CELEX: 31997R0432
Language: en
Date: 1997-03-05 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 432/97 of 5 March 1997 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

No L 65/50         I EN I             Official Journal of the European Communities                                    6. 3 . 97
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 432/97
                                                         of 5 March 1997
                    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 (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 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
  Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                No 1482/96 (M );
  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 336/97 (t2);
  Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 198 1 /94 (3), as last
  amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2397/96 (4),              Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
  opens and provides for the administration of Community             specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
  tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh,              700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
                                                                     reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
  originating 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
  stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall 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 small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
                                                                    0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel the
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 198 5/96 i5)                 preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation (EC)
 fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses           No 1981 /94 is reintroduced .
 for 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 6 March 1997.
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ No L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.
(3) OJ No L 199, 2. 8 . 1994, p. 1 .                               f) OJ    No  L 387 , 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
h) OJ No L 327, 18. 12. 1996, p. 1 .                               0 OJ     No  L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(5) OJ No L 264, 17. 10. 1996, p. 14.                              ( I0) OJ  No  L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(<■) OJ No L 72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16.                              (") OJ    No  L 188, 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
0 OJ No L 264, 23. 10 . 1993, p. 33.                               (,2) OJ   No  L 56, 26. 2. 1997, p. 8 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 5 March 1997.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission