31974R0340

No L 37/ 30 Official Journal of the European Communities 9 . 2 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 340/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 8 February 1974 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to certain varieties of sweet oranges originating in Spain

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based COMMUNITIES , on their effective parity ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the Economic Community ; arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period, in Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No relation to the Community currencies referred to 2047/70 (') of 13 October 1970 on imports of citrus in the previous subparagraph ; fruit originating in Spain , and in particular Article 5 thereof ; Whereas the conversion factors, the transport costs Whereas Article 7 of Annex I to the agreement and import charges other than customs are those used between the European Economic Community and for the purpose of calculating the entry price referred Spain provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports to in Regulation No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of into the Community of certain citrus fruit originating calculating import charges other than customs duties in Spain ; whereas , during the period in which refer­ is, for certain cases, defined in Article 2 (2) of Regula­ ence prices are applied, this reduction is dependent tion ( EEC) No 2047/70 ; on the observance of a specified price on the Commu­ Whereas application of these rules to quotations nity market, whereas detailed rules for the application recorded for sweet oranges imported into the Commu­ of this system are contained in Regulation ( EEC) No 2047/ 70 ; nity and originating in Spain indicates that the condi­ tions set out in the first paragraph of Article 4 of Regu­ Whereas, in certain respects, these rules refer to provi­ lation ( EEC) No 2047/70 are fulfilled, for the varieties sions of Regulation No 23 which were incorporated in listed in Article 3 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1035/72 (2 ) of 18 May 3303/73 (4) fixing reference prices for sweet oranges 1972 on the common organization of the market in for the 1973 /74 marketing year ; whereas the duty in fruit and vegetables, as last amended by Regulation the Common Customs Tariff should , therefore , be ( EEC) No 2745/ 72 ( 3 ) ; whereas, in this case , reference applied to the products in question , should be made to Regulation ( EEC) No 1035/72, in accordance with the Table which appears in Annex IV thereto ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : . Whereas Regulation ( EEC) No 2047/70 provides that, where one of the products listed in Article 1 of that Regulation is imported , the duty in the Common Article 1 Customs Tariff is applied where quotations for that product, converted where necessary to Class I in accor­ As from 12 February 1974, the duty in the Common dance with the provisions of Article 24 (2) of Regula­ Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh sweet oranges tion ( EEC) No 1035/ 72 recorded on the representative of the following varieties (subheading ex 08.02 A I of the Common Customs Tariff) imported into the Community markets at the importer/wholesaler stage or converted to that stage , adjusted by the conversion Community and originating in Spain ; Biondo factors and following deduction of transport costs and comune ( Blanca comuna, comune), Grano de oro import charges other than customs duties, remain ( Imperial , Sucrena), Baladi , Pera , Macetera , Pineapple, lower than the reference price in force , plus the inci­ Blood oval ( Dobblefina, Double fine), Portuguese dence of the Common Customs Tariff on that price sanguines , Sanguina redonda ( Entrefina), Surinam and a standard amount fixed at 1-2 units of account varieties and the ordinary Sanguina variety, with the per 100 kilogrammes , for three consecutive market exception of Navel sanguines (improved double fine, days on the representative markets of the Community Washington sanguina, Sanguina grande) and Maltese with the lowest quotations : sanguines .

Whereas , if the system is to operate normally, it should be calculated on the following basis : Article 2 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its relation to each other, at any given moment, publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. (>) OJ No L 228 , 15 . 10 . 1970 , p . 2 . ( 2 ) OJ No L 1 18 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 147 . (4) OJ No L 338 , 7 . 12. 1973 , p . 32.

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

Done at Brussels , 8 February 1974 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI