CELEX: 31994R0902
Language: en
Date: 1994-04-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 902/94 of 22 April 1994 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel

No L 104/30                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 23 . 4. 94
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 902/94
                                                          of 22 April 1994
                   re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower
                                           (standard) carnations 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
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                 amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (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
                                                                     conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                       whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,           nation of these conversions were set by Commission
                                                                     Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 f), as amended by
                                                                     Regulation (EC) No 547/94 (l0) ;
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 single­
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations               flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel by
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for                Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 was suspended by
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community ;                    Commission Regulation (EC) No 814/94 (u);
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
                                                                     4088/87 is met for single-flower (standard) carnations
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                 originating in Israel ; whereas the preferential customs
stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be               duty should be reintroduced,
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
price for a period, calculated from the actual date of               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
— of two successive market days, after suspension under
     Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,                                                       Article 1
— of three successive market days, after suspension
     under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation ;                    For imports of single-flower (standard) carnations (CN
                                                                     codes ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2890/93 (4)                   Israel the preferential customs duty set by Regulation
fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses             (EEC) No 2604/93 is reintroduced.
for application of the arrangements for importation from
the countries in question ;
                                                                                                 Article 2
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), laid
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 April 1994.
(') OJ  No  L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ  No  L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988 , p. 1 .                           O OJ    No L 387,  31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No  L 239, 24. 9 . 1993 , p. 1 .                             (8) OJ  No L 320,  22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
(4) OJ  No  L 263, 22. 10 . 1993, p. 10 .                            O OJ    No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
O   OJ  No  L 72, 18 . 3 . 1988 , p. 16.                             (10) OJ No L 69 ,  12. 3 . 1994, p. 1 .
M OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.                                  (") OJ No L 94, 13. 4. 1994, p. 7.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 22 April 1994.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Rene STEICHEN
                                                              Member of the Commission