CELEX: 31988R1279
Language: en
Date: 1988-05-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1279/88 of 10 May 1988 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

11 . 5. 88
                                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 121 /51
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1279/88
                                                           of 10 May 1988
                       applying the duty in the Common Customs  Cyprus
                                                                          Tariff to fresh lemons originating in
     THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                                         Whereas the conversion factors and import charges other
                                                                        than customs duties are those used for the purpose of
                                                                        calculating the entry price referred to in Regulation (EEC)
     Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of calculating import
     Economic Community,                                                charges other than customs duties is, for certain cases,
                                                                        defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1 252/73 ;
     Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it should be
     Portugal,                                                          calculated on the following basis :
                                                                        — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
    Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73                     tion to each other at any given moment within a band
    of 14 May 1973 on imports of citrus fruits originating in                of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
    Cyprus .('.), and in particular Article 5 thereof ;                     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
                                                                            the last paragraph of Article 3(1 ) of Council
                                                                            Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 (4), as last amended by
                                                                            Regulation (EEC) No 1 636/87 (^
    Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
    ment establishing an Association between the European                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
    Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus                           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 ;                      previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ■
   whereas, during the period in which reference prices are
   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
                                                                      question,
   sions of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May
   1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit
   and vegetables (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
   No 1 1 17/88 (3);                                     v    '
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  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
  product, in accordance with the provisions of Article                                          Article 1
  24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on the
  representative Community markets at the importer/                  As from 12 May 1988, the duty in the Common Customs
 wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted by the        Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons (CN code
 conversion factors and following deduction of import                0805 30 10) imported into the Community and origina­
 charges other than customs duties, remain lower than the            ting in Cyprus.
 reference price in force, plus the incidence of the
 Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard
 amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (1,44 ECU) per 100
 kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­                                     Article 2
 sentative markets of the Community with the lowest
 quotations ;
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 May 1988.
(') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113.
(2) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                                (4) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 107, 28. 4. 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, 10 May 1988 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                       Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                          Vice-President