CELEX: 31976R0364
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 364/76 of 19 February 1976 introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of sweet oranges originating in Greece

No L 44/26                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             20 . 2. 76
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 364/76
                                                      of 19 February 1976
             introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of sweet oranges origi­
                                                        nating in Greece
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 211 8/74 (4), as
                                                                   amended by Regulation (EEC) No 385/75 (5), and to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              apply the coefficients fixed in Article 1 (4) of Regula­
Economic Community,                                                tion (EEC) No 2973/75 to those prices ;
                                                                   Whereas, for oranges from Greece of the varieties
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    listed in Article 1 (3) (c), of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
                                                                    2973/75 the entry prices calculated in this way have
of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last                  for five consecutive market days been alternatively
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2482/75 (2), and in                  above and below the reference price ; whereas four of
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)                these entry prices are below the reference price, and
thereof,                                                            one of them is more than 0-5 unit of account below
                                                                    the reference price ; whereas a countervailing charge
                                                                    should therefore be introduced for these varieties of
Whereas Article 25a ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                    sweet oranges originating in Greece ;
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product
imported from a non-member country is alternatively
above and below the reference price for five to seven               Whereas in accordance with the provisions of Article
consecutive market days a countervailing charge is                  26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 that charge is
introduced in respect of that non-member country,                   applied in principle for six days ;
save in exceptional cases ; whereas that charge is intro­
duced when three entry prices fall below the reference
                                                                    Whereas if the system is to operate normally it should
price and one of those entry prices is at least 0-5 unit            be calculated on the following basis :
of account below the reference price ;
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas that charge is equal to the difference                           relation to each other at any given moment within
between the reference price and the last available                       a band of 2-25 % a rate of exchange based on
entry price by at least 0-5 unit of account below the                    their effective parity,
reference price ;                                                   — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
                                                                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                         of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2973/75                           relation to the Community currencies referred to
of 12 November 1975 fixing the reference prices for                      in the previous subparagraph,
sweet oranges for the 1975/76 marketing year (3) fixed
the reference price for Class I products of Group II at
 16-28 units of account per 100 kg net ;
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest on the average of the lowest
representative prices recorded for at least 30 % of the
quantities from the exporting country concerned                                                Article 1
which are marketed on all representative markets for
which prices are available, less the duties and the
charges referred to in Article 24 (3) of Regulation                 A countervailing charge of 0*8 1 unit of account per
(EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of represen­                  100 kg net is applied to fresh sweet oranges
tative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation             (subheading 08.02 A I of the Common Customs
(EEC) No 1035/72 ;                                                  Tariff) originating in Greece other than the varieties
                                                                    Moro, Tarocco, Biondo comune (Blanca comuna,
(>) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .
(2 ) OJ No L 254, 1 . 10 . 1975, p . 3 .                            (4) OJ No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .
(}) OJ No L 295, 14. 11 . 1975, p . 18 .                             5 ) OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .
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Blonde commune), Grano de oro (Imperial, Sucrena),                                 Article 2
Baladi, Pera, Macetera, Pineapple, Blood oval (Doble­
fina, Double fine), Portuguese sanguine, Sanguina           This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 February
redonda (Entrefina), Surinam varieties and the ordi­        1976. Subject to the provisions of the second subpara­
nary Sanguina variety, with the exception of Navel          graph of Article 26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
sanguines (improved Double fine, Washington                 1035/72, this Regulation shall be applicable until 26
sanguina, Sanguina grande) and Maltese sanguines.           February 1976.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
              Done at Brussels, 19 February 1976.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                       P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                 Member of the Commission