CELEX: 31988R3550
Language: en
Date: 1988-11-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3550/88 of 15 November 1988 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

No L 310/26                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 16. 11 . 88
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3550/88
                                                    of 15 November 1988
                 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
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 calculated on the following basis :
Portugal,
                                                                   — in the case of currencies whi6h are maintained in rela­
                                                                        tion to each other at any given moment within a band
Having 'regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73                   of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
of 14 May 1973 on imporjs of citrus fruits originating in               rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
Cyprus ('), 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 1636/87 0,.
Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­
ment establishing an Association between the European              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus                            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
                                                                         these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the                  tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
 Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ;
whereas, during the period in which reference prices are                 previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
 applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of
 a specified price on the Community market ; whereas                Whereas application of these rules to quotations recorded
 detailed rules for the application of this system are              for lemons imported into the Community and originating
 contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ;                         in Cyprus indicates that the conditions set out in the first
                                                                    paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73
                                                                    are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs
 Whereas, in certain respects, these rules refer to provi­          Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in
 sions of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May             question,
 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit
 and vegetables (2) as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
 No 2238/88 (3) ;
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 provides that,                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 where products are imported, the duty in the Common
 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                                          Article 1
  representative Community markets at the importer/
 wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted by the
  conversion factors and following deduction of import               As from 17 November 1988 , the duty in the Common
  charges other than customs duties, remain lower than the           Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons CN code
  reference price in force, plus the incidence of the                0805 30 10 imported into the Community and originating
  Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard                 in Cyprus.
  amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (1,44 ECU) per 100
  kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­
  sentative markets of the Community with the lowest
  quotations ;                                                                                 Article 2
  Whereas the conversion factors and import charges other            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
  than customs duties are those used for the purpose of              publication in the Official Journal of the European
                                                                      Communities.
  (') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113.
  0 OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                                 (<) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
   (3) OJ No L 198, 26. 7. 1988, p. 1 .                               0 OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 15 November 1988 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                       Vice-President