31974R0250

No L 27/32 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 1 . 74

REGULATION (EEC) No 250/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 30 January 1974 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to lemons originating in Tunesia

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN per 100 kilogrammes, for three consecutive market COMMUNITIES, days on the representative markets of the Community with the lowest quotations ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas the conversion factors, the transport costs and import charges other than customs are those used for the purpose of calculating the entry price referred Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No to in Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the 1472/69 (^ of 23 July 1969, on imports of citrus fruit method of calculating import charges other than originating in Tunesia as amended by Regulation customs duties is, for certain cases, defined in Article (EEC) No 2366/72 (2) and in particular Article 5 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1472/69 ; thereof ; Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, Whereas Article 4 of Annex I to the Agreement estab­ levies should be calculated on the following basis : lishing an Association between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Tunesia — in the case of currencies which are maintained in provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the relation to each other, at any given moment, Community of certain citrus fruit originating in within a band of 2-25 % a rate of exchange based Tunesia ; whereas, during the period in which refer­ on their effective parity ; ence prices are applied, this reduction is dependent — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the on the observance of a specified price on the Commu­ arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each nity market, whereas detailed rules for the application of these currencies recorded for a given period, in of this system are contained in Regulation (EEC) No relation to the Community currencies referred to 1472/69 ; in the previous subparagraph ;

Whereas, in certain respects, these rules refer to provi­ Whereas application of these rules to quotations sions of Regulation No 23 which were incorporated in recorded for lemons imported into the Community Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 (3) of 18 May and originating in Tunesia indicates that the condi­ 1972 on the common organization of the market in tions set out in the first paragraph of Article 4 of Regu­ fruit and vegetables, as last amended by Regulation lation (EEC) No 1472/69 are fulfilled ; whereas the (EEC) No 2745/72 (4) ; whereas, in this case, reference duty in the Common Customs Tariff should, there­ should be made to Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, in fore, be applied to the products in question, accordance with the table which appears in Annex IV thereto ;

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1472/69 presides that, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : where one of the products listed in Article 1 of that Regulation is imported, the duty in the Common Customs Tariff is applied where quotations for that Article 1 product, converted where necessary to Class 1 in accor­ dance with the provisions of Article 24 (2) of Regula­ As from 1 February 1974 the duty in the Common tion (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on the representative Community markets at the importer/wholesaler stage Customs Tariff shall be applied to lemons or converted to that stage, adjusted by the conversion (subheading No ex 08.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff) imported into the Community and originating factors and following deduction of transport costs and in Tunesia. import charges other than customs duties, remain 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

0) OJ No L 198, 8 . 8 . 1969, p. 25. This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its (2) OJ No L 257, 26. 11 . 1970, p. 2. (3) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 . publication in the Official Journal of the European (*) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147. Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 January 1974. For the Commission The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI