CELEX: 31993R0474
Language: en
Date: 1993-03-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 474/93 of 1 March 1993 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of fresh lemons originating in Turkey

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                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 474/93
                                                         of 1 March 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,                         (EEC) No 249/93 (*), the prices to be taken into
                                                                     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 price calculated in this way has remained at least 0,6
                                                                     ECU below the reference price for two consecutive
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
 Portugal,                                                           therefore be introduced for these fresh lemons ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                    3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
 market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by              Community of certain agricultural products originating in
 Regulation (EEC) No 1754/92 (2), and in particular the              Turkey (*), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                      1 555/84 Q, a rate of customs duty of 4 % should be re­
                                                                     introduced for these fresh lemons ;
Whereas Article 25 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72              Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
 provides that, if the entry price of a product imported             1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8) are used to
 from a third country remains at least 0,6 ECU below the            convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­           and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the              conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
 exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­           whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
 stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference           tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of              lation (EEC) No 3819/92 (9),
 the last two entry prices available for that exporting
country ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1413/92 of                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
27 May 1992 fixing the reference prices for lemons for
the 1992/93 marketing year (3) fixed the reference price
for products of class I for the period from November
 1992 to April 1993 at ECU 47,15 per 100 kilograms net ;                                        Article 1
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is             1 . A countervailing charge of ECU 6,97 per 100 kilo­
equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic          grams net is applied on imports of fresh lemons (CN
mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of             code ex 0805 30 10) originating in Turkey.
the quantities from the exporting country concerned
which are marketed on all representative markets for                2.     The import duty on these products is fixed at 4 % .
which prices are available less the duties and the charges
indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) 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 Regulation            This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 March 1993.
(EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation
                                                                    0   OJ  No  L 28, 5. 2. 1993, p. 45.
(') OJ  No  L 118,  20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                             (6) OJ  No  L 367, 23. 12. 1981 , p. 3.
0   OJ  No  L 180,  1 . 7. 1992, p. 23.                             0   OJ  No  L 150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 4.
0   OJ  No  L 146,  28. 5. 1992, p. 71 .                             8  OJ  No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
 4) OJ  No  L 220,  10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.                            0   OJ  No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 17.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 1 March 1993.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Rene STEICHEN
                                                               Member of the Commission