CELEX: 31978R0906
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 906/78 of 28 April 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Romania

No L 117/78                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             29 . 4. 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 906/78
                                                     of 28 April 1978
                 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Romania
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 ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            with the coefficients fixed in Article 1 (2) of Regula­
Economic Community,                                              tion (EEC) No 585/78 ;
                                                                 Whereas, for Romanian tomatoes, the entry price
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                of account below the reference price for two consecu­
of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last               tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 (2), and in               should therefore be introduced for these tomatoes ;
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
whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                  basis :
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50
unit of account below the reference price for two                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                 relation to each other at any given moment within
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                        their effective parity ;
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the               — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
last two entry prices available for that exporting                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
country ;
                                                                      of these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                      in the previous subparagraph,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 585/78 of
22 March 1978 fixing the reference price for tomatoes
for the month of April 1978 (3) fixed the reference
price for products of Class I at 103-07 units of account
per 100 kilograms net ;                                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded                                      Article 1
for 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           A countervailing charge of 11-68 units of account per
the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)            100 kilograms net is applied to tomatoes (subheading
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                      ex 07.01 M of the Common Customs Tariff) origi­
meaning of representative price is defined in Article             nating in Romania.
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­                                     Article 2
tion (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
0)  OJ No   L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No   L 125, 19. 5. 1977, p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 May 1978 .
(3) OJ No   L 79, 23. 3. 1978, p. 28 .
(4) OJ No   L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.                           (5) OJ No L 90, 5. 4. 1978 , p. 5 .
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29. 4. 78                    Official Journal of the European Communities                      No L 117/79
          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 28 April 1978.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Vice-President