CELEX: 31978R1416
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1416/78 of 26 June 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in Spain

27. 6. 78                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 170/43
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1416/78
                                                           of 26 June 1978
              introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in
                                                                Spain
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 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                      Whereas, for Spanish plums of Group I the entry
                                                                      price calculated in this way has remained at least 0.50
                                                                      unit of account below the reference price for two
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          consecutive market days ; whereas a countervailing
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                     charge should therefore be introduced for these
of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last                    plums ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 11 54/78 (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
imported from a third country remains at least 0.50                       relation to each other, at any given moment
unit of account below the reference price for two                         within a band of 2.25 % , a rate of exchange based
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                     on their effective parity ;                           o>
be introduced in respect of the exporting country
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                        — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                        of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
last two entry prices available for that exporting                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
country ;                                                                  in the previous subparagraph ,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1233/78                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
of 8 June 1978 fixing for the 1978 marketing year the
reference price for plums (3), fixed the reference price
for Class I, Group I at 34-99 units of account per 100
kg net for the period 11 June to 31 July 1978 ;                                                 Article 1
                                                                      A countervailing charge of 7-87 units of account per
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country                 100 kg net is applied to plums (subheading 08.07 D
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded                 of the Common Customs Tariff), of varieties other
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting                than Altesse simple (common quetsche, Haus­
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                    zwetschge), Reine-Claude d'Oullins (Oullins Gage),
sentative markets for which prices are available, less                Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario, Wangen­
the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)               heimer (early Wangenheim quetsche), Pershore
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                          (Yellow Egg), Mirabelle and Bosniche, originating in
meaning of representative price is defined in Article                 Spain .
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
                                                                                                Article 2
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 June
(>) OJ No  L  118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .                               1978 .
(2) OJ No  L  144,  31 . 5. 1978, p. 5.
(}) OJ No  L  153,  9 . 6 . 1978 , p . 14.
(4) OJ No  L  220,  10 . 8 . 1974, p . 20 .                           (5) OJ No L 90 , 5 . 4. 1978 , p. 5.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 26 June 1978 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Vice-President