CELEX: 31996R0072
Language: en
Date: 1996-01-18 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 72/96 of 18 January 1996 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

19. 1 . 96           I EN I                 Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 14/21
                                           COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 72 /96
                                                          of 18 January 1 996
                   re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of multiflorous (spray)
                                                   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
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 ;
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                        whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,            nation of these conversions were set by Commission
                                                                      Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as amended by
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                  Regulation (EC) No 2853/95 (n) ;
for the application of a preferential customs duty on
large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous                Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations                multiflorous (spray) 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 13/96 (12);
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last              Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3057/95 (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 multiflorous (spray) 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                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
price for a period, calculated from the actual date of
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
— of two successive market days, after suspension under
                                                                                                Article 1
    Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,
— of three successive market days, after suspension
    under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation ;                      For imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN codes
                                                                      ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel the
                                                                      preferential customs duty set by Regulation (EC) No
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2524/95 (*)                      1981 /94 is reintroduced.
fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses
for application of the arrangements for importation from
the countries in question ;
                                                                                                Article 2
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (% as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 f), laid
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 January
                                                                       1996 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 18 January 1996.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission