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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 765/98
of 7 April 1998
re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of uniflorous (standard)
carnations originating in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the EuropeanCommunity,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the applica-tion of preferential customs duties on imports of certainflowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and Moroccoand the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (
1), as last amended
by Regulation (EC) No 1300/97 (2), and in particular
Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions
for the application of a preferential customs duty onlarge-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnationswithin the limit of tariff quotas opened annually forimports of fresh cut flowers into the Community;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 (
3), as last
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 650/98 (4),
opens and provides for the administration of Communitytariff quotas for certain products originating in Algeria,Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, the WestBank and the Gaza Strip, Tunisia and Turkey, andproviding detailed rules for extending and adapting thesetariff quotas;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 658/98 (
5)
fixed Community producer and import prices for carna-tions and roses for application of the arrangements forimportation from the countries in question;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (
6), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (7), laid
down detailed rules for the application of these arrange-ments;
Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (
8), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (9), are used toconvert amounts expressed in third country currencies
and are used as the basis for determining the agriculturalconversion rates of the Member States’ currencies;whereas detailed rules on the application and determina-tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu-lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (
10), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1482/96 (11);
Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for
uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel byRegulation (EC) No 1981/94 was suspended by Commis-sion Regulation (EC) No 659/98 (
12);
Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as speci-
fied in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement forreintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid downin Article 2 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 is met foruniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel;whereas the preferential customs duty should be reintro-duced;
Whereas in between meetings of the Management
Committee, the Commission must adopt such measures,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. For imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations (CN
codes ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating inIsrael the preferential customs duty set by Regulation (EC)No 1981/94 is reintroduced.
2. Regulation (EC) No 659/98 is hereby repealed.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 April 1998.(1) OJ L 382, 31. 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ L 177, 5. 7. 1997, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 88, 24. 3. 1998, p. 8.
(5) OJ L 90, 25. 3. 1998, p. 32.
(6) OJ L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
(7) OJ L 289, 22. 10. 1997, p. 1. (10) OJ L 108, 1. 5. 1993, p. 106.
(8) OJ L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. (11) OJ L 188, 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
(9) OJ L 22, 31. 1. 1995, p. 1. (12) OJ L 90, 25. 3. 1998, p. 34.
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels, 7 April 1998.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission