CELEX: 31973R0354
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-12
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 354/73 of the Commission of 12 February 1973 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to certain varieties of sweet oranges originating in Spain

13 . 2. 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 40/ 13
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 354/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 12 February 1973
              applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to certain varieties of sweet
                                                 oranges originating in Spain
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    three consecutive market days on the representative
COMMUNITIES ,                                                     markets of the Community with the lowest quotat­
                                                                  ions :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community,                                          Whereas the conversion factors, the transport costs
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      and import charges other than customs are those
2047/70 (*) of 13 Oktober 1970 on imports of citrus               used for the purpose of calculating the entry price
fruit originating in Spain, and in particular Article 5           referred to in Regulation No 1035/72 ; whereas the
thereof :                                                         method of calculating import charges other than cus­
                                                                  toms duties is, for certain cases, defined in Article
Whereas Article 7 of Annex I to the agreement be­                 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2047/70 ;
tween the European Economic Community and
Spain provides for a reduced rate of duty on                      Whereas application of these rules to quotations
imports into the Community of certains citrus fruit               recorded for sweet oranges imported into the Com­
originating in Spain ; whereas, during the period in              munity and originating in Spain indicates that the
which reference prices are applied, this reduction is             conditions set out in the first paragraph of Article 4
dependent on the observance of a specified price on               of Regulation (EEC) No 2047/70 are fulfilled, for
the Community market, whereas - detailed rules for                the varieties listed in Article 2 ( 1 ) ( c) of Regulation
the application of this system are contained in Regu              (EEC) No 2522/72 (4) fixing reference prices for
lation (EEC) No 2047/70 ;                                         sweet oranges ; whereas the duty in the Common
                                                                  Customs Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the
Whereas, in certain respects, these rules refer to                products question ;
provisions of Regulation No 23 which were incor­
porated in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 (2 )
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the
market in fruit and vegetables, as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (3) ; whereas, in this                                           Article 1
case, reference should be made to Regulation (EEC)                As from 14 February 1973 , the duty in the Common
No 1035/72, in accordance with the Table which                    Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh sweet
appears in Annex 'lV thereto ;                                    oranges of the following varieties (subheading ex
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2047/70 provides                      08.02 A I of the Common Customs Tariff) imported
that, where one of the products listed in Article 1 of            into the Community and originating in Spain :
that Regulation is imported, the duty in the Com­                 Biondo comune (Blanca comuna, comune), Grano
mon Customs Tariff is applied where quotations for                de oro (Imperial, Sucrena), Baladi , Pera, Macetera,
that product, converted where necessary to Class I                Pineapple, Blood oval (Dobblefina, Double fine),
in accordance with the provisions of Article 24 (2)               Portuguese sanguines, Sanguina redonda (Entre­
of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on the                    fina), Surinam varieties and the ordinary Sanguina
representative Community markets at the importer/                 variety, with the exception of Navel sanguines
wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted             (improved double fine, Washington sanguina, San­
by the conversion factors and following deduction                 guina grande) and Maltese sanguines.
of transport costs and import charges other than cus­
                                                                                             Article 2
toms duties, remain lower than the reference price
in force, plus the incidence of the Common Customs                This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of
Tariff on that price and a standard amount fixed                  its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­
at 1-2 units of account per 100 kilogrammes, for                  pean Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member '
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 12 February 1973 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                               The President
                                                                          Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(^ OJ No L 228 , 15 . 10. 1970, p. 2 .
(2) OJ No L 118 , 20. 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 291, 28 . 12. 1972, p . 147.                           (4) OJ No L 270, 1 . 12 . 1972, p. 63 .