CELEX: 31997R1005
Language: en
Date: 1997-06-04 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1005/97 of 4 June 1997 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel

No L 145/8          lENl                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                  5 . 6 . 97
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1005/97
                                                         of 4 June 1997
                  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 (8), as last
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), 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 (IH), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87 fixes conditions              No 1482/96 (");
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 (EC) No 1981 /94 was suspended by
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community;                   Commission Regulation (EC) No 855/97 (1Z);
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1 98 1 /94 (3), as last
                                                                   Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 592/97 (4), 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 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 (EC) No 989/97 (5) fixed             Israel the preferential customs duty set by amended
 Community producer prices for carnations and roses for             Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 is reintroduced .
 application of the arrangements for importation from the
 countries in question;
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as                                        Article 2
 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (7), laid
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 June 1997.
  ') OJ No  L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
  2) OJ No  L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.
  i) OJ No  L 199, 2. 8 . 1994, p. 1 .                              (8) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
  4) OJ No  L 89, 4. 4. 1997, p. 1 .                                0 OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
  4 OJ No L 141 , 31 . 5. 1997, p. 71 .                             (I0) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
  4 OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.                                 (") OJ No L 188 , 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
  4 OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.                                12 OJ No L 122, 14. 5. 1997, p. 19.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 4 June 1997.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission