CELEX: 31974R0250
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 250/74 of the Commission of 30 January 1974 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to lemons originating in Tunesia

No L 27/32                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               31 . 1 . 74
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 250/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 30 January 1974
               applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to lemons originating in
                                                            Tunesia
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   per 100 kilogrammes, for three consecutive market
 COMMUNITIES,                                                     days on the representative markets of the Community
                                                                  with the lowest quotations ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community ;                                             Whereas the conversion factors, the transport costs
                                                                  and import charges other than customs are those used
                                                                  for the purpose of calculating the entry price referred
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     to in Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the
 1472/69 (^ of 23 July 1969, on imports of citrus fruit           method of calculating import charges other than
 originating in Tunesia as amended by Regulation                  customs duties is, for certain cases, defined in Article
 (EEC) No 2366/72 (2) and in particular Article 5                 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1472/69 ;
 thereof ;
                                                                  Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 Whereas Article 4 of Annex I to the Agreement estab­             levies should be calculated on the following basis :
 lishing an Association between the European
 Economic Community and the Republic of Tunesia                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the              relation to each other, at any given moment,
 Community of certain citrus fruit originating in                     within a band of 2-25 % a rate of exchange based
Tunesia ; whereas, during the period in which refer­                  on their effective parity ;
 ence prices are applied, this reduction is dependent             — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 on the observance of a specified price on the Commu­                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 nity market, whereas detailed rules for the application              of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 of this system are contained in Regulation (EEC) No                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
 1472/69 ;
                                                                      in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas, in certain respects, these rules refer to provi­         Whereas application of these rules to quotations
 sions of Regulation No 23 which were incorporated in             recorded for lemons imported into the Community
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 (3) of 18 May                and originating in Tunesia indicates that the condi­
 1972 on the common organization of the market in                 tions set out in the first paragraph of Article 4 of Regu­
 fruit and vegetables, as last amended by Regulation              lation (EEC) No 1472/69 are fulfilled ; whereas the
(EEC) No 2745/72 (4) ; whereas, in this case, reference           duty in the Common Customs Tariff should, there­
 should be made to Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, in                fore, be applied to the products in question,
 accordance with the table which appears in Annex IV
 thereto ;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1472/69 presides 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, converted where necessary to Class 1 in accor­
dance with the provisions of Article 24 (2) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on the representative              As from 1 February 1974 the duty in the Common
 Community markets at the importer/wholesaler stage               Customs Tariff shall be applied to lemons
or converted to that stage, adjusted by the conversion            (subheading No ex 08.02 C of the Common Customs
 factors and following deduction of transport costs and           Tariff) imported into the Community and originating
                                                                  in Tunesia.
 import charges other than customs duties, remain
lower than the reference price in force, plus the inci­
dence of the Common Customs Tariff on that price
and a standard amount fixed at 1-2 units of account                                         Article 2
0)  OJ  No  L 198,  8. 8. 1969, p. 25.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
(2) OJ  No  L 257,  26. 11 . 1970, p. 2.
(3) OJ  No  L 118,  20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                           publication in the Official Journal of the European
(*) OJ  No  L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.                        Communities.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 30 January 1974.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                       The President
                                                                  Francois-Xavier ORTOLI