CELEX: 31990R0329
Language: en
Date: 1990-02-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 329/90 of 7 February 1990 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

No L 36/ 16                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   8 . 2. 90
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 329/90
                                                     of 7 February 1990
                 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in
                                                           Cyprus
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      Whereas the conversion factors and import charges other
                                                                 than customs duties are those used for the purpose of
                                                                 calculating the entry price referred to in Regulation (EEC)
                                                                 No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of calculating import
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            charges other than customs duties is, for certain cases,
Economic Community,                                              defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ;
                                                                 Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it should be
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and               calculated on the following basis :
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 1676/85 (4), as last amended by
                                                                      Regulation {EEC) No 1636/87 Q,
                                                                 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­                these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
ment establishing an Association between the European                 tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus                         previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the
Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ;
whereas, during the period in which reference prices are         Whereas application of these rules to quotations recorded
applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of         for lemons imported into the Community and originating
a specified price on the Community market ; whereas               in Cyprus indicates that the conditions set out in the first
detailed rules for the application of this system are             paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73
contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ; whereas, in            are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs
certain respects, these rules refer to provisions of Council     Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the                 question,
common organization of the market in fruit and vegeta­
bles (2) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
1 1 19/89 (3);
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 provides that,
where products are imported, the duty in the Common
Customs Tariff is applied where quotations for that                                         Article 1
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/                 As from 9 February 1990, the duty in the Common
wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted by the      Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons CN code
conversion factors and following deduction of import              ex 0805 30 1 0 imported into the Community and origina­
charges other than customs duties, remain lower than the          ting in Cyprus.
reference price in force, plus the incidence of the
Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard
amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (1,44 ECU) per 100
kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­                                  Article 2
sentative markets of the Community with the lowest
quotations ;
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 February 1990 .
(') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113.
0 OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                                (4) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 12.                              O 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, 7 February 1990.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                             Member of the Commission