CELEX: 31993R3058
Language: en
Date: 1993-11-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 3058/93 of 4 November 1993 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of fresh lemons originating in Turkey

5. 11 . 93                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 273/23
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3058/93
                                                      of 4 November 1993
                  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
Community,                                                         Whereas for fresh lemons originating in Turkey the entry
                                                                   prices calculated in this way have for six consecutive
                                                                   market days been alternatively above and below the
                                                                   reference price ; whereas three of these entry prices are at
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               least ECU 0,6 below the reference prices ; whereas a
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                   counterviling charge should therefore be introduced for
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by             these fresh lemons ;
Regulation (EEC) No 638/93 (2), and in particular the first
subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                            Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
                                                                   Community of certain agricultural products originating in
Whereas Article 25a (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72            Turkey (J), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported            1555/84 (8), a rate of customs duty of 4 % should be rein­
from a non-member country is alternatively above and               troduced ;
below the reference price for five to seven consecutive
market days a countervailing charge is introduced in               Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
respect of that non-member country, save in exceptional            1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (9) are used to
cases ; whereas that charge is introduced when three entry         convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
prices fall below the reference price and one of those             and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
entry prices is at least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ;       conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
whereas that charge is equal to the difference between the         whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
reference price and the last available entry price by at           tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ;                          lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (10);
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1319/93 of
28 May 1993 fixing the reference price for fresh lemons            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
for the 1993/94 marketing year (3) fixed the reference             in accordance with the opinion of the Management
price for products of class I for the period 1 November            Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
1993 to 30 April 1994 at ECU 47,15 per 100 kilograms
net ;
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is
equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic
                                                                                             Article 1
mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of
the quantities from the exporting country concerned
which are marketed on all representative markets for               1 . A countervailing charge of ECU 2,24 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          2.    The import duty on these products is fixed at 4 %.
defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
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 6 November
                                                                    1993.
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 211 8/74 0, as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 249/93 (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 11 November 1993.
(') OJ  No L  118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No L  69, 20. 3. 1993, p. 7.
(3) OJ  No L  132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 90.                             O OJ No L 367, 23. 12. 1981 , p. 3.
O   OJ  No L  313, 30. 10. 1992, p. 18 .                           (*) OJ No L 150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 4.
0   OJ  No L  220, 10. 8. 1974, p. 20.                             O OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
« OT No L 28 . 5. 2. 1993. o. 45.                                  (10) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 4 November 1993.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Rene STEICHEN
                                                               Member of the Commission