31975R0617

No L 64/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 11 . 3 . 75

REGULATION ( EEC) No 617/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 10 March 1975 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Bulgaria

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 21 18 /74 (4), COMMUNITIES, amended by Regulation (EEC) No 385/75 (5), and if necessary to multiply the prices with the coefficients Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European fixed in first indent of Article 1 (2) in Regulation Economic Community ; (EEC) No 519/75 ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 (') of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­ Whereas, for Bulgarian cucumbers the entry price tion of the market in fruit and vegetables as last calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in of account below the reference price for two consecu­ particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge thereof ; should therefore be introduced for these cucumbers ;

Whereas Article 25 ( 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 following basis : 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 consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must within a band of 2-25 % a rate of exchange based be introduced in respect of the exporting country on their effective parity ; concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ; 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 in previous subparagraph, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 519/75 (3) of 28 February 1975 fixing until the end of the 1 975 marketing year the reference prices for HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : cucumbers fixed the reference price for Class I at 5703 units of account per 100 kg net for March 1975 ; Article 1 Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded A countervailing charge of 1105 units of account per for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting 100 kg net is applied to cucumbers (subheading 0701 country concerned which are marketed on all repre­ P of the Common Customs Tariff) originating in sentative markets for which prices are available, less Bulgaria. the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035 /72 and whereas the Article 2 meaning of representative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 1035/72 ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 March Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be 1975 . taken into consideration on the representative markets

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

Done at Brussels, 10 March 1975 .

For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(•) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147 . C ) OJ No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 . (3 ) OJ No L 55, 1 . 3 . 197.5, p. 63 . (5 ) OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .