31990R1542

No L 145/28 8 . 6 . 90 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1542/90 of 7 June 1990 introducing a corrective amount on the import of apricots into the Community of Ten from Spain (except the Canary Islands)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, mechanism on imports of fruit and vegetables from Spain (except the Canary Islands) ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, in the case of apricots, the offer price for the Spanish product as calculated in accordance with the Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and provisions of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3709/89 has Portugal, remained for two consecutive market days at a level at least ECU 0,6 below the Community offer price ; whereas Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3709/89 a corrective amount equal to the difference between the of 4 December 1989 laying down general rules for imple­ Community offer price and the Spanish offer price must menting the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal as therefore be introduced for these products from Spain regards the compensatory mechanism for imports of fruit (except the Canary Islands); and vegetables from Spain ('), and in particular Article 4 Whereas if the system is to operate normally the offer (2) thereof, price of the Spanish product should be calculated on the Whereas Article 152 of the Act of Accession introduces following basis : from 1 January 1990 a compensatory mechanism for — in the case of currencies the spot market rates for imports into the Community as constituted on 31 which are maintained in relationship to each other December 1985, hereinafter called 'the Community of within a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on Ten', of fruit and vegetables from Spain (except the their central rate, multiplied by the corrective factor Canary Islands) for which a reference price is fixed with provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) regard to third countries ; of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 636/87 (6), Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3709/89 lays down general — in the case of other currencies, an exchange rate based rules for applying the said compensatory mechanism ; on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rate for Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 918/90 (2) each of these currencies recorded over a given period fixed, for the 1990 marketing year, the Community offer in relation to the Community currencies referred to in price for apricots applicable with regard to Spain (except the previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient, Canary Islands) ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the offer price fixed by the Commission is to be reduced in accordance with Article 2 of Commission Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 784/90 of 29 March 1990 fixing the On import into the Community of Ten of apricots (CN reducing coefficient for agricultural prices in the 1990/91 code 0809 10 00) from Spain (except the Canary Islands) a marketing year as a result of the monetary realignment of corrective amount of ECU 47,26 per 100 kilograms net 5 January 1990 and amending the prices and amounts shall be levied. fixed in ecus for that marketing year (3) ; Article 2 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3815/89 (4) lays down detailed rules for applying the compensatory This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 June 1990.

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

Done at Brussels, 7 June 1990.

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 363, 13. 12. 1989, p. 3. (2) OJ No L 94, 11 . 4. 1990, p. 11 . 3 OJ No L 83, 30 . 3. 1990, p. 102. 0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 371 , 20. 12. 1989, p. 28 . fó OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .