CELEX: 31978R2419
Language: en
Date: 1978-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2419/78 of 17 October 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Albania

18 . 10 . 78                        Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 292/25
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2419/78
                                                   of 17 October 1978
                introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Albania
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 668/78 (5), the prices to be taken into
                                                                consideration must be recorded on the representative
                                                                markets    or,  in  certain    circumstances, on   other
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
 Economic Community,                                           with the coefficients fixed in the second subparagraph
                                                                of Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1178/78 ;
                                                                Whereas, for Albanian cucumbers, 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 1766/78 (2), and in              should therefore be introduced for these cucumbers ;
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 basis :
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product             relation to each other at any given moment within
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50                 a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
unit of account below the reference price for two                   their effective parity,
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must
be introduced in respect of the exporting country              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between              of these currencies recorded for a given period in
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
last two entry prices available for that exporting                  in the previous subparagraph,
country ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1178/78                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
of 31 May 1978 fixing until the end of the 1978
marketing year the reference price for cucumbers (3)
fixed the reference price for products of Class I for the
month of October 1978 at 441 6 units of account per                                      Article 1
 100 kilograms net ;
                                                               A countervailing charge of 6-68 units of account per
                                                                100 kilograms net is applied to cucumbers
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country          (subheading ex 07.01 P of the Common Customs
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded          Tariff) originating in Albania.
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
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
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 October
                                                                1978 .
(>) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 204, 28 . 7. 1978, p. 12.                          (4) OJ No L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.
(3) OJ No L 145, 1 . 6. 1978, p. 40.                           (5) OJ No L 90, 5 . 4. 1978 , p. 5 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 17 October 1978 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Vice-President