CELEX: 31978R1312
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1312/78 of 15 June 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Romania

16 . 6. 78                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 158 /25
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1312/78
                                                         of 15 June 1978
                  introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Romania
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
   COMMUNITIES,                                                     tion (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                    tion (EEC) No 668/78 (5), the prices to be taken into
                                                                    consideration must be recorded on the representative
                                                                    markets    or,   in certain    circumstances, on  other
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
   Economic Community,                                             with the coefficients fixed in Article 1 (2) of Regula­
                                                                    tion (EEC) No 1178/78 ;
                                                                   Whereas, for Romanian cucumbers, 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 11 54/78 (2), and in              should therefore be introduced for these cucumbers ;
   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 subparagraph,
  country ;
  Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 78/78                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  of 31 May 1978 fixing until the end of the 1978
  marketing year the reference price for cucumbers (3)
  fixed the reference price for products of Class I for the
  month of June 1978 at 30-72 units of account per 100                                       Article 1
  kilograms net ;
                                                                   A countervailing charge of 3-82 units of account per
                                                                    100 kilograms net is applied to cucumbers
  Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country            (subheading ex 07.01 P of the Common Customs
  is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded            Tariff) originating in Romania.
  for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting
  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 2
  of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the
  meaning of representative price is defined in Article
  24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 June
                                                                    1978 .
  (») OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
  I2) OJ No L 144, 31 . 5. 1978, p. 5.                             («) OJ No L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20 .
, (3) OJ No L 145, 1 . 6. 1978 , p. 40 .                           (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, 15 June 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President