CELEX: 31974R2494
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-02 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2494/74 of the Commission of 2 October 1974 introducing a countervailing charge on table grapes originating in Bulgaria and Romania

No L 267/8                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              3 . 10 . 74
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2494/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 2 October 1974
               introducing a countervailing charge on table grapes originating in Bulgaria and
                                                              Romania
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        for two consecutive market days ; whereas a counter­
COMMUNITIES,                                                         vailing charge has therefore to be introduced for these
                                                                      table grapes ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                  Whereas the entry prices available at present for these
                                                                      two exporting countries allow the application of one
                                                                      charge, equal to the difference between the reference
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          price and the arithmetic mean of the average entry
1035/72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                    prices established for each exporting country ; whereas
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last                   Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2486/74 (5) of 1
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                    October 1974 introducing a countervailing charge on
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)                  table grapes originating in Romania should therefore
thereof ;                                                             be repealed ;
Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                         Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product                should be calculated on the following basis :
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50
                                                                      — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
unit of account below the reference price for two
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                      relation to each other, at any given moment,
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                          within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                             on their effective parity ;
                                                                      — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Whereas Commission                 Regulation (EEC) No                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 1 363/74 (3) of 31 May 1974 fixing the reference prices                   of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
                                                                           relation to the Community currencies referred to
for table grapes for the 1974 marketing year fixed the
reference price for class I products at 19-8 units of                      in the previous subparagraph,
account per 100 kg net for the month of October
 1974 ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­
                                                                                               Article 1
sentative markets for which prices are available, less
the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 and whereas the                         1 . A countervailing charge of 7-4 units of account
meaning of representative markets is defined in                       per 100 kg net is applied to table grapes, falling
Article 24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                        within CCT subheading 08.04 A I, and originating in
                                                                       Bulgaria and Romania.
Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be
taken into consideration on the representative markets                2. Regulation        (EEC)    No    2486/74  is    hereby
referred to in Regulation ( EEC) No 21 1 8/74 (4) ;                   repealed.
Whereas for Bulgarian and Romanian table grapes the
entry prices calculated in this way have remained at                                           Article 2
least 0-50 unit of account below the reference price
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 October
(') OJ  No  L  118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                             1974 .
(2) OJ  No  L  291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147 .
(J) OJ  No   L 147,  1 . 6 . 1974, p. 44.
(«) OJ  No  L  220,  10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .                           (5) OJ No L 265, 2. 10 . 1974, p. 10 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 2 October 1974.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                       The President
                                                                  Francois-Xavier ORTOLI