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Number legal act	Regulation 1991/3879
Original proposal	COM(1991)474
CELEX number i	31991R3879

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Council Regulation (EEC) No 3879/91 of 19 December 1991 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain fruits and fruit juices

Official Journal L 364 , 31/12/1991 P. 0063 - 0074

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3879/91 of 19 December 1991 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain fruits and fruit juices

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas pursuant to the Agreement with the United States of America on the Mediterranean preferences, citrus and pasta, the Community has undertaken to suspend provisionally and in part the customs duties applicable to certain fruits and fruit juices within the limits of Community tariff quotas of appropriate volumes and of varying duration; whereas in order to ensure the balance of reciprocal concessions provided for in the Agreement, the Commission may, by means of a Regulation, suspend the application of the tariff measures in question;

Whereas the use of these tariff quotas is, however, conditional on presentation to the Community customs authorities of a certificate of authenticity issued by the competent authorities of the country of origin certifying that the products comply with the specific characteristics laid down;

Whereas Community tariff quotas for sweet oranges of high quality, citrus hybrids known as 'Minneolas' and certain types of frozen concentrated orange juice should therefore be opened for all or part of 1992;

Whereas all Community importers should be ensured equal and continuous access to the said quotas and the duty rates laid down for the quotas should be applied consistently to all imports of the products in question into all Member States until the quotas are exhausted;

Whereas the necessary measures should be taken to ensure efficient administration of the tariff quotas at Community level by providing for Member States to draw against the quota volumes such quantities as they may need to cover actual imports as recorded; whereas this method of administration requires close cooperation between Member States and the Commission;

Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united within, and jointly represented by, the Benelux Economic Union, any operation concerning the administration of quantities drawn by that economic union may be carried out by any one of its members,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

• 1. 

  The customs duties applicable to imports of the following products shall be suspended during the periods, at the levels and within the limits of the Community tariff quotas shown below:

Series

NoCN code (*)

DescriptionQuota periodQuota

volume

(tonnes)Rate of

duty

(%)09.0025ex 0805 10 11, 15, 19, 41, 45, 49Sweet oranges of high qualityFrom 1 February

to 30 April

199220 0001009.0027ex 0805 20 90Citrus hybrids known as 'Minneolas'From 1 February

to 30 April

199215 000 209.0033ex 2009 11 99Frozen concentrated orange juice having a degree of concentration of up to 50 degrees Brix, in containers of two litres or less, not containing blood orange concentrateFrom 1 January

to 31 December

1992 1 50013(*) See Taric codes in Annex III.

• 2. 

  Within the limits of these tariff quotas, the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs duties calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the 1985 Act of Accession.

Article 2

• 1. 

  For the purposes of this Regulation:

(a) sweet oranges of high quality means oranges of similar varietal characteristics which are mature, firm, well-formed, at least fairly well coloured, of fairly smooth texture and are free from decay, broken skins which are not healed, hard or dry skins,...

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