31993R3589

28 . 12. 93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 326/51

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3589/93 of 27 December 1993 applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas the conversion factors and import charges other than customs duties are those used for the purpose of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European calculating the entry price referred to in Regulation (EEC) Community, No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of calculating import Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 charges other than customs duties is, for certain cases, of 14 May 1973 on imports of citrus fruits originating in defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ; Cyprus ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof, Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­ 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (4), as ment establishing an Association between the European amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (5), are used to Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus convert amounts expressed in third country currencies provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ; conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ; whereas, during the period in which reference prices are whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­ applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­ a specified price on the Community market ; whereas lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (6); detailed rules for the application of this system are contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ; whereas, in Whereas application of these rates to quotations recorded certain respects, these rules refer to provisions of Council for lemons imported into the Community and originating Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the in Cyprus indicates that the conditions set out in the first common organization of the market in fruit and paragraph of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 vegetables (2) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs 638/93 (3) ; Tariff should, therefore, be applied to the products in 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 Article 1 representative Community markets at the importer/ wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted by the As from 29 December 1993, the duty in the Common conversion factors and following deduction of import Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons CN code charges other than customs duties, remain lower than the ex 0805 30 10 imported into the Community and origina­ reference price in force, plus the incidence of the ting in Cyprus . Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (ECU 1,44) per 100 Article 2 kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­ sentative markets of the Community with the lowest This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 December quotations ; 1993 .

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

Done at Brussels, 27 December 1993 .

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission

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