CELEX: 31977R2484
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2484/77 of 10 December 1977 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Greece

No L 287/20                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   11 . 11 . 77
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2484/77
                                                    of 10 November 1977
                 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Greece
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
COMMUNITIES,                                                     tion (EEC) No 211 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 the second indent of
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last               Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1049/77 ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 034/77 (2), and in              Whereas, for Greek cucumbers, 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 cucumbers ;
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 within
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between                  a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                      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 1049/77                          relation to the Community currencies referred to
of 18 May 1977 fixing the reference price for cucum­                    in the previous subparagraph,
bers until the end of the 1977 marketing year (3) fixed
the reference price for products of Class I for the
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
month of November 1977 at 50-73 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 2-54 units of account per
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting             100 kilograms net is applied to cucumbers
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                (subheading ex 07.01 P of the Common Customs
sentative markets for which prices are available, less            Tariff) originating in Greece .
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    12
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, 10 November 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 .                             (4 ) OJ No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .
 3) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5 . 1977, p. 30 .                            (5 ) OJ No L 44, 18 . 2 . 1975 , p. 8 .