CELEX: 31977R0810
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 810/77 of 21 April 1977 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Romania

No L 98 / 12                         Official Journal of the European Communities                              22. 4 . 77
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 810/77
                                                    of 21 April 1977
                introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Romania
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
COMMUNITIES,                                                   tion (EEC) No 211 8 /74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
                                                               tion (EEC) No 385/75 (5), the prices to be taken into
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          consideration must be recorded on the representative
Economic Community,                                            markets      or,   in  certain  circumstances, on   other
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization              with the coefficients fixed in the first indent of Article
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last              1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 256/77 ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in              Whereas, for Romanian cucumbers the entry price
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)           calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit
thereof,                                                       of account below the reference price for two consecu­
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product         should therefore be introduced for these cucumbers ;
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50            Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
unit of account below the reference price for two              price should be calculated on the following basis :
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
be introduced in respect of the exporting country
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                      relation to each other, at any given moment,
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between              within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                  on their effective parity ;
last two entry prices available for that exporting             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
country ;                                                           arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 256/77 of                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
4 February 1977 fixing for the months of February to                in previous subparagraph,
April 1977 the reference price for cucumbers (3), fixed
the reference price for products of Class I at 49-53            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
units of account per 100 kilograms net for the month
of April 1977 ;                                                                           Article 1
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded
                                                               A countervailing charge of 17-49 units of account per
                                                                100 kilograms net is applied to cucumbers
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting         (subheading ex 07.01 P of the Common Customs
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­
                                                               Tariff) originating in Romania.
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          This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 April
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                         1977 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 21 April 1977.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                Vice-President
(•) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 93, 8 . 4. 1976, p. 6.                              (<) OJ No L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.
(3) OJ No L 34, 5. 2. 1977, p. 52.                              (5) OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .