CELEX: 31980R2437
Language: en
Date: 1980-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2437/80 of 24 September 1980 introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in Hungary

25 . 9. 80                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 252/ 15
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2437/80
                                                     of 24 September 1980
              introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in
                                                             Hungary
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     consideration must be recorded on the representative
COMMUNITIES,                                                       markets or, in certain circumstances, on other
                                                                   markets ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                Whereas, for Hungarian plums of Group II, the entry
                                                                   price calculated in this way has remained at least 0.6
                                                                    ECU below the reference price for two consecutive
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                 therefore be introduced for these plums ;
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1367/80 (2), and in                 Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)
thereof,
                                                                   entry price should be calculated on the following
                                                                   basis :
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product                  relation to each other at any given moment within
imported from a third country remains at least 0.6                      a band of 2.25 % , a rate of exchange based on
ECU below the reference price for two consecutive                       their effective parity ;
market days, a countervailing charge must be intro­                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
duced in respect of the exporting country concerned,                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
save in exceptional circumstances ; whereas this                        of these currencies recorded for a given period in
charge is equal to the difference between the refer­                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
ence price and the arithmetic mean of the last two                      in the previous indent,
entry prices available for that exporting country ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1085/80
of 2 May 1980 fixing for the 1980 marketing year the
reference price for plums (3), fixed the reference price            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
for Class I, Group II, at 29-97 ECU per 100 kilograms
net for the month of September 1980 ;
                                                                                             Article 1
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             A countervailing charge of 1-75 ECU per 100 kilo­
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                 grams net is applied to plums (subheading 08.07 D of
sentative markets for which prices are available, less              the Common Customs Tariff), of the following varie­
the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)             ties : Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hausz­
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                       wetschge), Reine-Claude d'Oullins (Oullins Gage),
meaning of representative price is defined in Article              Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario, Wangen­
24 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 1035/72 ;                            heimer (early Wangenheim quetsche), Pershore
                                                                   (Yellow Egg), Mirabelle and Bosniche, originating in
                                                                    Hungary.
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 211 8 /74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 668 /78 (5), the prices to be taken into
                                                                                             Article 2
(') OJ  No L  118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
 2) OJ  No L  140, 5 . 6 . 1980, p. 24.
(3) OJ  No L  114, 3 . 5. 1980 , p. 5.
(4) OJ  No L  220, 10. 8 . 1974, p . 20 .                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 26
(5) OJ  No L  90, 5 . 4. 1978 , p. 5 .                              September 1980 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 24 September 1980 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President