CELEX: 31996R2187
Language: en
Date: 1996-11-14 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2187/96 of 14 November 1996 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel

15. 11 . 96           EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 292/7
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2187/96
                                                   of 14 November 1996
                  suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                  Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating
                                                           in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1985/96 (^
                                                                  fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              roses for the application of the import arrangements;
Community,
                                                                  Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, lays
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                     down the detailed rules for the application of the
application of preferential customs duties on imports of           arrangements;
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and
Morocco 0 ), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
539/96 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,           1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 (8), as last
                                                                   amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used to
                                                                   convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                  and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­              conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)
                                                                   detailed rules on the application and determination of
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the
                                                                   these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the       (EEC) No 1068/93 (l0), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
Community of fresh cut flowers;                                    No 1482/96 (");
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last          Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1877/96 (4), opened and              Regulations (EEC) No 4088 /87 and (EEC) No 700/88 , it
provides for the administration of Community tariff                must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating        Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87 for
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;                             suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                   uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel,
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87                 whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a           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
     imported product are less than 85 % of the                    For imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations (CN codes
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %          ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the
     of the quantities for which prices are available on           preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No
     representative import markets;                                1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
     or
                                                                  Tariff duty is hereby re-established .
(b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market
     days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­                                     Article 2
     tively above and below 85 % of the Community
     producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the
     quantities for which prices are available on the             This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 November
                                                                   1996 .
     representative import markets and if, for three days
     during that period, the prices of the import product
     have been below that level;                                  (5) OJ  No  L 264, 17. 10 . 1996, p. 14.
                                                                  («) 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 .
0) OJ No L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.                                 O OJ    No  L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
0) OJ No L 199, 2. 8 . 1994, p. 1 .                               (I0) OJ  No  L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
h) OJ No L 249, 1 . 10. 1996, p. 1 .                                ") OJ  No  L 188 , 27. 7. 1996, p . 22.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 14 November 1996.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission