CELEX: 31978R0986
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 986/78 of 16 May 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria

No L 128 /22                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             17. 5. 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 986/78
                                                       of 16 May 1978
                  introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Bulgaria
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 Article 1 (2) of Regula­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             tion (EEC) No 824/78 ;
Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas, for Bulgarian tomatoes, the entry price calcu­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      lated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit of
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                 account below the reference price for two consecutive
of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last                market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 (2), and in                therefore be introduced for these tomatoes :
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)
thereof,
                                                                  Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                   entry price should be calculated on the following
                                                                  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                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                 relation to each other at any given moment within
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                        their effective parity ;
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the
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
                                                                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 824/78 of                      in the previous subparagraph,
25 April 1978 fixing the reference price for tomatoes
for the month of May 1978 (3) fixed the reference
price for products of Class I at 77-53 units of account
per 100 kilograms net ;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
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                                         Article 1
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                      A countervailing charge of 18-84 units 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 Bulgaria.
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
(») OJ No   L 118, 20.  5. 1972, p. 1.
(2) OJ No   L 125, 19.  5. 1977, p. 1.
(3) OJ No   L 114, 26.  4. 1978, p. 7.
(«) OJ No   L 220, 10.  8. 1974, p. 20.                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 May
(5) OJ No  L  90, 5. 4. 1978, p. 5.                                1978 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 16 May 1978 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Vice-President