CELEX: 31989R3566
Language: en
Date: 1989-11-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3566/89 of 29 November 1989 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

No L 349/ 18                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                30. 11 . 89
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3566/89
                                                    of 29 November 1989
                 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in
                                                            Cyprus
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of calculating import
                                                                  charges other than customs duties is, for certain cases,
                                                                  defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                               Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it should be
                                                                  calculated on the following basis :
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
Portugal,                                                             tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                      of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
                                                                      rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73                  the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council
of 14 May 1973 on imports of citrus fruits originating in             Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 (4), as last amended by
Cyprus ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof ;                     Regulation (EEC) No 1636/87(0,
                                                                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
ment establishing an Association between the European                 these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus                         tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the               previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ;
whereas, during the period in which reference prices are          Whereas application of these rules to quotations recorded
applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of         for lemons imported into the Community and originating
a specified price on the Community market ; whereas               in Cyprus indicates that the conditions set out in the first
detailed rules for the application of this system are             paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73
contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ; whereas, in            are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs
certain respects, these rules refer to provisions of Council      Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the                 question ;
common organization of the market in fruit and vegeta­
bles ^) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
1 1 19/89 (3) ;                                                   in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                  Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
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              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on the
representative Community markets at the importer/
wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted by the                                Article 1
conversion factors and following deduction of import
charges other than customs duties, remain lower than the
reference price in force, plus the incidence of the               As from 1 December 1989, the duty in the Common
Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard                Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons CN code
amount fixed at 1,2 units of account ( 1,44 ECU) per 100          0805 30 10 imported into the Community and originating
kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­         in Cyprus.
sentative markets of the Community with the lowest
quotations ;
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas the conversion factors and import charges other
than customs duties are those used for the purpose of             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
calculating the entry price referred to in Regulation (EEC)       publication in the Official Journal of the European
                                                                   Communities.
(') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113 .
(2) OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                             O OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(J) OJ No L 118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 12.                              (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, 29 November 1989.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                               Member of the Commission