CELEX: 31978R2101
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2101/78 of 5 September 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on table grapes originating in Bulgaria

No L 244/ 18                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                  6 . 9 . 78
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2101 /78
                                                       of 5 September 1978
                 introducing a countervailing charge on table grapes 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 ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                 Whereas, for table grapes, the entry price calculated in
                                                                    this way has remained at least 0-50 unit of account
                                                                    below the reference price for two consecutive market
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       days ; whereas a countervailing charge should there­
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                  fore be introduced for these grapes ;
of the market in fruit and vegetables ( ! ), as last
amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1766/78 (2 ), and in
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)                Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the
thereof,                                                            entry price should be calculated on the following
                                                                    basis :
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No
 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product
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 within
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                         their effective parity,
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
last two entry prices available for that exporting                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
country ;                                                                 of these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                          relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                          in the previous subparagraph ,
Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 1668 /78
of 14 July 1978 fixing the reference prices for table
grapes for the 1978 marketing year (3 ) fixed the refer­
ence price for products of Class I for September and
October 1978 at 27-02 units of account per 100 kilo­
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
grams net ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded                                           Article 1
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                  A countervailing charge of 1-33 units of account per
sentative markets for which prices are available, less               100 kilograms net is applied to table grapes
the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)              (subheading 08.04 A I of the Common Customs
of Regulation ( EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                       Tariff) originating in Bulgaria.
meaning of representative price is defined in Article
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/ 72 ;
                                                                                                Article 2
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 21 18 /74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 September
(')  OJ No  L 1 18 , 20 . 5. 1972,  p. 1.                            1978 .
(')  OJ No  L 204,   28 . 7. 1978 , p. 12 .
(3)  OJ No  L 192,   15 . 7. 1978 , p. 53 .
(4 ) OJ No  L 220 ,  10 . 8. 1974 , p. 20 .                         (5 ) OJ No L 90 , 5 . 4 . 1978 , p. 5 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 5 September 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President