31984R2303

No L 211 / 14 8 . 8 . 84 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2303/84

of 7 August 1984

applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to lemons originating in Spain

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN account ( 1,44 ECU) per 100 kilograms, for three COMMUNITIES, consecutive market days on the representative markets of the Community with the lowest quotations ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas the conversion factors and import charges Economic Community, other than customs duties are those used for the purpose of calculating the entry price referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No calculating import charges other than customs duties 2047/70 of 13 October 1970 on imports of citrus fruit is, for certain cases, defined in Article 2 (2) of Regula­ tion (EEC) No 2047/70 ; originating in Spain ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof ; Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it should be calculated on the following basis :

Whereas Article 7 of Annex I to the Agreement — in the case of currencies which are maintained in between the European Economic Community and relation to each other at any given moment within Spain provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on into the Community of certain citrus fruit originating their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient in Spain ; whereas, during the period in which provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC) reference prices are applied, this reduction is depen­ No 974/71 , as last amended by Regulation (EEC) dent on the observance of a specified price on the No 855/84, Community market ; whereas detailed rules for the — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the application of this system are contained in Regulation arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of (EEC) No 2047/70 ; these currencies recorded over a given period in relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­ Whereas, in certain respects, these rules refer to provi­ cient ; sions of Regulation No 23 which were incorporated in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 Whereas application of these rules to quotations on the common organization of the market in fruit recorded for lemons imported into the Community and vegetables (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) and originating in Spain indicates that the conditions No 1 332/84 (3); whereas, in this case, reference should set out in the first paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation be made to Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, in accor­ (EEC) No 2047/70 are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in dance with the Table which appears in Annex IV the Common Customs Tariff should, therefore, be thereto ; applied to the products in question,

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2047/70 provides 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, in accordance with the provisions of Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on As from 9 August 1984, the duty in the Common the representative Community markets at the impor­ Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons ter/wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted (subheading 08.02 G of the Common Customs Tariff) by the conversion factors and following deduction of imported into the Community and originating in transport costs and import charges other than customs Spain. duties, remain lower than the reference price in force, plus the incidence of the Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard amount fixed at 1,2 units of Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its (') OJ No L 228 , 15. 10 . 1970, p. 2. (2) OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 . publication in the Official Journal of the European O OJ No L 130, 16. 5. 1984, p. 1 . Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 7 August 1984.

For the Commission

Poul DALSAGER

Member of the Commission