31993R1149

No L 116/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 12. 5 . 93

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1149/93 of 11 May 1993 introducing a countervailing charge on cucumbers originating in Romania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Regulation (EEC) No 249/93 Q, the prices to be taken into consideration must be recorded on the representative Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ; Economic Community, whereas it is necessary to multiply the prices with the coefficient fixed in the first indent of Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 290/93 ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by Whereas, for cucumbers originating in Romania the entry Regulation (EEC) No 638/93 (2), and in particular the price calculated in this way has remained at least ECU 0,6 second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof, below the reference price for two consecutive market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should therefore be Whereas Article 25 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 introduced for these cucumbers ; provides that, if the entry price of a product imported from a third country remains at least ECU 0,6 below the Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­ 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 (*) are used to tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the convert amounts expressed in third country currencies exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­ and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ; between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­ the last two entry prices available for that exporting tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­ country ; lation (EEC) No 1068/93 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 290/93 of 9 February 1993 fixing for the 1993 marketing year the reference prices for cucumbers (3) fixed the reference price for products of class I at ECU 76,12 per 100 kilograms HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : net for May 1993 ;

Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is Article 1 equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting country concerned which are marketed on all representative A countervailing charge of ECU 5,33 per 100 kilograms markets for which prices are available less the duties and net is applied to cucumbers (CN codes 0707 00 1 1 and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) 0707 00 19) originating in Romania. No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning 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 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 21 18/74 (4), as last amended by This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 May 1993.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 May 1993. For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 69, 20. 3. 1993, p. 7. 0 OJ No L 28, 5. 2. 1993, p. 45. (3) OJ No L 34, 10. 2. 1993, p. 13. (*) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 220, 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20. 0 OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.