CELEX: 31996R0896
Language: en
Date: 1996-05-20 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 896/96 of 20 May 1996 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of large-flowered roses originating in Israel

21 . 5. 96             EN 1              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 121 /3
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 896/96
                                                         of 20 May 1996
                   suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                   Customs Tariff duty on imports of large-flowered roses 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
 Community,                                                         Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2524/95 (*)
                                                                    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
 of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                      Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (% as
 application of preferential customs duties on imports of           last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 f), lays
 certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and          down the detailed rules for the application of the
 Morocco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                 arrangements;
 539/96 (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 (8), as last
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                   amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), 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; whereas
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the         detailed rules on the application and determination of
Community of fresh cut flowers;                                     these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                    (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
                                                                    No 2853/95 (");
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 585/96 (4), opens and
provides for the administration of Community tariff                 Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating          Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
                                                                    must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively,
                                                                    Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
                                                                    suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                    large-flowered roses originating in Israel; whereas the
provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a            Common Customs Tariff duty should be 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            For imports of large-flowered roses (CN codes ex
     imported product are less than 85 % of the                     0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel, the
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %           preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No
     of the quantities for which prices are available on            1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
     representative import markets;                                 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 21 May 1996.
     quantities for which prices are available on the
     representative import markets and if, for three days           o OJ No L 258, 28. 10 . 1995, p. 42.
                                                                    (6) OJ No L 72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16.
                                                                    O OJ No L 264, 23. 10 . 1993, p. 33.
(*) OJ  No  L  382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                           (8) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L  79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.                               O OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
 3  OJ  No  L  199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1 .                              H OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(<) OJ  No  L  84, 3 . 4. 1996, p. 8 .                              (") OJ No L 299, 12. 12. 1995, p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 20 May 1996.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Franz FISCHLER
                                                               Member of the Commission