CELEX: 31978R0905
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 905/78 of 28 April 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Greece and Bulgaria

No L 117/76                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              29. 4. 78
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 905/78
                                                       of 28 April 1978
              introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Greece and
                                                            Bulgaria
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     of account below the reference price for two consecu­
COMMUNITIES,                                                       tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge has
                                                                   therefore to be introduced for these cucumbers ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 845/78 of
                                                                   26 April 1978 (6) has introduced a countervailing
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       charge on cucumbers originating in Greece ;
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 1 034/77 (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                    Regulation (EEC) No 845/78 should therefore be
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product             repealed ;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 244/78 of                        relation to each other at any given moment within
6 February 1978 fixing for the months February to                       a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
April 1978 the reference price for cucumbers (3) fixed                  their effective parity ;
the reference price for Class I products at 50-47 units
of account per 100 kilograms for the month of April                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 1978 ;                                                                 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
                                                                    1 . A countervailing charge of 7-90 units of account
tion (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 668 /78 (5), the prices to be taken into              per 100 kilograms net is applied to cucumbers falling
                                                                   within subheading ex 0701 P of the Common
 consideration must be recorded on the representative
markets    or,    in   certain     circumstances,   on   other      Customs Tariff and originating in Greece and
                                                                    Bulgaria.
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 244/78 ;                              2. Regulation       (EEC)    No      845/78 are   hereby
                                                                    repealed.
Whereas for Bulgarian cucumbers the entry prices
calculated in this way have remained at least 0-50 unit
                                                                                             Article 2
(') OJ  No  L  118, 20.  5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L  125, 19.  5. 1977, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No  L  37, 7. 2.  1978, p. 11 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 May 1978 .
(4) OJ  No  L  220, 10.  8 . 1974, p. 20.
(5) OJ  No  L  90, 5. 4.  1978 , p. 5.                              (6) OJ No L 115, 27 . 4. 1978 , p. 39 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 28 April 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President