CELEX: 31974R1031
Language: en
Date: 1974-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1031/74 of the Commission of 29 April 1974 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers imported from Bulgaria

No L 117 /46                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               30 . 4 . 74
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1031 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 29 April 1974
                 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers imported from Bulgaria
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be
COMMUNITIES,                                                      taken into consideration on the representative markets
                                                                  referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 1291 /70 (4),
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2846/72 (5) and
Economic Community ;                                              affect this price where applicable by the coefficients
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      fixed in Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 425/74 ;
1035/72 ( j ) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­              Whereas, for cucumbers from Bulgaria the entry price
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables as last                calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2) and in                 of account below the reference price for two consecu­
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)              tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge
thereof ;                                                         should      therefore   be    introduced   for cucumbers
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                   imported from Bulgaria ;
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product            Whereas if the system is to operate normally it should
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50
                                                                  be calculated on the following basis :
unit of account below the reference price for two
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must             — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                      relation to each other, at any given moment
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                         within a band of 2-25 % a rate of exchange based
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                 on their effective parity ;
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
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 425/74 (3)
                                                                       in the previous subparagraph,
of 20 February 1974 fixing the reference price for the
1974 marketing year fixed the reference price for
Class I at 35-5 units of account per 100 kg net for the            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
month of April 1974 ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded             A countervailing charge of 4-6 units of account per
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting             100 kg net is applied to cucumbers (subheading No
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                 ex 07.01 P of the Common Customs Tariff) imported
sentative markets for which prices are available, less             from Bulgaria.
the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 and whereas the                                               Article 2
meaning of representative price is defined in Article
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1974.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 29 April 1974.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                  The President
                                                                             François-Xavier ORTOLI
(>) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147 .                          (4) OJ No L 144, 2. 7. 1970 , p . 10 .
P) OJ No L 49, 21 . 2. 1974, p . 11 .                              (5) OJ No L 299 , 31 . 12 . 1972, p . 1 .