CELEX: 31977R2514
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2514/77 of 16 November 1977 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Spain and Greece

17. 11 . 77                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 293/9
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2514/77
                                                        of 16 November 1977
               introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Spain and
                                                                Greece
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        market days ; whereas a countervailing charge has
COMMUNITIES,                                                          therefore to be introduced for these cucumbers ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2484/77
Economic Community,                                                   of 10 November 1977 (6) introduced a countervailing
                                                                      charge on cucumbers originating in Greece ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                     Whereas the entry prices available at present for these
of the market in fruit and vegetables ( !), as last                   two exporting countries allow the application of one
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 (2), and in                    charge, equal to the difference between the reference
particular the first subparagraph of Article 27 (2)                   price and the arithmetic mean of the average entry
thereof,                                                              prices established for each exporting country ; whereas
                                                                      Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2484/77 should
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                       therefore be repealed ;
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50                   Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it
unit of account below the reference price for two                     should be calculated for the entry price on the
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                 following basis :
be introduced in respect of the exporting country
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                        — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                           relation to each other at any given moment within
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1049/77                             a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
of 1 8 May 1 977 fixing the reference price for cucum­                     their effective parity ;
bers until the end of the 1977 marketing year (3), fixed              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
the reference price for Class I products at 50-73 units                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
of account per 100 kilograms net for the month of                          of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
November 1977 ;
                                                                           relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                           in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting                are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                    ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
sentative markets for which prices are available, less
the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the
meaning of representative markets is defined in                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­                                          Article 1
tion (EEC) No 21 1,8/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 385/75 (5), the prices to be taken into                  1 . A countervailing charge of 7-44 units of account
consideration must be recorded on the representative                  per 100 kilograms net is applied to cucumbers falling
markets    or,   in     certain    circumstances,      on   other     within subheading ex 07.01 of the Common Customs
markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices              Tariff and originating in Spain and Greece.
with the coefficients fixed in the second indent of
Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1049/77 ;                        2.     Regulation    (EEC)    No     2484/77  is  hereby
                                                                       repealed.
Whereas for Spanish cucumbers the entry prices calcu­
lated in this way have remained at least 0-50 unit of
account below the reference price for two consecutive                                           Article 2
(') OJ  No  L  118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on             18
(2) OJ  No  L  125, 19 . 5. 1977, p. 1 .                               November 1977 .
(3) OJ  No  L  125, 19 . 5. 1977, p. 30 .
(4) OJ  No  L  220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .
(5) OJ  No  L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .                                (6) OJ No L 287, 11 . 11 . 1977, p. 20.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 16 November 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President