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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No81/98
of13January 1998
re-establishing thepreferential customs duty onimports ofuniflorous (standard)
carnations originating inMorocco
THE COMMISSION OFTHE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard totheTreaty establishing theEuropean
Community,
Having regard toCouncil Regulation (EEC) No4088/87
of21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the
application ofpreferential customs duties onimports of
certain flowers originating inCyprus, Israel, Jordan and
Morocco andtheWest Bank andtheGaza Strip (1),aslast
amended byRegulation (EC) No1300/97 (2),andlastin
particular Article 5(2)(b)thereof,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No4088/87 fixes conditions
fortheapplication ofapreferential customs duty on
large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations
within thelimit oftariff quotas opened annually for
imports offresh cutflowers into theCommunity;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No1981/94 (3),aslast
amended byCommission Regulation (EC) No1667/97 (4),
opens andprovides fortheadministration ofCommunity
tariff quotas forcertain products originating inCyprus,
Egypt, Israel, Malta, Morocco, theWest Bank and the
Gaza Strip, Tunisia and Turkey, and providing detailed
rules forextending and adapting these tariff quotas;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No79/98 (5)fixed
Community producer and import prices forcarnations
and roses for application ofthe arrangements for
importation from thecountries inquestion;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No700/88 (6),as
last amended byRegulation (EC) No2062/97 (7),laid
down detailed rules for the application ofthese
arrangements;
Whereas therepresentative market rates defined inArticle
1ofCouncil Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8),as
amended byRegulation (EC) No150/95 (9),areused toconvert amounts expressed inthird country currencies
andareused asthebasis fordetermining theagricultural
conversion rates oftheMember States’ currencies; whereas
detailed rules ontheapplication and determination of
these conversions were setbyCommission Regulation
(EEC) No1068/93 (10),asamended byRegulation (EC) No
1482/96 (11);
Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for
uniflorous (standard) carnations originating inMorocco by
Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 was suspended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No2559/97 (12);
Whereas onthe basis ofprice recordings made as
specified inRegulations (EEC) No4088/87 and(EEC) No
700/88 itmust beconcluded that therequirement for
reintroduction ofthepreferential customs duty laiddown
inArticle 2(4)ofRegulation (EEC) No4088/87 ismet
for uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in
Morocco; whereas thepreferential customs duty should be
reintroduced;
Whereas inbetween meetings ofthe Management
Committee, theCommission must adopt such measures,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. Forimports ofuniflorous (standard) carnations (CN
codes ex0603 1013and ex0603 1053)originating in
Morocco thepreferential customs duty setbyamended
Regulation (EC) No1981/94 isreintroduced.
2. Regulation (EC) No2559/97 ishereby repealed.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on15January
1998.(1)OJL382, 31.12.1987, p.22.
(2)OJL177, 5.7.1997, p.1.
(3)OJL199, 2.8.1994, p.1.
(4)OJL236, 27.8.1997, p.3.
(5)Seepage 5ofthis Official Journal.
(6)OJL72,18.3.1988, p.16.
(7)OJL289, 22.10.1997, p.1.
(8)OJL387, 31.12.1992, p.1.
(9)OJL22,31.1.1995, p.1.(10)OJL108, 1.5.1993, p.106.
(11)OJL188, 27.7.1996, p.22.
(12)OJL349, 19.12.1997, p.52.
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This Regulation shall bebinding initsentirety and directly applicable inallMember
States.
Done atBrussels, 13January 1998.
FortheCommission
Franz FISCHLER
Member oftheCommission