CELEX: 31974R0611
Language: en
Date: 1974-03-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 611/74 of the Commission of 18 March 1974 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers imported from Spain

No L , 74/4                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            19 . 3 . 74
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 611 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 18 March 1974
                   introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers imported from Spain
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be
COMMUNITIES,                                                      taken into consideration on the representative markets
                                                                  referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 1 29 1 /70 (4),
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2846/72 (5) and
Economic Community ;
                                                                  affect this price where applicable by the coefficients
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     fixed in Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 425/74 ;
 1035/72 (^ of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                Whereas, for cucumbers from Spain the entry price
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables as last                calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                of account below the reference price for two consecu­
 particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)              tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge
 thereof ;                                                        should      therefore   be   introduced for  cucumbers
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                   imported from Spain ;
 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product           Whereas if the system is to operate normally it should
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50               be calculated on the following basis :
unit of account below the reference price for two                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must
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
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                 on their effective parity ;
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
last two entry prices available for that exporting                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
country ;                                                              of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
                                                                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 425/74 (3)                      in the previous subparagraph,
of 20 February 1974 fixing the reference price for the
 1974 marketing year fixed the reference price for                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Class I at 45-6 units of account per 100 kg net for the
 month of March 1974 ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded             A countervailing charge of 1-2 units of account per
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting             100 kg net is applied to cucumbers (subheading No
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                ex 07.01 P of the Common Customs Tariff) imported
sentative markets for which prices are available, less            from Spain .
the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)                                     Article 2
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 and whereas the
meaning of representative price is defined in Article             This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 March
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                            1974 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 18 March 1974.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p . 147.                         (4) OJ No L 144, 2. 7. 1970 , p . 10 .
(3) OJ No L 49, 21 . 2 . 1974, p. 11 .                            (5) OJ No L 299, 31 . 12. 1972, p . 1 .