CELEX: 31977R0507
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 507/77 of 11 March 1977 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Bulgaria and Spain

No L 66/ 30                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              12 . 3 . 77
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 507/77
                                                           of 11 March 1977
                introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Bulgaria and
                                                                 Spain
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 459/77 of 4 March
 thereof,                                                              1977 introducing a countervailing charge on cucum­
                                                                       bers originating in Spain (6) should therefore be
                                                                       repealed ;
Whereas Article          25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
 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
                                                                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;
                                                                            relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                            within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
 Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 256/77 of                          on their effective parity ;
 4 February 1977 fixing for the months of February to
April 1977 the reference price for cucumbers (3), fixed                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 the reference price for Class I products at 6 1 -69 units                  arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 of account per 100 kilograms net for the month of                          of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 March 1977 ;                                                               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                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 sentative markets for which prices are available, less
 the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)
 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the
 meaning of representative markets is defined in                                                Article 1
 Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
                                                                        1 . A countervailing charge of 7-61 units of account
Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be                     per 100 kilograms net is applied to cucumbers falling
 taken into consideration on the representative markets                within subheading ex 07-01 P of the Common
 referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 211 8 /74 (4), as                  Customs Tariff and originating in Bulgaria and Spain .
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 385/75 (5), and if
 necessary to multiply the prices with the coefficients
 fixed in Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 256/77 ;                2.      Regulation (EEC) No 459/77 is hereby repealed.
Whereas for Bulgarian and Spanish cucumbers the
 entry prices calculated in this way have remained at                                           Article 2
(')  OJ No  L  1 18 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 March
(2)  OJ No  L  93 , 8 . 4. 1976, p. 6 .                                 1977 .
(3 ) OJ No  L  34, 5 . 2 . 1977, p. 52 .
(«)  OJ No  L  220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .
(5)  OJ No  L 44, 18 . 2 . 1975, p. 8 .                                (6) OJ No L 60, 5. 3 . 1977, p. 9 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 11 March 1977 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Vice-President