CELEX: 31979R1912
Language: en
Date: 1979-08-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1912/79 of 30 August 1979 introducing a countervailing charge on table grapes originating in Greece

No L 221 /40                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             31 . 8 . 79
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1912/79
                                                     of 30 August 1979
                 introducing a countervailing charge on table grapes 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 table grapes the entry price calcu­
                                                                  lated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit of
                                                                  account below the reference price for two consecutive
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                 therefore be introduced for these table grapes ;
of the market in fruit and vegetables (J ), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1301 /79 (2), and in
                                                                  Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)
thereof,                                                          price should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                        relation to each other at any given moment within
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product                 a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50                    their effective parity ;
unit of account below the reference price for two
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                         of these currencies recorded for a given period in
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                 relation to the Community currencies referred to
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                     in the previous indent ;
last two entry prices available for that exporting
country ;
                                                                   Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
                                                                   March 1 979 (6) laid down the coefficient for
                                                                   expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1418 /79                    ECU,
of 9 July 1979 fixing the reference prices for table
grapes for the 1979 marketing year (3) fixed the refer­
ence price for products of class I for the period 21
July to 30 August 1979 at 38-89 ECU per 100 kilo­
grams 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
 sentative markets for which prices are available, less            A countervailing charge of 31 2 ECU per 100 kilo­
 the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)            grams net is applied to table grapes (subheading 08.04
 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                      A I of the Common Customs Tariff) originating in
                                                                   Greece .
 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 2118/71 (4), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
                                                                    1979 .
 0)  OJ No   L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1.
 (2) OJ No   L 162,  30.  6. 1979, p. 26 .
 (3) OJ No   L 172,  10.  7. 1979, p. 6.                           (5) OJ No L 90, 5. 4. 1978 , p. 5 .
 (<) OJ No   L 220,  10 . 8. 1974, p. 20 .                         (*) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 30 August 1979 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                    .    Vice-President