CELEX: 31994R0591
Language: en
Date: 1994-03-17
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 591/94 of 16 March 1994 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

No L 74/36                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                  17. 3 . 94
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 591/94
                                                       of 16 March 1994
                  applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in
                                                             Cyprus
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       sentative markets of the Community with the lowest
                                                                   quotations ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Community,                                                        Whereas the conversion factors and import charges other
                                                                   than customs duties are those used for the purpose of
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73              calculating the entry price referred to in Regulation (EEC)
 of 14 May 1973 on imports of citrus fruits originating in         No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of calculating import
 Cyprus ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof,                  charges other than customs duties is, for certain cases,
                                                                   defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ;
 Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­            Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
 ment establishing an Association between the European              1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (4), as
 Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus                     amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (*), are used to
 provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the           convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ;                 and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 whereas, during the period in which reference prices are          conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
 applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of         whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
 a specified price on the Community market ; whereas               tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
 detailed rules for the application of this system are             lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (6);
 contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ; whereas, in
 certain respects, these rules refer to provisions of Council
                                                                   Whereas application of these rates to quotations recorded
 Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the                 for lemons imported into the Community and originating
                                                                   in Cyprus indicates that the conditions set out in the first
 common organization of the market in fruit and
                                                                   paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73
 vegetables (2) as last amended by Regulation (EC) No              are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs
 3669/93 (3) ;
                                                                   Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in
                                                                   question,
 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               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 product, in accordance with the provisions of Article
 24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on the                                        Article 1
 representative Community markets at the importer/                 As from 18 March 1994, 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 10 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                                          Article 2
 amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (ECU 1,44) per 100
 kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­       This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 March 1994.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 16 March 1994.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               Rene STEICHEN
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113.                            (4) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                                0 OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
(3) OJ No L 338, 31 . 12. 1993, p. 26.                            (6) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.