CELEX: 31992R0065
Language: en
Date: 1992-01-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 65/92 of 10 January 1992 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

No L 6/28                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                  11 . 1 . 92
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 65/92
                                                     of 10 January 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 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            — 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 vegeta­           are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs,
bles (2) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                  Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in
1623/91 0 ;                                                      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
                                                                 As 14 January 1992, the duty in the Common Customs
reference price in force, plus the incidence of the
                                                                 Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons CN code ex
Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard
                                                                 0805 30 10 imported into the Community and originating
amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (1,44 ECU) per 100
kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­       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 14 January
                                                                  1992.
(') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113.
0 OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                               (4) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
O OJ No L 150, 15. 6. 1991 , p. 8.                               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, 10 January 1992.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                               Member of the Commission