31994R0475

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 475/94 of 2 March 1994 introducing a countervailing charge and suspending the preferential customs duty on imports of fresh lemons originating in Turkey

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (EEC) No 249/93 (6), the prices to be taken into consideration must be recorded on the representative markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Whereas for fresh lemons originating in Turkey the entry prices calculated in this way have for five consecutive market days been alternatively above and below the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 reference price ; whereas two of these entry prices are at of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the least ECU 0,6 below the reference prices ; whereas a market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by counterviling charge should therefore be introduced for Regulation (EC) No 3669/93 (2), and in particular the these fresh lemons ; second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) thereof, Whereas, in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3671 /81 of 15 December 1981 on imports into the Whereas Article 25a (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 Community of certain agricultural products originating in provides that, if the entry price of a product imported Turkey Q, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No from a non-member country is alternatively above and 1555/84 (8), a rate of customs duty of 4 % should be rein­ below the reference price for five to seven consecutive troduced ; market days a countervailing charge is introduced in respect of that non-member country, save in exceptional Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article cases ; whereas that charge is introduced when three entry 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 0, as prices fall below the reference price and one of those amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (10), are used to entry prices is at least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ; convert amounts expressed in third country currencies whereas that charge is equal to the difference between the and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural reference price and the last available entry price by at conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ; least ECU 0,6 below the reference price ; whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­ tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­ lation (EEC) No 1068/93 ("), Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1319/93 of 28 May 1993 fixing the reference price for fresh lemons for the 1993/94 marketing year (3) fixed the reference price for products of class I for the period 1 November HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 1993 to 30 April 1994 at ECU 47,15 per 100 kilograms net : Article 1 Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country is equal to the lowest representative price or the arithmetic 1 . A countervailing charge of ECU 1,38 per 100 kilo­ mean of the lowest prices recorded for at least 30 % of grams net is applied on imports of fresh lemons falling the quantities from the exporting country concerned within CN code ex 0805 30 10 originating in Turkey. which are marketed on all representative markets for which prices are available less the duties and the charges 2. The import duty ori these products is fixed at 4 % . indicated in Article 24 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 according to the dispositions of Regulation (EEC) No Article 2 2849/93 of 19 October 1993 altering the entry price for certain fruits and vegetables originating in Mediterranian This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 March 1994. third countries (4) ; Subject to the provisions of the second subparagraph of Article 26 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, this Regu­ Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation lation shall be applicable until 9 March 1994. (EEC) No 21 18/74 (*), as last amended by Regulation

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

Done at Brussels, 2 March 1994.

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission