27.7. 88 \ ‘Official Journal of the European Communities No L 201/43 ' HAS ADOPTED ‘THIS REGULATION : COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No -2303/88 of .26 July 1988 fixing the minimum price applicable to dried grapes during the marketing ye.ar 1988/89 as well as the countervalhng charges to be imposed where that price is not observed THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty -establishing the European Economic Community, Having rt;.gard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 426/86 of 24 February 1986 on the common organization -of the tarket in products processed from fruit and vegetables (!), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2247/88 (3, and in particular Article 9 (6) thereof, Whereas, in accordance with Article 9 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 426/86, the minimum _import price for dried grapes shall be determined having regard to: — the free-at-frontier price on import into the Community, — the prices obtaining in international trade, — the situation on the internal Community market, — the trend of trade with third countries ; Whereas Article 2 (1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2089/85 of 23 July 1985 laying down general rules relating to the system of minimum import prices for dried grapes () provides that countervailing charges shall be fixed by reference to a scale of import prices ; whereas the maximum countervailing charge shall be determined on the basis of the most favourable prices applied on the world market for significant quantities by the most representative non-member countries ; Whereas a minimum import price must be fixed for currants and other dried grapes ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Vegetables, Article 1 ‘1. The minimum import pnce applicable to dried grapes during the matketmg year 1988/89 shall be as set out in Annex L 2. The countervalhng charge to be imposed where the minimum import price referred- to in paragraph 1 is not observed, shall be as set out in Annex IL Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 Septembér 1988. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and dlrectly apphcable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 26 July 1988. For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President () OJ No L 49, 27. 2. 1986, p. 1. () OJ No L 198, 26. 7. 1988. () OJ No L 197, 27. 7. 1985, p. 10.