31985R2295

10 . 8 . 85 No L 213 / 37 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2295 /85 of 9 August 1985 suspending implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 2541/84 with regard to the countervailing charge on imports into the other Member States of ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin produced in France

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN required for imposition of the countervailing charge COMMUNITIES, will be met ;

Whereas collection of the countervailing charge Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European should therefore be suspended from that date ; whereas Economic Community, and in particular Article 46 it is necessary, however, that the Member States thereof, continue to provide the Commission with the regular information specified in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No No 2541 /84 in order to enable it to keep a close watch 2541 /84 ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No on the trend of trade in and the prices for alcohol, in 644/85 (2), fixed a countervailing charge on imports particular beet alcohol, to which specific rules into the other Member States of non-denatured ethyl continue to apply in France, alcohol of agricultural origin produced in France ; whereas the purpose of this Regulation was to re-establish balance on the alcohol markets of the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : other Member States following disturbances brought about by a pricing policy made possible by French Article 1 rules equivalent in their effect to a national market organization ; 1 . Collection of the countervailing charge intro­ duced by Regulation (EEC) No 2541 /84 shall be suspended with effect from 1 September 1985. Whereas France has introduced new rules applying to alcohol, due to enter into force on 1 September 1985, 2. The second subparagraph of Article 5 ( 1 ) of under which the duty ('soulte') on all alcohol sold on Regulation (EEC) No 2541 /84 shall remain appli­ the domestic market will be discontinued and a quota cable ; in their communications Member States shall retained for beet alcohol alone ; henceforth also give, as far as possible, a breakdown by the particular agricultural origin (beet or molasses) of Whereas, without prejudice to assessment of certain the alcohol . aspects of these rules with reference to Article 46 and other provisions of the Treaty, the trend from that date Article 2 of the prices at which French alcohol will be offered on the markets of the other Member States cannot be This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day forecast ; whereas it is therefore uncertain whether and following its publication in the Official Journal of the to what extent, from 1 September 1985, the conditions European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 August 1985.

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

(') OJ No L 238 , 6 . 9 . 1984, p. 16. (2 OJ No L 73 , 14. 3 . 1985, p. 15 .