CELEX: 31977R0562
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 562/77 of 17 March 1977 introducing a countervailing charge on lemons originating in Israel

No L 71 /32                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              18 . 3 . 77
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 562/77
                                                     of 17 March 1977
                      introducing a countervailing charge on lemons originating in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 2118/74 (4), as
COMMUNITIES,                                                     amended by Regulation (EEC) No 385/75 (5) ;
                                                                 Whereas for Israeli lemons, the entry prices calculated
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                 in this way have for five consecutive market days been
Economic Community,
                                                                 alternatively above and below the reference price ;
                                                                 whereas two of these entry prices are more than 0.5
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     unit of account below the reference price ; whereas a
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                countervailing charge should therefore be introduced
of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last               for lemons originating in Israel ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in
particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2)             Whereas in accordance with the provisions of Article
thereof,                                                         26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 that charge is
                                                                 applied in principle for six days ;
Whereas Article 25a ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                 Whereas if the system is to operate normally it should
1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product           be calculated on the entry price on the following
imported from a non-member country is alternatively              basis :
above and below the reference price for five to seven
consecutive market days a countervailing charge is               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
introduced in respect of that non-member country,                      relation to each other at any given moment within
save in exceptional cases ; whereas that charge is intro­              a band of 2-25 % a rate of exchange based on
duced when three entry prices fall below the reference                 their effective parity,
price and one of those entry prices is at least 0.5 unit
of account below the reference price ; whereas that              — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
charge is equal to the difference between the refer­                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
ence price and the last available entry price by at least              of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
0.5 unit of account below the reference price ;                        relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                       in the previous subparagraph,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1227/76
of 25 May 1976 fixing for the 1976/77 marketing year
 reference prices for lemons (3), fixed for the products
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
of quality Class I, the reference price at 20.14 units of
account per 100 kilograms net for the month of
March 1977 ;
                                                                                            Article 1
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country
 is equal to the lowest on the average of the lowest              A countervailing charge of 0-62 unit of account per
 representative prices recorded for at least 30 % of the          100 kilograms net is applied to lemons (subheading
 quantities from the exporting country concerned                  ex 08.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff) origi­
 which are marketed on all representative markets for             nating in Israel.
 which prices are available, less the duties and the
 charges referred to in Article 24 (3) of Regulation
 (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of represen­                                        Article 2
 tative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation
 (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 March
                                                                  1977. Subject to the provisions of the second subpara­
 Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be               graph of Article 26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 taken into consideration on the representative markets           1035/72, this Regulation shall be applicable until 24
                                                                  March 1977 .
 (') 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 137, 26. 5. 1976, p. 23.                             (s ) OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 17 March 1977.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Vice-President