31975R1361

No L 138 /22 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 5. 75

REGULATION (EEC) No 1361 /75 OF THE COMMISSION of 28 May 1975 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Bulgaria and Romania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN least 0-50 unit of account below the reference price COMMUNITIES, for two consecutive market days ; whereas a counter­ vailing charge has therefore to be introduced for these cucumbers ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas the entry prices available at present for these Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No two exporting countries allow the application of one 1035/72 ( J) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­ charge, equal to the difference between the reference tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last price and the arithmetic mean of the average entry amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in prices established for each exporting country ; whereas particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 335/75 (6) of 26 thereof ; May 1975 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Romania should therefore be repealed ; Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product imported from a third country remains at least 0-50 Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it unit of account below the reference price for two should be calculated on the following basis : consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the exporting country — in the case of currencies which are maintained in concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ; relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 519/75 (3) on their effective parity ; of 28 February 1975 fixing until the end of the 1975 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the marketing year the reference prices for cucumbers arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each fixed the reference price for class I products at 37-39 of these currencies recorded for a given period, in units of account per 100 kg net for the month of May relation to the Community currencies referred to 1975 ; in the previous subparagraph,

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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 Article 1 meaning of representative markets is defined in Article 24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; 1 . A countervailing charge of 8-31 units of account Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be per 100 kg net is applied to cucumbers falling within taken into consideration on the representative markets CCT subheading ex 07.01 P, and originating in referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), Bulgaria and Romania. amended by Regulation (EEC) No 385/75 (5) and if necessary to multiply the prices with the coefficients 2. Regulation (EEC) No 1335/75 is hereby fixed in the first indent of Article 1 (2) in Regulation repealed . ( EEC) No 519/ 75 ;

Whereas for Bulgarian and Romanian cucumbers the Article 2 entry prices calculated in this way have remained at

(•) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 30 May (2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147. 1975 . (3) OJ No L 55 , 1 . 3 . 1975, p. 63 . («) OJ No L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20. (5) OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 . (6) OJ No L 135, 27. 5. 1975, p. 15.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 May 1975. For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission