31983R0875

15 . 4 . 83 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 96 / 11

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 875/83 of 14 April 1983 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Poland

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tion (EEC) No 3011 /81 (5), 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 with the coefficient fixed in the first subparagraph of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 292/83 ; Economic Community,

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 1738 /82 (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 — 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 0,6 a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on ECU below the reference price for two consecutive their central rate, market days, a countervailing charge must be intro­ 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 292/83 of 3 February 1983 fixing the reference price for cucum­ bers for the 1983 marketing year (3) fixed the reference price for products of Class I for April 1983 at 87,50 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 19,55 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 16 April 1983 . (') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 190 , 1 . 7 . 1982, p. 7 . (3) OJ No L 33 , 4. 2. 1983 , p. 14. 4 OJ No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20, (5) OJ No L 301 , 22. 10 . 1981 , p . 18 .

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States . j Done at Brussels, 14 April 1983.

For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission