CELEX: 31994R0475
Language: en
Date: 1994-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 475/94 of 2 March 1994 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of fresh lemons originating in Turkey

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                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 475/94
                                                           of 2 March 1994
                    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 (6), 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
 Community,                                                           Whereas for fresh lemons originating in Turkey the entry
                                                                      prices calculated in this way have for five consecutive
                                                                      market days been alternatively above and below the
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72                 reference price ; whereas two of these entry prices are at
 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                     least ECU 0,6 below the reference prices ; whereas a
 market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by               counterviling charge should therefore be introduced for
 Regulation (EC) No 3669/93 (2), and in particular the                these fresh lemons ;
 second 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
Whereas Article 25a (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               Community of certain agricultural products originating in
 provides that, if the entry price of a product imported              Turkey Q, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 from a non-member country is alternatively above and                 1555/84 (8), a rate of customs duty of 4 % should be rein­
below the reference price for five to seven consecutive               troduced ;
 market days a countervailing charge is introduced in
respect of that non-member country, save in exceptional               Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
cases ; whereas that charge is introduced when three entry            1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 0, as
prices fall below the reference price and one of those                amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (10), are used to
entry prices is at least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ;          convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
whereas that charge is equal to the difference between the            and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
reference price and the last available entry price by at              conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ;                             whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
                                                                      tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
                                                                      lation (EEC) No 1068/93 ("),
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1319/93 of
28 May 1993 fixing the reference price for fresh lemons
for the 1993/94 marketing year (3) fixed the reference
price for products of class I for the period 1 November               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 1993 to 30 April 1994 at ECU 47,15 per 100 kilograms
net :
                                                                                                Article 1
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is
equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic            1 . A countervailing charge of ECU 1,38 per 100 kilo­
mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of               grams net is applied on imports of fresh lemons falling
the quantities from the exporting country concerned                   within CN code ex 0805 30 10 originating in Turkey.
which are marketed on all representative markets for
which prices are available less the duties and the charges            2.    The import duty ori these products is fixed at 4 % .
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
according to the dispositions of Regulation (EEC) No                                            Article 2
2849/93 of 19 October 1993 altering the entry price for
certain fruits and vegetables originating in Mediterranian            This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 March 1994.
third countries (4) ;
                                                                      Subject to the provisions of the second subparagraph of
                                                                      Article 26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, this Regu­
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation             lation shall be applicable until 9 March 1994.
(EEC) No 21 18/74 (*), as last amended by Regulation
                                                                      (6) OJ No L 28, 5. 2. 1993, p. 45.
(')  OJ  No L 118,   20.  5. 1972, p. 1 .                             0 OJ   No L 367, 23 . 12. 1981 , p. 3.
(2)  OJ  No L 338,   31 . 12. 1993, p. 26.                            (8) OJ No L 150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 4.
0    OJ  No L 132,   29 . 5. 1993, p. 90 .                            0 OJ   No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(4)  OJ  No L 261 ,  20 . 10. 1993, p. 18 .                           H OJ    No L 320, 22. 12. 1993 , p. 32.
H    OJ  No L 220,   10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20.                            (") 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, 2 March 1994.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Rene STEICHEN
                                                               Member of the Commission