31974R2494

No L 267/ 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 3 . 10 . 74

REGULATION (EEC) No 2494/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 2 October 1974 introducing a countervailing charge on table grapes originating in Bulgaria and Romania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN for two consecutive market days ; whereas a counter­ COMMUNITIES, vailing charge has therefore to be introduced for these table grapes ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas the entry prices available at present for these two exporting countries allow the application of one charge, equal to the difference between the reference Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No price and the arithmetic mean of the average entry 1035/72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­ prices established for each exporting country ; whereas tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2486/74 (5) of 1 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in October 1974 introducing a countervailing charge on particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) table grapes originating in Romania should therefore thereof ; be repealed ;

Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No should be calculated on the following basis : 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 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 ; — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No of these currencies recorded for a given period, in 1 363/74 (3) of 31 May 1974 fixing the reference prices relation to the Community currencies referred to for table grapes for the 1974 marketing year fixed the in the previous subparagraph, reference price for class I products at 19-8 units of account per 100 kg net for the month of October 1974 ;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 country concerned which are marketed on all repre­ Article 1 sentative markets for which prices are available, less the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 and whereas the 1 . A countervailing charge of 7-4 units of account meaning of representative markets is defined in per 100 kg net is applied to table grapes, falling Article 24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; within CCT subheading 08.04 A I, and originating in Bulgaria and Romania . Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be taken into consideration on the representative markets 2. Regulation (EEC) No 2486/74 is hereby referred to in Regulation ( EEC) No 21 1 8 /74 (4) ; repealed .

Whereas for Bulgarian and Romanian table grapes the entry prices calculated in this way have remained at Article 2 least 0-50 unit of account below the reference price This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 October (') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . 1974 . (2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147 . (J) OJ No L 147, 1 . 6 . 1974, p. 44. («) OJ No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 . (5) OJ No L 265, 2. 10 . 1974, p. 10 .

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 2 October 1974.

For the Commission The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI