CELEX: 31997R2559
Language: en
Date: 1997-12-18 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2559/97 of 18 December 1997 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Morocco

L 349 /52            I EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                               19 . 12. 97
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2559/97
                                                      of 18 December 1997
                    suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                    Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating
                                                           in Morocco
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
                                                                    and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
 Community,                                                         detailed rules on the application and determination of
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
 of 21     December 1987 fixing conditions for the                  (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
 application of preferential customs duties on imports of           No 1482/96 (n );
 certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan,             Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
 Morocco, the West Bank and Gaza Strip ('), as last                 Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 1300/97 (2), and in                  must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
 particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,                              Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87 for
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                   suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
 conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­              uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Morocco;
 flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)           whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
 carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the          re-established;
 limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the        Whereas the quota for the products in question covers the
 Community of fresh cut flowers;                                    period 1 November 1997 to 31 October 1998 ; whereas, as
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last            a result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
 amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1667/97 (4),              reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
 opens and provides for the administration of Community             up to the end of that period at the latest;
 tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh,              Whereas, in between meetings of the Management
 originating in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan,             Committees, the Commission must adopt such measures,
 Malta, Morocco, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,
Tunisia and Turkey;                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as                                          Article 1
 last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (*■), lays
 down the detailed rules for the application of the                 For imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations (CN codes
 arrangements;                                                      ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Morocco,
                                                                    the preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC)
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2558/97 Q                     No 1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common
 fixes the Community producer and import prices for                 Customs Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
 carnations and roses for the application of the import
 arrangements;                                                                                 Article 2
Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as last              following its publication in the Official Journal of the
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used to             European Communities.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States .
                    Done at Brussels, 18 December 1997.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
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