CELEX: 31997R0926
Language: en
Date: 1997-05-23 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 926/97 of 23 May 1997 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

No L 133 /8            EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 24 . 5. 97
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 926/97
                                                          of 23 May 1997
                     suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                     Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in
                                                                Israel
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              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
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    representative import markets and if, for three days
   Community,                                                              during that period, the prices of the import product
                                                                           have been below that level;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
  of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                        Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1985/96 0
  application of preferential customs duties on imports of             fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
  certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and            roses for the application of the import arrangements;
  Morocco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
  539/96 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                       Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as
                                                                       last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, lays
  Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                    down the detailed rules for the application of the
  conditions for applying a preferential duty on large-                arrangements;
  flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)
  carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the
  limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the
  Community of fresh cut flowers;                                     Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                       1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 (8), as last
                                                                      amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used to
 Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last             convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 592/97 (4), opens and                  and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                      conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
 provides for the administration of Community tariff
 quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating           detailed rules on the application and determination of
 in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively;                  these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                      (EEC) No 1068 /93 (l0), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
                                                                      No 1482/96 (");
 Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87
 provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a
 given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be                 Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
 applicable only if the price of the imported product is at           Regulations (EEC) No 4088 /87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
 least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price;                 must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty             Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
 is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the                   suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
 Common Customs Tariff duty introduced for a given                    multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel;
 product of a given origin :                                          whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
                                                                      re-established;
(a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the
      imported product are less than 85 % of the
      Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %           Whereas the quota for the products in question covers the
      of the quantities for which prices are available on             period 1 January 1997 to 31 December 1997; whereas, as
      representative import markets;                                 a result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
                                                                     reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
      or
                                                                     up to the end of that period at the latest,
(b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market
      days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­          ( s) OJ   No L 264, 17. 10 . 1996, p. 14.
                                                                     («) OJ    No L 72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16.
                                                                     0 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.                               0 OJ      No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(3)  OJ  No  L  199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1 .                              (10) OJ   No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
 4)  OJ  No  L  89, 4. 4. 1997, p. 1 .                                 ") OJ   No L 188 , 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
 ---pagebreak--- 24. 5. 97         PENI               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 133 /9
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                  1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
                                                               Tariff duty is hereby re-established .
                         Article 1
                                                                                         Article 2
For imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN codes
ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the    This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 May 1997
preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No          and is applicable until 31 December 1997 at the latest.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 23 May 1997.
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                          Franz FISCHLER
                                                                    Member of the Commission