CELEX: 31976R1059
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission regulation (EEC) No 1059/76 of 6 May 1976 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria

No L 120/22                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             7 . 5 . 76
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1059/76
                                                       of 6 May 1976
                  introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria
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 211 8/74 (4),
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            amended by Regulation (EEC) No 385/75 (5), and if
Economic Community,
                                                                  necessary to multiply the prices with the coefficients
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      fixed in Article 1 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                624/ 76 ;
of the market in fruit and vegetables ( !), as last              Whereas, for Bulgarian tomatoes the entry price calcu­
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in                lated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit of
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)             account below the reference price for two consecutive
thereof,
                                                                 market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No                 therefore be introduced for these tomatoes ;
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product
                                                                 Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50
                                                                 price should be calculated on the 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
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 624/76 of
                                                                      in the previous subparagraph ,
19 March 1976 fixing for the 1976 marketing year the
reference prices for tomatoes (3), fixed the reference
price for Class I at 72-77 units of account per 100 kg            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
net for May 1 976 ;
                                                                                           Article 1
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded            A countervailing charge of 24-73 units of account per
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting            100 kg net is applied to tomatoes (subheading 07-01
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                M of the Common Customs Tariff) originating in
sentative markets for which prices are available, less            Bulgaria.
the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                                               Article 2
meaning of representative price is defined in Article
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 May 1976 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 6 May 1976.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1
Q ) OJ No L 93 , 8 . 4. 1976, p . 6 .                            (4) OJ No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .
(}) OJ No L 74, 20 . 3 . 1976, p . 9 .                            (5) OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .