CELEX: 31981R1194
Language: en
Date: 1981-05-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1194/81 of 4 May 1981 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Spain

5. 5 . 81                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 121 /27
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1194/81
                                                          of 4 May 1981
                    introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Spain
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      tion (EEC) No 668/78 (■*), the prices to be taken into
COMMUNITIES,                                                        consideration must be recorded on the representative
                                                                    markets    or,  in  certain   circumstances,   on   other
                                                                    markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               with the coefficients fixed in the first indent of Article
Economic Community,                                                 1 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 724/81 ;
                                                                    Whereas, for Spanish tomatoes, the entry price calcu­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    lated in this way has remained at least 0-6 ECU below
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
                                                                    the reference price for two consecutive market days ;
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last
                                                                    whereas a countervailing charge should therefore be
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1116/81 (2), and in                  introduced for these tomatoes ;
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)
thereof,
                                                                    Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
                                                                    price should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
imported from a third country remains at least 0-6                      relation to each other at any given moment within
ECU below the reference price for two consecutive                       a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
market days, a countervailing charge must be intro­                     their effective parity,
duced in respect of the exporting country concerned,
save in exceptional circumstances ; whereas this charge             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
is equal to the difference between the reference price                  arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
and the arithmetic mean of the last two entry prices                    these currencies recorded for a given period in
available for that exporting country ;                                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                        in the previous indent,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 724/81 of
20 March 1981 fixing the reference price for tomatoes
for the 1981 marketing year (3) fixed the reference
price for products of Class I for the month of April
 1981 at 151-80 ECU per 100 kilograms net ;                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for
at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting                                          Article 1
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­
sentative markets for which prices are available less the
duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of               A countervailing charge of 8-76 ECU per 100 kilo­
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning                   grams net is applied to tomatoes (subheading 07.01 M
of representative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of             of the Common Customs Tariff) originating in Spain .
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­                                      Article 2
tion (EEC) No 21 18 /74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
(') OJ  No L  118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 May 1981 .
(2) OJ  No L  118 , 30 . 4 . 1981 , p . 1 .
(3) OJ  No L  75, 21 . 3 . 1981 , p. 16 .
(4) OJ  No L  220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p . 20 .                          0 OJ No L 90 , 5 . 4. 1978 , p. 5 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
            Done at Brussels, 4 May 1981 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Poul DALSAGER
                                                              Member of the Commission