CELEX: 31977R2233
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2233/77 of 7 October 1977 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Romania

8 . 10 . 77                           Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 257/ 25
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2233/77
                                                    of 7 October 1977
                 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Romania
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­
COMMUNITIES,                                                    tion (EEC) No 21 18/74 (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 Article 1 (2) (b) of Regula­
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last              tion (EEC) No 1050/77 ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 034/77 (2), and in             Whereas, for Romanian tomatoes 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 tomatoes ;
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,
whereas this charge is equal to the difference between               within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the                   on 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 1050/77                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
of 1 8 May 1 977 fixing the reference price for tomatoes             in previous subparagraph,
until the end of the 1977 marketing year (3), fixed the
reference price for products of Class I for the period 1        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
October to 20 December 1977 at 23-33 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 8-13 units of account per
for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting           100 kilograms net is applied to tomatoes (subheading
country concerned which are marketed on all repre­              ex 07.01 M of the Common Customs Tariff) origi­
sentative markets for which prices are available, less          nating in Romania.
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 1 1 October
24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;                          1977 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 7 October 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 .
(>) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5. 1977, p. 32.                           (5) OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p . 8 .