CELEX: 31979R1604
Language: en
Date: 1979-07-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1604/79 of 26 July 1979 introducing a countervailing charge on peaches originating in Greece

27. 7. 79                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 189/61
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1604/79
                                                      of 26 July 1979
                  introducing a countervailing charge on peaches originating in Greece
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 Greek peaches, 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 peaches ;
of the market in fruit and vegetables ^), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1301 /79 (2), and in             Whereas if the system is o operate normally the entry
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)            price should be calculated on the following basis :
thereof,
                                                                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                     relation to each other at any given moment within
Whereas Article     25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                  a band of 2-25 %, a rate of exchange based on
 1035/72 provides  that, if the entry price of a product             their effective parity,
imported from a    third country remains at least 0-50
unit of account   below the reference price for two
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                       of these currencies recorded for a given period in
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between               relation to the Community currencies referred to
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                   in the previous subparagraph ;
last two entry prices available for that exporting
country ;                                                       Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
                                                                March 1 979 (6) laid down the coefficient for
                                                                expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1103/79                  ECU,
of 5 June 1979 fixing the reference prices for peaches
for the 1979 marketing year (3) fixed the reference
price for products of class I for July 1979 at 47-74
units of account per 100 kilograms met ;
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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
sentative markets for which prices are available, less          A countervailing charge of 2*29 units of account per
the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)           100 kilograms net is applied to peaches (subheading
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                    08.07 B of the Common Customs Tariff) originating
                                                                in Greece.
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 18/71 (4), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 July
                                                                 1979 .
(') OJ No L 118, 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
I2) OJ No L 162, 30. 6. 1979, p. 26.
(3) OJ No L 138, 6. 6. 1979, p. 7.                              (5) OJ No L 90, 5. 4. 1978, p. 5.
(«) OJ No L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.                           (6) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 26 July 1979.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Vice-President