31981R1114

No L 117/ 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 4 . 81

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1114/81

of 28 April 1981

introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Poland

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tion (EEC) No 668/78 (*), the prices to be taken into COMMUNITIES, consideration must be recorded on the representative markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ; whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European with the coefficients fixed in the first subparagraph of Economic Community, Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 430/81 ;

Whereas, for Polish cucumbers, the entry price calcu­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No lated in this way has remained at least 0-6 ECU below 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization the reference price for two consecutive market days ; of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last whereas a countervailing charge should therefore be amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1367/80 (2), and in introduced for these cucumbers ; 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 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 0-6 relation to each other at any given moment within ECU below the reference price for two consecutive a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on market days, a countervailing charge must be intro­ their effective parity, duced in respect of the exporting country concerned, — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the save in exceptional circumstances ; whereas this charge arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of is equal to the difference between the reference price these currencies recorded for a given period in and the arithmetic mean of the last two entry prices relation to the Community currencies referred to available for that exporting country ; in the previous indent,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 430/81 of 19 February 1981 fixing the reference price for cucumbers for the 1981 marketing year (3) fixed the reference price for products of Class I for the month HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : of April 1981 at 73-58 ECU per 100 kilograms 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 country concerned which are marketed on all repre­ A countervailing charge of 30-20 ECU per 100 kilo­ sentative markets for which prices are available less the grams net is applied to cucumbers (subheading 07.01 duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of P I of the Common Customs Tariff) originating in Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning Poland . 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 30 April (') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . 1981 . (2) OJ No L 140, 5. 6. 1980, p. 24. (3) OJ No L 47, 20 . 2. 1981 , p. 25. (4) OJ No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20. O 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, 28 April 1981 . For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission