CELEX: 31995R0086
Language: en
Date: 1995-01-19 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 86/95 of 19 January 1995 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

No L 14/8                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                20 . 1 . 95
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 86/95
                                                     of 19 January 1995
                  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)
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of calculating import
Community,                                                       charges other than customs duties is, for certain cases,
                                                                 defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73
of 14 May 1973 on imports of citrus fruits originating in        Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
Cyprus ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof,                 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 (4), as
Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­           amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (*), are used to
ment establishing an Association between the European            convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus                    and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the          conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ;                whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
whereas, during the period in which reference prices are         tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of        lation (EEC) No 1 068/93 (% as amended by Regulation
a specified price on the Community market ; whereas              (EC) No 547/94Q ;
detailed rules for the application of this system are
contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ; whereas, in           Whereas application of these rates to quotations recorded
certain respects, these rules refer to provisions of Council     for lemons imported into the Community and originating
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the                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
3290/94 (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
product, in accordance with the provisions of Article            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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 21 January 1995, 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               ex 0805 30 20) imported into the Community and origi­
amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (ECU 1,44) per 100          nating in Cyprus.
kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­
sentative markets of the Community with the lowest                                         Article 2
quotations ;
Whereas the conversion factors and import charges other          This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 January
than customs duties are those used for the purpose of             1995.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 19 January 1995.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              Rene STEICHEN
                                                                       Member of the Commission
                                                                 (4) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113.                           0 OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
(2) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                             (?) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(3) OJ No L 349, 31 . 12. 1994.*                                 0 OJ No L 69, 12. 3. 1994, p. 1 .