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No L 5 / 26 Official Journal of tihe European Communities 5 . 1 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 26/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 4 January 1973 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to certain varieties of sweet oranges originating in Spain

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN on the representative markets of the Community COMMUNITIES , with the lowest quotations ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ Whereas the conversion factors, the transport costs pean Economic Community ; and import charges other than customs are those Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No used for the purpose of calculating the entry price 2047/70 i 1 ) of 13 October 1970 on imports of citrus refered to in Regulation No 1035/72 ; whereas the fruit originating in Spain, and in particular Article 5 metod of calculating import charges other than thereof; customs duties is, for certain cases, defined in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2047/70 ; Whereas Article 7 of Annex 1 to the agreement between the European Economic Community and Whereas application of these rules to quotations Spain provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports recorded for sweet oranges imported into the into the Community of certains citrus fruit Community and originating in Spain indicates that originating in Spain ; whereas, during the period in the conditions set out in the first paragraph of which reference prices are applied, this reduction is Article 4 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 2047/70 are dependent on the observance of a specified price on fulfilled, for the varieties listed in Article 2 ( 1 ) ( c) the Community market, whereas detailed rules for of Regulation ( EEC ) No 2522/72 ( 4) fixing reference the application of this system are contained in prices for sweet oranges ; whereas the duty in the Regulation ( EEC ) No 2047/70 ; Common Customs Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in question ; Whereas, in certain respects, these rules refer to provisions of Regulation No 23 which were incorporated in Council Regulation ( EEC ) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 1035 /72 (2 ) of 18 May 1972 on the common organisation of the market in fruit and vegetables, Article 1 as amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 2454/72 ( 3 ); whereas , in this case , reference should be made to As from 6 January 1973 , the duty in the Common Regulation ( EEC ) No 1035 /72, in accordance with Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh sweet the Table which appears in Annex IV thereto ; oranges of the following varieties ( subheading ex Whereas Regulation ( EEC ) No 2047/70 provides 08.02 A I of the Common Customs Tariff) im­ that, where one of the products listed in Article 1 ported into the Community and originating in Spain : of that Regulation is imported, the duty in the Biondo comune (Blanca comuna, comune), Grano Common Customs Tariff is applied where quotations de oro ( Imperial, Sucrena ), Baladi, Pera, Macetera, for that product, converted where necessary to Pineaapple, Blood oval (Dobblefina, Double fine ), Class I in accordance with the provisions of the Portuguese sanguines , Sanguina redonda ( Entre-fina ), Article 24 ( 2 ) of Regulation ( EEC ) No 1035 /72 Surinam varieties and the ordinary Sanguina variety , recorded on the representative Community markets with the exception of Navel sanguines ( improved at the importer/wholesaler stage or converted to that double fine, Washington sanguina , Sanguina grande) stage, adjusted by the conversion factors and and Maltese sanguines . following deduction of transport costs and import charges other than customs duties, remain lower Article 2 than the reference price in force, plus the incidence of the Common Customs Tariff on that price and This Regulation shall enter into force on the day a standard amount fixed at T2 units of account per of its publication in the Official Journal of the 100 kilogrammes, for three consecutive market days European Communities .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels , 4 January 1973 . For the Commission The President S. L. MANSHOLT

(») OJ No L 228 , 15 . 10 . 1970 , p. 2 . H OJ No L 118 , 20.5 . 1972 , p. 1 . (») OJ No L 266 , 25 . 11 . 1972 , p. 1 . ( 4 ) OJ No L 270, 1 . 12 . 1972 , p. 63 .