CELEX: 31977R2437
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2437/77 of 4 November 1977 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Spain

No L 282/ 10                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               5 . 11 . 77
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2437/77
                                                     of 4 November 1977
                    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 211 8 /74 (4), as amended by Regulation
                                                                  (EEC) No 385/75 (5), the prices to be taken into
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            consideration must be recorded on the representative
 Economic Community,                                              markets      or,   in  certain   circumstances, on    other
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                with the coefficients fixed in the second indent of
 of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last               Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1049/77 ;
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 034/77 (2), and in              Whereas, for Spanish cucumbers, the entry price calcu­
 particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)             lated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit of
 thereof,
                                                                  account below the reference price for two consecutive
 Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                  market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product           therefore be introduced for these cucumbers ;
 imported from a third country remains at least 0 50              Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
 unit of account below the reference price for two                price should be calculated on the following basis :
 consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
.be introduced in respect of the exporting country
 concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                         relation to each other at any given moment within
 whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                 a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
 the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                     their effective parity ;
 last two entry prices available for that exporting               — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 country ;                                                              arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                        of these currencies recorded for a given period in
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1049/77                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
 of 18 May 1977 fixing the reference price for cucum­                   in the previous subparagraph,
 bers until the end of the 1977 marketing year (3) fixed
 the reference price for products of Class I for the
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 month of November 1977 at 50-73 units of account
 per 100 kilograms net ;                                                                     Article 1
 Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
 is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded            A countervailing charge of 1 *95 units of account per
 for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting            100 kilograms net is applied to cucumbers
 country concerned which are marketed on all repre­               (subheading ex 07.01 P of the Common Customs
 sentative markets for which prices are available, less           Tariff) originating in Spain .
 the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)                                      Article 2
 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the
 meaning of representative price is defined in Article            This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 November
 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                           1977 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 4 November 1977 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                   Vice-President
(>) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5 . 1977, p. 1 .                            (4) OJ No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .
(3) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5 . 1977, p. 30 .                           (5 ) OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .