CELEX: 31995R0597
Language: en
Date: 1995-03-17
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 597/95 of 17 March 1995 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

No L 60/ 18           EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 18 . 3. 95
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 597/95
                                                       of 17 March 1995
                   applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in
                                                            Cyprus
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      Whereas the conversion factors and import charges other
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            than customs duties are those used for the purpose of
 Community,                                                       calculating the entry price referred to in Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of calculating import
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73             charges other than customs duties is, for certain cases,
 of 14 May 1973 on imports of citrus fruits originating in        defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ;
 Cyprus ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof,
 Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­           Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
 ment establishing an Association between the European             1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (3), as last
 Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus                    amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (4), are used to
 provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the          convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ;                and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                  conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
 whereas, during the period in which reference prices are
 applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of        whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
 a specified price on the Community market ; whereas              tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
 detailed rules for the application of this system are             lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (*), as last amended by Regula­
 contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ; whereas, in            tion (EC) No 1 57/95 (6);
 certain respects, these rules refer to provisions of Council     Whereas application of these rates to quotations recorded
 Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the                for lemons imported into the Community and originating
 common organization of the market in fruit and                   in Cyprus indicates that the conditions set out in the first
vegetables (2), as last amended by the Act of Accession of        paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73
Austria, Finland and Sweden ;                                     are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 provides that,                Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in
where products are imported, the duty in the Common               question,
 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/
                                                                                                Article 1
wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted by the
conversion factors and following deduction of import              As from 21 March 1995, the duty in the Common
charges other than customs duties, remain lower than the          Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons (CN code
 reference price in force, plus the incidence of the              ex 0805 30 20) imported into the Community and origi­
 Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard               nating in Cyprus.
amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (ECU 1,739) 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 21 March 1995.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 17 March 1995.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                               Rene STEICHEN
                                                                        Member of the Commission
                                                                  0   OJ  No  L  387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
                                                                  (4) OJ  No  L  22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113.                            0   OJ  No  L  108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(2) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                              (6) OJ  No  L  24, 1 . 2. 1995, p. 1 .