CELEX: 31976R0948
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 948/76 of 26 April 1976 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Bulgaria and Greece

No L 109/24                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             27. 4. 76
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 948/76
                                                         of 26 April 1976
              introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Bulgaria and
                                                               Greece
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      least 0-50 unit of account below the reference price
COMMUNITIES,                                                        for two consecutive market days ; whereas a counter­
                                                                    vailing charge has therefore to be introduced for these
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               cucumbers ;
Economic Community,
                                                                    Whereas the entry prices available at present for these
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         two exporting countries allow the application of one
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                    charge, equal to the difference between the reference
of the market in fruit and vegetables ( ! ), as last                 price and the arithmetic mean of the average entry
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in                    prices established for each exporting country ; whereas
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)                 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 927/76 of 22 April
thereof,                                                             1976 introducing a countervailing charge on cucum­
                                                                     bers originating in Greece (6) should therefore be
Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                        repealed ;
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50                  Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it
unit of account below the reference price for two                    should be calculated for the entry price on the
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                following basis :
be introduced in respect of the exporting country
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 625/76 of                          within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
19 March 1976 fixing until the end of the 1976                            on their effective parity ;
marketing year the reference prices for cucumbers (3),               — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
fixed the reference price for class I products at 47-78                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
units of account per 100 kg net for the month of                          of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
April 1976 ;                                                              relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                          in the previous subparagraph,
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
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­
sentative markets for which prices are available, less                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24(3)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 and whereas the
meaning of representative markets is defined in
                                                                                              Article 1
Article 24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be                    1 . A countervailing charge of 9-53 units of account
taken into consideration on the representative markets                per 100 kg net is applied to cucumbers falling within
referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 211 8 /74 (4), as                  CCT subheading ex 07.01 P, and originating in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 385/75 (5) and if                      Bulgaria and Greece.
necessary to multiply the prices with the coefficients
 fixed in the first indent of Article 1 (2) in Regulation             2.      Regulation (EEC) No 927/76 is hereby repealed.
(EEC) No 625/76 ;
Whereas for Bulgarian and Greek cucumbers the
entry prices calculated in this way have remained at                                          Article 2
(') OJ  No L  118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 April
(2) OJ  No L  93, 8 . 4. 1976, p. 6.                                   1976 .
(3) OJ  No L  74, 20 . 3. 1976, p. 11 .
(4) OJ  No  L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20.
(5  OJ  No  L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .                                (6) OJ No L 106, 23. 4. 1976, p. 24.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 26 April 1976.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   P.J. LARD1NOIS
                                                             Member of the Commission