CELEX: 31977R1498
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1498/77 of 4 July 1977 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Romania

5. 7. 77                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 167/ 11
                               COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1498/77
                                                      of 4 July 1977
                 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Romania
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
COMMUNITIES,                                                    tion (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                tion (EEC) No 385/75 (5), the prices to be taken into
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                consideration must be recorded on the representative
Economic Community,                                             markets     or,   in  certain  circumstances,    on   other
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization              with the coefficients fixed in Article 1 (2) (a) of Regula­
of the market in fruit and vegetables ^), as last               tion (EEC) No 1050/77 for Romanian tomatoes ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 034/77 (2), and in
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)            Whereas, for Romanian tomatoes the entry price calcu­
thereof,                                                        lated in this way has remained at least 0-50 Unit of
                                                                account below the reference price for two consecutive
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                 market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product         therefore be introduced for these tomatoes ;
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50
unit of account below the reference price for two               Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must           price should be calculated on the following basis :
be introduced in respect of the exporting country               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                       relation to each other, at any given moment,
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between              within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                   on their effective parity ;
last two entry prices available for that exporting              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
country ;                                                            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1050/77                       of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
of 18 May 1977 fixing the reference price for tomatoes               relation to the Community currencies referred to
until the end of the 1977 marketing (3), fixed the refer­            in previous subparagraph,
ence price for products of Class I for the period 1
June to 10 July 1977 at 55-23 units of account per              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 100 kilograms net ;
                                                                                          Article 1
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded           A countervailing charge of 0-78 unit of account per
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting           100 kilograms net is applied to tomatoes (subheading
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­              ex 07.01 M of the Common Customs Tariff) origi­
sentative markets for which prices are available, less          nating in Romania.
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 6 July 1977.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 4 July 1977.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                Vice-President
(!) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 125, 19. 5. 1977, p. 1 .                            (<) OJ No L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.
(3) OJ No L 125, 19. 5. 1977, p. 32.                            (5) OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .