CELEX: 31974R1262
Language: en
Date: 1974-05-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1262/74 of the Commission of 20 May 1974 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes imported from Bulgaria

21 . 5. 74                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 138 /9
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 1262/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 20 May 1974
                  introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes imported from Bulgaria
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be
COMMUNITIES,                                                        taken into consideration on the representative markets
                                                                    referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 1291 /70 (4),
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2846/72 (5) and
Economic Community ;                                                affect this price where applicable by the coefficients
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        fixed in Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 425/74 ;
1035/72 ( !) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                Whereas, for tomatoes from Bulgaria the entry price
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables as last                  calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                  of account below the reference price for two consecu­
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)                tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge
thereof ;                                                           should therefore be introduced for tomatoes imported
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                     from Bulgaria ;
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product              Whereas if the system is to operate normally it should
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50                 be calculated on the following basis :
unit of account below the reference price for two                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                        relation to each other, at any given moment
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                           within a band of 2-25 % a rate of exchange based
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                   on their effective parity ;
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 td
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 749/74 (3)                        in the previous subparagraph,
of 29 March 1974 fixing the reference price for toma­
toes for the 1974 marketing year fixed the reference                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
price for Class I at 52 8 units of account per 100 kg
net for the month of May 1974 ;                                                                Article 1
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded
                                                                    A countervailing charge of 12-9 units of account per
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting
                                                                     100 kg net is applied to tomatoes (subheading No
                                                                    07.01 M of the Common Customs Tariff) imported
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­
sentative markets for which prices are available, less              from Bulgaria.
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 22 May
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, 20 May 1974.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                    The President
                                                                               François-Xavier ORTOLI
(!) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .
(2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 147 .                         (4 ) OJ No L 144, 2. 7. 1970, p. 10 .
h) OJ No L 86, 30. 3. 1974, p. 71 .                                  5 ) OJ No L 299 , 31 . 12. 1972, p. 1 .