CELEX: 31993R0155
Language: en
Date: 1993-01-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 155/93 of 28 January 1993 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of fresh lemons originating in Turkey

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                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 155/93
                                                      of 28 January 1993
                introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs
                                duty on imports of fresh lemons originating in Turkey
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        (EEC) No 3811 /85 0, the prices to be taken into
                                                                   consideration must be recorded on the representative
                                                                   markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                Whereas, for fresh lemons originating in Turkey, the
                                                                   entry price calculated in this way has remained at least 0,6
                                                                   ECU below the reference price for two consecutive
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 market days ; whereas a countervailing charge should
Portugal,                                                          therefore be introduced for these fresh lemons ;
                                                                   Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the
market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by             Community of certain agricultural products originating in
Regulation (EEC) No 1754/92 (2), and in particular the
                                                                   Turkey (6), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   1 555/84 Q, a rate of customs duty of 4 % should be re­
second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof,                     introduced for these fresh lemons ;
Whereas Article 25(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72              Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
provides that, if the entry price of a product imported            1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8) are used to
from a third country remains at least 0,6 ECU below the            convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
reference price for two consecutive market days, a coun­           and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
tervailing charge must be introduced in respect of the             conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circum­           whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
stances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference           tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of             lation (EEC) No 3819/92 (9),
the last two entry prices available for that exporting
country ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1413/92 of                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
27 May 1992 fixing the reference prices for lemons for
the 1992/93 marketing year (3) fixed the reference price
for products of class I for the period from November
                                                                                              Article 1
1992 to April 1993 at ECU 47,15 per 100 kilograms net ;
                                                                    1 . A countervailing charge of ECU 3,25 per 100 kilo­
Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is           grams net is applied on imports of fresh lemons (CN
equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic         code ex 0805 30 10) originating in Turkey.
mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of
the quantities from the exporting country concerned
which are marketed on all representative markets for               2.     The import duty on these products is fixed at 4 % .
which prices are available less the duties and the charges
indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is
defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 ;                                                                                     Article 2
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 30 January
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Regulation            1993 .
(EEC) No 211 8/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation
                                                                    0   OJ No  L 368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1.
 (') OJ No L  118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                              (6) OJ No  L 367, 23. 12. 1981 , p. 3.
 (2) OJ No L  180, 1 . 7. 1992, p. 23.                              0   OJ No  L 150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 4.
 (3) OJ No  L 146, 28. 5. 1992, p. 71 .                             (8) OJ No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1.
 (4) OJ No L  220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20.                             (') OJ No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 17.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 28 January 1993.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Rene STEICHEN
                                                               Member of the Commission