CELEX: 31987R0845
Language: en
Date: 1987-03-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 845/87 of 24 March 1987 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Morocco

No L 81 /38                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   25. 3 . 87
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 845/87
                                                     of 24 March 1987
                 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in
                                                          Morocco
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      calculating the entry price referred to in Regulation (EEC)
                                                                 No 1035/72 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                              Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it should be
                                                                 calculated on the following basis :
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
                                                                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
Portugal,
                                                                       tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                       of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1455/78                   rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
of 26 June 1978 on the conclusion of the Agreement                     the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council
extending the Interim Agreement between the European                   Regulation (EEC) No 1 676/85
Economic Community and the Kingdom of Morocco ('),
                                                                 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
Whereas Article 8 of the Interim Agreement between the                 these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
European Economic Community and Morocco provides                       tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the Commu­                  previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
nity of fresh lemons originating in Morocco ; whereas,
during the period in which reference prices are applied,
this reduction is dependent on the observance of a speci­        Whereas application of these rules to quotations recorded
fied price on the Community market ; whereas detailed             for lemons imported into the Community and originating
                                                                  in Morocco indicates that the conditions set out in the
rules for the application of this system are contained in
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1288/76 of 28 May 1976 on             first paragraph of Article 8 of the Interim Agreement
the conclusion of the Interim Agreement between the              between the European Economic Community and
European Economic Community and the Kingdom of                    Morocco as annexed to Council Regulation (EEC) No
Morocco (2) ;                                                     1288/76 are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common
                                                                  Customs Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the
                                                                  products in question ;
Whereas, in certain respects, these rules refer to provi­
sions of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May
1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
and vegetables (3) as last amended by Regulation (.EEC)           in accordance with the opinion of the Management
No 1351 /86 (<);                                                  Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1288/76 provides, in
Article 8 of the annexed Interim Agreement, that, where
products are imported, the duty in the Common Customs             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Tariff is applied where quotations for that product, in
accordance with the provisions of Article 24 (2) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on the representative
Community markets at the importer/wholesaler stage or                                        Article 1
converted to that stage, adjusted by the conversion factors
and following deduction of import charges other than
customs duties, remain lower than the reference price in          As from 26 March 1987, the duty in the Common
force, plus the incidence of the Common Customs Tariff             Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons (subhea­
on that price and a standard amount fixed at 1,2 units of         ding 08.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff) imported
                                                                   into the Community and originating in Morocco.
account (1,44 ECU) per 100 kilograms, for three consecu­
tive market days on the representative markets of the
 Community with the lowest quotations ;
                                                                                             Article 2
Whereas the conversion factors and import charges other
 than customs duties are those used for the purpose of             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
                                                                   publication in the Official Journal of the European
 (>) OJ No L 175, 29. 6. 1978 , p. 7.                              Communities.
 (A OJ No L 141 , 28. 5. 1976, p. 97.
 (3) OJ No L 118, 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
 b) OJ No L 119, 8. 5. 1986, p. 46.                                O OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 24 March 1987.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                       Vice-President