CELEX: 31994R0263
Language: en
Date: 1994-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 263/94 of 4 February 1994 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel

5. 2. 94                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 32/ 1
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                                                 (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 263/94
                                                          of 4 February 1994
                    re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower
                                            (standard) carnations originating in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (5), as
                                                                       last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), laid
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 down detailed rules for the application of these
 Community,                                                            arrangements ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                  Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                          1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 38 13/92 0, as
application of preferential customs duties on imports of               amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (8), are used to
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and              convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                         and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,             conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
                                                                       whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                   nation of these conversions were set by Commission
for the application of a preferential customs duty on                  Regulation (EEC) No 3819/92 (9);
large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations                 Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for single­
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for                  flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel by
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community ;                      Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 was suspended by
                                                                       Commission Regulation (EC) No 3590/93 (l0) ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3) opens                  Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
and provides for the administration of Community tariff                specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating             700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ;                                reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
                                                                       in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                   4088/87 is met for single-flower (standard) carnations
stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be                 originating in Israel ; whereas the preferential customs
reintroduced for a given product of a given origin if the              duty should be reintroduced,
prices of the imported product (full rate customs duty not
deducted) are, for at least 70 % of the quantities for which
prices are available on representative Community import                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
markets, not less than 85 % of the Community producer
price for a period, calculated from the actual date of                                           Article 1
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
— of two successive market days, after suspension under                For imports of single-flower (standard) carnations (CN
     Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,                             codes ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in
                                                                       Israel the preferential customs duty set by Regulation
— of three successive market days, after suspension                    (EEC) No 2604/93 is reintroduced.
     under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation ;
                                                                                                 Article 2
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2890/93 (4)
fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses               This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 February 1994.
for application of the arrangements for importation from
the countries in question ;
                                                                       o OJ   No L 72, 18 . 3. 1988 , p. 16.
                                                                       (6) OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.
(*) OJ  No  L 382,   31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                             O OJ   No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No  L 311 ,  17.  11 . 1988, p. 1 .                            (8) OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
(3) OJ  No  L 239,   24.  9. 1993, p. 1 .                              0 OJ   No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 17.
0   OJ  No  L 263,   22.  10 . 1993, p. 10.                            H OJ    No L 326, 28. 12. 1993, p. 52.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 4 February 1994.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Rene STEICHEN
                                                             Member of the Commission