CELEX: 31974R1224
Language: en
Date: 1974-05-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1224/74 of the Commission of 15 May 1974 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes imported from Spain

No L 133/24                          Official Journal of the European Communities                             16. 5. 74
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1224/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of IS May 1974
                   introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes imported from Spain
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 Spain 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 Spain ;
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 to
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 10-4 units of account per
 for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting          100 kg net is applied to tomatoes (subheading No
 country concerned which are marketed on all repre­              07.01 M of the Common Customs Tariff) imported
 sentative markets for which prices are available, less          from Spain .
 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 17 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, 15 May 1974.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                                The President
                                                                           Francois-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 .