CELEX: 31996R0594
Language: en
Date: 1996-04-02 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 594/96 of 2 April 1996 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

3 . 4. 96           I EN 1               Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 84/33
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 594/96
                                                         of 2 April 1996
                  re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small -flowered roses
                                                      originating in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        down detailed rules for the application of these
                                                                   arrangements;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                         Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                    1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 Q, as last
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (8), are used to
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                      convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
application of preferential customs duties on imports of           and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and          conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
Morocco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                 detailed rules on the application and determination of
539/96 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,           these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 1068/93 (9), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
                                                                   No 2853/95 (10);
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions
for the application of a preferential customs duty on
large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous             Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for small­
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations             flowered roses originating in Israel by Regulation (EC) No
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for               1981 /94 was suspended by Commission Regulation (EC)
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community;                   No 320/96 (n);
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last           Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 539/96, opens and                    specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
provides for the administration of Community tariff                700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating         reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;                             in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   4088/87 is met for small-flowered roses originating in
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               Israel; whereas the preferential customs duty should be
                                                                   reintroduced,
stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be
reintroduced for a given product of a given origin if the
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
markets, not less than 85 % of the Community producer              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
price for a period, calculated from the actual date of
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
— of two successive market days, after suspension under
                                                                                              Article 1
     Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,
— of three successive market days, after suspension
     under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation;                   For imports of small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
                                                                   0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel the
                                                                   preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation (EC)
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2524/95 (4)                  No 1981 /94 is reintroduced.
fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses
for application of the arrangements for importation from
the countries in question;
                                                                                              Article 2
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 0, as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (*), laid
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 April 1996.
(') OJ  No  L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ  No  L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.                               0 OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No  L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1 .                              (8) OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No  L 258, 28. 10. 1995, p. 42.                            0 OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 96.
Is) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.                                (10) OJ No L 299, 12. 12. 1995, p. 1
M OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.                                H OJ No L 45, 23. 2. 1996, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 2 April 1996.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission