31974R0568

No L 69 / 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 12 . 3 . 74

REGULATION (EEC) No 568/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 11 March 1974 repealing Regulation (EEC) No 250/74 applying Common Customs Tariff duty to lemons originating in Tunisia

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN other than customs duties is, for certain cases, defined COMMUNITIES, in Article 2(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1472/69 ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it Economic Community ; should be calculated on the following basis : Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No — in the case of currencies which are maintained in 1472/69 (^ of 23 July 1969 on imports of citrus fruit relation to each other, at any given moment, originating in Tunisia as amended by Regulation within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based (EEC) No 2366/70 (2), and in particular Article 5 on their effective parity ; thereof ; — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary of these currencies recorded for a given period, in Committee ; relation to the Community currencies referred to Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 250/74 (3) in the previous subparagraph ; of 30 January 1974 applied the duty in the Common Whereas application of these rules to quotations Customs Tariff to lemons originating in Tunisia, recorded for lemons imported into the Community Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of Regulation and originating in Tunisia indicates that the condi­ (EEC) No 1472/69, this rule remains in force until the tions set out in Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No quotations referred to in Article 2(1 ) of that Regula­ 1472/69 are fulfilled, whereas Regulation (EEC) No tion, adjusted by the conversion factors and following 250/74 should therefore be repealed, deduction of transport costs and import charges other than customs duties, remain equal to or higher than HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the price laid down in Article 3 of that Regulation for three consecutive market days on the representative markets of the Community with the lowest quota­ Article 1 tions ; Commission Regulation (EEC) No 250/74 of 30 Whereas the conversion factors, the transport costs January 1974 applying Common Customs Tariff duty and import charges other than customs duties are to lemons imported from Tunisia is hereby repealed. those used for the purpose of calculating the entry price referred to in Council Regulation (EEC) No Article 2 1035/72 (4) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in fruit and vegetables as last This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (5), publication in the Official Journal of the European whereas the method of calculating import charges Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 March 1974 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(!) OJ No L 198 , 8 . 8 . 1969 , p . 25 . (2) OJ No L 257, 26. 11 . 1970 , p. 2. (3) OJ No L 27, 31 . 1 . 1974, p . 32. (4) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 . (5) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p. 147.