CELEX: 31976R0927
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 927/76 of 22 April 1976 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Greece

No L 106/24                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             23 . 4. 76
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 927/76
                                                     of 22 April 1976
                  introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Greece
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be
COMMUNITIES,                                                     taken into consideration on the representative markets
                                                                 referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            amended by Regulation (EEC) No 385/75 (5), and if
Economic Community,
                                                                 necessary to multiply the prices with the coefficients
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     fixed in Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 625/76 ;
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
of the market in fruit and vegetables ( ! ), as last             Whereas, for Greek cucumbers the entry price calcu­
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in                lated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit of
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)             account below the reference price for two consecutive
thereof,                                                         market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
                                                                 therefore be introduced for these cucumbers ;
Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product           Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50              price should be calculated on the following basis :
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
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                     within a band of 2-25 % a rate of exchange based
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;                        on their effective parity ;
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between           — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
last two entry prices available for that exporting                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
country ;                                                             relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 625/76 of                      in previous subparagraph,
 19 March 1976 fixing the reference price for cucum­
bers until the end of the 1976 marketing year (3), fixed
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the reference price for products of Class I at 47-78
units of account per 100 kg net for the month of
April 1976 ;                                                                                Article 1
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country            A countervailing charge of 1 1 -20 units of account per
is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded             100 kg net is applied to cucumbers (subheading ex
 for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting           07.01 P of the Common Customs Tariff) originating
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­                in Greece .
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 24 April
 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                          1976 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 22 April 1976.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
 (!) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ No L 93, 8 . 4. 1976, p. 6.                               (4) OJ No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 .
 (3) OJ No L 74, 20 . 3 . 1976, p. 11 .                            5 OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .