CELEX: 31978R1311
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1311/78 of 15 June 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria

16 . 6 . 78                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 158 / 23
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1311 /78
                                                          of 15 June 1978
                  introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria
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) (a) of Regula­
                                                                     tion (EEC) No 1 180/78 ;
                                                                     Whereas, for Bulgarian tomatoes, the entry price calcu­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         lated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit of
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                   account below the reference price for two consecutive
of the market in fruit and vegetables ( 1 ), as last                 market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 11 54/78 (2 ), and in                 therefore be 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                      — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product                    relation to each other at any given moment within
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50                        a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
unit of account below the reference price for two                          their effective parity,
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                    — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                     of these currencies recorded for a given period in
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
last two entry prices available for that exporting                         in the previous subparagraph ,
country ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1180/78                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
of 31 May 1978 fixing until the end of the 1978
marketing year the reference price for tomatoes (3)
fixed the reference price for products of Class I for the
period 1 June to 10 July 1978 at 5819 units of                                                   Article 1
account per 100 kilograms net ;
                                                                     A countervailing charge of 0-57 unit of account per
                                                                      100 kilograms net is applied to tomatoes (subheading
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country                07.01 M of the Common Customs Tariff) originating
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded                in Bulgaria.
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 17 June
                                                                      1978 .
C ) OJ No L 1 18 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .
(2 ) OJ No L 144, 31 . 5 . 1978 , p . 5 .                            (4 ) OJ No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974, p . 20 .
(}) OJ No L 145, 1 . 6 . 1978 , p . 43 .                             (s) 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, 15 June 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Vice-President