CELEX: 31990R0073
Language: en
Date: 1990-01-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 73/90 of 11 January 1990 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

No L 10/34                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                  12. 1 . 90
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 73/90
                                                     of 11 January 1990
                  applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in
                                                            Cyprus
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                     calculating the entry price referred to in Regulation (EEC)
                                                                  No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of calculating import
                                                                 charges other than customs duties is, for certain cases,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1 252/73 ;
 Economic Community,
                                                                 Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it should be
                                                                 calculated on the following basis :
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
 Portugal,                                                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                     tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                     of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73                rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
 of 14 May 1973 on imports of citrus fruits originating in           the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council
 Cyprus ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof ;                   Regulation (EEC) No 1 676/85 (4), as last amended by
                                                                     Regulation (EEC) No 1 636/87 (^
Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 ment establishing an Association between the European               arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
 Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus                       these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
 provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the             tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
 Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ;                   previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
whereas, during the period in which reference prices are
applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of        Whereas application of these rules to quotations recorded
 a specified price on the Community market ; whereas             for lemons imported into the Community and originating
detailed rules for the application of this system are            in Cyprus indicates that the conditions set out in the first
contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ; whereas, in           paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73
certain respects, these rules refer to provisions of Council     are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the                Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in
common organization of the market in fruit and vegeta­           question,
bles (2) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 1119/89 0 ;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 provides that,
where products are imported, the duty in the Common              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Customs Tariff is applied where quotations for that
product, in accordance with the provisions of Article
24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on the
representative Community markets at the importer/                                          Article 1
wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted by the
conversion factors and following deduction of import
charges other than customs duties, remain lower than the         As from 13 January 1990, the duty in the Common
reference price in force, plus the incidence of the              Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons CN code
Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard               0805 30 10 imported into the Community and originating
amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (1,44 ECU) per 100          in Cyprus.
kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­
sentative markets of the Community with the lowest
quotations ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas the conversion factors and import charges other
than customs duties are those used for the purpose of            This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 January
                                                                 1990 .
(') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113.
0 OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                               0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 12.                             0 OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 11 January 1990.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                              Member of the Commission