CELEX: 31984R1611
Language: en
Date: 1984-06-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1611/84 of 7 June 1984 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to lemons originating in Spain

8. 6. 84                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 152/65
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1611/84
                                                    of 7 June 1984
             applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to lemons originating in
                                                          Spain
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 (1,44 ECU) per 100 kilograms, for three consecutive
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   market days on the representative markets of the
                                                                Community with the lowest quotations ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas the conversion factors, the transport costs and
Economic Community,                                             import charges other than customs duties are those
                                                                used for the purpose of calculating the entry price
                                                                referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   the method of calculating import charges other than
 2047/70 of 13 October 1970 on imports of citrus fruit          customs duties is, for certain cases, defined in Article 2
originating in Spain ('), and in particular Article 5           (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2047/70 ;
thereof ;
                                                                Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it
                                                                should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas Article 7 of Annex I to the Agreement
                                                               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
between the European Economic Community and
Spain provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports                relation to each other at any given moment within
into the Community of certain citrus fruit originating              a band of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on
in Spain ; whereas, during the period in which                      their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient
reference prices are applied, this reduction is depen­              provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC)
dent on the observance of a specified price on the                  No 974/71 , as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
Community market ; whereas detailed rules for the                   No 855/84,
application of this system are contained in Regulation         — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
(EEC) No 2047/70 ;                                                  arithmetic mean of the sport market rates of each
                                                                    of these currencies recorded over a given period in
                                                                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas, in certain respects, these rules refer to provi­           in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­
sions of Regulation No 23 which were incorporated in                cient ;
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972
on the common organization of the market in fruit              Whereas application of these rules to quotations
and vegetables (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)        recorded for lemons imported into the Community
No 1332/84 (3) ; whereas, in this case, reference should        and originating in Spain indicates that the conditions
be made to Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, in accor­              set out in the first paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation
dance with the Table which appears in Annex IV                 (EEC) No 2047/70 are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in
thereto ;                                                      the Common Customs Tariff should, therefore, be
                                                                applied to the products in question,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2047/70 provides that,
where one of the products listed in Article 1 of that
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Regulation is imported, the duty in the Common
Customs Tariff is applied where quotations for that
product, converted where necessary to Class I in accor­                                 Article 1
dance with the provisions of Article 24 (2) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on the representative           As from 9 June 1984, the duty in the Common
Community markets at the importer/wholesaler stage             Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons
or converted to that stage, adjusted by the conversion         (subheading 08.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff),
factors and following deduction of transport costs and         imported into the Community and originating in
import charges other than customs duties, remain               Spain.
lower than the reference price in force, plus the inci­
dence of the Common Customs Tariff on that price
and a standard amount fixed at 1,2 units of account                                     Article 2
(') OJ No L 228, 15. 10. 1970, p. 2.
                                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
Ò OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                             publication in the Official Journal of the European
P) OJ No L 130, 16. 5. 1984, p. 1 .                             Communities.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 7 June 1984,
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Poul DALSAGER
                                                             Member of the Commission