CELEX: 31993R0015
Language: en
Date: 1993-01-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 15/93 of 7 January 1993 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

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                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 15/93
                                                     of 7 January 1993
                 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
                                                                 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 (*),
Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­
ment establishing an Association between the European
Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus                    — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the               average of the ecu rates published in the Official
Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ;                     Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
whereas, during the period in which reference prices are              a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of             cient referred to in the preceding indent ;
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
 1754/92 P);                                                      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 9 January 1993, 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 9 January 1993.
(') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113.
O OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                                (4) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 180, 1 . 7. 1992, p. 23.                              O 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, 7 January 1993.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Rene STEICHEN
                                                              Member of the Commission