CELEX: 31991R1543
Language: en
Date: 1991-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1543/91 of 6 June 1991 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Israel

No L 143/30                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                    7. 6 . 91
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1543/91
                                                        of 6 June 1991
                  applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in
                                                             Israel
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 1627/75 ;
Economic Community,
                                                                    Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it should be
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  calculated on the following basis :
Portugal,
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                        tion to each other at any given moment within a band
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1627/75                    of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
of 26 June 1975 on imports of fresh lemons originating                  rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
in Israel ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof ;                    the last paragraph of Article 3(1 ) of Council
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 (4), as last amended by
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 2205/90 (*),
Whereas Article 8 of Protocol I to the Agreement
between the European Economic Community and Israel                  — for 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 Israel ;                       Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
                                                                         a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
whereas, during the period in which reference prices are
applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of                cient referred to in the previous 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 3920/90 ;                          for lemons imported into the Community and originating
                                                                    in Israel indicates that the conditions set out in the first
                                                                    paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1627/75
Whereas, in certain respects, these rules refer to provi­           are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs
sions of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May              Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in
 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit             question,
and vegetables (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1119/89 0 ;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1627/75 provides that,
where products are imported, the duty in the Common                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Customs Tariff is applied where quotations for that
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 8 June 1991 the duty in the Common Customs
Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard                  Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons (CN code
amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (1,44 ECU) per 100             ex 0805 30 1 0) imported into the Community and origi­
kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­          nating in Israel.
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 8 June 1991 .
(') OJ No L 165, 28 . 6. 1975, p. 9 .
O OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                                 (4) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(•') OJ No L 375, 31 . 12. 1990, p. 17.                             H 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, 6 June 1991 .
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                 Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                            Member of the Commission