CELEX: 31978R1782
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1782/78 of 27 July 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on peaches originating in Greece

28 . 7 . 78                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 204/41
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1782/78
                                                        of 27 July 1978
                     introducing a countervailing charge on peaches originating in Greece
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     tion (EEC) No 668/78 (5), the prices to be taken into
 COMMUNITIES,                                                     consideration must be recorded on the representative
                                                                   markets or,      in certain    circumstances, on  other
                                                                   markets ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                              Whereas, for Greek peaches, the entry price calculated
                                                                   in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit of account
                                                                   below the reference price for two consecutive market
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      days ; whereas a countervailing charge should there­
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                 fore be introduced for these peaches ;
of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 54/78 (2), and in
 particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)             Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
thereof,                                                           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 0-50                   relation to each other at any given moment within
unit of account below the reference price for two                      a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                  their effective parity,
be introduced in respect of the exporting country
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between            — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 last two entry prices available for that exporting                    of these currencies recorded for a given period in
country ;                                                              relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                       in the previous subparagraph,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1232/78
of 8 June 1978 fixing the reference prices for peaches
for the 1978 marketing year (3) fixed the reference
price for products of Class I for July 1978 at 37-69
units of account 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                                       Article 1
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                A countervailing charge of 1-34 units of account per
sentative markets for which prices are available, less             100 kilograms net is applied to peaches (subheading
the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)            08.07 B of the Common Customs Tariff) originating
                                                                   in Greece .
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the
meaning of representative price is defined in Article
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 21 18 /74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 July
(>)  OJ   No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                            1978 .
(2) OJ    No L 144, 31 . 5. 1978, p. 5.
(3) OJ   No  L 153, 9. 6. 1978, p. 13.
(4) OJ   No  L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.                          (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, 27 July 1978 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Vice-President