CELEX: 31992R3651
Language: en
Date: 1992-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3651/92 of 17 December 1992 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

No L 369/30                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                   18 . 12. 92
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3651/92
                                                   of 17 December 1992
                 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 1 252/73 ;
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
Portugal,                                                         — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                        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 1252/73                    rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
of 14 May 1973 on imports of citrus fruits originating in               the last paragraph of Article 3(1 ) of Council
Cyprus ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof,                        Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 (4), as last amended by
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 2205/90 0,
Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­
ment establishing an Association between the European             — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus                           average of the ecu rates published in the Official
provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the                 Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ;                       a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
whereas, during the period in which reference prices are                cient referred to in the preceding indent ;
applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of
a specified price on the Community market ; whereas
detailed rules for the application of this system are              Whereas application of these rules to quotations recorded
contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ; whereas, in             for lemons imported into the Community and originating
certain respects, these rules refer to provisions of Council       in Cyprus indicates that the conditions set out in the first
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the                  paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73
 common organization of the market in fruit and                    are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs
vegetables (2) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No              Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in
 1 754/92 (3);                                                     question,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 provides that,
where products are imported, the duty in the Common
 Customs Tariff is applied where quotations for that               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 product, in accordance with the provisions of Article
 24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on the
 representative Community markets at the importer/
 wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted by the                                 Article 1
 conversion factors and following deduction of import
 charges other than customs duties, remain lower than the
 reference price in force, plus the incidence of the               As from 19 December 1992, the duty in the Common
 Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard                Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons CN code
 amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (ECU 1,44) per 100           ex 0805 30 10 imported into the Community and origina­
 kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­        ting in Cyprus.
 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 19 December
                                                                     1992.
 (>) OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113.
 0 OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                                 (") OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 0 OJ No L 180, 1 . . 7. 1992, p. 23.                               0 OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 17 December 1992.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                               Member of the Commission