31979R2554

No L 293 /6 20 . 11 . 79 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2554/79 of 19 November 1979 introducing a countervailing charge on tomatoes originating in Romania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN consideration must be recorded on the representative COMMUNITIES, markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices with the coefficients fixed in Article 1 (2) (b) of Regula­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tion ( EEC) No 827/79 ; Economic Community,

Whereas, for Romanian tomatoes, the entry price calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No of account below the reference price for two consecu­ 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization tive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last should therefore be introduced for these tomatoes ; amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1301 /79 (2), and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof, Whereas if the system is to operate normally the 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 of 29 March 1979 (6) laid down the coefficient for Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 827/79 of expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in 26 April 1979 fixing until the end of the 1979 ECU, marketing year the reference price for tomatoes (3) fixed the reference price for products of Class I for the period 1 October to 20 December 1979 at 30-79 ECU per 100 kilograms net ;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 Article 1 sentative markets for which prices are available, less the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) A countervailing charge of 3-80 ECU per 100 kilo­ of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the grams net is applied to tomatoes (subheading 07.01 M meaning of representative price is defined in Article of the Common Customs Tariff) originating in 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; Romania .

Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­ tion (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­ Article 2 tion (EEC) No 668/78 (5), the prices to be taken into

(!) OJ No L 118, 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 (2) OJ No L 162, 30 . 6 . 1979, p. 26. November 1979 . (3) OJ No L 105, 27 . 4. 1979, p. 20 . («) OJ No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 . (5) OJ No L 90, 5. 4. 1978 , p. 5. (6) 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, 19 November 1979 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President