CELEX: 31984R2146
Language: en
Date: 1984-07-26
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2146/84 of 25 July 1984 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to lemons originating in Spain

No L 196 /42                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                26 . 7 . 84
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2146/84
                                                        of 25 July 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 1 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                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
application of this system are contained in Regulation                  arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
(EEC) No 2047/70 ;                                                      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 1332/ 84 (*) ; 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 27 July 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 C 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.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 25 July 1984.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Poul DALSAGER
                                                               Member of the Commission