CELEX: 31979R0655
Language: en
Date: 1979-04-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 655/79 of 3 April 1979 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Romania

4 . 4 . 79                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 84/7
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 655 /79
                                                     of 3 April 1979
                 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Romania
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
COMMUNITIES,                                                   tion (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
                                                               tion (EEC) No 668 /78 (5), the prices to be taken into
                                                               consideration must be recorded on the representative
                                                                markets     or,  in  certain   circumstances,  on  other
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
Economic Community,                                            with the coefficients fixed in Article 1 (2) of Regula­
                                                                tion (EEC) No 213/79 ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last             Whereas, for Romanian cucumbers, the entry price
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 325/79 (2), and in               calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)            of account below the reference price for two consecu­
thereof,                                                        tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge
                                                                should therefore be introduced for these cucumbers ;
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                 Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product          price should be calculated on the following basis :
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50
unit of account below the reference price for two               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in      i
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                relation to each other at any given moment within
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                    a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                       their effective parity ;
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
last two entry prices available for that exporting                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
country ;                                                            of these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                     in the previous indent,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 213/79 of
5 February 1979 fixing the reference price for cucum­
bers for February to April 1979 (3) fixed the reference
price for products of Class I for March 1979 at 64- 16           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
units of account per 100 kilograms net ;
                                                                 A countervailing charge of 3-73 units of account per
                                                                  100 kilograms net is applied to cucumbers
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country            (subheading 07.01 P I of the Common Customs
 is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded           Tariff) originating in Romania.
 for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting
 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)                                   Article 2
 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the
 meaning of representative price is defined in Article
 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 April
                                                                  1979 .
 (') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ No L 45, 22. 2. 1979, p. 1 .                             (4) OJ No L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20 .
 (>) OJ No L 30, 6 . 2. 1979, p. 5 .                             (5) 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, 3 April 1979.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Vice-President