31983R2321

No L 222/ 12 13 . 8 . 83 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2321/83 of 12 August 1983 introducing a countervailing charge on certain varieties of plums originating in Bulgaria

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN consideration must be recorded on the representative COMMUNITIES, markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, for Bulgarian plums of group I, the entry price calculated in this way has remained at least 0,6 ECU below the reference price for two consecutive Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization therefore be introduced for these plums ; of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2004/83 (2), and in Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, the particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof, entry price should be calculated on the following basis :

— in the case of currencies which are maintained in Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 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 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the duced in respect of the exporting country concerned, arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of save in exceptional circumstances ; whereas this charge these currencies recorded for a given period in is equal to the difference between the reference price relation to the Community currencies referred to and the arithmetic mean of the last two entry prices in the previous indent, available for that exporting country ;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1336/83 of 27 May 1983 fixing for the 1983 marketing year the reference prices for plums (3) fixed the reference price HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : for class I, group I, at 60,17 ECU per 100 kilograms net for the month of August 1983 ;

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 22,23 ECU per 100 kilo­ sentative markets for which prices are available, less grams net is applied to plums (subheading 08.07 D of the duties, and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) the Common Customs Tariff), of varieties other than of Regulation (EEC) N6 1035/72 ; whereas the Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetschge), meaning of representative price is defined in Article Reine-Claude d'Oullins (Oullins Gage), Sveske­ 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; blommer, Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario, Wangenheimer (early Wangenheim quetsche), Pershore (Yellow Egg), Mirabelle and Bosniche, originating in Bulgaria. Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­ tion (EEC) No 2118/74 (4), as last amended by Regula­ tion (EEC) No 3011 /81 (*), the prices to be taken into Article 2 (') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 198 , 21 . 7. 1983, p. 2. 3) OJ No L 139, 28 . 5 . 1983 , p. 24. This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 August (<) OJ No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 . 1983 . O OJ No L 301 , 22. 10 . 1981 , p. 18

13 . 8 . 83 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 222/ 13

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

Done at Brussels, 12 August 1983 . For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission