lower than the corresponding reference price, a coun­ charge in respect of certain types of hybrid is to be tervailing charge shall be levied on imports of the fixed at the amounts indicated in the Annex to this hybrid from that country, subject to obligations Regulation ; whereas the hybrid types are defined in resulting from binding under GAIT ; whereas the Article 2 ( 1 ) (B) of Council Directive 66/402/EEC of countervailing charge is equal to the difference 14 June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed (5); between the reference price and the free-at-frontier price plus customs duties ; Whereas the Management Committee for Seeds has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by Whereas the reference prices for the 1978/79 its chairman , marketing year for hybrid maize for sowing were fixed

4 in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1410/78 (3) ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the free-at-frontier offer prices for each country of provenance are determined using all avail­ Article 1 able relevant information ; whereas such relevant infor­ mation is defined in Article 1 ( 1 ), (2) and (3) of The countervailing charges on seeds are fixed as Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 665/72 (4) ; shown in the Annex hereto . 1 whereas Article 3 of the same Regulation provides that the free-at-frontier offer prices for each country of Article 2 provenance shall be determined from the most favour­ able purchasing opportunities for the products in ques­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day tion calculated in accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of following its publication in the Official Journal of that Regulation ; whereas information on offers which the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 16 January 1979 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President

(>) OJ No L 246, 5. 11 . 1971 , p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 165, 22. 6 . 1978 , p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978 , p. 32. (4) OJ No L 175, 2. 8 . 1972, p. 49 . (5) OJ No 125, 11 . 7. 1966, p. 2309/66.

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ANNEX

Countervailing charge on hybrid maize for sowing

(A VA/1 00 kg)

CCT Amount Country of origin heading Description of countervailing of goods No charge (')

10.05 Maize :

ex A. Hybrid, for sowing :

100 Hungary — Three-cross hybrids 130 Romania

(!) The countervailing charge shall not exceed 4 % of the customs value.