CELEX: 31981R2471
Language: en
Date: 1981-08-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2471/81 of 25 August 1981 introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in Bulgaria

No L 243/8                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             26 . 8 . 81
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2471 /81
                                                        of 25 August 1981
              introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in
                                                              Bulgaria
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       consideration must be recorded on the representative
COMMUNITIES,                                                         markets or,     in  certain   circumstances, on    other
                                                                     markets ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                 Whereas, for Bulgarian plums of Group I, the entry
                                                                     price calculated in this way has remained at least 0-6
                                                                     ECU below the reference price for two consecutive
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                    therefore be introduced for these plums ;
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1116/81 (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                      — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product                   relation to each other at any given moment within
imported from a third country remains at least 0-6                       a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
ECU below the reference price for two consecutive                        their effective parity ;
market days, a countervailing charge must be intro­
duced in respect of the exporting country concerned,                 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
save in exceptional circumstances ; whereas this charge                  arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
is equal to the difference between the reference price                   these currencies recorded for a given period in
and the arithmetic mean of the last two entry prices                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
available for that exporting country ;                                   in the previous indent,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1131 /81
of 28 April 1981 fixing for the 1981 marketing year
the reference price for plums (3), fixed the reference
price for Class I, Group I, at 49-59 ECU per 100 kilo­               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
grams net for the month of August 1981 ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country                                        Article 1
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for
at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                   A countervailing charge of 8-78 ECU per 100 kilo­
sentative markets for which prices are available, less               grams net is applied to plums (subheading 08.07 D of
the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)               the Common Customs Tariff), of varieties other than
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                         Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetschge),
 meaning of representative price is defined in Article                Reine-Claude d'Oullins (Oullins Gage), Sveske­
 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1 035/72 ;                             blommer, Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario, Wangenheimer
                                                                     (early Wangenheim quetsche), Pershore (Yellow Egg),
                                                                     Mirabelle and Bosniche, originating in Bulgaria.
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 668/78 (*), the prices to be taken into
                                                                                              Article 2
(') OJ  No L   118, 20 .  5. 1972,   p.  1.
0   OJ  No L   118 , 30 . 4. 1981 ,  p.  1.
0   OJ  No L   118, 30.   4. 1981 ,  p.  30.
(4) OJ  No L  220, 10 .   8 . 1974,  p.  20 .                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 August
0   OJ  No L  90, 5. 4.    1978 , p.  5.                              1981 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 25 August 1981 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Poul DALSAGER
                                                              Member of the Commission