CELEX: 31974R2486
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2486/74 of the Commission of 1 October 1974 introducing a contervailing charge on table grapes originating in Romania

No L 265/ 10                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             2. 10 . 74
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2486/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 1 October 1974
                introducing a countervailing charge on table grapes originating in Romania
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     meaning of representative price is defined in Article
COMMUNITIES,                                                       24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be
Economic Community ;                                              taken into consideration on the representative markets
                                                                   referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 21 18 /74 (4) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 (J) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                Whereas, for Romanian table grapes the entry price
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables as last                calculated in this way has remained at least 0*50 unit
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                of account below the reference price for two consecu­
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)               tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge
thereof ;                                                         should therefore be introduced for these table grapes ;
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                   Whereas if the system is to operate normally it should
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product            be calculated on the following basis :
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
unit of account below the reference price for two                       relation to each other, at any given moment
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                   within a band of 2-25 % a rate of exchange based
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                       on their effective parity ;
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                    — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                  arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                      of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
last two entry prices available for that exporting                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
country ;                                                               in the previous subparagraph,
Whereas Commission              Regulation (EEC) No
1 363/74 (3) of 31 May 1974 fixing the reference price             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
for table grapes for the 1974 marketing year fixed the
reference price for Class I at 19-8 units of account per                                      Article 1
100 kg net for the months of September and October
1974 ;                                                            A countervailing charge of 5-6 units of account per
                                                                   100 kg net is applied to table grapes (subheading
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country              08.04 A I of the Common Customs Tariff) originating
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded              in Romania .
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                                            Article 2
sentative markets for which prices are available, less
the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)           This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 October
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 and whereas the                     1974 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 1 October 1974.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                  The President
                                                                             Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
(I) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.
(3) OJ No L 147, 1 . 6. 1974, p. 44.                               (4 ) OJ No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .