31977R0810

No L 98 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 22. 4 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 810 /77

of 21 April 1977

introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Romania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­ COMMUNITIES, tion (EEC) No 211 8 /74 (4), as last amended by Regula­ tion (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 with the coefficients fixed in the first indent of Article 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 256/77 ;

amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in Whereas, for Romanian cucumbers the entry price particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit thereof, of account below the reference price for two consecu­ tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No should therefore be introduced for these cucumbers ; 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 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 relation to each other, at any given moment, concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ; within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based whereas this charge is equal to the difference between on their effective parity ; the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the last two entry prices available for that exporting arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each country ; of these currencies recorded for a given period, in Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 256/77 of relation to the Community currencies referred to 4 February 1977 fixing for the months of February to in previous subparagraph, April 1977 the reference price for cucumbers (3), fixed the reference price for products of Class I at 49-53 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : units of account per 100 kilograms net for the month of April 1977 ; Article 1 Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country A countervailing charge of 17-49 units of account per is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded 100 kilograms net is applied to cucumbers for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting (subheading ex 07.01 P of the Common Customs country concerned which are marketed on all repre­ Tariff) originating in Romania. sentative markets for which prices are available, less 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 23 April 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, 21 April 1977.

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President

(•) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 93, 8 . 4. 1976, p. 6. (<) OJ No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 . (3) OJ No L 34, 5. 2. 1977, p. 52. (5) OJ No L 44, 18 . 2. 1975, p. 8 .