CELEX: 31979R1545
Language: en
Date: 1979-07-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1545/79 of 24 July 1979 introducing a countervailing charge on lemons originating in Uruguay

25 . 7 . 79                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 187/9
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1545/79
                                                         of 24 July 1979
                    introducing a countervailing charge on lemons originating in Uruguay
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     tion (EEC) No 668/78 (5), the prices to be taken into
COMMUNITIES,                                                       consideration must be recorded on the representative
                                                                    markets or,     in  certain    circumstances, on other
                                                                    markets ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                Whereas, for lemons from Uruguay, the entry price
                                                                   calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit
                                                                    of account below the reference price for two consecu­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                   should therefore be introduced for these lemons ;
of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1301 /79 (2), and in
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)               Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
thereof,                                                            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                         relation to each other at any given moment within
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product                  a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50                     their effective parity,
unit of account below the reference price for two                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                       of these currencies recorded for a given period in
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                          relation to the Community currencies referred to
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                  in the previous indent ;
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the
last two entry prices available for that exporting
country ;                                                          Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
                                                                    March 1979 (6) laid down the coefficient for
                                                                    expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
                                                                    ECU,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1342/79
of 29 June 1979 fixing until the end of the 1979/80
marketing year the reference prices for lemons (3)
fixed the reference price for products of Class I for the
month of July 1979 at 33-04 ECU per 100 kilograms
net :                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
                                                                                             Article 1
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                 A countervailing charge of 2-40 ECU per 100 kilo­
sentative markets for which prices are available, less             grams net is applied to fresh lemons (subheading ex
the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)              08.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff) originating
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                        in Uruguay.
meaning of representative price is defined in Article
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
                                                                                             Article 2
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 21 18 /74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 July
                                                                    1979 .
(') OJ   No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972,  p. 1.
(2  OJ   No L 162,  30 . 6. 1979 , p. 26 .
(3) OJ   No L 162,  30 . 6. 1979 , p. 111 .                        (5) OJ No L 90 , 5. 4. 1978 , p. 5 .
(«) OJ   No L 220 , 10 . 8. 1974,  p. 20 .                         (6) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979 , p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 24 July 1979 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President