CELEX: 31974R2623
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2623/74 of the Commission of 16 October 1974 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria

17 . 10 . 74                                Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 280 / 11
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 2623/ 74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 16 October 1974
                     introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be
COMMUNITIES,                                                          taken into consideration on the representative markets
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 21 1 8 /74 (5), and to
Economic Community ;
                                                                      multiply the prices with the coefficients fixed in
                                                                      Article 1 (2) in Regulation (EEC) No 749/74 ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1 035/72 ( x ) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                 Whereas, for Bulgarian tomatoes the entry price calcu­
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables as last                    lated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit of
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                    account below the reference price for two consecutive
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)                  market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
thereof ;                                                             therefore be introduced for these tomatoes ;
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                       Whereas if the system is to operate normally it should
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product                be calculated on the following basis :
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
unit of account below the reference price for two
                                                                          relation to each other, at any given moment
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must
                                                                          within a band of 2-25 % a rate of exchange based
be introduced in respect of the exporting country
                                                                          on their effective parity ;
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
last two entry prices available for that exporting                        of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
country ;                                                                 relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                          in previous subparagraph ,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 749/74 (3 )
of 29 March 1974 fixing the reference price for table
tomatoes for the 1974 marketing year, as amended by                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Regulation ( EEC) No 251 8 /74 (4), fixed the reference
price for Class I at 18-80 units of account per 100 kg
                                                                                                Article 1
net from 7 October to 20 December 1974 ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country                  A countervailing charge of 3-5 units of account per
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded                  100 kg net is applied to tomatoes (subheading 07.01
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting                 M of the Common Customs Tariff) originating in
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                     Bulgaria .
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 and whereas the
meaning of representative price is defined in Article                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 October
24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                                 1974 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                 Done at Brussels, 16 October 1974 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(')  OJ  No   L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
(2 ) OJ  No   L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p. 147 .
(3 ) OJ  No   L 86, 30 . 3 . 1974, p. 71 .
(4)  OJ  No   L 270, 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 .                             H OJ No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .