During the second phase, a compensation mechanism shall be introduced on import into the Community as at present constituted for those fruit and vegetables coming from Spain for which a reference price is fixed with regard to third countries.

During the second stage, a compensation mechanism shall be introduced for imports into the Community as at present constituted of those fruit and vegetables coming from Portugal for which a reference price is fixed with regard to third countries.

The compensatory mechanism provided for in this Article shall remain in force:

A compensatory mechanism shall be introduced on importation, into the Community as at present constituted, for fruit and vegetables coming from Greece for which an institutional price is fixed.

Where the compensatory amounts referred to in Article 240 or the compensatory mechanism referred to in Article 270 are applied in trade between the Community as at present constituted and the Portuguese Republic to one or more of the basic products considered as having been used in the manufacture of goods covered by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3033/80 of 11 November 1980 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products, the following transitional measures shall be applied:

If the Greek market is disturbed by the fact of imports from the present Member States, appropriate measures, which may provide for a compensatory mechanism similar to that provided for in the preceding paragraphs, may be decided in respect of imports into Greece of fruit and vegetables from the Community as at present constituted for which an institutional price is fixed.

Transferred products shall not be subject to the 'accession' compensatory amounts system, not to the supplementary trade mechanism.

Whereas the conclusions of the European Council of 25 and 26 June 1984 on the correction of budgetary imbalances continue to apply for the duration of this Decision's validity; whereas the present compensation mechanism must, however, be adjusted to take account of the capping of the VAT base and the introduction of an additional resource and must provide for financing of the correction on the basis of a GNP key; whereas this adjustment should ensure that the VAT share of the United Kingdom is replaced by its share of payments under the third and fourth resources (those provided by VAT and GNP respectively) and that the effect on the United Kingdom, in respect of a given year, of the capping of the VAT base and of the introduction of the fourth resource which is not compensated by this change will be offset by an adjustment to the compensation in respect of that year; whereas the contributions of Spain and Portugal should be reduced in accordance with the rebates provided for in Articles 187 and 374 of the 1985 Act of Accession;

Member States may decide to make additional services, apart from services within the universal service obligations as defined in Chapter II, publicly available in its own territory but, in such circumstances, no compensation mechanism involving specific undertakings may be imposed.

whereas the present compensation mechanism must, however, be adjusted to take account of the capping of the VAT base and the introduction of an additional resource and must provide for financing of the correction on the basis of a GNP key;

Whereas, following the extension of the system of compensatory payments to rice for sowing and in order to ensure balance on the market for rice seed, in particular to safeguard possibilities of disposal in line with the base area established in Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95, it seems justified to introduce a mechanism to stabilise production of rice seed;