CELEX: 31979R2255
Language: en
Date: 1979-10-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2255/79 of 15 October 1979 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers in Greece

No L 260/6                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           16. 10 . 79
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2255/79
                                                        of 15 October 1979
                    introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Greece
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices
COMMUNITIES,                                                       with the coefficients fixed in the second subparagraph
                                                                   of Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 646/79 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                    whereas, for Greek cucumbers, 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
                                                                   therefore be introduced for these cucumbers :
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1301 /79 (2), and in
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
 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product
imported from a third country remains at least 0-50                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
unit of account below the reference price for two                       relation to each other at any given moment within
consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must                   a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
be introduced in respect of the exporting country                       their effective parity ;
concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ;
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the
                                                                   — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on 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
                                                                        in the previous indent ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 646/79 of
2 April 1979 fixing until the end of the 1979
marketing year the reference price for cucumbers (3)               Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
fixed the reference price for products of Class I for              March 1 979 (6) laid down the coefficient for
October 1979 at 46-36 units of account per 100 kilo­               expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
grams net ;                                                         ECU,
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              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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 1
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the
meaning of representative price is defined in Article
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                            A countervailing charge of 7-81 ECU per 100 kilo­
                                                                   grams net is applied to cucumbers (subheading 07.01
                                                                    P of the Common Customs Tariff) originating in
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­              Greece .
tion (EEC) No 21 18/74 (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
                                                                                             Article 2
markets    or,   in    certain     circumstances,    on   other
(>) OJ No  L   118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 October
(2) OJ No  L   162, 30.  6. 1979, p. 26.                            1979 .
(') OJ No  L  83, 3 . 4.  1979, p. 8 .
C)  OJ No  L  220, 10.   8 . 1974, p. 20 .
(5) OJ No  L  90, 5. 4.   1978 , p. 5.                             (6) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 15 October 1979 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President