CELEX: 31977R0433
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 433/77 of 1 March 1977 introducing a countervailing charge on lemons originating in Cyprus and Greece

2 . 3 . 77                               Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 57/5
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 433/77
                                                        of 1 March 1977
              introducing a countervailing charge on lemons originating in Cyprus and
                                                              Greece
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      0-50 unit of account below the reference price for two
COMMUNITIES,                                                        consecutive market days ; whereas a countervailing
                                                                    charge has therefore to be introduced for these
                                                                    lemons ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                    Whereas the entry prices available at present for these
                                                                    two exporting countries allow the application of one
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        charge, equal to the difference between the reference
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                   price and the arithmetic mean of the average entry
of the market in fruit and vegetables ( ! ), as last                prices established for each exporting country ; whereas
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in                   Commission Regulation (EEC) No 422/77 of 28
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)                February 1977 introducing a countervailing charge on
thereof,                                                            lemons originating in Greece (6) should therefore be
                                                                    repealed ;
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
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50                 should be calculated for the entry price on the
unit of account below the reference price for two                   following basis :
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                        within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                        on their effective parity ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1227/76
of 25 May 1976 fixing for the 1976/77 marketing year                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
the reference prices for lemons (3), fixed the reference                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
price for Class I products at 19-71 units of account                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
per 100 kilograms net for the month of February                          relation to the Community currencies referred to
 1977 ;                                                                  in the previous subparagraph,
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               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­
sentative markets for which prices are available, less
the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)
                                                                                             Article 1
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the
meaning of representative markets is defined in
Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                      1.     A countervailing charge of 1-79 units of account
                                                                     per 100 kilograms net is applied to lemons, falling
                                                                    within subheading ex 08.02 C of the Common
Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be                   Customs Tariff, originating in Cyprus and Greece.
taken into consideration on the representative markets
referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4 ), as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 385/75 (5) ;                          2.     Regulation (EEC) No 422/77 is hereby repealed.
Whereas for Cyprian and Greek lemons the entry
 prices calculated in this way have remained at least                                        Article 2
(') OJ   No L 118 , 20. 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 March
(2) OJ   No L 93, 8 . 4. 1976, p. 6.                                 1977 .
(}) OJ   No L 137, 26. 5 . 1976, p. 23 .
(<) OJ   No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20.
(5) OJ   No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .                              (6) OJ No L 56, 1 . 3. 1977, p. 49.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 1 March 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President