CELEX: 31979R1370
Language: en
Date: 1979-07-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1370/79 of 2 July 1979 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria

3 . 7. 79                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 165/ 5
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1370/79
                                                       of 2 July 1979
                 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria
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 ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            with the coefficients fixed in Article 1 (2) (a), second
Economic Community,                                              indent, of Regulation (EEC) No 827/79 ;
                                                                 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 ( J), as last              market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 301 /79 (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 indent ;
country ;
                                                                 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
                                                                 March 1979 (6) laid down the coefficient for
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 827/79 of                 expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
26 April 1979 fixing until the end of the 1979                   ECU,
marketing year the reference price for tomatoes (3)
fixed the reference price for products of Class I for the
period of 1 June to 10 July 1979 at 73-89 ECU per
 1 00 kilograms net ;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting                                    Article 1
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)           A countervailing charge of 15-58 ECU per 100 kilo­
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                     grams net is applied to tomatoes (subheading 07.01 M
meaning of representative price is defined in Article
                                                                 of the Common Customs Tariff) originating in
                                                                  Bulgaria.
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­                                    Article 2
 tion (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
(•) OJ  No  L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 July 1979 .
(2) OJ  No  L 162, 30. 6. 1979, p. 26.
(3) OJ  No  L 105, 27. 4. 1979, p. 20 .                          (5) OJ No L 90, 5. 4. 1978, p. 5.
(4) OJ  No  L 220, 10. 8. 1974, p. 20 .                          (6) 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, 2 July 1979.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President