CELEX: 31977R2078
Language: en
Date: 1977-09-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2078/77 of 21 September 1977 introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in Czechoslovakia

22. 9. 77                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 243/ 15
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2078/77
                                                    of 21 September 1977
              introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in
                                                        Czechoslovakia
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    (EEC) No 385/75 (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 Czechoslovak plums of Group II the
                                                                  entry price calculated in this way has remained at
                                                                   least 0-50 unit of account below the reference price
Having regard to - Council Regulation (EEC) No                     for two consecutive market days ; whereas a counter­
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                 vailing charge should therefore be introduced for
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                 these plums ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 034/77 (2), and in
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
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50                    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
unit of account below the reference price for two                      on their effective parity ;
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                 — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                 of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
last two entry prices available for that exporting                     in the previous subparagraph,
country ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1213/77
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
of 7 June 1977 fixing for the 1977 marketing year the
reference price for plums (3), fixed the reference price
for Class I, Group II at 21-51 units of account per 100
kg net for September 1 977 ;
                                                                                           Article 1
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country              A countervailing charge of 1 -88 units of account per
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded              100 kg net is applied to plums (subheading 08.07 D
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting             of the Common Customs Tariff), of varieties Altesse
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                 simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetschge), Reine­
sentative markets for which prices are available, less             Claude d'Oullins (Oullins Gage), Sveskeblommer,
the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)            Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario, Wangenheimer (early
of Regulation (EEC) No 1 035/72 ; whereas the                      Wangenheim quetsche), Pershore (Yellow Egg), Mira­
meaning of representative price is defined in Article              belle and Bosniche, originating in Czechoslovakia.
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­                                     Article 2
tion (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as amended by Regulation                                                               \
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 23
(') OJ No  L  118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                             September 1977.
(2) OJ No  L  125, 19. 5. 1977, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No  L  140, 8 . 6. 1977, p. 11 .
(4) OJ No  L  220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20.                          (5) OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 21 September 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President