31979R0550

No L 72/ 26 23 . 3 . 79 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 550 / 79 of 22 March 1979 introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of apples originating in Poland

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 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European markets ; Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas, for apples from Poland of the varieties listed 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization in Article 1 (3) (b) of Regulation ( EEC) No 1532/78 , of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last the entry price calculated in this way has remained at amended by Regulation (EEC) No 325/79 (2), and in least 0-50 unit of account below the reference price particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) for two consecutive market days ; whereas a counter­ thereof, vailing charge should therefore be introduced for certain varieties of apples originating in Poland ; Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry imported from a third country remains at least 0-50 prices should be calculated on the following basis : unit of account below the reference price for two — in the case of currencies which are maintained in consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must relation to each other at any given moment within be introduced in respect of the exporting country a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ; their effective parity, 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 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1532/78 in the previous indent, of 30 June 1978 fixing the reference prices for apples for the 1978/79 marketing year (3) fixed the reference price for Class I products of Group II at 19-77 units of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : account per 100 kilograms net for March 1979 ; 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 7-23 units of account per country concerned which are marketed on all repre­ 100 kilograms net is applied to apples originating in sentative markets for which prices are available, less Poland (subheading ex 08.06 A II of the Common the duties and charges referred ^o in Article 24 (3) of Customs Tariff) and specified in the Annex hereto . Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of Article 2 Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; Whereas in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 March 1979 . tion (EEC) No 2118/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­

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

Done at Brussels, 22 March 1979 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

(•) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 . I2) OJ No L 45, 22. 2. 1979, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 179, 1 . 7. 1978 , p. 26. H OJ No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 . (5) OJ No L 90, 5 . 4 . 1978 , p. 5 .

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ANNEX

All varieties of apples with the exception of the following : Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Richared, Stark Delicious, Starking, Starkrimson , Yellow Trans­ parent Klarapfel , James Grieve , Belle de Boskoop, Stayman Winesap, Stayman red, Black winesap, Granny Smith , Dunn 's Seedling, King Cole, Cleopatra, Democrat, Yellow Newton , Crofton , Ingrid Marie , Sturmer, Laxton 's superb , Scarlet pearmain, White winter pearmain , Geeveston Fanny, Tyde­ man 's early Worcester, Benoni, Stark earliest, Winston , Reinette du Canada, Berlepsch , Annurca, Lodi , Gravensteiner, Miller's Seedling, Worcester pearmain , Weißwinterglockenapfel, Cortland, Spartan , Red Macintosh , various varieties of Cox's varieties, Abbondanza (Belfort), Rambour d'hiver, Brettacher, Horneburger, Kruegers Dickstiel , Kirchenwerder, Finkenweder, Winter Banana, Limon­ cella , Commercio, Reinette Clochard, Ontario, Reinette du Mans, Lemoenapfel, Bramley's Seedling (Triomphe de Kiel), Pella, and mutations of the above varieties.