CELEX: 31982R0603
Language: en
Date: 1982-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 603/82 of 16 March 1982 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Spain

No L 73/ 12                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             17. 3 . 82
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 603/82
                                                  of 16 March 1982
                 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Spain
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Regula­
COMMUNITIES,                                                  tion (EEC) No 2118/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
                                                              tion (EEC) No 3011 /81 (*), the prices to be taken into
                                                              consideration must be recorded on the representative
                                                              markets    or,  in  certain  circumstances, on     other
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
Economic Community,                                           with the coefficient fixed in the first subparagraph of
                                                              Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 303/82 ;
                                                              Whereas, for Spanish cucumbers, the entry price
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  calculated in this way has remained at least 0-6 ECU
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization             below the reference price for two consecutive market
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last            days ; whereas a countervailing charge should therefore
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1116/81 (*), and in            be introduced for these cucumbers ;
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)
thereof,
                                                              Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
                                                              price should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas Article 25 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
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 central rate,
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 of
save in exceptional circumstances ; whereas this charge           these currencies recorded for a given period in
is equal to the difference between the reference price            relation to the Community currencies referred to
and the arithmetic mean of the last two entry prices              in the previous indent,
available for that exporting country ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 303/82 of
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
9 February 1982 fixing the reference price for cucum­
bers for the 1982 marketing year (3) fixed the reference
price for products of Class I for the period 21 February
to 31 March 1982 at 96-75 ECU per 100 kilograms
                                                                                      Article 1
net ;
                                                              A countervailing charge of 19-95 ECU per 100 kilo­
                                                              grams net is applied to cucumbers (subheading 07.01
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country         P I of the Common Customs Tariff) originating in
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for     Spain.
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 the
duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of                                 Article 2
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning
of representative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 March
                                                               1982.
(') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
f) OJ No L 118, 30. 4. 1981 , p. 1 .                          (<) OJ No L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20 .
(') OJ No L 37, 10. 2. 1982, p. 12.                           (Ó OJ No L 301 , 22. 10. 1981 , p. 18.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 16 March 1982.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Poul DALSAGER
                                                              Member of the Commission