31990R1850

No L 168/38 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 6 . 90

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1850/90

of 29 June 1990

fixing countervailing charges on seeds

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, whereas information on offers which have no economic effect on the market in particular because of the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European insignificant quantities for which they are made are to be Economic Community, disregarded for the purpose of calculating these prices ;

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No Portugal, 1665/72, an adjustment must be made in the case of price information relating to a stage other than free-at- Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71 Community-frontier ; whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of of 26 October 1971 on the common organization of the that Regulation, the countervailing charge must be market in seeds ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) amended where a significant variation in the free-at- No 1239/89 (2), and in particular Article 6 (5) thereof, frontier offer price is recorded ; Whereas Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71 Whereas, as a result of the application of the aforemen­ provides that where the free-at-frontier offer price, plus tioned provisions to the information currently available to customs duties, for a type of hybrid maize and hybrid the Commission, the countervailing charge in respect of sorgum for sowing and coming from a non-member certain types of hybrid is to be fixed at the amounts country, is lower than the corresponding reference price, a indicated in the Annex to this Regulation ; countervailing charge on hybrid maize and hybrid Whereas, consequently, Commission Regulation (EEC) sorghum shall be levied on imports of the hybrid from No 1925/89 (<■), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No that country, subject to obligations resulting from binding 1162/90 0, which fixed the countervailing charges for the under GATT ; whereas the countervailing charge is equal preceding period, should be repealed ; to the difference between the reference price and the free-at-frontier price plus customs duties ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Whereas the reference prices for the 1990/91 marketing Committee for Seeds, year for hybrid maize and hybrid sorgum for sowing were fixed in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1849/90 (3) ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the free-at-frontier offer prices for each Article 1 country of provenance are determined using all available relevant information ; whereas such relevant The countervailing charges on seeds are fixed as shown in information is defined in Article 1 (1 ), (2) and (3) of the Annexes hereto. Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1665/72 (4), amended by Regulation (EEC) No 281 1 /86 0 ; whereas Article 3 of Article 2 the same Regulation provides that the free-at-frontier Regulation (EEC) No 1925/89 is hereby repealed. offer prices for each country of provenance shall be determined from the most favourable purchasing Article 3 opportunities for the products in question calculated in accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of the Regulation ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1990.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 June 1990 .

For the Commission

Ray MAC SHARRY

Member of the Commission

(>) OJ No L 246, 5. 11 . 1971 , p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 128, 11 . 5. 1989, p. 35. (3) See page 36 of this Official Journal. (<) OJ No L 175, 2. 8 . 1972, p. 49 . (*) OJ No L 187, 1 . 7. 1989, p. 24. (*) OJ No L 260, 12. 9. 1986, p. 8 . 0 OJ No L 116, 8 . 5. 1990, p. 16.

30 . 6 . 90 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 168/39

ANNEX I

Countervailing charge on hybrid maize for sowing

(ECU/100 kg)

Amount of CN code Country of countervailing origin (2) charge (')

1005 10 11 13,8 404 14,34 064 l 15,8 048 l 31,8 400 32,4 066 32,4 1 1005 10 13 0,7 512 16,9 048 21,6 0 66 21,7 062 26,0 068 27,1 064 l 45,5 528 45,5 2 1005 10 15 2,9 064 38,8 346 \ 42,3 066 42,4 388 77,2 404 I 80,9 528 87,3 048 130,8 052 130,8 3

(') The countervailing charge may not exceed 4 % of the customs value. In the case of Spain it may not exceed the rate obtained by alignment on the Common Customs Tariff in accordance with the timetable specified in the Act of Accession. (2) Origin identification : 1 Other countries with the exception of Austria and Chile 2 Other countries with the exception of Canada, Japan, Austria and the United States 3 Other countries with the exception of Bulgaria, Austria, the United States and Chile 048 Yugoslavia 052 Turkey 062 Czechoslovakia 064 Hungary 066 Romania 068 Bulgaria 346 Kenya 388 South Africa 400 the United States 404 Canada 512 Chile 528 Argentina

ANNEX II

Countervailing charge on hybrid sorghum for sowing

(ECU/100 kg) Amount of CN code countervailing Country of origin (') charge

1007 00 10 14,7 064

(') Origin identification : 064 Hungary