31976R0948

No L 109/24 Official Journal of the European Communities 27. 4. 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 948/76 of 26 April 1976 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Bulgaria and Greece

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 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization charge, equal to the difference between the reference of the market in fruit and vegetables ( ! ), as last price and the arithmetic mean of the average entry amended by Regulation (EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in prices established for each exporting country ; whereas particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 927/76 of 22 April thereof, 1976 introducing a countervailing charge on cucum­ bers originating in Greece (6) should therefore be Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No repealed ; 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product imported from a third country remains at least 0-50 Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it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 for the entry price on the consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must following basis : be introduced in respect of the exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ; — in the case of currencies which are maintained in relation to each other, at any given moment, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 625/76 of within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based 19 March 1976 fixing until the end of the 1976 on their effective parity ; marketing year the reference prices for cucumbers (3), — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the fixed the reference price for class I products at 47-78 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each units of account per 100 kg net for the month of of these currencies recorded for a given period, in April 1976 ; relation to the Community currencies referred to 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 sentative markets for which prices are available, less HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 and whereas the meaning of representative markets is defined in Article 1 Article 24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;

Whereas it is necessary to record the prices to be 1 . A countervailing charge of 9-53 units of account taken into consideration on the representative markets per 100 kg net is applied to cucumbers falling within referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 211 8 /74 (4), as CCT subheading ex 07.01 P, and originating in amended by Regulation (EEC) No 385/75 (5) and if Bulgaria and Greece. necessary to multiply the prices with the coefficients fixed in the first indent of Article 1 (2) in Regulation 2. Regulation (EEC) No 927/76 is hereby repealed. (EEC) No 625/76 ;

Whereas for Bulgarian and Greek 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 28 April (2) OJ No L 93, 8 . 4. 1976, p. 6. 1976 . (3) OJ No L 74, 20 . 3. 1976, p. 11 . (4) OJ No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20. (5 OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 . (6) OJ No L 106, 23 . 4. 1976, p. 24.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 April 1976. For the Commission

P.J. LARD1NOIS Member of the Commission