CELEX: 31992R3347
Language: en
Date: 1992-11-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3347/92 of 19 November 1992 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of fresh lemons originating in Turkey

No L 336/20                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 20 . 11 . 92
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3347/92
                                                      of 19 November 1992
                 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs
                                 duty on imports of fresh lemons originating in Turkey
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          consideration must be recorded on the representative
                                                                     markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                  Whereas for fresh lemons originating in Turkey the entry
                                                                     prices calculated in this way have for six consecutive
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                   market days been alternatively above and below the
Portugal,                                                            reference price ; whereas three of these entry prices are at
                                                                     least ECU 0,6 below the reference prices ; whereas a
                                                                     counterviling charge should therefore be introduced for
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                 these fresh lemons ;
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by               Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
Regulation (EEC) No 1754/92 (2), and in particular the               3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                       Community of certain agricultural products originating in
                                                                     Turkey Q, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas Article 25a ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72             1 555/84 (8), a rate of customs duty of 4% should be
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported              reintroduced.
from a non-member country is alternatively above and
below the reference price for five to seven consecutive              Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry
market days a countervailing charge is introduced in                 price should be calculated on the following basis :
respect of that non-member country, save in exceptional              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
cases ; whereas that charge is introduced when three entry
                                                                           tion to each other at any given moment within a band
prices fall below the reference price and one of those                     of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
entry prices is at least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ;               rate, multiplied by the coefficient provided for in the
whereas that charge is equal to the difference between the
reference price and the last available entry price by at
                                                                           last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regulation
least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ;                                  (EEC) No 1 676/85 (®), as last amended by Regulation
                                                                           (EEC) No 2205/90 (,0),
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1413/92 of                    — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
27 May 1992 fixing the reference price for fresh lemons                  . average of the ecu rates published in the Official
for the 1992/93 marketing year (3) fixed the reference                    Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
price for products of class I for the period 1 November                    a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
 1992 to 30 April 1993 at 47,15 ECU per 100 kilograms                      cient referred to in the preceding indent,
net ;
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic
 mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of                                         Article 1
 the quantities from the exporting country concerned
 which are marketed on all representative markets for                 1 . A countervailing charge of ECU 1,11 per 100 kilo­
 which prices are available less the duties and the charges          grams net is applied on imports of fresh lemons falling
 indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No                  within CN code ex 0805 30 10 originating in Turkey.
 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is
defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72             2.      The import duty on these products is fixed at 4 % .
according to the dispositions of Regulation (EEC) No
3133/92 of 29 October 1992 altering the entry price for
certain fruits and vegetables originating in Mediterranian                                       Article 2
third countries (4) ;
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 November
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Regulation              1992.
(EEC) No 21 18/74 (*), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 3811 /85 (6), the prices to be taken into                   Subject to the provisions of the second subparagraph of
                                                                     Article 26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, this Regu­
                                                                     lation shall be applicable until 26 November 1992.
(')  OJ No  L 118,  20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
0    OJ No  L 180,  1 . 7. 1992, p. 23.
(3)  OJ No  L 146,  28. 5. 1992, p. 71 .                             O OJ No L 367, 23. 12. 1981 , p. 3.
 (4) OJ No  L 313,  30. 10. 1992, p. 18.                             (8) OJ No L 150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 4.
 O   OJ No  L 220,  10. 8. 1974, p. 20.                              (9) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 (6) OJ No  L 368,  31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 .                            H OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 19 November 1992.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                Member of the Commission