CELEX: 31978R2662
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2662/78 of 13 November 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Romania

No L 320/ 16                           Official Journal of the European Communities                            14. 11 . 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2662/78
                                                    of 13 November 1978
                  introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Romania
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    consideration must be recorded on the representative
COMMUNITIES,                                                      markets    or,  in  certain   circumstances,  on   other
                                                                  markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
                                                                  with the coefficients fixed in the second subparagraph
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             of Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1180/78 ;
Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas, for Romanian tomatoes, the entry price
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                 of account below the reference price for two consecu­
of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last                tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 766/78 (2), and in               should therefore be introduced for these tomatoes ;
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)
thereof,
                                                                  Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the
                                                                  entry price should be calculated on the following
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                   basis :
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50
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 within
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                        a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                their effective parity,
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the
last two entry prices available for that exporting
country ;
                                                                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1180/78                        of these currencies recorded for a given period in
of 31 May 1978 fixing until the end of the 1978                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
marketing year the reference price for tomatoes (3)                   in the previous subparagraph,
fixed the reference price for products of Class I for the
period 1 October to 20 December 1978 at 24-54 units
of account per 100 kilograms net ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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
sentative markets for which prices are available, less                                     Article 1
the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the                      A countervailing charge of 0-91 unit of account per
meaning of representative price is defined in Article              100 kilograms net is applied to tomatoes (subheading
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                           ex 07.01 M of the Common Customs Tariff) origi­
                                                                  nating in Romania.
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 668/78 (5), the prices to be taken into                                      Article 2
0)  OJ No  L  118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No  L  204, 28. 7. 1978, p. 12.
(3) OJ No  L  145, 1 . 6. 1978, p. 43.
(4) OJ No  L  220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.                           This Regulation shall enter into force on              15
(5) OJ No  L  90, 5. 4. 1978, p. 5.                                November 1978 .
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             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 13 November 1978 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                        Vice-President