CELEX: 31994R0563
Language: en
Date: 1994-03-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 563/94 of 14 March 1994 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel

No L 71 /20                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                  15. 3. 94
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 563/94
                                                    of 14 March 1994
                  suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                  Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating
                                                           in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            during that period, the prices of the import product
                                                                       have been below that level ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2890/93 (4)
Community,                                                        fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
                                                                  roses for the application of the import arrangements ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87              Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the
                                                                  last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (*), lays
application of preferential customs duties on imports of          down the detailed rules for the application of the
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and
                                                                  arrangements ;
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                  Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                   1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 Q, as
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                  amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (*), are used to
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­              convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)           and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the          conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the        whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
Community of fresh cut flowers ;                                   nation of these conversions were set by Commission
                                                                   Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 f);
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3)                    Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
opened and provides for the administration of                      Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
Community tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds,           must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
fresh, originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ;         Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
                                                                   suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                   uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel ;
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                   whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a           re-established,
given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be
applicable only if the price of the imported product is at
least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price ;
whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the
Common Customs Tariff duty introduced for a given
product of a given origin :
                                                                                             Article 1
(a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the
     imported product are less than 85 % of the                    For imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations (CN codes
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %          ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the
     of the quantities for which prices are available on           preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
     representative import markets ;                               2604/93 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
                                                                   Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
     or
(b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market
                                                                                             Article 2
     days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­
     tively above and below 85 % of the Community
     producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the             This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 March 1994.
     quantities for which prices are available on the
     representative import markets and if, for three days           4) OJ No L 263, 22. 10. 1993, p. 10.
                                                                    0 OJ No L 72, 18 . 3 . 1988, p. 16.
                                                                   '«) OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.
0 OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                               I7) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
O 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 .                                ») OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 14 March 1994.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Rene STEICHEN
                                                              Member of the Commission