31993R0015

No L 4/ 10 Official Journal of the European Communities 8 . 1 . 93

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 15/93 of 7 January 1993 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, calculating the entry price referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of calculating import charges other than customs duties is, for certain cases, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ; Economic Community, Whereas, if the system is to operate normally, it should be calculated on the following basis : Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ tion to each other at any given moment within a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in of 14 May 1973 on imports of citrus fruits originating in the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Cyprus ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof, Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2205/90 (*),

Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­ ment establishing an Association between the European — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus average of the ecu rates published in the Official provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the Journal of the European Communities, C series, over Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ; a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­ whereas, during the period in which reference prices are cient referred to in the preceding indent ; applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of a specified price on the Community market ; whereas detailed rules for the application of this system are Whereas application of these rules to quotations recorded contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ; whereas, in for lemons imported into the Community and originating certain respects, these rules refer to provisions of Council in Cyprus indicates that the conditions set out in the first Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 common organization of the market in fruit and are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs vegetables (2) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in 1754/92 P); question,

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 provides that, where products are imported, the duty in the Common Customs Tariff is applied where quotations for that HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : product, in accordance with the provisions of Article 24(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 recorded on the representative Community markets at the importer/ wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted by the Article 1 conversion factors and following deduction of import charges other than customs duties, remain lower than the reference price in force, plus the incidence of the As from 9 January 1993, the duty in the Common Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons CN code amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (ECU 1,44) per 100 ex 0805 30 10 imported into the Community and origina­ kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­ ting in Cyprus. sentative markets of the Community with the lowest quotations ;

Article 2 Whereas the conversion factors and import charges other than customs duties are those used for the purpose of This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 January 1993.

(') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113. O OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 180, 1 . 7. 1992, p. 23. O OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.

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

Done at Brussels, 7 January 1993.

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission