CELEX: 31979R2554
Language: en
Date: 1979-11-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2554/79 of 19 November 1979 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Romania

No L 293/6                               Official Journal of the European Communities                              20 . 11 . 79
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2554/79
                                                      of 19 November 1979
                  introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Romania
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     consideration must be recorded on the representative
COMMUNITIES,                                                       markets     or,  in  certain   circumstances,    on   other
                                                                   markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
                                                                   with the coefficients fixed in Article 1 (2) (b) of Regula­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              tion (EEC) No 827/79 ;
Economic Community,
                                                                   Whereas, for Romanian tomatoes, the entry price
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                   of account below the reference price for two consecu­
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                  tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1301 /79 (2), and in                 should therefore be introduced for these tomatoes ;
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                  relation to each other at any given moment within
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50                     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
unit of account below the reference price for two                       their effective parity ;
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                   — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                          arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                  of these currencies recorded for a given period in
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
last two entry prices available for that exporting                      in the previous indent ;
country ;
                                                                    Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 827/79 of                    March 1979 (6) laid down the coefficient for
26 April 1979 fixing until the end of the 1979                      expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
marketing year the reference price for tomatoes (3)                 ECU,
fixed the reference price for products of Class I for the
period 1 October to 20 December 1979 at 30-79 ECU
per 100 kilograms net ;
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                                           Article 1
sentative markets for which prices are available, less
the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                        A countervailing charge of 3-80 ECU per 100 kilo­
meaning of representative price is defined in Article               grams net is applied to tomatoes (subheading 07.01 M
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                             of the Common Customs Tariff) originating in
                                                                    Romania .
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­                                       Article 2
tion (EEC) No 668/78 (5), the prices to be taken into
(!) OJ No  L  118, 20 . 5 . 1972,  p. 1.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 21
(2) OJ No  L  162, 30 . 6 . 1979,  p. 26.                            November 1979 .
(3) OJ No  L  105, 27 . 4. 1979,   p. 20 .
(«) OJ No  L  220, 10 . 8 . 1974,  p. 20 .
(5) OJ No  L  90, 5. 4.  1978 , p. 5.                               (6) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 19 November 1979.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                        Vice-President