31979R1853

22. 8 . 79 No L 214/ 11 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1853/79

of 21 August 1979

introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in Yugoslavia

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 Yugoslav plums of Group I the entry price calculated in this way has remained at least 0.50 unit of account below the reference price for two Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No consecutive market days ; whereas a countervailing 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization charge should therefore be introduced for these of the market in fruit and vegetables (1), as last plums ; amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1301 /79 (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 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product relation to each other at any given moment within imported from a third country remains at least 0.50 a band of 2.25 % , a rate of exchange based on unit of account below the reference price for two their effective parity ; consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the exporting country — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ; arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each whereas this charge is equal to the difference between of these currencies recorded for a given period in the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the relation to the Community currencies referred to last two entry prices available for that exporting in the previous indent ; country ; Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 (6) fixed the coefficient for the conversion into ECU of amounts fixed in units of account, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1102/79 of 5 June 1979 fixing for the 1979 marketing year the reference price for plums (3), fixed the reference price HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : for Class I, Group I at 42.50 ECU per 100 kilograms net for August 1979 ;

Article1¶

Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country A countervailing charge of 9.39 ECU per 100 kilo­ is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded grams net is applied to plums (subheading 08.07 D of for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting the Common Customs Tariff), of varieties other than country concerned which are marketed on all repre­ Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetschge), sentative markets for which prices are available, less Reine-Claude d'Oullins (Oullins Gage), Sveske­ the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) blommer, Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario, Wangenheimer of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the (early Wangenheim quetsche), Pershore (Yellow Egg), meaning of representative price is defined in Article Mirabelle and Bosniche, originating in Yugoslavia. 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;

Article 2 Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­ tion (EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 August 1979 . (•) OJ No L 118, 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 162, 30. 6. 1979, p. 26. (3) OJ No L 138, 6. 6. 1979, p. 5. (5) OJ No L 90, 5. 4. 1978, p. 5. (<) OJ No L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20 . (*) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979 , p. 1 .

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

Done at Brussels, 21 August 1979.

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President