CELEX: 31977R2537
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2537/77 of 17 November 1977 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Romania

No L 294/20                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               18 . 11 . 77
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2537/77
                                                     of 17 November 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 21 1 8/74 (4), as amended by Regulation
                                                                   (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) (b) of Regula­
 of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last                tion (EEC) No 1050/77 ;
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 (2), and in                Whereas, for Romanian tomatoes the entry price calcu­
 particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)              lated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit of
 thereof,
                                                                   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               Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
 unit of account below the reference price for two                 price should be calculated on the following basis :
 consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 be introduced in respect of the exporting country
 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
                                                                        of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1050/77                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
 of 18 May 1977 fixing the reference price for tomatoes                 in previous subparagraph,
 until the end of the 1 977 marketing year (3), fixed the
 reference price for products of Class I for the period 1          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 October to 20 December 1977 at 23-33 units of
 account per 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 2-36 units 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
                                                                   nating in Romania.
 sentative markets for which prices are available, less
 the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3)                                     Article 2
 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the
 meaning of representative price is defined in Article             This Regulation shall enter into force on                  19
 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                           November 1977.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 17 November 1977.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                   Vice-President
( i ) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5. 1977, p. 1 .                              (4) 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 .