CELEX: 31979R0550
Language: en
Date: 1979-03-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 550/79 of 22 March 1979 introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of apples originating in Poland

No L 72/ 26                         Official Journal of the European Communities                               23 . 3 . 79
                                COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 550/79
                                                    of 22 March 1979
               introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of apples originating in
                                                          Poland
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
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                               markets ;
 Economic Community,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  Whereas, for apples from Poland of the varieties listed
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization             in Article 1 (3) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1532/78 ,
of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last             the entry price calculated in this way has remained at
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 325/79 (2), and in              least 0-50 unit of account below the reference price
 particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)          for two consecutive market days ; whereas a counter­
 thereof,                                                      vailing charge should therefore be introduced for
                                                               certain varieties of apples originating in Poland ;
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product        Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
 imported from a third country remains at least 0-50           prices should 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 within
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between              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
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1532/78                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
of 30 June 1978 fixing the reference prices for apples              in the previous indent,
for the 1978/79 marketing year (3) fixed the reference
 price for Class I products of Group II at 19-77 units of       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
account per 100 kilograms net for March 1979 ;
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         A countervailing charge of 7-23 units of account per
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­              100 kilograms net is applied to apples originating in
sentative markets for which prices are available, less         Poland (subheading ex 08.06 A II of the Common
the duties and charges referred ^o in Article 24 (3) of        Customs Tariff) and specified in the Annex hereto.
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning
of representative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of
                                                                                         Article 2
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
Whereas in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­          This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 March
tion (EEC) No 2118/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­           1979 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 22 March 1979 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                           Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                              Vice-President
(•) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
I2) OJ No L 45, 22. 2. 1979, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 179, 1 . 7. 1978 , p. 26.
H OJ No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .                          (5) OJ No L 90, 5 . 4 . 1978 , p. 5 .
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                                                           ANNEX
            All varieties of apples with the exception of the following :
            Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Richared, Stark Delicious, Starking, Starkrimson , Yellow Trans­
            parent Klarapfel, James Grieve, Belle de Boskoop, Stayman Winesap, Stayman red, Black winesap,
            Granny Smith, Dunn 's Seedling, King Cole, Cleopatra, Democrat, Yellow Newton, Crofton, Ingrid
            Marie, Sturmer, Laxton's superb, Scarlet pearmain, White winter pearmain, Geeveston Fanny, Tyde­
            man 's early Worcester, Benoni, Stark earliest, Winston, Reinette du Canada, Berlepsch, Annurca,
            Lodi , Gravensteiner, Miller's Seedling, Worcester pearmain, Weißwinterglockenapfel, Cortland,
            Spartan , Red Macintosh , various varieties of Cox's varieties, Abbondanza (Belfort), Rambour d'hiver,
            Brettacher, Horneburger, Kruegers Dickstiel , Kirchenwerder, Finkenweder, Winter Banana, Limon­
            cella, Commercio, Reinette Clochard, Ontario, Reinette du Mans, Lemoenapfel, Bramley's Seedling
            (Triomphe de Kiel), Pella, and mutations of the above varieties.