CELEX: 31978R2417
Language: en
Date: 1978-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2417/78 of 17 October 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Romania

18 . 10 . 78                           Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 292/21
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2417/78
                                                       of 17 October 1978
                   introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Romania
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     consideration must be recorded on the representative
  COMMUNITIES,                                                      markets    or,   in certain   circumstances,  on  other
                                                                    markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
                                                                   with the coefficients fixed in the second subparagraph
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            of Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1178/78 ;
 Economic Community,
                                                                   Whereas, for Romanian cucumbers, the entry price
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit
  1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                of account below the reference price for two consecu­
 of the market in fruit and vegetables (J), as last                 tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge
                                                                   should therefore be introduced for these cucumbers :
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1766/78 (2), and in
 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
 Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                   basis :
  1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product
 imported from a third country remains at least 0-50
 unit of account below the reference price for two
 consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must             — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 be introduced in respect of the exporting country                      relation to each other at any given moment within
 concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                         a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
 whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                 their effective parity,
 the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the
 last two entry prices available for that exporting
 country ;
                                                                   — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1178/78                         of these currencies recorded for a given period in
 of 31 May 1978 fixing until the end of the 1978                        relation to the Community currencies referred to
 marketing year the reference price for cucumbers (3)                   in the previous subparagraph,
 fixed the reference price for products of Class I for the
 month of October 1978 at 44-16 units of account per
 100 kilograms net ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded
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                                      Article 1
the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                       A countervailing charge of 700 units of account per
meaning of representative price is defined in Article              100 kilograms net is applied to cucumbers
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                            (subheading 07.01 P of the Common Customs Tariff)
                                                                   originating in Romania.
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 668/78 (5), the prices to be taken into                                       Article 2
(') OJ   No   L 118, 20.  5. 1972, p. 1.
(2) OJ   No  L  204, 28 . 7. 1978, p. 12.
(3) OJ   No  L  192, 15.  7. 1978, p. 40.
(4) OJ   No  L  220, 10.  8. 1974, p. 20.                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 October
(5) OJ   No  L  90, 5. 4. 1978, p. 5.                              1978 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 17 October 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President