CELEX: 31975R0559
Language: en
Date: 1975-03-05 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 559/75 of the Commission of 4 March 1975 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to certain varieties of sweet oranges originating in Spain

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                              REGULATION (EEC) No 559/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 4 March 1975
                applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to certain varieties of sweet
                                                   oranges originating in Spain
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      price referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ;
  COMMUNITIES,                                                        whereas the method of calculating import charges
                                                                      other than customs duties is, for certain cases, defined
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2047/70 ;
  Economic Community ;
                                                                      Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        should be calculated on the following basis :
  2047/70 (') of 13 October 1970 on imports of citrus
                                                                      — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
  fruit originating in Spain , and in particular Article 5
  thereof ;                                                                relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                           within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
  Whereas Article 7 of Annex 1 to the Agreement                            on their effective parity ;
  between the European Economic Community and                         — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
  Spain provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
  into the Community of certain citrus fruit originating                   of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
  in Spain ; whereas, during the period in which refer­                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
  ence prices are applied, this reduction is dependent                     in the previous subparagraph ;
  on the observance of a specified price on the Commu­
  nity market ; whereas detailed rules for the application            Whereas application of these rules to quotations
  of this system are contained in Regulation (EEC) No                 recorded for sweet oranges imported into the Commu­
  2047/70 ;                                                           nity and originating in Spain indicates that the condi­
                                                                      tions set out in the first paragraph of Article 4 of Regu­
  Whereas, in certain respects, these rules refer to provi­           lation (EEC) No 2047/70 are fulfilled, for the varieties
  sions of Regulation No 23 which were incorporated in                listed in Article 1 (3) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
  Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 035/72 (2) of 18 May                  3025/74 (4 ) fixing reference prices for sweet oranges
  1972 on the common organization of the market in                    for the 1974/75 marketing year ; whereas the duty in
  fruit and vegetables, as last amended by Regulation                 the Common Customs Tariff should, therefore, be
 (EEC) No 2745/72 (3) ; whereas, in this case, reference              applied to the products in question ,
  should be made to Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, in
 accordance with the Table which appears in Annex IV
 thereto ;                                                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2047/70 provides that,
 where one of the products listed in Article 1 of that                                           Article 1
 Regulation is imported , the duty in the Common
 Customs Tariff is applied where quotations for that                  As from 6 March 1975, the duty in the Common
 product, converted where necessary to Class I in accor­              Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh sweet oranges
 dance with the provisions of Article 24 (2) of Regula­               imported into the Community and originating in
 tion (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on the representative                 Spain other than the varieties Moro, Tarocco, Biondo
 Community markets at the importer/wholesaler stage                   comune (Blanca comuna, Blonde commune), Grano
 or converted to that stage, adjusted by the conversion               de oro (Imperial , Sucrena), Baladi , Pera, Macetera,
 factors and following deduction of transport costs and               Pineapple, Blood oval ( Doblefina, Double fine), Portu­
 import charges other than customs duties, remain                    guese sanguine, Sanguina redonda (Entrefina),
 lower than the reference price in force, plus the inci­              Surinam varieties and the ordinary Sanguina variety,
 dence of the Common Customs Tariff on that price                    with the exception of Navel sanguines (improved
 and a standard amount fixed at 1-2 units of account                  Double fine, Washington sanguina, Sanguina grande)
 per 100 kilogrammes, for three consecutive market                    and Maltese sanguines (subheading ex 08.02 A I of the
 days on the representative markets of the Community                  Common Customs Tariff).
 with the lowest quotations ;
Whereas the conversion factors, the transport costs                                              Article 2
 and import charges other than customs duties are
 those used for the purpose of calculating the entry                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
                                                                      publication in the Official journal of the European
                                                                      Communities.
(>) OJ No L 228 , 15. 10 . 1970 , p. 2.
(2) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
(3 ) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 147 .                         (4 ) OJ No L 321 , 30 . 11 . 1974, p . 68 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 4 March 1975 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission