CELEX: 31993R3589
Language: en
Date: 1993-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 3589/93 of 27 December 1993 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

28 . 12. 93                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 326/51
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3589/93
                                                     of 27 December 1993
                   applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in
                                                             Cyprus
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      Whereas the conversion factors and import charges other
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            than customs duties are those used for the purpose of
 Community,                                                       calculating the entry price referred to in Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of calculating import
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73              charges other than customs duties is, for certain cases,
 of 14 May 1973 on imports of citrus fruits originating in         defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ;
 Cyprus ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof,
                                                                  Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
 Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­            1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (4), as
 ment establishing an Association between the European            amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (5), are used to
 Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus                    convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the          and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ;                conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
 whereas, during the period in which reference prices are         whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
 applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of        tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
 a specified price on the Community market ; whereas               lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (6);
 detailed rules for the application of this system are
 contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ; whereas, in           Whereas application of these rates to quotations recorded
 certain respects, these rules refer to provisions of Council     for lemons imported into the Community and originating
 Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the                in Cyprus indicates that the conditions set out in the first
 common organization of the market in fruit and                   paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73
 vegetables (2) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No             are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs
 638/93 (3) ;                                                     Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in
                                                                  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                                         Article 1
 representative Community markets at the importer/
wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted by the      As from 29 December 1993, the duty in the Common
conversion factors and following deduction of import              Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons CN code
charges other than customs duties, remain lower than the          ex 0805 30 10 imported into the Community and origina­
reference price in force, plus the incidence of the               ting in Cyprus.
 Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard
amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (ECU 1,44) per 100                                      Article 2
kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­
sentative markets of the Community with the lowest                This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 December
quotations ;                                                       1993 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 27 December 1993.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Rene STEICHEN
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113.                            (4) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                              0 OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
(3) OJ No L 69, 20. 3. 1993, p. 7.                                if) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.