CELEX: 31971R1233
Language: en
Date: 1971-06-07
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1233/71 of the Council of 7 June 1971 on imports of citrus fruit originating in Turkey

Official Journal of the European Communities                                      369
6.6.71                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 130/51
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1233/71 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 7 June 1971
                                   on imports of citrus fruit originating in Turkey
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       in Article 4 of Annex 5 to the Interim Agreement and
                                                               Article 4 of Annex 6 to the Additional Protocol for
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                   the following products originating in Turkey:
European Economic Community, and in particular                 ex 08.02 A: Oranges, fresh
Article 43 thereof;
                                                               ex 08.02 B: Mandarins         and satsumas,        fresh;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;                            Clementines, tangerines and          other
                                                                              similar citrus hybrids, fresh
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                   ex 08.02 C : Lemons, fresh
Parliament1;
Whereas Article 4 of Annex 5 to the Interim                                            Article 2
Agreement between the European Economic
Community and Turkey and Article 4 of Annex 6 to               1 . For the purpose of fulfilling conditions laid
the Additional Protocol to the Agreement establishing          down in Article 4 (3) of Annex 5 to the Interim
an Association between the European Economic                   Agreement and of Annex 6 to the Additional
Community and Turkey provide for a tariff reduction            Protocol, the quotations recorded oh the
for imports into the Community of certain citrus               representative     Community        markets     at     the
fruits originating in Turkey; whereas, in the period to        importer/wholesaler stage, or converted to this stage,
which the reference prices are in force, this reduction        account being taken of adjustment factors and after
must be subject to the application of a fixed price on         deduction of transport costs and import charges
the internal market of the Community; whereas the              other than customs duties—these factors, costs and
implementation of this system necessitates the                 charges being those provided for the calculation of
adoption of implementing provisions;                           the entry price referred to in Regulation 23—must
                                                               remain, for a specific product, converted where
Whereas the proposed system must form part of the              appropriate to Class I, pursuant to the first indent of
common organisation of the market in fruit and                 the seventh subparagraph of Article 1 (2) of
vegetables ; whereas the provisions of Regulation No           Regulation 23 , at least as high as the price defined in
232 on the progressive establishment of a common               Article 3 .
organisation of the market in fruit and vegetables and
the provisions adopted in implementation of that               2.    With respect to the deduction of import taxes
Regulation, last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                other than customs duties, in so far as the prices
2512/69,3 should therefore be taken into account;              disclosed to the Commission by Member States
                                                               include the incidence of taxes, the sum to be
                                                               deducted shall be calculated by the Commission so as
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                               to avoid difficulties which may result from the
                                                               incidence of taxes on entry prices being dependent on
                        Article 1                              the origin of the products concerned. In such cases an
                                                               average amount corresponding to the arithmetic
This Regulation lays down implementing provisions              average between the lowest and highest incidence of
 in respect of the preferential treatment provided for         such taxes shall be taken into account in this
                                                               calculation.
 1 OJ No C 45, 10.5.1971, p. 34.                               Detailed rules for the application of this paragraph
 2 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p. 965162.                             shall be laid down in accordance with the procedure
 3 OJ No L 318, 18.12.1969, p. 4.                              laid down in Article 13 of Regulation No 23 .
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3 . The representative markets for the purposes of               Community disclosed by the Member States, shall
paragraph 1 are the Community markets used for                   follow regularly the movement of prices and shall
recording quotations on the basis of which the entry             ascertain the price and other levels referred to in
prices referred to in Regulation No 23 are calculated.           Article 4.
                         . Article 3                             The measures required shall be adopted in
                                                                 accordance with the procedure laid down in
The price referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ) shall be equal to       Regulation No 23 with regard to the application of
the reference price in force during the period in                countervailing duties to fruit and vegetables.
question, plus the incidence of the Common Customs
Tariff on this price and a standard amount of. 1-2
units of account per 100 kilogrammes.
                                                                                        Article 6
                           Article 4
                                                                 The provisions of Article 11 of Regulation No 23
Where, in respect of one of the products listed in               shall continue to apply.
Article 1 , the quotations referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ),
account being taken of the adjustment factors and
after deduction ' of transport costs and import taxes                                   Article 7
other than customs duties, remain, on the
representative markets of the* Community with the
lowest quotations, lower than the price defined in               The system laid down by this Regulation shall be
Article 3 on three consecutive market days, the                  applicable from the entry into force of the Interim
Common Customs Tariff duty in force on the date of               Agreement.
import shall be applied to the product in question.
                                                                 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1543 /691 of 23 July
This system shall apply until the said quotations ,              1969 on imports of citrus fruit from Turkey shall be
remain, on      the    representative   markets    of the        repealed on the same date.
Community with the lowest quotations, at least as
high as the price defined in Article 3 on three
consecutive market days.
                                                                                        Article 8
                           Article 5
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
The Commission, on the basis of the quotations                   day following its publication in the Official Journal
recorded on the representative markets of the                    of the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 7 June 1971 .
                                                                                      For the Council
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                      M. SCHUMANN
                                                                 1 OJ No L 200, 9.8.1969, p . 5 .