CELEX: 31977R1533
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1533/77 of 7 July 1977 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria and Romania

8 . 7. 77                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 170/ 17
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1533/77
                                                           of 7 July 1977
                introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria and
                                                              Romania
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       account below the reference price for two consecutive
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         market days ; whereas a countervailing charge has
                                                                      therefore to be introduced for these tomatoes ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community,                                                Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1498/77
                                                                     of 4 July 1977 (6) has introduced a countervailing
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       charge on tomatoes originating in Romania ;
  1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
 of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last                  Whereas the entry prices available at present for these
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 (2), and in                   two exporting countries allow the application of one
 particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)                charge, equal to the difference between the reference
 thereof,                                                             price and the arithmetic mean of the average entry
                                                                      prices established for each exporting country ; whereas
 Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                      Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1498/77 of 4 July
  1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product              1977 should therefore be repealed ;
 imported from a third country remains at least 0-50
 unit of account below the reference price for two                   Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it
 consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must               should be calculated for the entry price on the
 be introduced in respect of the exporting country                   following basis :
 concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;
                                                                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1050/77                           relation to each other at any given moment within
 of 18 May 1977 fixing the reference price for tomatoes                   a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
 until the end of the 1 977 marketing year (3), fixed the                 their effective parity ;
 reference price for Class I products at 55-23 units of
 account per 100 kilograms net for the period 1 June                 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 to 10 July 1977 ;                                                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                          of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
 is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded                    in the previous subparagraph,
 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)              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the
 meaning of representative markets is defined in
 Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                                              Article 1
 Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­              1 . A countervailing charge of 19-76 units of
 tion (EEC) No 385/75 (5), the prices to be taken into               account per 100 kilograms net is applied to tomatoes
 consideration must be recorded on the representative                falling within subheading ex 07.01 M of the Common
 markets    or,   in    certain    circumstances,    on   other      Customs Tariff and originating in Bulgaria and
                                                                     Romania.
 markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
with the coefficients fixed in the first indent of Article
 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1050/77 ;                              2. Regulation        (EEC)    No      1498/77   is hereby
                                                                     repealed.
Whereas for Bulgarian tomatoes the entry prices calcu­
lated in this way have remained at least 0-50 unit of
                                                                                              Article 2
(!)  OJ  No L  118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2)  OJ  No L  125, 19 . 5. 1977, p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 July 1977.
(J)  OJ  No L  125, 19. 5. 1977, p. 32.
(4)  OJ  No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .
 5)  OJ  No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .                              (<>) OJ No L 167, 5 . 7. 1977, p. 11 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 7 July 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President