CELEX: 31978R2477
Language: en
Date: 1978-10-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2477/78 of 24 October 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on table grapes originating in Greece

25 . 10 . 78                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 298 /7
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2477/78
                                                       of 24 October 1978
                 introducing a countervailing charge on table grapes originating in Greece
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     consideration must be recorded on the representative
COMMUNITIES,                                                        markets or,     in    certain  circumstances, on  other
                                                                    markets ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                Whereas for Greek table grapes the entry prices calcu­
                                                                    lated in this way have for five consecutive market days
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       been alternatively above and below the reference
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                  price ; whereas two of these entry prices are more than
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                 0-5 unit of account below the reference price ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1766/78 (2), and in                 whereas a countervailing charge should therefore be
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)                introduced for table grapes originating in Greece ;
thereof,
                                                                   Whereas in accordance with the provisions of Article
Whereas Article 25a ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                    26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 that charge is
 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product             applied in principle for six days ;
imported from a non-member country is alternatively
above and below the reference price for five to seven              Whereas if the system is to operate normally it should
consecutive market days a countervailing charge is                  be calculated on the entry price on the following
introduced in respect of that non-member country,                   basis :
save in exceptional cases ; whereas that charge is intro­
duced when three entry prices fall below the reference             — in case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
price and one of those entry prices is at least 0-5 unit                tion to each other at any given moment within a
of account below the reference price ; whereas that                     band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on their
charge is equal to the difference between the refer­                    effective parity,
ence price and the last available entry price by at least
0-5 unit of account below the reference price ;                    — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                        of these currencies recorded for a given period in
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1668/78                          relation to the Community currencies referred to
of 14 July 1978 fixing the reference prices for table                   in the previous subparagraph,
grapes for the 1978 marketing year (3) fixed the refer­
ence price for products of Class I at 27 02 units of
account per 100 kilograms net for the months of
September and October 1978 ;
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the average of the lowest representative
prices recorded for at least 30 % of the quantities
from the exporting country concerned which are                                                Article 1
marketed on all representative markets for which
prices are available, less the duties and the charges               A countervailing charge of 1-42 units of account per
referred to in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No                 100 kilograms net is applied to table grapes
 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price              (subheading 08.04 A I of the Common Customs
is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                 Tariff) originating in Greece.
 1035/72 ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
                                                                                              Article 2
tion (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 668/78 (5), the prices to be taken into
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 October
(!) OJ  No  L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1.                            1978 . Subject to the provisions of the second subpara­
(2) OJ  No  L 204, 28 .  7. 1978 , p. 12.
(3) OJ  No  L 192, 15 .  7. 1978 , p. 53 .                          graph of Article 26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
(4) OJ  No  L 220, 10.   8 . 1974, p. 20.                           1035/72, this Regulation shall be applicable until 31
(5) OJ  No  L 90, 5. 4.   1978, p. 5.                               October 1978 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 24 October 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Vice-President