31993R3058

5 . 11 . 93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 273/23

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3058/93 of 4 November 1993 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of fresh lemons originating in Turkey

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, consideration must be recorded on the representative markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas for fresh lemons originating in Turkey the entry Community, prices calculated in this way have for six consecutive market days been alternatively above and below the reference price ; whereas three of these entry prices are at Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 least ECU 0,6 below the reference prices ; whereas a of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the counterviling charge should therefore be introduced for market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by these fresh lemons ; Regulation (EEC) No 638/93 (2), and in particular the first Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof, 3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the Community of certain agricultural products originating in Whereas Article 25a (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 Turkey (J), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No provides that, if the entry price of a product imported 1555/84 (8), a rate of customs duty of 4 % should be rein­ from a non-member country is alternatively above and troduced ; below the reference price for five to seven consecutive market days a countervailing charge is introduced in Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article respect of that non-member country, save in exceptional 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (9) are used to cases ; whereas that charge is introduced when three entry convert amounts expressed in third country currencies prices fall below the reference price and one of those and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural entry prices is at least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ; conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ; whereas that charge is equal to the difference between the whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­ reference price and the last available entry price by at tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­ least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ; lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (10);

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1319/93 of Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are 28 May 1993 fixing the reference price for fresh lemons in accordance with the opinion of the Management for the 1993/94 marketing year (3) fixed the reference Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, price for products of class I for the period 1 November 1993 to 30 April 1994 at ECU 47,15 per 100 kilograms net ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic Article 1 mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting country concerned 1 . A countervailing charge of ECU 2,24 per 100 kilo­ which are marketed on all representative markets for grams net is applied on imports of fresh lemons falling which prices are available less the duties and the charges within CN code ex 0805 30 10 originating in Turkey. indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is 2. The import duty on these products is fixed at 4 % . defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 according to the dispositions of Regulation (EEC) No 3133/92 of 29 October 1992 altering the entry price for certain fruits and vegetables originating in Mediterranian Article 2 third countries (4) ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 November 1993 . Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 211 8/74 0, as last amended by Regulation Subject to the provisions of the second subparagraph of (EEC) No 249/93 (6), the prices to be taken into Article 26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, this Regu­ lation shall be applicable until 11 November 1993. (') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 69, 20 . 3. 1993, p. 7. (3) OJ No L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 90. O OJ No L 367, 23 . 12. 1981 , p. 3. O OJ No L 313, 30. 10 . 1992, p. 18 . (*) OJ No L 150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 4. 0 OJ No L 220, 10. 8 . 1974, p. 20 . O OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . « OT No L 28 . 5. 2. 1993. o. 45. (10) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 November 1993 .

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission