CELEX: 31976R1254
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1254/76 of 26 May 1976 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria and Romania

No L 139/ 52                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            27 . 5 . 76
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1254/76
                                                            of 26 May 1976
                introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria and
                                                               Romania
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas for Bulgarian and Romanian tomatoes the
COMMUNITIES,                                                          entry prices calculated in this way have remained at
                                                                      least 0-50 unit of account below the reference price
                                                                       for two consecutive market days ; whereas a counter­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 vailing charge has therefore to be introduced for these
Economic Community,                                                    tomatoes ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           Whereas the entry prices available at present for these
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                      two exporting countries allow the application of one
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                     charge, equal to the difference between the reference
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in                      price and the arithmetic mean of the average entry
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)                   prices established for each exporting country ;
thereof,
Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                          Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product                 should be calculated for the entry price on the
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50                    following basis :
unit of account below the reference price for two
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                             within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                           on their effective parity ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 624/76 of                       — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 19 March 1976 fixing for the 1976 marketing year the                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
reference prices for tomatoes (3), fixed the reference                     of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
price for class I products at 72-77 units of account per                   relation to the Community currencies referred to
 100 kg net for the month of May 1976 ;                                    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
 country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 sentative markets for which prices are available, less
 the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)
 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 and whereas the
 meaning of representative markets is defined in
 Article 24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                                                Article 1
 Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
                                                                        A countervailing charge of 37-30 units of account per
 tion (EEC) No 211 8 /74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 385/75 (5), the prices to be taken into                  100 kg net is applied to tomatoes falling within CCT
                                                                        subheading ex 07.01 M, and originating in Bulgaria
 consideration must be recorded on the representative                   and Romania .
 markets     or,    in    certain     circumstances,     on  other
 markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
 with the coefficients fixed in the first indent of Article
  1 (2) (a) in Regulation (EEC) No 624/76 ;
                                                                                               Article 2
(')   OJ No  L   118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .
 (2 ) OJ No  L  93 , 8 . 4 . 1976, p . 6 .
 (J ) OJ No   L 74, 20 . 3 . 1976, p . 9 .
 (4 ) OJ No  L  220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 May
  5   OJ No   L 44, 18 . 2 . 1975 , p . 8 .                             1976 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 26 May 1976.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission