CELEX: 31987R0368
Language: en
Date: 1987-02-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 368/87 of 5 February 1987 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

No L 35/ 16                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                  6. 2. 87
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 368/87
                                                     of 5 February 1987
                 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in
                                                            Cyprus
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      calculating the entry price referred to in Regulation (EEC)
                                                                 No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of calculating import
                                                                 charges other than customs duties is, for certain cases,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ;
Economic Community,
                                                                 Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it should be
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and               calculated on the following basis :
Portugal,
                                                                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                      tion to each other at any given moment within a band
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73                 of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
of 14 May 1973 on imports of citrus fruits originating in            rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
Cyprus ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof ;                    the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council
                                                                     Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 (*),
Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
ment establishing an Association between the European                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus                        these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the              tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ;                    previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
whereas, during the period in which reference prices are
applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of
a specified price on the Community market ; whereas              Whereas application of these rules to quotations recorded
detailed rules for the application of this system are            for lemons imported into the Community and originating
contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ;                       in Cyprus indicates that the conditions set out in the first
                                                                 paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73
                                                                 are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs
Whereas, in certain respects, these rules refer to provi­        Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in
sions of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May           question,
1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit
and vegetables (2) as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1351 /86 (3);
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 provides that,               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
where products are imported, the duty in the Common
Customs Tariff is applied where quotations for that
product, in accordance with the provisions of Article
24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on the                                        Article 1
representative Community markets at the importer/
wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted by the
conversion factors and following deduction of import             As from 7 February 1987, the duty in the Common
charges other than customs duties, remain lower than the         Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons (subhea­
reference price in force, plus the incidence of the              ding 08.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff) imported
Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard               into the Community and originating in Cyprus.
amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (1,44 ECU) per 100
kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­
sentative 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
                                                                  Communities.
(') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113.
(2) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 119, 8. 5. 1986, p. 46.                                (<) 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, 5 February 1987.
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                 Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                    Vice-President