COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 80/98 of 13 January 1998 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel
Date: 1998-01-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Israel, customs duties, floriculture, import, tariff preference

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 80/98

of 13 January 1998

re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses
originating in Israel

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
of 21 December 1987 fixing
the
application of preferential customs duties on imports of
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and
Morocco and 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,

conditions

for

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions
for the application of a preferential customs duty on
small-flowered roses, uniflorous
large-flowered roses,
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations
within the limit of
tariff quotas opened annually for
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community;

Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 (3), as last
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1667/97 (4),
opens and provides for the administration of Community
tariff quotas for certain products originating in Cyprus,
Egypt, Israel, Malta, Morocco, the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip, Tunisia and Turkey, and providing detailed
rules for extending and adapting these tariff quotas;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 79/98 (5) fixed
Community producer and import prices for carnations
and roses
for
importation from the countries in question;

the arrangements

application of

for

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (7),
laid
these
for
down detailed rules
arrangements;

application of

the

amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (9), are used to
convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
conversion rates of the Member States’ currencies; whereas
detailed rules on the application and determination of
these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1482/96 (11);

Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for small-
flowered roses originating in Israel by Regulation (EC) No
1981/94 was suspended by Commission Regulation (EC)
No 2651/97 (12);

Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
in Article 2 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 is met for
small-flowered roses originating in Israel; whereas the
preferential customs duty should be reintroduced;

Whereas
Committee, the Commission must adopt such measures,

in between meetings of

the Management

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For imports of small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
1.
0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51) originating in Israel the
preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation (EC)
No 1981/94 is reintroduced.

2.

Regulation (EC) No 2651/97 is hereby repealed.

Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as last

Article 2

(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 236, 27. 8. 1997, p. 3.
(5) See page 5 of this Official Journal.
(6) OJ L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
(7) OJ L 289, 22. 10. 1997, p. 1.
(8) OJ L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 January
1998.

(9) OJ L 22, 31. 1. 1995, p. 1.
(10) OJ L 108, 1. 5. 1993, p. 106.
(11) OJ L 188, 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
(12) OJ L 356, 31. 12. 1997, p. 53.

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

Done at Brussels, 13 January 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission