CELEX: 31976R0591
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 591/76 of 15 March 1976 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Spain

16 . 3 . 76                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 70/5
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 591 /76
                                                      of 15 March 1976
                   introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Spain
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be
COMMUNITIES,                                                     taken into consideration on the representative markets
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4),
Economic Community,                                              amended by Regulation (EEC) No 385/75 (5), and if
                                                                 necessary to multiply the prices with the coefficients
Having regard to Council .Regulation (EEC) No                    fixed in Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 248/76 ;
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last               Whereas, for Spanish cucumbers the entry price calcu­
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2482/75 (2), and in               lated in this way has remained at least 050 unit of
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)             account below the reference price for two consecutive
thereof,                                                         market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
                                                                 therefore be introduced for these cucumbers ;
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
 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                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                 relation to each other, at any given moment
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                     within a band of 2 25 % a rate of exchange based
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                        on 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
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 248 /76 of                     in previous subparagraph,
4 February 1976 fixing for the months of February
and March 1976 the reference prices for cucum­
bers (3), fixed the reference price for products of Class        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
I at 59-94 units of account per 100 kg net for the
month of March 1976 ;                                                                     Article 1
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country            A countervailing charge of 4-09 units of account per
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded             100 kg net is applied to cucumbers (subheading ex
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting           07.01 P of the Common Customs Tariff) originating
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­               in Spain ,
sentative markets for which prices are available, less
the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)                                   Article 2
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 and whereas the
meaning of representative price is defined in Article            This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 March
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                           1976 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels , 15 March 1976 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 254, 1 . 10 . 1975, p. 3 .                           (") OJ No L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20 .
(3) OJ No L 30, 5. 2. 1976, p. 8 .                               (5) OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .