31994R0591

No L 74/36 17. 3 . 94 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 591/94

of 16 March 1994

applying the duty in the Common Customs Tariff to fresh lemons originating in Cyprus

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, sentative markets of the Community with the lowest quotations ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas the conversion factors and import charges other Community, than customs duties are those used for the purpose of calculating the entry price referred to in Regulation (EEC) Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 No 1035/72 ; whereas the method of calculating import of 14 May 1973 on imports of citrus fruits originating in charges other than customs duties is, for certain cases, Cyprus ('), and in particular Article 5 thereof, defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1252/73 ;

Whereas Article 5 (2) and (3) of Annex I to the Agree­ Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article ment establishing an Association between the European 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (4), as Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (*), are used to provides for a reduced rate of duty on imports into the convert amounts expressed in third country currencies Community of fresh lemons originating in Cyprus ; and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural whereas, during the period in which reference prices are conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ; applied, this reduction is dependent on the observance of whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­ a specified price on the Community market ; whereas tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­ detailed rules for the application of this system are lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (6); 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 (EC) No are fulfilled ; whereas the duty in the Common Customs 3669/93 (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/ As from 18 March 1994, the duty in the Common wholesaler stage or converted to that stage, adjusted by the Customs Tariff shall be applied to fresh lemons CN code conversion factors and following deduction of import ex 0805 30 10 imported into the Community and origina­ charges other than customs duties, remain lower than the ting in Cyprus. reference price in force, plus the incidence of the Common Customs Tariff on that price and a standard Article 2 amount fixed at 1,2 units of account (ECU 1,44) per 100 kilograms, for three consecutive market days on the repre­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 March 1994.

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

Done at Brussels, 16 March 1994.

For the Commission

Rene STEICHEN

Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 113 . (4) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 118, 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32. (3) OJ No L 338, 31 . 12. 1993, p. 26. (6) OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.