CELEX: 31974R0340
Language: en
Date: 1974-02-08 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 340/74 of the Commission of 8 February 1974 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to certain varieties of sweet oranges originating in Spain

No L 37/30                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                 9 . 2. 74
                                REGULATION ( EEC) No 340/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 8 February 1974
                applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to certain varieties of sweet
                                                     oranges originating in Spain
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                             within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
 COMMUNITIES,                                                               on their effective parity ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 Economic Community ;                                                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                            of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                               relation to the Community currencies referred to
 2047/70 (') of 13 October 1970 on imports of citrus                        in the previous subparagraph ;
 fruit originating in Spain , and in particular Article 5
 thereof ;                                                            Whereas the conversion factors, the transport costs
Whereas Article 7 of Annex I to the agreement                         and import charges other than customs are those used
between the European Economic Community and                            for the purpose of calculating the entry price referred
 Spain provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports                 to in Regulation No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of
 into the Community of certain citrus fruit originating               calculating import charges other than customs duties
 in Spain ; whereas, during the period in which refer­                 is, for certain cases, defined in Article 2 (2) of Regula­
ence prices are applied, this reduction is dependent                  tion (EEC) No 2047/70 ;
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 3 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 (2 ) of 18 May                    3303/73 (4) fixing reference prices for sweet oranges
 1972 on the common organization of the market in                     for the 1973 /74 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
Regulation is imported, the duty in the Common                                                  Article 1
Customs Tariff is applied where quotations for that
product, converted where necessary to Class I in accor­               As from 12 February 1974, the duty in the Common
dance with the provisions of Article 24 (2) of Regula­                Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh sweet oranges
tion ( EEC) No 1035/ 72 recorded on the representative                of the following varieties (subheading ex 08.02 A I of
Community markets at the importer/wholesaler stage                    the Common Customs Tariff) imported into the
or converted to that stage, adjusted by the conversion                Community and originating in Spain ; Biondo
factors and following deduction of transport costs and                comune (Blanca comuna, comune), Grano de oro
import charges other than customs duties, remain                      (Imperial , Sucrena), Baladi , Pera, Macetera, Pineapple,
lower than the reference price in force, plus the inci­               Blood oval ( Dobblefina, Double fine), Portuguese
dence of the Common Customs Tariff on that price                      sanguines, Sanguina redonda (Entrefina), Surinam
and a standard amount fixed at 1-2 units of account                   varieties and the ordinary Sanguina variety, with the
per 100 kilogrammes, for three consecutive market                     exception of Navel sanguines (improved double fine,
days on the representative markets of the Community                   Washington sanguina, Sanguina grande) and Maltese
with the lowest quotations :                                          sanguines .
Whereas , if the system is to operate normally, it
should be calculated on the following basis :                                                   Article 2
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
       relation to each other, at any given moment,                   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 1 18 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .
(3 ) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 147 .                          (4) OJ No L 338 , 7 . 12. 1973 , p . 32.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 8 February 1974.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                      The President
                                                                 Francois-Xavier ORTOLI