CELEX: 31984R2303
Language: en
Date: 1984-08-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2303/84 of 7 August 1984 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to lemons originating in Spain

No L 211 / 14                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                   8 . 8 . 84
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2303/84
                                                   of 7 August 1984
              applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to lemons originating in
                                                           Spain
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
                                                                 account ( 1,44 ECU) per 100 kilograms, for three
  COMMUNITIES,                                                   consecutive market days on the representative markets
                                                                 of the Community with the lowest quotations ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas the conversion factors and import charges
  Economic Community,                                            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
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   calculating import charges other than customs duties
 2047/70 of 13 October 1970 on imports of citrus fruit           is, for certain cases, defined in Article 2 (2) of Regula­
 originating in Spain ('), and in particular Article 5           tion (EEC) No 2047/70 ;
 thereof ;
                                                                 Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it
                                                                 should be calculated on the following basis :
 Whereas Article 7 of Annex I to the Agreement                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 between the European Economic Community and                          relation to each other at any given moment within
 Spain provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports                 a band of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on
 into the Community of certain citrus fruit originating               their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient
 in Spain ; whereas, during the period in which                       provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC)
 reference prices are applied, this reduction is depen­               No 974/71 , as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
 dent on the observance of a specified price on the                   No 855/84,
 Community market ; whereas detailed rules for the
 application of this system are contained in Regulation         — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 (EEC) No 2047/70 ;                                                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
                                                                      these currencies recorded over a given period in
                                                                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                      in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­
 Whereas, in certain respects, these rules refer to provi­            cient ;
 sions of Regulation No 23 which were incorporated in
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972             Whereas application of these rules to quotations
 on the common organization of the market in fruit              recorded for lemons imported into the Community
 and vegetables (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)        and originating in Spain indicates that the conditions
 No 1 332/84 (3); whereas, in this case, reference should       set out in the first paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation
 be made to Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, in accor­              (EEC) No 2047/70 are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in
 dance with the Table which appears in Annex IV                 the Common Customs Tariff should, therefore, be
 thereto ;                                                      applied to the products in question,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2047/70 provides that,
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
where one of the products listed in Article 1 of that
 Regulation is 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               As from 9 August 1984, the duty in the Common
the representative Community markets at the impor­              Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons
ter/wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted       (subheading 08.02 G of the Common Customs Tariff)
by the conversion factors and following deduction of            imported into the Community and originating in
transport costs and import charges other than customs           Spain.
duties, remain lower than the 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                                    Article 2
(') OJ No L 228, 15. 10. 1970, p. 2.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
(2) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                            publication in the Official Journal of the European
O OJ No L 130, 16. 5. 1984, p. 1 .                              Communities.
 ---pagebreak--- 8 . 8 . 84                    Official Journal of the European Communities                      No L 211 / 15
           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 7 August 1984.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Poul DALSAGER
                                                              Member of the Commission