31978R2101

No L 244/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 6 . 9 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2101 / 78 of 5 September 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on table grapes originating in Bulgaria

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tion ( EEC) No 668 /78 (5), the prices to be taken into COMMUNITIES , consideration must be recorded on the representative markets or, in certain circumstances , on other markets ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, for table grapes, the entry price calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit of account below the reference price for two consecutive market Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No days ; whereas a countervailing charge should there­ 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization fore be introduced for these grapes ; of the market in fruit and vegetables ( ! ), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1766/78 (2 ), and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the thereof, entry price should be calculated on the following basis :

Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product — in the case of currencies which are maintained in imported from a third country remains at least 0-50 unit of account below the reference price for two relation to each other at any given moment within consecutive market days , a countervailing charge must a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on be introduced in respect of the exporting country their effective parity, concerned , save in exceptional circumstances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference between 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 relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous subparagraph , Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 1668 /78 of 14 July 1978 fixing the reference prices for table grapes for the 1978 marketing year (3 ) fixed the refer­ ence price for products of Class I for September and October 1978 at 27-02 units of account per 100 kilo­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : grams net ;

Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country Article 1 is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting A countervailing charge of 1-33 units of account per country concerned which are marketed on all repre­ 100 kilograms net is applied to table grapes sentative markets for which prices are available, less (subheading 08.04 A I of the Common Customs the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) Tariff) originating in Bulgaria . of Regulation ( EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/ 72 ;

Article 2 Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­ tion ( EEC) No 21 18 / 74 (4), as last amended by Regula­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 September (') OJ No L 1 18 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . 1978 . (') OJ No L 204, 28 . 7 . 1978 , p. 12 . ( 3 ) OJ No L 192, 15 . 7 . 1978 , p. 53 . (4 ) OJ No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974 , p . 20 . (5 ) OJ No L 90 , 5 . 4 . 1978 , p. 5 .

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

Done at Brussels , 5 September 1978 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President