CELEX: 31978R0467
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 467/78 of 6 March 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Greece, Spain and Romania

7 . 3 . 78                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 64/ 15
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 467/ 78
                                                       of 6 March 1978
              introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Greece , Spain
                                                         and Romania
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    consideration must be recorded on the representative
COMMUNITIES,                                                      markets       or,  in  certain      circumstances,  on other
                                                                  markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
                                                                  with the coefficients fixed in the first indent of Article
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 244/78 ;
Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas for Romanian cucumbers the entry prices
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                     calculated in this way have remained at least 0-50 unit
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                 of account below the reference price for two consecu­
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge has
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 (2), and in                therefore to be introduced for these cucumbers ;
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)
thereof,
                                                                  Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 426/78 of
                                                                  28 February 1 978 (6), has introduced a countervailing
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                   charge on cucumbers originating in Greece ;
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product
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             Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 445/78 of
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                 2 March 1978 (7) introduced a countervailing charge
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                    on cucumbers originating in Spain ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 244/78 of                  Whereas the entry prices available at present for these
6 February 1978 fixing for the months February to                 three exporting countries allow the application of one
April 1978 the reference price for cucumbers (3), fixed           charge, equal to the difference between the reference
the reference price for Class I products at 62-63 units            price and the arithmetic mean of the average entry
of account per 100 kilograms for the month of March                prices established for each exporting country ; whereas
 1978 ;
                                                                   Commission Regulations (EEC) No 426/78 and (EEC)
                                                                   No 445/78 should therefore be repealed ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting            Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                 should be calculated for the entry price on the
sentative markets for which prices are available, less             following basis :
the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
meaning of representative markets is defined in
Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                          relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                         a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                         their effective parity ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
tion (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
tion (EEC) No 385/75 (5), the prices to be taken into
                                                                        of these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
(>) OJ   No L 118, 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No L 125, 19 . 5. 1977, p. 1 .                                  in the previous subparagraph ,
(3) OJ   No L 37, 7 . 2. 1978 , p. 11 .
(4) OJ   No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .                          (6) OJ No L 59, 1 . 3 . 1978 , p. 41 .
(5) OJ   No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .                             ( 7) OJ No L 61 , 3 . 3 . 1978 , p. 8 .
 ---pagebreak--- No L 64/ 16                     Official Journal of the European Communities                          7 . 3 . 78
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                              2.     Regulations ( EEC) No 426/78 and (EEC) No
                                                           445/78 are hereby repealed.
                     Article 1
1 . A countervailing charge of 8.57 units of account
                                                                                   Article 2
per 100 kilograms net is applied to cucumbers falling
within subheading ex 07.01 P of the Common
Customs Tariff and originating in Greece, Spain and        This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 March
Romania .                                                  1978 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 6 March 1978 .
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                         Vice-President