31984R0591

No L 66/ 12 8 . 3 . 84 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 591/84

of 7 March 1984

introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of apples originating in Turkey

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, for Turkish apples, the entry price calculated COMMUNITIES, in this way has remained at least 0,6 ECU below the reference price for two consecutive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should therefore be Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European introduced for these apples ; Economic Community,

Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization Community of certain agricultural products origina­ of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last ting in Turkey (*), when the Commission introduces a amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2004/83 (2), and in countervailing charge on imports of apples originating particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) in Turkey, at the same time it reintroduces for the thereof, product in question the conventional rate of customs duty ; whereas, therefore, a rate of customs duty of Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 8,8 % should be reintroduced for these apples, with a 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product minimum charge of 2,08 ECU per 1 00 kilograms net ; imported from a third country remains at least 0,6 ECU below the reference price for two consecutive Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry market days, a countervailing charge must be intro­ price should be calculated on the following basis : duced in respect of the exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ; whereas this charge — in the case of currencies which are maintained in is equal to the difference between the reference price relation to each other at any given moment within and the arithmetic mean of the last two entry prices a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on available for that exporting country ; their central rate, — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2085/83 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of of 26 July 1983 fixing the reference price for apples these currencies recorded for a given period in for the 1983/84 marketing year (3) fixed the reference relation to the Community currencies referred to price for products of class I for the month of March in the previous indent, 1984 at 45,49 ECU per 100 kilograms net ;

Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : is equal to the lowest representative price or the arith­ metic mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting country concerned which are marketed on all representative Article 1 markets for which prices are available less the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regula­ 1 . A countervailing charge of 6,13 ECU per 100 tion (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of kilograms net is applied on imports of apples falling representative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of within subheading 08.06 A II b) of the Common Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; Customs Tariff originating in Turkey.

Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­ 2. The rate of customs duty on imports of these tion (EEC) No 2118/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­ products shall be 8,8 % with a minimum charge of tion (EEC) No 3110/83 (^ the prices to be taken into 2,08 ECU per 100 kilograms net. consideration must be recorded on the representative markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ; Article 2

(') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 March (2) OJ No L 198, 21 . 7. 1983, p. 2. 1984. (3) OJ No L 203 , 27. 7. 1983, p. 23. («) OJ No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 . O OJ No L 303, 5 . 11 . 1983, p. 5. (*) OJ No L 367, 23 . 12. 1981 , p. 3 .

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

Done at Brussels, 7 March 1984.

For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission